[spectre] DISRUPTIVE FRIDAYS: live every Friday at 5pm Berlin time

[Tatiana Bazzichelli]

Dear all,

this Friday April 3, Disruption Network Lab is launching a new programme
stream!

DISRUPTIVE FRIDAYS, live every Friday at 5pm Berlin time. The first
conversation will involve Marc Garrett (Furtherfield), Cassie Thornton
(Feminist Economics Department), Ela Kagel (Supermarkt Berlin) and
Tatiana Bazzichelli (Disruption Network Lab).

We will share ideas for creative solutions and resistance to the
isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. What are our strategies to
keep working with art and culture when our contexts of sharing are so
limited? What can we learn from this situation to generate new forms of
collective care?



When we named our organisation "Disruption Network Lab" we would never
have imagined that disruption would turn out the way we are experiencing
it. In the course of the past years we have invited people that disrupt
and challenge closed systems from within. In a moment in which we are
all experiencing a deep closure, Disruptive Fridays becomes an
opportunity to foster even more critical thinking. During these
conversations we will address topics related to art, hacktivism,
whistleblowing, social justice and collective care in times of Corona.

Follow us live on Friday April 3rd at 5pm on our website
(www.disruptionlab.org), Twitter (@disruptberlin) or Facebook.



Speakers:

Ela Kagel  (Digital Strategist and Founder of SUPERMARKT Berlin, DE).
Ela Kagel specialises in the intersection of society, technology and
economy. Since the 1990s she has produced media art exhibitions,
designed spaces for cultural exchange and helped establish digital
platforms, networks and communities. From 2009 to 2011 she was program
curator for the transmediale festival in Berlin. Central to Ela’s
practice is supporting bottom-up initiatives deeply rooted in particular
communities of practice. In 2010 Ela co-founded SUPERMARKT, an
independent hub for digital culture and collaborative economy. Since
2018, Ela is also board member of RChain Europe, a technology
cooperative based in Berlin.

Marc Garrett (Co-director & Co-founder, Furtherfield, London, UK).
Marc Garrett is codirector and cofounder, together with Ruth Catlow, of
the arts online collective Furtherfield, with two physical venues, a
gallery, and a commons lab, all situated in Finsbury Park, London. He
curated the major exhibition "Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in
the 21st Century", at Laboral, Spain in 2017. In 2017 he copublished
"Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain" with Ruth Catlow, Nathan Jones, and
Sam Skinner. He is in the process of completing his PhD at the
University of London, Birkbeck College.

Cassie Thornton (Artist, Feminist Economics Department, UK)
Cassie Thornton is an artist working under the title of the Feminist
Economics Department (the FED), in collusion with Strike Debt. Her work
investigates and reveals the impact of governmental and economic systems
on public affect, behavior, and unconscious, with a focus on debt and
security. Cassie Thornton received a MFA from California College of the
Arts and a BFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She recently
launched The Hologram, an artwork about collective health care
(https://www.furtherfield.org/cassie-thornton-presents-the-hologram/).

Tatiana Bazzichelli (Founder and Director, Disruption Network Lab)
Tatiana Bazzichelli is founder and artistic director of the Disruption
Network Lab, an organisation in Berlin working on information
technology, network culture, hacktivism and whistleblowing. In 2011-2014
she was programme curator at transmediale festival, where she developed
the year-round initiative reSource transmedial culture berlin and
curated several conference events, workshops and installations. She has
been appointed jury member for the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Capital
Cultural Fund) by the German Federal Government and Berlin for the
funding years 2019-2020.
-- 
Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director
Disruption Network Lab
http://disruptionlab.org
Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp
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[spectre] Coronavirus kills its first democracy

[János Sugár]

Title: Coronavirus kills its first
democracy


You could say that Hungary was already "immunocompromised." A
decade under the nation's illiberal nationalist prime minister,
Viktor Orban, has corroded the state's checks and balances, cowed
the judiciary, enfeebled civil society and the free press, and
reconfigured electoral politics to the advantage of Orban's ruling
Fidesz party. So, when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Budapest's
ailing democracy proved all too vulnerable.
On Monday, Hungary's parliament passed a controversial bill that
gave Orban sweeping emergency powers for an indefinite period of time.
Parliament is closed, future elections were called off, existing laws
can be suspended and the prime minister is now entitled to rule by
decree. Opposition lawmakers had tried to set a time limit on the
legislation but failed. Orban's commanding two-thirds parliamentary
majority made his new powers a fait accompli.
/.../
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/31/coronavirus-kills-its-first-democracy/
+
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/29/the-guardian-view-on-hungarys-coronavirus-law-orbans-power-grab
.de
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/news-ungarn-coronavirus-usa-markus-soeder-olaf-scholz-a-51098517-286e-447e-8a7e-2761270bebdf


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[spectre] Fwd: Open Call// Social Distancing Art Festival -SODA

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Betreff:  Fwd: Open Call// Social Distancing Art Festival -SODA
Datum: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:04:57 +0200
Von: Arrival Room 

Dear all,

can someone please post our open call? Thanks in advance.

We have started an open call and are inviting artists to send us
artworks that deal with the actual phenomenon of social distancing.
We want to set an example in times of the covid-19 crisis and general
curfew and promote the creativity of those who sit at home and do
not know what to do with themselves. We call on artists to send us
a work dealing with the new phenomenon of social distancing. We are
currently facing involuntary quarantine and isolation. From one day to
the next, you can no longer live as you have always been used to. What
does it do to humans? What happens to public space without the usual
dynamic? How does this dynamic shift into private, at home? How does
it change interpersonal relationships when social distancing becomes
everyday life? Do we currently live in longdistance relationships? Is
the journey currently going inwards? And what comes after this general
isolation phase?

We call on artists, but also everyone else who deals with these
questions, to send us an artwork. All contributions are first uploaded
to a specially created website and made accessible to everyone on
the Internet. Artists participating in our festival can benefit
from a large existing network and publishing. We are aware that the
movement of social distancing art is still in its infancy. At the
same time we would like later to present the selected works of art as
documentation, of the present „unimagined= “ time.
Without a doubt, the website alongside its contributions will last for
weeks, months and years and gain relevance as a historical statement.
At a later date we would like to present the works of art, selected by
our team in our gallery - Arrival Room in Saarbrücken/Germany.
A separate exhib= ition will be organized under the name of Social
Distancing Art Festival - SODA.

All entries please send to : arrivalr...@gmail.com

No fees ever attached!

instagram: @ arrivalroom @ sodafestival

Arrival Room gUG is a new non-profit organization and art gallery located
in south west of Germany. We In the attachment you'll find our flyer.

Best regards,

Eugen Georg


---

AR Arrival Room gUG
(haftungsbeschränkt)

E-Mail:
arrivalr...@gmail.com

Postadresse:
Saargemünderstr. 36
66119 Saarbrücken

Amtsgericht Saarbrücken
HRB: 105 922
Geschäftsführung: Eugen Georg
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[spectre] Fwd: VIDEONALE.18 (4.3.-18.4.2021): CALL FOR ENTRIES

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Betreff:VIDEONALE.18 (4.3.-18.4.2021): CALL FOR ENTRIES
Datum:  31 Mar 2020 13:34:05 +0200
Von:videon...@televisor.de


*Submission period for the
VIDEONALE.18 (March 4 – April 18, 2021)
starts now*

*VIDEONALE.18 – Festival for Video and Time-Based Art* 


*March 4 – April 18, 2021*

*at the Kunstmuseum Bonn*

The Call for Entries for the 18^th edition of the Videonale has begun, 
and the Videonale cordially invites all artists and filmmakers to submit 
their works for the competition.


The Videonale is one of the most significant festivals for experimental 
video and moving images. It is an important venue for artists, curators, 
collectors and the interested public, as well as a platform for 
discussing current themes and aesthetics of moving images. Unlike other 
festivals, the Videonale presents the selected works not in a cinema 
format but in a *large-scale exhibition* 
 and thus 
reflects on the possibilities of presenting time-based art in the 
gallery space. The exhibition opening is followed by an extensive 
festival program that includes discursive events, performances, 
concerts, retrospectives, and networking events.


The VIDEONALE.18 is open for*experimental works from the fields of 
single- and multi-channel video, video installation, performance, sound 
art, and virtual reality.*


The works selected by an international jury are presented in an 
*exhibition* 
 *at the 
Kunstmuseum Bonn* and an accompanying *exhibition catalogue*. All 
selected artists receive an *exhibition fee* *and accommodation* during 
the opening days and are given the opportunity to participate in the 
*festival and networking events*.


In addition, the *Videonale Prize of the fluentum collection* 
 
*endowed with 5,000 euros*will be awarded among all selected works by an 
independent jury at the opening of the VIDEONALE.18.


*Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2020 (23:59 CET)

**RULES*

Artists of all nationalities and ages can submit up to three works each. 
There are no limitations on the duration and genre, but the submitted 
works may *not be older than two years* (produced after January 1, 2018).


The competition jury and the artistic direction decide on the 
participation in the VIDEONALE.18. based on the submitted materials. The 
applicants will be notified on the decisions by email starting at the 
end of October 2020. The Videonale kindly asks you to refrain from 
inquiries beforehand.


*>PDF Rules* 



*ADMINISTRATION FEE*

An administration fee will be charged for each submission* (payable in 
conjunction with the submission process via PayPal):


until June 14, 2020: 15 euros

after June 15, 2020: 25 euros

/*In justified cases, the submission fee can be omitted. For an 
exemption from the fee as well as limitations for PayPal payments, 
please contact submissi...@videonale.org.


/

In case of questions, please read our*Guideline for Submission* 
 :*submissi...@videonale.org


*

*>To the entry form *

*KONTAKT // CONTACT*
*Videonale e.V. im Kunstmuseum Bonn*
Helmut-Kohl-Allee 2
53113 Bonn
Tel: +49-228-692 818
i...@videonale.org 
www.videonale.org 
www.facebook.com/videonale 


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