Re: nettime ISEA 2011 fees
Hi Nicholas Student fees begin at EUR250, with non-student fees beginning at EUR300---and both jump to EUR400 if you don't register by Sunday. In comparison, fees for last year's ISEA were EUR100 to EUR150 for non-VIP passes, and fees for ISEA 2008 ranged from 100 to 450 Singapore dollars (translating to, if I remember the conversion rate correctly at the time, around US$70 to US$320), with the highest-priced pass for presenters rounding out at around US$250. I know that this money is a month of food or more for an entire family in some countries, but it's so cheap compared to the LIFT festival in Marseille, France, the last years, 3/5 days conferences talking about Open Source, Free Cultures, Ressource Sharing, Art Science, Open Knowledge, Sustainable Devl, Innovation, Recycling. The first LIFT entrance fee in Marseille was 900 euros per person only, and only 450 euros for students...this was obscene. The last year, it was around 200 euros for students...this year, it's (only) 990 euros for 2 days conferences , and 100 euros for students, but 100 seats only for students. Such thematics with such prices: they have no credibility. But they have had a lot of protest against this cost. And only public protests, in mailing lists for example, have an effect. and now, some provocative text: ISEA, like many big digital art or contemporary art events, is one wheel in a financial market using art works as capital for an elit. In contemporary art, a good financial product (more than 10% growth/year) must be designed with a lot of attention on esthetics, with easy or spectacular mediatization, good preservation in time, possibility of reproduction and derivative products. The artistic aspect is secondary. ISEA like many big digital art or contemporary art events, is also a zoo for gaming, software, entertainement companies looking for fresh flesh: artists, developpers, ingeneers : they don't care about the artworks, they only care about the technical abilities. The actors of this market need such events to share the news, and the existence of VIP-something in the programm is the sign of this elitism. Only students in economy should go to those events...:-) JN # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Libya: I have always had a suspicion when ‘civilians’ are protected and 'soldiers' are open for lawful slaughter.
a show of force to help topple the tank based Assad family from power in Syria, in the near future. Political leaders must by now have received the message of the international legal community, that only in China it is allowed to use tanks against demonstrators. Both politics and justice in Africa and the Middle East seem to be in the hands of NATO generals, they take the initiative while parliaments have lost all control over this theatre of war. Happily the International Criminal Court in The Hague – that has no own police force to arrest indicted war criminals – still has a telephone line, to prove things can be done differently. Or, one musty believe that the members of Gaddafi’s claque and clique needed some bombs to rain next to their front doors before they would call The Hague, as if the downfall of the Gaddafi reign had not been imminent for many months already, without NATO airplanes. Why diplomatic forms of subversion have failed to be used to oust the regime of Gaddafi? Who does the body count in Libya irrespective on which side death occurs? Who are those Libyan army soldiers that are legitimate targets now? I read the army consists of 25.000 volunteers and 25.000 conscripts and that their equipment is rather outdated. So what chance they have against the ultra up to date NATO forces? NATO does not have smart bombs that can decide who to kill and who not, bombs that can distinguish between a conscript, a volunteer, a Gaddafi guard or an insurgent. Too many unanswered questions. I have always had a suspicion when ‘civilians’ are protected and soldiers are open for lawful slaughter. We need to widen our vision on such conflicts and develop new tactics for more peaceful methods of transition of power. Full text and image at: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/yet-another-telephone-call-from-libya-to-the-hague/ NB this is an extended version of an earlier post Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
