[spectre] looks like Slovenia might be next
the Slovenian government wants to cut the cultural budget by 38 mio euros. (is this an accidental series, or are we observing the erosion of something big?) Delo - Slowenien Slowenien streicht Kulturetat zusammen Die slowenische Mitte-Links-Regierung hat am Mittwoch ihren Entwurf für den Haushaltsplan 2012 vorgelegt und will im Kulturetat 38 Millionen Euro streichen. Das ist viermal so viel wie bei anderen Ressorts, rechnet die linksliberale Tageszeitung Delo vor und vermisst Verständnis für die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Kultur: Normalerweise sind die Mitglieder des Nationalen Kulturrats eher zurückhaltend. Doch nun waren sie so getroffen, dass sie mit Vorwürfen an die Regierung und Gegenargumenten wenig zurückhaltend waren. Der Haushalt bedeutet tiefe Einschnitte. Nun drohen auch dem Projekt Kulturhauptstadt Maribor 2012 große Probleme. Aufgeschoben würden zudem Filmproduktionen, Investitionen in die Oper Ljubljana, die Kunstgalerie Maribor und so weiter. ... Eine sichtlich verarmte Kulturlandschaft provoziert die berechtigte Frage, ob unsere Regierung die grundsätzliche Rolle der Kultur für die Entwicklung jedes einzelnen Menschen, des Volks und des Staats vergessen hat. (16.06.2011) http://www.delo.si/mnenja/komentarji/leta-nazadovanja.html (externer Link, slowenisch) __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] TINT: Unleashed! Free Workshops and Participatory Projects in London, 25th 26th of June
TINT is excited to announce a new endeavour in collaborative co-exploration of media arts. Unleashed a weekend of workshops and artistic projects in progress that invite others to join. The event is kindly hosted by the Apiary Studios http://apiarystudios.org/ (458 Hackney Road, E2 9EG London) and will take place on the 25th and 26th of June. *To get involved and join one of the projects/workshops listed below send an e-mail stating your name and the project to i...@tintarts.org. All projects are free to participate although places are limited! * *Please note the events Bodies in Communication and Optical Sound are nearly booked. We'll however set up a waiting list.* For more information go to http://tintarts.org/2011/05/31/unleashed/ Many Thanks, TINT Team Programme Saturday 25th of June (10:00 -- ~19:00) David Strang Andy Prior: Mixing the City Participants in the workshop are invited to create content for use in the bespoke Quicktime WebJay (QTWJ) http://x2.i-dat.org/%7Eap/2010PhD/?page_id=414 environment, using field recording techniques and video capture within the surrounding area. You will explore a range of field recording techniques and abstract video capture, using various sonic arts and video arts methods, to create A/V rhythms which are then manipulated/controlled within QTWJ. The recorded material will be added to a database and will continue to be used by any QTWJ workshops/users in the future. This content will then be used by the participants within QTWJ to create a live performance of sound and visuals at the end of the day. http://www.davidstrang.co.uk, http://x2.i-dat.org/~ap/2010PhD http://x2.i-dat.org/%7Eap/2010PhD [nearly fully booked] Deep Media Research: Bodies in Communication Deep Media Research develops simple prototypes to explore the vast field of infra-verbal bodily communication. In our workshop we will explore how we can use sensors to measure signals of our body and actuators to make those signals perceivable by others. We'll make use of simple electronics, the Arduino microcontroller, and some code and are looking for beginners and intermediates who want to be introduced into body sensing (galvanic skin response, pulse, ...), experiment with actuators and/or help to develop the project further. More information: http://deepmediaresearch.org http://www.deepmediaresearch.org/ [fully booked] Dominick Allen: Optical Sound Optical Sound will be a practical, hands on workshop building and exploring optical microphones (devices that turn fluctuations in light into sound) for use in field recordings, performances etc. Everybody attending the workshop will have the chance to build their own optical microphone which they can take away with them for a small donation. The workshop will be followed by an audio-visual performance to explore the possibilities of these microphones. Everybody is welcome and no previous experience of electronics is necessary Stephen Fortune: Computational Crystallomancy This workshop brings the occult methods of crystal gazing into proximity with the DIY entry point to ubiquitous computing. This workshop will combine the arduino and psychological experiments for discerning trance states. The arduino is the amateur-enthusiast avenue into sensor aware environments. Those psychological experiments used bodily traces to determine the subjects inner state of mind. Both will be combined to see what data sampling all elements of the crystallomancy circuit can tell us about the computational modelling of reality that ubiquitous computing entails. This project is at it's conceptual inception and is looking for people who are interested in how reality can be made sensible to computers and those who would have an interest is seeing how intuitive practices like crystal gazing reconcile with the rational cognitive disposition of computational culture. Introductory arduino (input feeds) and processing data feeds will be explored. More information: http://thereisnowetware.wordpress.com/ Saturday 25th of June (~19:00+) Workshop performances and TINT BBQ. All welcome! Sunday 26th of June (11:00 -- ~18:00) Madi Boyd: Performing Screen This project in progress is to create a robotic puppet like screen which will interact with the film projected onto it in order to create an intense dialogue. The screen will be composed, eventually, of hundreds of small independently moving parts. The parts will be controlled by servos so that they move in all directions in an organic but choreographed formation. They will appear to react to and be sculpted by the film. This performative dialogue between the projection and the screen will extend into a tussle in their attempts to shape each other, creating a new dynamic form in the process. This project is at the concept/experimental stage and invite interested artist and technicians to partake
Re: [spectre] looks like Slovenia might be next
It is something big; sweeping global social change arising from economic realignment. Post-crash Europe is going through a socio-economic realignment that recognises the emerging dominance of international trade and cultural exchange by countries such as China, India and Brazil. As part of this process countries that once sustained values founded on social democratic principles are having to adapt their economies (material and cultural) to the instrumentalist models that underpin the emergent economies capacity to out-perform their competitors. The Anglo-American model has been under pressure at the same time, leading to the progressive collapse of the social contracts that underpinned them. We are moving from the European millennium to the Asian. Best Simon On 16/06/2011 10:55, Andreas Broeckmann a...@dortmunder-u.de wrote: the Slovenian government wants to cut the cultural budget by 38 mio euros. (is this an accidental series, or are we observing the erosion of something big?) Delo - Slowenien Slowenien streicht Kulturetat zusammen Die slowenische Mitte-Links-Regierung hat am Mittwoch ihren Entwurf für den Haushaltsplan 2012 vorgelegt und will im Kulturetat 38 Millionen Euro streichen. Das ist viermal so viel wie bei anderen Ressorts, rechnet die linksliberale Tageszeitung Delo vor und vermisst Verständnis für die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Kultur: Normalerweise sind die Mitglieder des Nationalen Kulturrats eher zurückhaltend. Doch nun waren sie so getroffen, dass sie mit Vorwürfen an die Regierung und Gegenargumenten wenig zurückhaltend waren. Der Haushalt bedeutet tiefe Einschnitte. Nun drohen auch dem Projekt Kulturhauptstadt Maribor 2012 große Probleme. Aufgeschoben würden zudem Filmproduktionen, Investitionen in die Oper Ljubljana, die Kunstgalerie Maribor und so weiter. ... Eine sichtlich verarmte Kulturlandschaft provoziert die berechtigte Frage, ob unsere Regierung die grundsätzliche Rolle der Kultur für die Entwicklung jedes einzelnen Menschen, des Volks und des Staats vergessen hat. (16.06.2011) http://www.delo.si/mnenja/komentarji/leta-nazadovanja.html (externer Link, slowenisch) __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] looks like Slovenia might be next
just more of the same: there's nowhere-else for transglobal investment capital to go, apart from emerging economies and military production /:b __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] looks like Slovenia might be next
That's one of the reasons I am moving back to South America. Once, in the Seventies, when we were young and a bit naive, we believed in the Messianic Revolutions. We fought against rogue generals and corrupt politicians and we paid a heavy prize, prison, torture, death. Many of us come to Europe, the continent of our ancestors (I have Spanish and Italian grandfathers and grandmothers) and got asylum and a time to recover. Our ancestors fled from an empoverished Europe who prosecuted the poor and the rebelious. Now in South America every people in the region choose a leftist or social democrat alternative, not because they dream about utopia but because they are tired of neoliberal experiments. Europe is going again the way of authoritarism and control who chased away my ancestors from here. I am going back to Uruguay to find a space and a place to resist and create. I hope many of you in the list can be part of future projects linking the North and the South. Maybe we can make the global diaspora to a borderless creative world :) Ana On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk wrote: It is something big; sweeping global social change arising from economic realignment. Post-crash Europe is going through a socio-economic realignment that recognises the emerging dominance of international trade and cultural exchange by countries such as China, India and Brazil. As part of this process countries that once sustained values founded on social democratic principles are having to adapt their economies (material and cultural) to the instrumentalist models that underpin the emergent economies capacity to out-perform their competitors. The Anglo-American model has been under pressure at the same time, leading to the progressive collapse of the social contracts that underpinned them. We are moving from the European millennium to the Asian. Best Simon On 16/06/2011 10:55, Andreas Broeckmann a...@dortmunder-u.de wrote: the Slovenian government wants to cut the cultural budget by 38 mio euros. (is this an accidental series, or are we observing the erosion of something big?) Delo - Slowenien Slowenien streicht Kulturetat zusammen Die slowenische Mitte-Links-Regierung hat am Mittwoch ihren Entwurf für den Haushaltsplan 2012 vorgelegt und will im Kulturetat 38 Millionen Euro streichen. Das ist viermal so viel wie bei anderen Ressorts, rechnet die linksliberale Tageszeitung Delo vor und vermisst Verständnis für die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Kultur: Normalerweise sind die Mitglieder des Nationalen Kulturrats eher zurückhaltend. Doch nun waren sie so getroffen, dass sie mit Vorwürfen an die Regierung und Gegenargumenten wenig zurückhaltend waren. Der Haushalt bedeutet tiefe Einschnitte. Nun drohen auch dem Projekt Kulturhauptstadt Maribor 2012 große Probleme. Aufgeschoben würden zudem Filmproduktionen, Investitionen in die Oper Ljubljana, die Kunstgalerie Maribor und so weiter. ... Eine sichtlich verarmte Kulturlandschaft provoziert die berechtigte Frage, ob unsere Regierung die grundsätzliche Rolle der Kultur für die Entwicklung jedes einzelnen Menschen, des Volks und des Staats vergessen hat. (16.06.2011) http://www.delo.si/mnenja/komentarji/leta-nazadovanja.html (externer Link, slowenisch) __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre -- http://anavaldes.wordpress.com http://passagenwerk.wordpress.com http://caravia.stumbleupon.com http://www.crusading.se Gondolgatan 2 l tr 12832 Skarpnäck Sweden tel +468-943288 mobil 4670-3213370 When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] looks like Slovenia might be next
..on Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:01:29PM +0100, Simon Biggs wrote: It is something big; sweeping global social change arising from economic realignment. Post-crash Europe is going through a socio-economic realignment that recognises the emerging dominance of international trade and cultural exchange by countries such as China, India and Brazil. As part of this process countries that once sustained values founded on social democratic principles are having to adapt their economies (material and cultural) to the instrumentalist models that underpin the emergent economies capacity to out-perform their competitors. The Anglo-American model has been under pressure at the same time, leading to the progressive collapse of the social contracts that underpinned them. We are moving from the European millennium to the Asian. Yes, it would certainly seem so. A cultural and economic shift of tectonic proportions is well underway. It's probably a good time to learn Mandarin, if only to better understand the scope and dynamics of this process.. For the record, I've archived the text I wrote to the list on the Dutch Cuts as 'The Missing 200 Million'. http://julianoliver.com/share/text/dutch-cuts.html Cheers, Julian On 16/06/2011 10:55, Andreas Broeckmann a...@dortmunder-u.de wrote: the Slovenian government wants to cut the cultural budget by 38 mio euros. (is this an accidental series, or are we observing the erosion of something big?) Delo - Slowenien Slowenien streicht Kulturetat zusammen Die slowenische Mitte-Links-Regierung hat am Mittwoch ihren Entwurf für den Haushaltsplan 2012 vorgelegt und will im Kulturetat 38 Millionen Euro streichen. Das ist viermal so viel wie bei anderen Ressorts, rechnet die linksliberale Tageszeitung Delo vor und vermisst Verständnis für die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Kultur: Normalerweise sind die Mitglieder des Nationalen Kulturrats eher zurückhaltend. Doch nun waren sie so getroffen, dass sie mit Vorwürfen an die Regierung und Gegenargumenten wenig zurückhaltend waren. Der Haushalt bedeutet tiefe Einschnitte. Nun drohen auch dem Projekt Kulturhauptstadt Maribor 2012 große Probleme. Aufgeschoben würden zudem Filmproduktionen, Investitionen in die Oper Ljubljana, die Kunstgalerie Maribor und so weiter. ... Eine sichtlich verarmte Kulturlandschaft provoziert die berechtigte Frage, ob unsere Regierung die grundsätzliche Rolle der Kultur für die Entwicklung jedes einzelnen Menschen, des Volks und des Staats vergessen hat. (16.06.2011) http://www.delo.si/mnenja/komentarji/leta-nazadovanja.html (externer Link, slowenisch) __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre -- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [NetBehaviour] [spectre] looks like Slovenia might be next
Hi Anna Wish I could join you, my late grandfather went to Brazil from Germany during the crises of the 30ties. I am still attracted towards doing the same Our hopes are definitively directed towards the rise of The South as a natural historical possibility to continue the age old European project. Abandoned by the selfish survival attitude of the North, the South can combine its passionate will to live with a matured rationality. Also it can develop an independent global economical position, being able to stand firmly against a future Asian domination. An interesting read, touching deeply this scenario, is 'The Clash of Civilisations and the remaking of World Order' by Samuel Huntington Best Andreas Maria Jacobs -- w: http://nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl w: http://nictoglobe.com/new/agam e: aj...@xs4all.nl e: a.andr...@nictoglobe.com On Thu, June 16, 2011 13:12, Ana Valdés wrote: That's one of the reasons I am moving back to South America. Once, in the Seventies, when we were young and a bit naive, we believed in the Messianic Revolutions. We fought against rogue generals and corrupt politicians and we paid a heavy prize, prison, torture, death. Many of us come to Europe, the continent of our ancestors (I have Spanish and Italian grandfathers and grandmothers) and got asylum and a time to recover. Our ancestors fled from an empoverished Europe who prosecuted the poor and the rebelious. Now in South America every people in the region choose a leftist or social democrat alternative, not because they dream about utopia but because they are tired of neoliberal experiments. Europe is going again the way of authoritarism and control who chased away my ancestors from here. I am going back to Uruguay to find a space and a place to resist and create. I hope many of you in the list can be part of future projects linking the North and the South. Maybe we can make the global diaspora to a borderless creative world :) Ana On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk wrote: It is something big; sweeping global social change arising from economic realignment. Post-crash Europe is going through a socio-economic realignment that recognises the emerging dominance of international trade and cultural exchange by countries such as China, India and Brazil. As part of this process countries that once sustained values founded on social democratic principles are having to adapt their economies (material and cultural) to the instrumentalist models that underpin the emergent economies capacity to out-perform their competitors. The Anglo-American model has been under pressure at the same time, leading to the progressive collapse of the social contracts that underpinned them. We are moving from the European millennium to the Asian. Best Simon On 16/06/2011 10:55, Andreas Broeckmann a...@dortmunder-u.de wrote: the Slovenian government wants to cut the cultural budget by 38 mio euros. (is this an accidental series, or are we observing the erosion of something big?) Delo - Slowenien Slowenien streicht Kulturetat zusammen Die slowenische Mitte-Links-Regierung hat am Mittwoch ihren Entwurf für den Haushaltsplan 2012 vorgelegt und will im Kulturetat 38 Millionen Euro streichen. Das ist viermal so viel wie bei anderen Ressorts, rechnet die linksliberale Tageszeitung Delo vor und vermisst Verständnis für die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Kultur: Normalerweise sind die Mitglieder des Nationalen Kulturrats eher zurückhaltend. Doch nun waren sie so getroffen, dass sie mit Vorwürfen an die Regierung und Gegenargumenten wenig zurückhaltend waren. Der Haushalt bedeutet tiefe Einschnitte. Nun drohen auch dem Projekt Kulturhauptstadt Maribor 2012 große Probleme. Aufgeschoben würden zudem Filmproduktionen, Investitionen in die Oper Ljubljana, die Kunstgalerie Maribor und so weiter. ... Eine sichtlich verarmte Kulturlandschaft provoziert die berechtigte Frage, ob unsere Regierung die grundsätzliche Rolle der Kultur für die Entwicklung jedes einzelnen Menschen, des Volks und des Staats vergessen hat. (16.06.2011) http://www.delo.si/mnenja/komentarji/leta-nazadovanja.html (externer Link, slowenisch) __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ s.bi...@eca.ac.uk http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre -- http://anavaldes.wordpress.com http://passagenwerk.wordpress.com http://caravia.stumbleupon.com http://www.crusading.se Gondolgatan 2 l tr 12832 Skarpnäck Sweden tel
[spectre] A Users Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible
New booklet on art and activism… A Users Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It’s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht’s words to heart: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements. -- “Art is useless, so they tell us, as soon as it truly affects the world it loses its status as art. (You never know, it might slide down the slippery slope, becoming instrumental, propaganda, or even worse craft!) The strange thing is that those who tell us this are often the same people who put art to the crudest instrumental use – the art market. Maybe what they mean is that – art is useless when its not ultimately used to make a profit. Perhaps it’s the same logic as that which argues that education has no use outside slotting us into the mutilated world of work and consumption. This guide is for those of us who suspect that art has other uses and who are prepared to seek them.” PDF available freely online (http://www.minorcompositions.info/usersguide.html ), discounts for ordering multiple copies. 64 pages, A6 size (4.134 x 5.827) To be released June 1st, 2011 Released by Minor Compositions, London / New York / Port Watson Minor Compositions is a series of interventions provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life. Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia www.minorcompositions.info |i...@minorcompositions.info -- Stevphen Shukaitis Autonomedia Editorial Collective http://www.autonomedia.org http://www.minorcompositions.info Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created through its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political practice. To become autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and compulsory cultures of separation and hierarchy through embodied practices of welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which these depend with a politics of skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing these with others creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that subverts the domination and hegemony of the master’s rule. - subRosa Collective __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] [FFAA] Workshop HONF: Art in Culture
After a wonderful opening concert night yesterday we invite today: 14:00, Hohenzollernring 22-24 www.angewandteakustik.org to HONF www.natural-fiber.com Intelligent Bacteria : Art in Culture (a workshop series) How to make cheap and fun slant culture, and wine Science does not have to be costly, dangerous and inaccessible. Nor does one need a lab to get active; the workshop series ART IN CULTURE demonstrates alternatives. ART IN CULTURE is a workshop series under the umbrella of Intelligent Bacteria, a collaborative research programme between HONF and a scientist community from the University of Gajah Mada (UGM), Yogyarkarta, and consequently follows its guiding principle: to bridge the practice, theories and innovative ideas from the fields of art and science and apply this based on generic infrastructure and affordable technologies. In the workshop ART IN CULTURE members of HONF will teach the job of a scientist through an artistic approach, by making a slant culture coloured with dyes. The participants are free to choose their colour for the slant culture. The workshop is aimed at novices and specialists alike with interest in any field. Afterwards, everyone is invited to take his or her slant culture home in order to pass on the experience, technique and culture to another person. .. Participants need to bring some stuff : - 1 Test Tube with screw cap made from glass - 1 Empty bottle (ex - mineral water 1,5 Liter Size) - 1 drink glass .. Microbiology electronic Workshop by HONF Bioart meets Ecoart: an open Dialogue under orange umbrellas Cologne based artist-curator Georg Dietzler will be in dialogue with the artist collective HONF. HONF is a group of BIOART artist, Georg Dietzler is working in one of its forerunner fields ECOART. He is introducing concepts of cross-disciplinary ecological arts and talking about his ongoing architectural sculpture projects Self-decomposing Laboratories for cleaning-up PCB contaminated soil by Oyster mushrooms, developed since 1994. Georg Dietzlers website Open JAM with special guests Patchbay and of course the exhibition from 17-21 o´clock See you there! __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Call For Artists :: Screengrab 2011 :: Nostalgia
-o- Deadline : Friday July 22 -o- -o- 2011 Theme : Nostalgia -o- -o- Prize : AUS $2K -o- S C R E E N G R A B New Media Art Prize From 8 Bit Trips to Sepia Coded Dreams http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/screengrab/ The Synopsis : Nostalgia runs deep in the network. The clean lines and coded purity of interface culture and consumer electronics belies a deeper yearning for the origins of new media. 8 Bit games, glitch art, stop motion video, audio distortions and retro stylings are cropping up throughout the networked landscape as artists unpack, smudge, melt, data-mosh and retrace their steps back to the early halcyon days of digital media. Tactile, fluid, fuzzy analogue aesthetics are emerging in surprising places as the origins of our streamlined relationship with technology and the world around us is interrogated, encoded and telegraphed into our livings rooms, browsers and pockets. Jaron Lanier in his text, You Are Not A Gadget, calls for a more humanist approach to the way we participate in network culture and insists we must seek always to preserve our individuality in such exchanges. Retro leanings and nostalgic turns speak to this desire. It reveals the human in the electronic interface. It celebrates the mistake, the error, the uniqueness and the beauty of the digital aesthetic at a critical time in the evolution of media arts practice. The 2011 Screengrab New Media Arts Award and associated exhibition is looking for challenging creative works by media artists who have a yearning for the past and seek to examine the future. We invite these digital practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of the Nostalgia. The Call Out : SCREENGRAB is now entering its third year with an international call out for the AUS$2000 New Media Arts Prize and the companion exhibition in August for short listed applicants. We invite digital practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of NOSTALGIA. All forms of screen based media are encouraged including multi-channel video, digital illustration, audio sculpture, photography, generative media, 2D 3D animation. Existing worx and those specifically designed for the award must address the theme of NOSTALGIA to be eligible for the New Media Arts award. Prize Money: AUS $2000 Artefact deadline: 22-07-11 Exhibition Opening Award announcement : 12-08-11 Application Form : http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/screengrab/ Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. - John Lithgow This project is sponsored by James Cook University's School of Creative Arts and the eMerge Media Space. MG-EM-RG-2011 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Oslo Academy of Fine Art seeks dean for four-year renewable term contract (Until June 19th. 2011)
The Oslo Academy of Fine Art is the department of fine art within the larger institution Oslo National Academy of the Arts, which includes the academy of fine art, and the faculties of design, theater, craft, dance and opera. The Oslo Academy of Fine Art is over 100 years old, and is one of Scandinavia’s most important institutions for higher education in fine art. The academy has recently merged into one purpose built, state of the art building located in central Oslo. We are seeking a leader with great professional commitment and very good collaboration and communication skills. The person must be able to fill the role as head of the department in relation to students and employees, and be a positive asset to the academy as an organization. The dean will lead and have responsibility for all the activities at the Oslo Academy of Fine Art and has special responsibility to see that academic and financial resources are used efficiently. The dean reports to the Rector in academic affairs and director of financial–administrative matters. The dean is included in the entire academy management team and thus has a real influence on the academy development. The successful candidate is expected to have a clear vision for the development of the fine art department and the ability and willingness to motivate and engage faculty, staff and students, and to achieve the academic goals set for the academy. Furthermore, the dean shall promote research and dissemination, to facilitate collaboration with community and professional life, and to promote the academy through international networking and exchange. The field of visual arts is constantly changing, and the discourse around the education of artists is in continuous development. It is assumed that the dean has a high degree of understanding of contemporary art practice and developments in higher arts education, can participate in public debate, and will develop the art academy’s international network. The position requires higher education, and relevant artistic, curatorial or philosophical practice at a high international level. The successful candidate will have leadership skills, the ability for strategic thinking, experience in research and development, and economic and administrative experience. It is desirable to have an insight into the organization and operation of higher education institutions. The person should master a Nordic language, both written and oral. However, especially well-qualified applicants might seek temporary dispensation while adopting to this linguistic category. The appointment is a four-year term with an option to extend up to two times after public announcement. The position is remunerated by the state pay scale as dean, stillingskode 1474, salary grade 72–78 (NOK 604,200–692,800). For especially well-qualified applicants a higher pay scale will be considered. A 2% premium to the pension fund is deducted from the salary. Application, statement of intent, CV, and certificates should be electronically submitted BEFORE JUNE 19th. 2011. (Extended deadline) For full text and application form: khio.easycruit.com The application can also be sent via normal post to the following address: National Academy of Oslo, PO Box 6853 St. Olavs plass, 0130 Oslo, v / faculty coordinator. More information: rektor Cecilie Broch Knudsen mob: +47 93445103 www.kunstakademiet.no khio.no __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Winter Residencies at Caravansarai Istanbul
Hello! If you could help us spread the word about this. Many thanks Winter Residencies at Caravansarai Istanbul for residencies in Oct, Nov (2011) and Jan, Feb (2012) Our seasonal live/work program is open to artists, creators and researchers (over 26 years of age) interested in well... living and working in Istanbul for periods of a minimum of one month and up to 3 months. Residents are responsible for their own financial support. The live-work-see Residency exists to provide individuals: » comfortable and convenient living quarters equipped with private shared bathroom and full kitchen, in a building dedicated to creative energy » shared work space and/or studios in which residents can pursue their individual work » local guidance and access to a wide network of resources and people in Istanbul by virtue of living within an artistic meeting point For more information and the application please visit : http://www.caravansarai.info/index.php?/activities/residencies/ August 1st is the deadline to apply. Anika Weshinskey Julie Upmeyer Caravansarai art production space and meeting point for creators in Istanbul www.caravansarai.info i...@caravansarai.info __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] New Media Art Organisations in Netherlands lose funding
Honor, et al... There is a petition here: http://petities.nl/petitie/bezuinigen-op-cultuur-zonder-alle-feiten-nooit Regards, Jesse On 2011-06-15, at 11:38 AM, spectre-requ...@mikrolisten.de wrote: From: Honor Harger ho...@lighthouse.org.uk Subject: Re: [spectre] New Media Art Organisations in Netherlands lose funding To: spectre@mikrolisten.de Cc: Annette Wolfsberger annettefromaust...@gmail.com Message-ID: a06240808ca1e24155c76@[192.168.1.68] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ; format=flowed Dear all, The situation evolving in the Netherlands is shocking and catastrophic. Can those involved in the Dutch media arts scene let us know what the international community can do to help or support the organisations who face oblivion? I know they seem like small gestures, but I'm sure there's a petition or open letter in circulation, and it would be great to post the details of that here. Plus, is it worth concerned colleagues from around the world, writing letters directly to Halbe Zijlstra? I'm saddened and concerned, and my thoughts are with all my friends in the media arts sector in the Netherlands. Best, Honor Last Friday the new policy plans of the new Minister were announced and published and they are very dramatic in general for the whole field of art and culture in The Netherlands. On the PNEK list it was announced as: New Media Art Organisations in Netherlands lose funding. The Dutch New Media Art Organisations Steim, De Waag, Mediamatic, V2 NIMK are about to lose all their funding. The Dutch secretary of state for Culture in the Netherlands, Halbe Zijlstra, has published his policy plan for coming years. In contrast to the official recommendations given to him by the Culture Advisory Board, the cutbacks will not be spread out over a number of years, but will take immediate effect in 2013. The budget for visual art will shrink from 53,3 to 31 million. Among the more damaging and destructive decisions is the complete cutting of funding for the six leading New Media Art Organsiations that produce, distribute and facilitate New Media Art; -STEIM: Independent Live electronic music centre that is exclusively dedicated to the performing arts. -De WAAG: Organisation Worklab for old and new media, developers of open source tools, research technology for the creative independant industry intermediate between art, science and media. -Worm: Rotterdam based laboratory, venue and studios for film, music and internet featuring concerts, new media events, screenings, production of film, music and software art. -Mediamatic: software art projects, lectures, workshops screenings aiming on the young generation of artists, designers tinkerers. -V2: interdisciplinary centre for art and media technology in Rotterdam, activities include organizing presentations, exhibitions and workshops, research and development of artworks operating in an international network -NIMK: The Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) promotes the wide and unrestrained development, application and distribution of, and reflection on, new technologies within the visual arts. Since the Netherlands Media Art Institute came into being in 1978 an extensive collection of video and media art has been assembled, to which new works are constantly being added. These institutes together form the foundation for New Media Arts in the Netherlands and forfil an important role in the International Network that shares knowledge, exchanges, produces, distributes and promotes various forms of New Media Art. For most of these organisations the budget cuts will mean their disappearance. (fwd) BUT of course there is more to it. In the document one can read that Architecture, Design and eCulture are fusing together in a new fund called Creative Industry (something non of these sectors wants). ALL organization in the 3 domains won't receive any structural funding anymore in this plan BUT the new Fund, that is now being structured, will likely offer the change to organizations to get structural funding (2 to 4 years). But since this fund is not there yet and since they are having strong debates about the role and function, and program of this fund nothing is indicated about this fund in the published document. So when reading the document you get a different picture of what is being debated right now insight the Ministry and with the 3 sectors. The thing that should be in place for this fund are 1. structural funding to some of the important plpl.ayers in the 3 sectors; and 2. creating space for basic research in the 3 sectors. When we get this done we are still facing a hardcore economic agenda (the Minister is a hardcore liberal) but that we can shape and address 'creatively' since we can't and don't want to fullfill this agenda ourselves. Dealing with the goals of the new Fund
[spectre] NK: Dancing on Ashes - 16 17 June 2011
With apologies for cross-posting, feel free to forward.* * NK - Berlin Thursday Friday June 16 17 June 16th, 2011- Dancing on Ashes (Amsterdam) 22:00 June 17th Dancing on Ashes (Circle) 22:00 * *Dancing on Ashes Dancing on Ashes (Amsterdam) / Dancing on Ashes (Circle) Dancing on Ashes is a multimedia performance series mixing live music and projected narrative texts. An attempt to create a new approach to literature by transposing it into the field of performance arts, it is the backbone of the Angel Meat transmedia project conceived by Ines Birkhan and Bertram Dhellemmes. Dancing on Ashes performances are based on fictional characters and situations that you will find in several other mediums – novel, posters, videos, blogs… – gathered in Angel Meat. Each performance is both a new chapter in a big narrative and an experiment in the staged literature medium. Dancing on Ashes (Amsterdam) is a performance-installation staging self-playing music instruments. It tells the story of Yu, a dancer who decides to join the Dancing on Ashes cabaret show. Dancing on Ashes (Circle) is a music + text performance with Bertram Dhellemmes playing electronics, that will premiere in NK. You will learn about the Triangle Circle, a group of friends to which belong Skullface, one of the main protagonists of Angel Meat. More information on www.angelmeat.com NK Elsenstr. 52/2. Hinterhaus Etage 2, 12059 Berlin Neukölln www.nkprojekt.de __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] A Users Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible
stevphen, thanks for this - it comes timely... however, what is weird is that the download of the document is restricted to people logged into facebook (and this through a service, scribd, that claims it helps to liberate the word ... ;-). maybe it is is the guide for the Insurrectionary Imagination only of the facebook generation? with an understanding of a liberation like that - which only happens _within_ the world of facebook (WOF), it's no wonder that the old western ideals are going down the drain... ach, altes Europa... regards, -a New booklet on art and activism A Users Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It's a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht's words to heart: Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements. -- Art is useless, so they tell us, as soon as it truly affects the world it loses its status as art. (You never know, it might slide down the slippery slope, becoming instrumental, propaganda, or even worse craft!) The strange thing is that those who tell us this are often the same people who put art to the crudest instrumental use - the art market. Maybe what they mean is that - art is useless when its not ultimately used to make a profit. Perhaps it's the same logic as that which argues that education has no use outside slotting us into the mutilated world of work and consumption. This guide is for those of us who suspect that art has other uses and who are prepared to seek them. PDF available freely online (http://www.minorcompositions.info/usersguide.htmlhttp://www.minorcompositions.info/usersguide.html), discounts for ordering multiple copies. 64 pages, A6 size (4.134 x 5.827) To be released June 1st, 2011 Released by Minor Compositions, London / New York / Port Watson Minor Compositions is a series of interventions provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life. Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia http://www.minorcompositions.infowww.minorcompositions.info |mailto:i...@minorcompositions.infoi...@minorcompositions.info -- Stevphen Shukaitis Autonomedia Editorial Collective http://www.autonomedia.orghttp://www.autonomedia.org http://www.minorcompositions.infohttp://www.minorcompositions.info Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created through its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political practice. To become autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and compulsory cultures of separation and hierarchy through embodied practices of welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which these depend with a politics of skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing these with others creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that subverts the domination and hegemony of the master's rule. - subRosa Collective __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] looks like Slovenia might be next
dear friends, my guess is that all these drastic measures in cultural policies all around Europe are related to the ratification of the Euro Pact the next 27th of June, am I wrong? there have been as you probably hear heavy (pacific!) protests in many cities in Spain against the drastic measures taken by the goverment which are threatening our democratic rights, wellbeing and the future of our youngest generations, I am convinced that we - new media culture workers - have an important task in participating in this discussion earnestly, not just from our own position but also from the most global perspective, best, m Mónica Bello Bugallo m b @ m o n i c a b e l l o . o r g On Jun 16, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Andreas Broeckmann wrote: the Slovenian government wants to cut the cultural budget by 38 mio euros. (is this an accidental series, or are we observing the erosion of something big?) Delo - Slowenien Slowenien streicht Kulturetat zusammen Die slowenische Mitte-Links-Regierung hat am Mittwoch ihren Entwurf für den Haushaltsplan 2012 vorgelegt und will im Kulturetat 38 Millionen Euro streichen. Das ist viermal so viel wie bei anderen Ressorts, rechnet die linksliberale Tageszeitung Delo vor und vermisst Verständnis für die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Kultur: Normalerweise sind die Mitglieder des Nationalen Kulturrats eher zurückhaltend. Doch nun waren sie so getroffen, dass sie mit Vorwürfen an die Regierung und Gegenargumenten wenig zurückhaltend waren. Der Haushalt bedeutet tiefe Einschnitte. Nun drohen auch dem Projekt Kulturhauptstadt Maribor 2012 große Probleme. Aufgeschoben würden zudem Filmproduktionen, Investitionen in die Oper Ljubljana, die Kunstgalerie Maribor und so weiter. ... Eine sichtlich verarmte Kulturlandschaft provoziert die berechtigte Frage, ob unsere Regierung die grundsätzliche Rolle der Kultur für die Entwicklung jedes einzelnen Menschen, des Volks und des Staats vergessen hat. (16.06.2011) http://www.delo.si/mnenja/komentarji/leta-nazadovanja.html (externer Link, slowenisch) __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [NetBehaviour] [spectre] looks like Slovenia might be next
You know one of my goals is to start a house and a network where we can host individuals and projects both artistic and social. I bought a big flat, will always have place for creative guests :) Ana ps: In Uruguay is a very active Netart scene, with people as Brian Mackern http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2011/en/artists/brian-mackern/ Clemente Padin http://www.vispo.com/guests/ClementePadin/Text_I_67.html Carlos Capelan http://www.capelan.com/ Patricia Bentancur ttp://www.arteuy.com.uy/BentancurP/patriciaBioEnglish.htm On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Andreas Maria Jacobs aj...@xs4all.nlwrote: Hi Anna Wish I could join you, my late grandfather went to Brazil from Germany during the crises of the 30ties. I am still attracted towards doing the same Our hopes are definitively directed towards the rise of The South as a natural historical possibility to continue the age old European project. Abandoned by the selfish survival attitude of the North, the South can combine its passionate will to live with a matured rationality. Also it can develop an independent global economical position, being able to stand firmly against a future Asian domination. An interesting read, touching deeply this scenario, is 'The Clash of Civilisations and the remaking of World Order' by Samuel Huntington Best Andreas Maria Jacobs -- w: http://nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl w: http://nictoglobe.com/new/agam e: aj...@xs4all.nl e: a.andr...@nictoglobe.com On Thu, June 16, 2011 13:12, Ana Valdés wrote: That's one of the reasons I am moving back to South America. Once, in the Seventies, when we were young and a bit naive, we believed in the Messianic Revolutions. We fought against rogue generals and corrupt politicians and we paid a heavy prize, prison, torture, death. Many of us come to Europe, the continent of our ancestors (I have Spanish and Italian grandfathers and grandmothers) and got asylum and a time to recover. Our ancestors fled from an empoverished Europe who prosecuted the poor and the rebelious. Now in South America every people in the region choose a leftist or social democrat alternative, not because they dream about utopia but because they are tired of neoliberal experiments. Europe is going again the way of authoritarism and control who chased away my ancestors from here. I am going back to Uruguay to find a space and a place to resist and create. I hope many of you in the list can be part of future projects linking the North and the South. Maybe we can make the global diaspora to a borderless creative world :) Ana On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk wrote: It is something big; sweeping global social change arising from economic realignment. Post-crash Europe is going through a socio-economic realignment that recognises the emerging dominance of international trade and cultural exchange by countries such as China, India and Brazil. As part of this process countries that once sustained values founded on social democratic principles are having to adapt their economies (material and cultural) to the instrumentalist models that underpin the emergent economies capacity to out-perform their competitors. The Anglo-American model has been under pressure at the same time, leading to the progressive collapse of the social contracts that underpinned them. We are moving from the European millennium to the Asian. Best Simon On 16/06/2011 10:55, Andreas Broeckmann a...@dortmunder-u.de wrote: the Slovenian government wants to cut the cultural budget by 38 mio euros. (is this an accidental series, or are we observing the erosion of something big?) Delo - Slowenien Slowenien streicht Kulturetat zusammen Die slowenische Mitte-Links-Regierung hat am Mittwoch ihren Entwurf für den Haushaltsplan 2012 vorgelegt und will im Kulturetat 38 Millionen Euro streichen. Das ist viermal so viel wie bei anderen Ressorts, rechnet die linksliberale Tageszeitung Delo vor und vermisst Verständnis für die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Kultur: Normalerweise sind die Mitglieder des Nationalen Kulturrats eher zurückhaltend. Doch nun waren sie so getroffen, dass sie mit Vorwürfen an die Regierung und Gegenargumenten wenig zurückhaltend waren. Der Haushalt bedeutet tiefe Einschnitte. Nun drohen auch dem Projekt Kulturhauptstadt Maribor 2012 große Probleme. Aufgeschoben würden zudem Filmproduktionen, Investitionen in die Oper Ljubljana, die Kunstgalerie Maribor und so weiter. ... Eine sichtlich verarmte Kulturlandschaft provoziert die berechtigte Frage, ob unsere Regierung die grundsätzliche Rolle der Kultur für die Entwicklung jedes einzelnen Menschen, des Volks und des Staats vergessen hat. (16.06.2011) http://www.delo.si/mnenja/komentarji/leta-nazadovanja.html
[spectre] Alternative economies and the funding cutbacks + a few words on the situation in NL
Dear Spectrites, A fascinating discussion is emerging in (late) response to the funding cutbacks in the UK, NL, and now Slovenia. Without wanting to take anything away from what has been said so far, I would like to introduce a slightly different angle to the discussion. Because this is all still in becoming, it necessarily has to be sketchy. That public funding for arts, especially the experimental arts and media arts / networked arts, are under increasing pressure is not really new - the scale and acceleration of austerisation is, obviously. Seeing for a long time the shifting funding priorities (from an 'arts' or slightly more autonomous designation to the 'economistic' notion of 'creative industries - a bit more about that in respect to the situation in The Netherlands at the end) it was clear that alternative models of sustainability for the kind of practices that are at least close to my heart should be probed and developed. In 2008 we started this discussion around the rapid growth of on-line collections of audio visual material and their public accessibility with the Economies of the Commons conference series, inspired by the term that Felix Stalder had originally suggested to us. The conferences provide a relevant constellation of heritage, archive, as well as independent initiatives, producers, cultural and arts organisations and representatives of (public) broadcasting. This is an on-going discussion and exploration. The idea in rough terms is to investigate how in view of the unreliability of public support structures (as has become abundantly clear now, but remember we started this discussion in 2007/8, alternative support structures can be constructed for these kind of experimental and public access practices and resources that still retain the ideals of accessibility, of publicness, of sharing, of free exchange (free as in unfettered - not 'gratis'). Documentation of the first ECommons conference: www.debalie.nl/dossierpagina.jsp?dossierid=208416 Website of ECommons 2: www.ecommons.eu There are different layers to this undertaking. One important step is to understand what kind and how value is created in situations where no immediate transaction takes place when having access to the resources, productions, gatherings, exchanges we are studying. Here the figure of the commons (a highly anglosaxonian notion and not 'common' in The Netherlands at all), comes squarely into view. It is possible through this notion of shared resources, the commons, to tap into a rich experience and body of both practical work and excellent (economic) theory that has been developed in the commons movement suis generis, by a.o. Ollstrom and Hess and many others. The figure of the commons identifies a third economic logic, next to that of the Market and Public (State) support, that is highly productive in a multitude of situations to resolve problems of access to resources, knowledge, skills, means of production, reputation building (important for the general art economy / market that is essentially a reputation economy), distribution infrastructures and more. The commons is not an ant-thesis to the market, nor is it replacement for public support structures, much rather it is complementary. Current debates about crowd funding that have suddenly become popular (surprise!?) are hopelessly beside the point, they reflect the simple logic of established cultural institutions who see their public funding go down and want to compensate this monetary loss simply by extracting more money from 'the crowd' - rather than rethinking the nature of their own practice and ways of working. We can see that this will lead nowhere as 'the crowd' will not be willing to supplement dwindling public arts funds, meanwhile not getting anything new and not getting a stake or a new kind of involvement in the organisations and their cultural output. In other words, this short term strategy amounts to the same as simply raising the prices of your ticket sales, and we know what the result of this will be, raise them too much and the audience will stay away. After two conferences (2008 and 2010) and extended discussions in the local and international environment the main observation that I take from the Economies of the Commons debate is that new realities are forcing cultural organisations to both rethink how they work and how they raise support for their activities. Replacing public funding with a commons based revenue stream will not work, while complete commercialisation will de the death trap for what makes this cultural activity most valuable (i.e. public accessibility, active dialogue, reuse and remix, critical engagement of the aesthetics and politics of experimental and media arts). Therefore it seems that hybrid models of practice need to be developed very urgently. Public funding should not be discarded, but should be fought for and where possible reinstated in the
Re: [spectre] Alternative economies and the funding cutbacks + a few words on the situation in NL
Hi Eric I'd thought of crowd-sourced micro-funding as opportunistic and glorified begging (although begging can be seen to have a valid social status in certain contexts). However, your vision of not dead, not alive vampiric arts organisations sucking the blood of the crowd is much better. But what does that make the government? Best Simon On 16/06/2011 14:28, Eric Kluitenberg e...@xs4all.nl wrote: Dear Spectrites, A fascinating discussion is emerging in (late) response to the funding cutbacks in the UK, NL, and now Slovenia. Without wanting to take anything away from what has been said so far, I would like to introduce a slightly different angle to the discussion. Because this is all still in becoming, it necessarily has to be sketchy. That public funding for arts, especially the experimental arts and media arts / networked arts, are under increasing pressure is not really new - the scale and acceleration of austerisation is, obviously. Seeing for a long time the shifting funding priorities (from an 'arts' or slightly more autonomous designation to the 'economistic' notion of 'creative industries - a bit more about that in respect to the situation in The Netherlands at the end) it was clear that alternative models of sustainability for the kind of practices that are at least close to my heart should be probed and developed. In 2008 we started this discussion around the rapid growth of on-line collections of audio visual material and their public accessibility with the Economies of the Commons conference series, inspired by the term that Felix Stalder had originally suggested to us. The conferences provide a relevant constellation of heritage, archive, as well as independent initiatives, producers, cultural and arts organisations and representatives of (public) broadcasting. This is an on-going discussion and exploration. The idea in rough terms is to investigate how in view of the unreliability of public support structures (as has become abundantly clear now, but remember we started this discussion in 2007/8, alternative support structures can be constructed for these kind of experimental and public access practices and resources that still retain the ideals of accessibility, of publicness, of sharing, of free exchange (free as in unfettered - not 'gratis'). Documentation of the first ECommons conference: www.debalie.nl/dossierpagina.jsp?dossierid=208416 Website of ECommons 2: www.ecommons.eu There are different layers to this undertaking. One important step is to understand what kind and how value is created in situations where no immediate transaction takes place when having access to the resources, productions, gatherings, exchanges we are studying. Here the figure of the commons (a highly anglosaxonian notion and not 'common' in The Netherlands at all), comes squarely into view. It is possible through this notion of shared resources, the commons, to tap into a rich experience and body of both practical work and excellent (economic) theory that has been developed in the commons movement suis generis, by a.o. Ollstrom and Hess and many others. The figure of the commons identifies a third economic logic, next to that of the Market and Public (State) support, that is highly productive in a multitude of situations to resolve problems of access to resources, knowledge, skills, means of production, reputation building (important for the general art economy / market that is essentially a reputation economy), distribution infrastructures and more. The commons is not an ant-thesis to the market, nor is it replacement for public support structures, much rather it is complementary. Current debates about crowd funding that have suddenly become popular (surprise!?) are hopelessly beside the point, they reflect the simple logic of established cultural institutions who see their public funding go down and want to compensate this monetary loss simply by extracting more money from 'the crowd' - rather than rethinking the nature of their own practice and ways of working. We can see that this will lead nowhere as 'the crowd' will not be willing to supplement dwindling public arts funds, meanwhile not getting anything new and not getting a stake or a new kind of involvement in the organisations and their cultural output. In other words, this short term strategy amounts to the same as simply raising the prices of your ticket sales, and we know what the result of this will be, raise them too much and the audience will stay away. After two conferences (2008 and 2010) and extended discussions in the local and international environment the main observation that I take from the Economies of the Commons debate is that new realities are forcing cultural organisations to both rethink how they work and how they raise support for their activities. Replacing public funding with a commons based revenue stream will not work, while complete
[spectre] NIMK: Media Art, We Care!
From: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst n...@mailinglijst.nl Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:05:03 +0200 Subject: Media Art, We Care! Media Art, We Care The Dutch Secretary of state for culture, Halbe Zijlstra, has published his policy plan for the coming years on June 10th. In contrast to the official recommendations given to him by his advisory board, the Raad voor Cultuur, these historic cutbacks will not be spread out over a number of years but will take immediate effect as of January, 2013. Next to the devastating effect for the whole field of emerging arts and innovation, this means that the Netherlands Media Art Institute is facing a 100% cut in its structural governmental funding. Ever since the foundation of MonteVideo gallery in 1978, the Netherlands Media Art Institute has specialized in media and electronic art that seeks the creative possibilities of contemporary media and technology. Today we are an internationally renowned and all-round cultural organization, active and recognized in the areas of creation, presentation, research and conservation. The collection of the Netherlands Media Art Institute comprises over 2,000 works of more than 500 (inter)national artists and is the beating heart of the Institute. Historically, international exchange has always been an essential part of media art. At this moment, we annually distribute works from our collection to up to 35 countries worldwide. The total spectrum of activities includes exhibitions, education and research, and a high level of international cooperation. Through such diverse functions, the Institute fulfils its role as intermediary for the media art sector: building bridges between artists, art institutions and the public: a center of expertise that makes its resources widely available. Contrary to all recommendations and expectations we are now facing major challenges in keeping the Institute alive in order to remain an active leading player in the field of art, technology and innovation. We are very much aware that the days of individualism are history. Alliances within and beyond the arts, partnerships and shared leadership will be key to help us through these unstable economic, political and social times. The Netherlands Media Art Institute, being a valuable node in an international network, believes in the strength of this Institute, the sector and the potential of the artists and our partners. We are dedicated to invest all of our energy and efforts to keep media art vibrant and alive. We welcome your response! We'd like to hear your opinion about NIMk and about the current situation. Send your response to mailto:n...@nimk.nli...@nimk.nl and we publish it online or use the responsbox online (only for facebook users): http://nimk.nl/eng/media-art-we-carehttp://nimk.nl/eng/media-art-we-care Important links Response by the art and new media institutions Steim, V2_, Mediamatic, De Waag Submarine Channel, WORM and NIMk: http://nimk.nl/eng/response-new-media-and-art-institutions-to-govermental-cuts-source-of-innovation-is-eliminatedhttp://nimk.nl/eng/response-new-media-and-art-institutions-to-govermental-cuts-source-of-innovation-is-eliminated De Zaak Nu: http://www.dezaaknu.nl/nieuws/2011/06/15/dear_mr_zijlstrahttp://www.dezaaknu.nl/nieuws/2011/06/15/dear_mr_zijlstra Sign the online Petition: http://petities.nl/petitie/bezuinigen-op-cultuur-zonder-alle-feiten-nooithttp://petities.nl/petitie/bezuinigen-op-cultuur-zonder-alle-feiten-nooit __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] NK SUMMER WORKSHOPS
NK SUMMER WORKSHOPS: WORKSHOP | Saturday 9th July 2011, 1200-1800 HACKING MUSICAL INTERACTIONS: INTERACTION DESIGN FOR DIY EMIS. This hands-on workshop introduces and explores key concepts of interaction design for electronic musical interactions (EMIs) and live musical performance. Participants will be introduced to interaction design concepts and practices as we explore them through hands-on physical sketching with simple electronic instrument circuitry, circuit bending and hardware hacking. The workshop will culminate in a specific design challenge for the participants, challenging them to create a new performance- ready circuit bent musical instrument within detailed constraints. WORKSHOP | July 18 – 23 Aug 8-13, 2011 Beginner Max Max For Live Workshops with Pure. Max Beginners Workshop 6 Days Monday July 18 – Saturday July 23 2011, Mon-Fri 18.00 – 22.00 daily (Due to the expected midsummer temperatures), Sat 13.00-17.00 Max For Live Beginners Workshop 6 Days Monday August 8 – Saturday August 13 2011, Mon-Fri 18.00 – 22.00 daily (Due to the expected midsummer temperatures), Sat 13.00-17.00 WORKSHOP | Saturday 30th July- Monday 1st August 2011 Workshop 1 / Tuesday 2nd- Thursday 4th August 2011 Workshop 2 NEON WORKSHOPS JULY/AUGUST 2011. Our aim is to expose, educate, challenge and teach neon as a method of expression and cultural production. We also hope to encourage participants to stretch their methods of thinking when using glass and light. We offer access to a fully functioning neon facility where our award winning makers and artists unravel the mysteries of creating neon light. During our workshops, through one-to-one tuition and group demonstrations, participants will learn the skills of transcribing designs into neon drawings and manipulating glass with flame before filling with gas. The goal is for each participant to leave with a finished work of light that they have designed and made or helped make through directing. NK Elsenstr. 52/2. Hinterhaus Etage 2 12059 Berlin Neukölln www.nkprojekt.de __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] introducing HONFabLab, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
dear all... i would like to inform that HONF in the proses to build the FabLab now (the opening will be on 29th July) http://www.natural-fiber.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=163Itemid=85 we will start with 4 main machine here, for the first chapter of various workshop n programs for public http://www.natural-fiber.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=266:honfablab-equipmentscatid=98:equipmentsItemid=100 best v venzha the house of natural fiber yogyakarta new media art laboratory (HONF) Jl.wora wari A80/6 Baciro - Yogyakarta Indonesia T : +62 (0) 817468621 F : +62 (0) 274 564276 E : ven...@yahoo.com ven...@natural-fiber.com URL : http://www.natural-fiber.com __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] A Users Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible
i'd prefer not to do below (allow scribd, etc etc), is there another way to get this document? On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Andreas Broeckmann wrote: stevphen, thanks for this - it comes timely... however, what is weird is that the download of the document is restricted to people logged into facebook (and this through a service, scribd, that claims it helps to liberate the word ... ;-). maybe it is is the guide for the Insurrectionary Imagination only of the facebook generation? with an understanding of a liberation like that - which only happens _within_ the world of facebook (WOF), it's no wonder that the old western ideals are going down the drain... ach, altes Europa... regards, -a New booklet on art and activismŠ A Users Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It's a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht's words to heart: Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements. -- Art is useless, so they tell us, as soon as it truly affects the world it loses its status as art. (You never know, it might slide down the slippery slope, becoming instrumental, propaganda, or even worse craft!) The strange thing is that those who tell us this are often the same people who put art to the crudest instrumental use - the art market. Maybe what they mean is that - art is useless when its not ultimately used to make a profit. Perhaps it's the same logic as that which argues that education has no use outside slotting us into the mutilated world of work and consumption. This guide is for those of us who suspect that art has other uses and who are prepared to seek them. PDF available freely online (http://www.minorcompositions.info/usersguide.htmlhttp://www.minorcompositions.info/usersguide.html), discounts for ordering multiple copies. 64 pages, A6 size (4.134 x 5.827) To be released June 1st, 2011 Released by Minor Compositions, London / New York / Port Watson Minor Compositions is a series of interventions provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life. Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia http://www.minorcompositions.infowww.minorcompositions.info |mailto:i...@minorcompositions.infoi...@minorcompositions.info -- Stevphen Shukaitis Autonomedia Editorial Collective http://www.autonomedia.orghttp://www.autonomedia.org http://www.minorcompositions.infohttp://www.minorcompositions.info Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created through its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political practice. To become autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and compulsory cultures of separation and hierarchy through embodied practices of welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which these depend with a politics of skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing these with others creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that subverts the domination and hegemony of the master's rule. - subRosa Collective __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] performance art studies
mit der bitte um verbreitung please spread the word - performance art studies with bbb johannes deimling # 20 | in context 17. – 29. august 2011 / berlin, germany in cooperation with grimmuseum, berlin - deadline for applications 5th of august 2011 - background in context is a new study format of pas. for the second time pas is invited by enrico centonze to the grimmuseum in berlin. in july 2010 we had a successful pastudies with the topic extension (link) as part of the performance art program at the grimmuseum, curated by andres galeano. the first in context edition will focus performance art in context of the museum. to live and to work in the grimmuseum is one aspect of the studies. pas in context will ask specific questions about the context of performance art in relation with the museum. performance art is often recognized as an ephermal art form. how we are able to place our works into the context of a museum? or how we can use the specific directions of a museum for the creation of our works? with this discourse we want to take part in the running discussions about documentation and preserving the relics of performance art pieces. the aim of this 12 days studies is to work out a performance and to present this as part of the final presentation in one museum in berlin and as well in the grimmuseum. we are very happy to announce that the polish performance artist antoni karwowski and the german art historian johannes lothar schroeder will be guest teachers during the 20th edition of pastudies at the grimmuseum. antoni karwowski will give a one day workshop and will give the participants a specific direction within the given topic. johannes lothar schroeder will give a one day lecture about performance art in the context of art history. both will help to strengthen the outcome of the performances at the final presentation. working method and strategies with the guidance and direction of the facilitators, participants will use a variety of techniques and exercises to focus perception of one’s own personality, develop skills to communicate with the body, and transform ideas into a performative work. personal perception and experience colour and characterize how we communicate and deal with the body in time and space during performance. the main objective of pastudies is to understand the body as a tool and to use this tool to communicate effectively in performance. besides the artistic opportunity, PAStudies provide some cultural specials. pas – performance art sudies offer: – to develop an art performance with technical, pedagogical and artistical guidance – to investigate and work with a variety of performative exercises in various conditions, in- and outdoor which focuses on: body, time, space, concentration, endurance (both in groups and individually) and images. – a final public presentation of the performance (media promotion, poster, mailing) and final celebration – video and photo documentation of the 12-days process and final presentation, made by matthias pick (photography) and christopher hewitt (video), – publication of the documentation on pas website and other performance art related websites and blogs, – a one day workshop with the polish performance artist antoni karwowski – a one day workshop with the german art historian dr. johannes lothar schroeder – contacts with artists, curators and art institutions in germany – meeting and cooperation with other like-minded people from other countries – encounters, lectures and discussions with other invited berlin based performance artists – context of the place, german history and culture – free accommodation in berlin, germany (12 days) == the studies are ideal for art students, young artists and all other people who are interested in performance art. the range of ages in the past pastudies was from 17 to 62 and the level of experience is not a criteria for to participate in pastudies. usually the group is composed by international artists coming from different backgrounds and different parts of the world. == pastudies takes place at least with 8 participants. details == deadline for applications is 5th of august 2011 == teaching language is english == price: 600 € (4.670 nok, 751 chf, 2.364 pln, 803 usd, 514 £) confirmed registrations before the 1st of april 2011, the pastudies will cost: 550 € (4.280 nok, 688 chf, 2.167 pln, 736 usd, 471 £) == price does not include travel costs == during the 12-day together we will have self supply. Please check: http://pas.bbbjohannesdeimling.de/index.php?/2011/-20--in-context/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
LinkedIn Roberta Alvarenga requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Jani, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Roberta Accept invitation from Roberta Alvarenga http://www.linkedin.com/e/x455yo-gp0bg1h2-2c/GKLYW1nbJJ6cY81QWLkbGqAbKJr_P903cWJ/blk/I171468134_20/1BpC5vrmRLoRZcjkkZt5YCpnlOt3RApnhMpmdzgmhxrSNBszYMcBYQcP4UdzgNdP59bPcSujtqqQpmbPATdzcRejgQczcLrCBxbOYWrSlI/EML_comm_afe/ View invitation from Roberta Alvarenga http://www.linkedin.com/e/x455yo-gp0bg1h2-2c/GKLYW1nbJJ6cY81QWLkbGqAbKJr_P903cWJ/blk/I171468134_20/30OnPgPcjwSd34TckALqnpPbOYWrSlI/svi/ -- Why might connecting with Roberta Alvarenga be a good idea? Have a question? Roberta Alvarenga's network will probably have an answer: You can use LinkedIn Answers to distribute your professional questions to Roberta Alvarenga and your extended network. You can get high-quality answers from experienced professionals. http://www.linkedin.com/e/x455yo-gp0bg1h2-2c/ash/inv19_ayn/ -- (c) 2011, LinkedIn Corporation__ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
