From hungary-online-owner Mon Dec 11 08:32:40 1995 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id IAA02102 for hungary-online-out31415; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 08:32:40 -0800 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id IAA02093; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 08:32:24 -0800 Received: from sure@euronet.nl () via =-=-=-=-=-= for hungary-online@hungary.yak.net (2091) Received: from mail.euronet.nl (root@mail.euronet.nl [194.134.0.67]) (fnord) by nando (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id IAA02086 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 08:31:25 -0800 Received: from [194.134.0.144] (p402.asd.euronet.nl [194.134.1.131]) by mail.euronet.nl (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id RAA16188 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 17:31:06 +0100 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 17:36:19 +0100 To: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net From: sure@euronet.nl (Sjoera Nas) Subject: (HOL) definite programme Next 5 Minutes Sender: owner-Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net PROGRAM OF THE 'NEXT FIVE MINUTES' CONFERENCE Amsterdam/Rotterdam, january 18-21, 1995 Next 5 Minutes: tactical media is a conference and exhibition that will take place at Amsterdam's Balie and Paradiso and at Rotterdam's V2_Organisation from January 18th till January 21st 1996. The conference will be officially opened Thursday evening in Rotterdam with a performance of the Critical Art Ensemble from Chicago about the matter of media. Underneath you can find the official program. All updates are to be found on the Next 5 Minutes website: http://www.dds.nl/n5m. For more detailed information about the Amsterdam conference please contact De Balie, phone 020 - 62 33 673 and ask for Sjoera Nas or David Garcia. For information about the Rotterdam programme please contact V2_Organisation, phone 010 - 404 76 93 and ask for Andreas Broeckmann. Or e-mail N5M@dds.nl PROGRAM Friday January 19 programme in Amsterdam Balie theatre: 10.30-12.00 hours From Access for All to Access for What Can strategic combinations of old and new media make the dream of genuine public access a reality? * Presentation by DeeDee Halleck (New York) co-founder of Paper Tiger TV and Deep Dish TV, with screenings of influential old and new material from the Paper Tiger collection * Interview with Juergen Linke (Berlin) director of the Berlin Open Channel and Nico van Eyk (Amsterdam) former board member of SALTO, Amsterdam Open Channel, as representatives of important examples of public access to cable television in Europe * Presentation by Mark Dery (New York) cyber critic and author of 'Culture Jamming', with a street level perspective on the future of public access * Spoken column by Rop Gonggrijp (Amsterdam) co-founder of XS4ALL and of Amsterdam Digital City Moderation: David Garcia (Amsterdam) Centre for Tactical Media. Paradiso hall: 10.30-12.00 hours Copyright in the Next Century To be able to interpret our history we must also be free to access and use information. With digital collage and sampling playing an ever more important role in daily culture, is the concept of copyright becoming obsolete? Moderation and organisation: Tjebbe van Tijen, International Institute for Social History (IISG), Amsterdam. Balie Salon: 13.00-14.30 hours Workshop: Curator Activists Participants: Kathy Rae Huffman (Vienna) networker; Renate Lorenz (Zurich) exhibition organiser; Norbert Meisner (Leipzig) media artist currently involved in Kanal X; Alla Mitrofanova (St. Petersburg) arts curator. Moderation: Chris Hill (Buffalo) media curator and involved in the public access movement and Keiko Sei (Prague) media curator. Balie theatre: 14.30-16.15 hours Beyond the Metaphors of War Does the use of violent metaphors beget more violence? From South Africa to Northern Ireland a number of societies are at various stages of transition from war to peace. What are the images and strategies that will enable them to grow towards reconciliation? * Introduction by Marilyn Hyndman (Belfast) to the screening of key works by the Belfast based tactical television group Northern Visions. * Presentation by Chris Gutuza (Bellville South Africa), producer of the Media Training & Development Trust. * Interview with Maya van de Velde (Amsterdam) expert on Palestinian tactical communication, from magazines to electronic networks. * Presentation of Radio Doble F (San Salvador) previously the voice of the resistance, the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberation Nacional. This radio station is supported by XminY Solidarity Fund. Moderation: Michael Pollman (Nijmegen) founder of Antenna, access provider and networking node. Balie theatre: 16.30-17.00 hours Screening of 'Shock is Spreading', by Olivera Todorovic (Belgrade 1995). Short documentary about life in Belgrade in the past 10 years, about the energy of youth so rarely noticed on film or video. Screening of fragments of 'Zombietown' by Marc J. Hawker (Glasgow 1995). Documentary about radio B'92 and surroundings in Belgrade. Paradiso hall: 14.30 -17.00 hours The Desire to be Wired A series of performance-lectures that will form a radical critique of cyberculture * Calin Dan (Bucharest) visual artist, member of the artists group SubREAL. * Konrad Becker (Vienna) video and computer artist, . * Sabeth Buchmann (Berlin) member of Minimal Club, editor of the theoryzine A.N.Y.P.. * Heath Bunting (London) street culture hacker . * Pit Schulz (Berlin) electro artist, editor of the theory database Webstop. * Dirk Paesmans (Amsterdam) media and web artist . * Alla Mitrofanova (St. Petersburg) art curator and media philosopher. * Steven Kurtz (Chicago) member of the media/art activists group Critical Art Ensemble. Hosted by Geert Lovink (Amsterdam) Centre for Tactical Media. Paradiso Cellar: 16.00-18.00 hours Workshop The impact of radio on civil conflicts Participants: Democratic Voice of Burma, Radio B'92 (Belgrade), Radio Kameleon (Tuzla, Bosnia), La Voz Popular (Guatamala), Radio Doble F (El Salvador), Community Radio (South Africa), Martha Hawley (Amsterdam) European Community Medmedia Program. Moderation: Rita Brakel (Amsterdam) XminY Solidarity Fund. Balie theatre: 19.30 - 21.00 hours Lecture 'From Cyberspace to Neurospace' by Peter Lamborn Wilson (New York), member of the collective Autonomedia. Paradiso hall: 21.00-22.00 hours Performance by vakuum tv Unplugged TV from Budapest In the context of new forms of censorship in Hungary, these artists invented a new way to transmit their political opinions. In a small theatre in Budapest they transformed the stage into a television set. Every Monday they talk back to the media. Paradiso hall: 22.00-23.30 hours Screening of the movie 'Predictions of Fire' (1995) by Michael Benson Movie about the Slovenian arts collective 'NSK' During the 80's this group shocked many people in western Europe with their use of fascist iconography. Only later, after the Balkan explosion, did people realise that 'NSK' were merely predicting the flames of militant nationalism that were to come. Saturday January 20 Balie theatre: 10.30-12.00 hours Reality Check Do the new media really lead to greater democracy? * Presentation by Steven Lenos (Agora) and Nina Meilof (Beurs TV, Digital City), about current experiments with tele-democracy in Amsterdam * Presentation by Rena Tangens from Zerberus (Bielefeld), alternative computer network * Debate with Katja Diefenbach (Munich) journalist, Kees Schalken (Tilburg), researcher at the Catholic University Brabant. Moderation: Marleen Stikker, Director of the Society for Old and New Media. Paradiso hall: 10.30-13.00 hours The Metaphor Machine The issue of metaphorical language is not abstract. It poses the vital strategic question what language to use. An investigation of language and metaphor in the technological age. * Performance interview by Graham Harwood and Matthew Fuller (London), with demonstration of the CD-ROM * Rehearsal of Memory' (1995) showing the physical memories of several patients of the Ashworth Mental Hospital. * Presentation by Stephan Geene (Berlin), member of Minimal Club, about the language of biotechnology. * Presentation by Karin Spaink (Amsterdam), author, about the Cyborg-metaphor. * Video screening of fragments of 'Simultaneous City' (1994) by RongWrong Productions (Amsterdam). With the growing uniformity of the world - the same TV programmes, the same food, the same advertisements - culture shock is replaced by a shocking familiarity. Cities are as anonymous and interchangeable as hotel bedrooms. * Presentation by Jochen Becker (Berlin), member of B=FCroBert, about 'Telepolis' and the impact of digital cities on urban spaces. Moderation: Geert Lovink (Amsterdam) Centre for Tactical Media. Balie theatre: 14.30-17.30 hours Tactical Media as Tools for Survival Series of presentations from front-line activists who use tactical media as tools or as weapons in a struggle for survival. * Lecture by Sivam Krishnapillai (Cambridge) scientist, about the ethno-national cyberquarrels in Sri Lanka. * Presentation by Vesna Jankovic (Zagreb), editor in chief of Arkzin, the bi-weekly anti-war magazine that combines politics and subculture. * Screening of the new video of Jelenko Bantic (Zagreb) about the armed struggle for a free radio station in Northern Kroatia * Presentation of the Democratic Voice of Burma by Thein Htike Oo, the radio station of the democratic alliance, that has been banned by official authorities. The radio station is supported by XminY Solidarity Fund, who will be launching an action campaign to put them on the air again. * Screening of videos about the current media activities from the Zapatistas in the Chiapas region in Mexico. * Presentation by Sacha Mirkovic (Belgrade), producer from the radio station B'92. Moderation: P.L. da Silva, social scientist at the University of Amsterdam. Balie Autonomous Zone: 15.00-17.00 hours Workshop: Mortal Acts. The Tactical Body. A workshop produced by Almanac, an Amsterdam based tactical television program. On the symbolic use of the body in art and political intervention. Paradiso upper floor: 15.00-17.00 hours Workshop: Low End Technology >From a wide assortment of consumer cameras to wind-up radios, scanners and other hacking devices, this workshop celebrates the vitality of using cheap technology. Participants: Heath Bunting (London street culture hacker); Leo Jacobs (Film and Television Academy Amsterdam); Pauline Krikke (Amsterdam City Council); Debra Solomon (Amsterdam media artist); Bobby Tuazon (Peoples Television Network of the Phillipines Manila). Moderation: Raul Marroquin (Amsterdam) media artist. Paradiso upper floor: 17.00-18.00 hours Workshop: Latino Networks on the Net Video conference / CUSeeMe in the two most widely used languages on the Net: English and Spanish. With Lourdes Cillerulo (Universidad del Pais Vasco), Marcelo Exposito (Universidad de Valencia), and the Universidad de Chile. Moderation: Mariano Maturana (Amsterdam). Paradiso upper floor: 18.00-19.30 hours Workshop: Accessing Satellite Technology Satellites need no longer be the monopoly of mainstream media, as tacticans from all over the world learn how to appropiate communication satellites. Participants: DeeDee Halleck (New York); Allan Fountain (London) formerly Channel 4, currently involved in the Mondial Satellite Project. Moderation: Raul Marroquin, Hoeksteen TV Amsterdam. Balie Salon: 17.00-18.30 hours Workhop: Media in the new Southern Africa The role of the old and new media in social transformation: do the electronic media have anything to add to the process of political reconstruction in Southern Africa. With: David Adams (Johannesburg) ANC media trainer; Shareef Cullis (Johannesburg) Centre for Democratic Communication; Chris Gutuza (Bellville) Media Training & Development Trust; Jeanne du Toit (Salt River) Bush Radio. Moderation: Bert Frereks (Amsterdam) Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika. Balie theatre: 20.00-21.30 hours Tactical Research - The Myth of Easy Search Serious research is the source of all tactical communication. Low budget investigative journalism challenges the superficial knowledge presented as background in mainstream media. * Presentation by Frannie Armstrong (London) of One World of the McLibel Case, the judicial procedures of the Green Peace London Collective against McDonalds * Introduction by Jamie Hartzell (London) of the screenings of the London based video collective Small World * Presentation by Christian Golla (Bonn) of the Copex incidents in Germany * Screening of fragments of Haiti: Killing the Dream by Babeth (Amsterdam) visual artist. Providing an eye witness account of the coup with enough inside knowledge to provide an account of CIA involvement in events. Moderation: Eveline Lubbers (Amsterdam) research collective Jansen & Janssen. Balie Autonomous Zone: 22.30-24.00 hours Workshop: Sex in the Age of Media Open discussion to explore the pleasure principle, its directions and the use of abuse in the media today. Participants: Susan Janssen & William Levy; Peter Mueller Sziami, Mariska Majoor, Xaviera Hollander, Michel Beaujart, Jeanette Genant & others. Moderation: Marianna Padi (Amsterdam) writer and organiser. Paradiso hall: 21.30-05.00 hours E~Scape Technoparty by Digital Artists Xperiments. D.A.X. consists of Konrad Becker (Vienna) Monoton, Michael Wells (London) Technohead, Robin Rimbaud (London) deejay Scanner, Dano (Amsterdam) deejay, No Sweat (Amsterdam) producer, Liza 'n Eliaz (Antwerp) deejay. Veejaying by Cut Up (Rotterdam). With: hypermedia interfaces, videogates, interactive sound database, live techno music. Sunday January 21 Balie salon: 13.00-14.00 hours Mr President Interviews by Cecile Landman (Amsterdam) researcher with Giovanni Ruggeri (Milan) the famous Italian critic, author of 'the business of Mr. President' and Gianluca Neri (Milan) Peacelink, about the current television and internet monopoly positions in Italy. What's behind Video Online, the fastest growing Internet provider in Italy. Balie theatre: 14.00-15.00 hours Net Criticism The emergence of the Net is so significant that it forces us to reimagine the role of all other media. Like Art and Literature does the net require it's own independent critical discipline? Participants: Mark Dery, Katja Diefenbach, Paul Garrin, P.L. Wilson. Moderation: Geert Lovink (Amsterdam) media theoritician, Centre for Tactical Media. Balie Salon: 14.00-15.00 hours Workshop: Financing Tactical Media Participants: Eveline Lubbers (Amsterdam); Arie-Willem Bijl (XminY Solidarity Fund); Jamie Hartzell (London); and a representative of the Soros Foundation. Moderation: Rita Brakel, XminY Solidarity Fund. Paradiso hall: 15.00-17.00 hours New Impulses For Translocal Culture Discovering ways to give a new prominance to the diversity of global media. And eroding the dichotomy between the North and the South. * Presentation by Sharad Argwal and Satuajit Sarkar (Delhi) on the current position of independent video makers and internet activists in India. * Presentation of the Refugee Republic by Ingo Guenther (New York) media artist. * Presentation by Caetanno Scannavino (Rio de Janeiro) of the Video Popular network in Brasil, a collective of media activists that put up wide screens in small Brasilian villages with limited media access. * Highlights of the efforts of South African Community Radio to balance social justice with reconciliation. Moderation: Olivier Pasquet (Queige, France) board member of Videazimut, the internatio-nal organisation of independent video makers. Final Debate moderated by David Garcia (Amsterdam) Center for Tactical Media. The final debate draws together the key ideas to have emerged during the Next 5 Minutes and will ask whether such a diverse range of communities and interest groups can create shared strategies and a common agenda. other formats in Amsterdam INSTALLATIONS Censored information by Babeth (Amsterdam) is made up of original and shocking material recorded during the coup in Haiti, and which is combined with a forensic analysis by Noam Chomsky of how the artist's film Haiti: Killing the Dream was later censored by American broadcaster PBS. There will also be an informal screening of the award winning Haiti: Killing the dream during the conference. Rehearsal of Memory by Graham Harwood (London) is an installation based on his CD-ROM Rehearsal of Memory, showing the physical memories of patients from the Ashworth Mental Hospital. Zap Museum by MauZ (Enschede, NL). A normal living room with an abnormal television. In this installation the artist realises the impossible dream of multi-channel tactical television. performances Unpredictable tactical interventions by: * Ros Sinclaire (Glasgow) * Hunter Reynolds (New York) * Amalia Pevyovschi (Bucharest) * The Electronic Cafe International (Santa Monica), media platforms Local television in Amsterdam and Rotterdam will be an integral tool of the Next 5 Minutes. Radio and TV production and programming facilities will be available to participants of the conference. A satellite link, ISDN lines and other forms of tele-conferencing will keep the venues in the two cities in continuous dialogue. Cable operators in the Amsterdam and Rotterdam are available for cablecasting during the event for transmissions of tapes and live-events allowing for active collaboration with visiting groups. A World Wide Web site features an online journal, newsgroups, tele-conferencing, etc., throughout the four days of the event, containing extensive coverage of N5M debates and workshops. It will also be an environment for a number of visiting artists to realise new works. Teletext and other forms of digital television will keep people without computers updated about the conference. An extensive archive and media library will be accessible to all visitors on the upperfloor of De Balie. Rotterdam Programme V2 Connection with Amsterdam: Thursday 18th January: Bus shuttle Amsterdam 18.00 hours - Rotterdam 23.00 hours. Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Bus shuttle Amsterdam 13.00 hours - Rotterdam 18.00 hours. (with live-TV broadcasts from the bus) Exhibition: Paul Garrin (New York) video and webartist: MediaFilter A multimediatic environment with on-line information and communication facilities built around the Worl Wide Web site MediaFilter . This project is located at the intersection between art, media, politics and communities. During the Next 5 Minutes, the exhibition space will house a number of presentations and workshops about translocal networks and media communication in Ex-Yugoslavia and other political crisis-areas. Knowbotic Research+cF (Cologne) D/AUT artists' group: DWTKS Dialogue With The Knowbotic South is an installation which deals with the representation and formation of knowledge in electronic networks and with their transformation into sensorial experiences. Through the usage of independent computer agents, Knowbotic Research questions the autonomy of human beings interacting with machines. Krzysztof Wodiczko (New York) artist and industrial designer: Alien Staff/Mouth Piece Before and during the N5M, local operators will walk through Rotterdam with the 'Alien Staff' and 'Mouth Piece' projects of Krzysztof Wodiczko. Aided by electronic walking sticks and mouth-size monitors they will demonstrate how to communicate in an unfamiliar cultural environment and language. Thursday January 18 20.00-23.00: General N5M Opening Act The Matter of Media Performances by * Kevin McCoy (Charlotte, NC) media artist * Critical Art Ensemble (Chigago) cyberactivist collective and a presentation of Techno-Parasites Friday January 19 Translocal Media Networks and the Diaspora Electronic networks offer new means of communication and contact between the growing global migrant community and their relations at home, as well as among the newly evolving translocal communities. V2-Exhibition space: 14.00-16.00 Presentation of several electronic support-networks for Ex-Yugoslavia: MediaFilter by Paul Garrin, Zerberus (Bielefeld) by Rena Tangens, Arkzin (Zagreb) by Vesna Jankovic, and ZaMir (Zagreb). V2-Exhibition space: 16.00-18.00 Debate about media in the diaspora with Sivam Krishnapillai, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and others. Zaal De Unie 20.00 - 23.00: The projects of Ingo G=FCnther (New York) media artist Presentation by Ingo G=FCnther about his recent projects in Cambodia, Bosnia, and the Refugee Republic. Saturday January 20 Aggregates of Information and Communication Media and media environments can function as aggregates in which the elements work together to form complex and productive structures. If critically understood, these aggregates can be built and used to support artistic and social strategies. V2-Exhition space 14.00-16.00 Presentations of Media Cafes and other Referential Environments by padeluun (Bielefeld) media artist of the group FoeBud and Calin Dan (Berlin) of the artists group SubREAL. V2-Exhition space 16.00-18.00 tactical agents Christian Huebler and Yvonne Wilhelm of Knowbotic Research explain their installation DWTKS and talk about the tactical aspects of computer agents. Zaal De Unie 20.00 - 23.00: The projects of Krzysztof Wodiczko (New York) industrial designer Presentation of the Alien Staff and Mouth Piece projects by Krzysztof Wodiczko. Videoscreenings of the impact of his projects in different cities will be followed by a discussion of the significance of these instruments in multi-cultural societies. Guests will include operators of the instruments from Rotterdam and other cities. Sunday January 21 Media Metaphors: Society / Information / the Body Our notions of society, nature and the individual are undergoing a deep transformation. Media artists are tackling the questions arising from this process in installations, video work, and texts. V2-Exhition space 14.00 - 16.00 Debate about the impact of digital information and biotechnological developments on our conceptions of nature and the human body, by Knowbotic Research and Sabeth Buchmann of Minimal Club (Berlin), with video screenings and a presentation of the new book by the Minimal Club, "Geld, Beat, Synthetik". V2-Exhition space 16.00-18.00 Discourse about cyberfeminism and subjectivity between Renate Lorenz/B=FCroBert (Zurich) and Alla Mitrofanova (St. Petersburg). Media Platforms Local television in Amsterdam and Rotterdam will be an integral tool of the Next 5 Minutes. Radio and TV production and programming facilities will be available to participants of the conference. A satellite link, ISDN lines and other forms of tele-conferencing will keep the venues in the two cities in continuous dialogue. Cable operators in the Amsterdam and Rotterdam are available for cablecasting during the event for transmissions of tapes and live-events allowing for active collaboration with visiting groups. A World Wide Web site features an online journal, newsgroups, tele-conferencing, etc., throughout the four days of the event, containing extensive coverage of N5M debates and workshops. It will also be an environment for a number of visiting artists to realise new works. Teletext and other forms of digital television will keep people without computers updated about the conference. An extensive archive and media library will be accessible to all visitors on the upperfloor of De Balie. ############# # This message to Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net # was from sure@euronet.nl (Sjoera Nas) # # To unsubscribe, # send "unsubscribe" to # An announcement-only subscription (less volume) is available # at # Send mail to for more information, # or to if you need human assistance. #############