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MUSIC JAPAN IS THERE ANYBODY WHO CAN MENTION INTERESTING PEOPLE TO INTERVIEW REGARDING THE IMPACT OF THE IT REVOLUTION AND THE JAPANESE MUSIC/FILM INDUSTRY? At the moment I am conducting several semi-structured interviews in order to arrive at an issue-inventory here in Japan for a PhD. that I am pursuing. I am focussing on the big intermediaries (like Sony, AVEX etc.), regulatory bodies (METI, JASRAC), the retailing industry, voluntary associations of musicians/directors, academia and other relevant bodies. In a nutshell, the objective will be to assess how the IT revolution has affected the key economic players in the cultural industries, being:  Musicians/film directors  Intermediaries (Sony, EMI, BMG etc.)  Retailing industry With regard to the musicians/film directors, the digital revolution has enabled them to record their work themselves and most probably at a much cheaper rate than the traditional recording studios. Furthermore, with the current technology they can also distribute their work via the World Wide Web. Needless to say, starting musicians/film directors still face many obstacles to be overcome before such production and distribution is economically viable. However, these new modes of transaction pose a significant threat to the conventional way of doing business in these industries. The intermediaries and the retailing industry alike have to guard themselves against the loss of market share and the decline in profits. The current turmoil surrounding Napster is a striking demonstration of the far reaching implications the introduction of IT applications has in these industries. Does anybody know more about the Japanese case; please contact me. Kind Regards Joeri >From: Announcer <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net> >Reply-To: Announcer <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net> >To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net >Subject: <nettime> Announcements [11] >Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:53:27 -0400 > >Table of Contents: > > CIRCUS 2001 > david garcia <davidg@xs4all.nl> > > Interview Yourself - Latest Interviews 4/7/01! > Amy Alexander <plagiari@plagiarist.org> > > Mary and Jacques > James Allan <james@teleportacia.org> > > [ULTRA-RED] Performances in Portugal, Spain and SF > snoble@mac.com > > metabolics#4 with geert lovink > florian schneider <fls@kein.org> > > ZAYAC 5 > Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk> > > [Research Symposium on ICANN Elections] > t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com> > > cast01: Call for Entries / Submission Deadline May 31, 2001 > cast01@netzspannung.org > > Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum > Robert Atkins <robertatkins@earthlink.net> > > Third PGA conference > "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> > > internet art projects : shilpa gupta : india > "shilpagupta" <shilpagupta@hotmail.com> > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:09:02 +0200 >From: david garcia <davidg@xs4all.nl> >Subject: CIRCUS 2001 > > > >+ + CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT + + CALL FOR PAPERS + + > > >CIRCUS 2001: NEW SYNERGIES IN DIGITAL CREATIVITY > > THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR >CONTENT INTEGRATED RESEARCH IN CREATIVE USER SYSTEMS > > Glasgow, 20TH -22ND SEPTEMBER 2001 > >Supported by the European Commission's Esprit programme >under the CIRCUS project. > > >Further details of the conference: >http://www.music.arts.gla.ac.uk/events/CircusConference2001/ > >Further details of the CIRCUS project: >http://www.circusweb.org/ > >- ----------------------------------------------------- > >W e l c o m e t o t h e C I R C U S C o n f e r e n c e > >The circus conference will bring >together artists, designers, performers, theorists and computer scientists >to >debate the research issues posed by the next generation of advanced >information >technology for the creative and performing arts, media and the electronic >publishing industry (in its broadest sense). > >The circus conference will bring together previously distinct disciplines >and >encourages the replacement of 'technology push' by 'creative pull' for >multiple-media research that integrates advanced technologies with new >media >types and modes of creation. The circus conference will relate >technological >applications research to content issues in a theoretical understanding of >vision, sound and movement. > >- ----------------------------------------------------- > >C O N F E R E N C E T H E M E S > >INTERACTIVITY AND THE FUTURE OF THE CREATIVE PRACTICE > >Technology Push - Creative Pull Applications >User interfaces and interfaces extensions to support creative processes >Creative empowerment - applications supporting style development and style >flexibility >Best practice in education for creative users >Experimental interactive creative environments >Taxonomies of interactivity > >INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTS FOR INNOVATION OR CREATIVE PULL > >Implications for Education and Training >Production methodologies for the creative industries >Vertical Markets in the Creative Industries >Business Models supporting creative processes >Methodology for reflexivity within interdisciplinary practice > >DESCRIPTION OF CULTURE: ARCHITECTURES OF INFORMATION > >Metadata for creative use contexts >Cultural and Connectionist Metadata >Standards supporting creativity >Open standards in creative use contexts >Data Structures for digital creative production systems >Style, Manner, Expression and processes in digital creative productions > >THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF DIGITAL CREATIVE PRODUCTION CONTEXTS > >Theory relevant to practice >Best Practice examples >Strategic Citing of experimental work > >- ----------------------------------------------------- > >I M P O R T A N T D A T E S > >7th June 2001 Paper/Presentation Deadline > >15th Aug. 2001 last early registration possible > >20th Aug. 2001 Conference in Glasgow > >- ----------------------------------------------------- > >C A L L F O R P A P E R S > >Papers and presentations are invited from the topics coming out of the >conference themes. Submission of papers will be done only in electronic >form >via pdf and ps. Proceedings will be on CD-ROM handed out at the >conference. A >selection of papers will be published in bookform. > >Submission includes information in the body of an email in text form, and >an >attachment of the full paper in pdf (Adobe) or postscript format. Any other >formats of media or performance data will need to be discussed on a >individual >basis. (See contacts on website) > > > >- -- >- ------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Is this just a clockwork of fabulous design, > or does it actually tell time" (Virgil Thomson) >- ------------------------------------------------------------------ >Carola Boehm http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/carola >Centre for Music Technology >Department of Music Tel: +44 (0) 141 330 4903 >University of Glasgow Fax: +44 (0) 141 330 3518 > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:52:43 -0700 >From: Amy Alexander <plagiari@plagiarist.org> >Subject: Interview Yourself - Latest Interviews 4/7/01! > >http://plagiarist.org/iy > >Plagiarist.org is pleased to announce the latest additions >to the Interview Yourself Literary Archive: > >Valery Grancher - as interviewed by Valery Grancher >D42 Kandinskij - as interviewed by D42 Kandinskij >Dimos Dimitriou - as interviewed by Dimos Dimitriou >mi_ga - as interviewed by mi_ga >Mark River - as interviewed by Mark River >Curt Cloninger (playdamage.org) - as interviewed by Curt Cloninger >(playdamage.org) >and >Andrej Tisma - as interviewed by Andrej Tisma > >Remember, Interviews are accepted on a rolling basis at >interview@plagiarist.org > >Join the Web Celebs at Interview Yourself... Celebrity interviews just >like Warhol used to do 'em.... only cheaper. > > >....IY-IY-IY-IY-IY-IY...Interview Yourself Interview Yourself Interview >Yourself.... > > >- -plagiarist > > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 09:59:11 -0400 >From: James Allan <james@teleportacia.org> >Subject: Mary and Jacques > >A quick interjection. > >I suppose some people have planned a moment of quiet reflection for the >birthday of Jacques Lacan (Paris, April 13, 1901), but if I'm going to be >singing happy birthday to any dead one this week it's going to be to Mary >Pickford - Hollywood's first superstar - born April 9, 1893 (Toronto). A >chronic over-achiever, she had 194 films in the can before Jacques could >finish a bowl of l'amour fou. > >Happy Birthday Mary Pickford. > >(3 rare pictures) > >http://art.teleportacia.org/james/happybirthday/mary.html > > > >- --James > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:39:42 -0700 >From: snoble@mac.com >Subject: [ULTRA-RED] Performances in Portugal, Spain and SF > > > > > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE >ULTRA-RED BRING "TRABAJO Y DÍAS" TO PORTUGAL, SPAIN AND SAN FRANCISCO > >This summer, Los Angeles audio-activists Ultra-red will appear in three >prestigious music and media arts festivals: the San Francisco Electronic >Music Festival, Barcelona Spain's Sonar Festival and the "Squatters" >Festival at the Casa Serralves in Porto, Portugal. For each appearance, >Ultra-red will showcase a new program titled "Trabajo y dú}s (Social >Factory >No. 3)". > >Following Ultra-red members' participation in a variety of campaigns and >projects around immigrant labor in Los Angeles, "Trabajo y dú}s" >(translated, Work and days) combines field recordings, pre-recorded >interviews with workers and organizers, sound and image processing, and >spoken word. A mixed media bucolic, the performance cuts across protocols >of >lap-top electro-acoustic music, press conference polemics and panel >discussion dialectics. > >At the center of "Trabajo y dú}s" is a collaboration between the audio >activists of Ultra-red and the band Los Jorneleros del Norte. Comprised >entirely of immigrant day laborers, Los Jorneleros are modern-day >troubadours. Drawing on the influences of Mexican and Central American >popular music, Los Jorneleros sing about the daily life of day laborers in >Los Angeles. > >In contrast to Los Jorneleros who wed social commentary to popular music >forms, Ultra-red endeavor to politicize the form itself. This struggle >between pop form and its transformation aesthetically and politically >permeates "Trabajo y dú}s" as well as the tension between new media >technologies and their social conditions. From its electro-acoustic music >to >its spoken word poetics, "Trabajo y dú}s" argues that organizing for change >entails listening for its possibility. > >Whether it's their acclaimed albums or headline-grabbing political >interventions, Ultra-red consistently explore the ways experimental art can >reconceptualize social justice organizing. This commitment brings together >the group's current line-up of Elizabeth Blaney (Video and Textual >Poetics), >Pablo Garcia (Digital Sound Processing), Shannon Noble (Digital Image >Processing - not on tour), Dont Rhine (Sound Design) and Leonardo Vilchis >(Video and Textual Poetics). > >* * * > >Saturday, May 5, 2001 >Event: San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (May 3, 4, 5 and 6) >Site: Cellspace, 2050 Bryant St., San Francisco (Between 18th and 19th) >URL: http://www.sfemf.org > >Saturday, June 16, 2001 >Event: Sonar 2001 (June 14, 15 and 16, 2001) >Site: Sonarmacba, Barcelona, Spain. >URL: http://www.sonar.es > >Tuesday, June 26, 2001 >Event: "Squatters" Exhibit and Performance Series, Foundation Serralves >Site: Casa Serralves, Porto, Portugal >URL: http://www.serralves.pt > >* * * > >Founded in 1994, Ultra-red have released CDs and albums on Comatonse >Recordings (Oakland, California), Mille Plateaux (Frankfurt, Germany), True >Classical (Los Angeles) and Beta Bodgea (Miami). For more information about >Ultra-red visit their website at http://www.comatonse.com/ultrared/ > >To contact Ultra-red directly, email Dont Rhine at dontr@earthlink.net > > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:13:49 +0200 >From: florian schneider <fls@kein.org> >Subject: metabolics#4 with geert lovink > >[probably too late for the announcer, but everybody from >the unmoderated nettime stream is invited to switch to >the metabolics live stream tomorrow night! see you, florian] > > > >> METABOLICS // STOFFWECHSEL#4 > >THURSDAY 12 APRIL 2001 20:00 +0100 (MET) >Muffathalle, Munich >Live Stream: <http://www.linksverkehr.net/metabolics> > >RE: MORNING AFTER > >With: Geert Lovink (Sidney) and guests > >A crash in slow motion: For nearly a year now, technology >stock markets are on decline, as inevitably as they have >risen incredibly the time before. Beyond IPOs and >spectacular mergers the "New Economy" suddenly reveals >discrepancies wich make the cliches appear markedly >harmless: For years the slogan "Laptop and Lederhosen" was >featuring the hype of a new economy in the area around >Munich, which vaunts as the fourth biggest high-tech and new >media cluster worldwide. Immaterial work in electronic >networks promised a radical new definition of gainful >employment that from now on was to be organized flexibly and >in a self dependent way. This idea sounded good and >obviously was not a problem, as long as there was enough >venture capital. > >As it turned out, that not everybody can be a entrepreneur, >and that the new markets are a bit more complicated than a >savings book - what is the point of the "New Economy"? And, >above all: What expects us on the morning after the crash? >Will incrusted structures and old thinking be triumphing, or >just those who joined the swan songs of the information >economy in time? Is there any reason to gloat at all or did >the hype concerning electronic business have its good sides, >too? Which fate will the truly innovative ideas be doomed >to, as it has become more difficult to make money even out >of the most stupid monkey business? And, how does all this >affect the developement of digital cultures and ongoing >artistic production? > >METABOLICS/STOFFWECHSEL#4 will discuss what accounts for the >digital economy, especially in times of insolvencies, waves >of dismissals and dramatic share price losses. In an open >debate Lovink will dispute with protagonists of the local >start-up scene as well as cultural activists and artists. > >Geert Lovink is co-founder of Adilkno/BILWET, "The >Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge" ><http://www.thing.desk.nl/bilwet>, the "Digital City >Amsterdam" <http://www.dds.nl> and "De Waag" ><http://www.waag.org>, the Society for old an new media. >With Pit Schultz he founded in 1995 the mailing list >"nettime" <http://www.nettime.org>, probably the most >important ressource for net criticism until today. Lovink >co-organized numerous conferences and congresses, among them >the legendary "Next five Minutes" <http://www.n5m.org> and >the Hybrid Workspace at documenta X. Recently, in last May, >"Tulipomania Dot Com" <http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania> was >the early attempt of a critique of the internet economy, >wich doesn't fall into cultural pessimism, but still manages >to hold resistance against prevailing dogma. > >METABOLICS / STOFFWECHSEL is going to present innovative >projects and debates in net.art, .culture and .politics on a >monthly basis, starting from january 2001, in the >Muffathalle in Munich. METABOLICS / STOFFWECHSEL#1 is >curated by Florian Schneider, Harald Staun and Dietmar >Lupfer. METABOLICS / STOFFWECHSEL will be streamed live and >stored in a database. ><http://www.linksverkehr.de/metabolics> > >If you want to be informed regurarily about the program, >receive additional information and take part in ongoing >discussions, we invite you to subscribe to our newsletter: ><http://www.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/vorsicht> > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:35:00 +0200 >From: Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk> >Subject: ZAYAC 5 > >The Contemporary Art Center - Skopje, Macedonia >cordially invites you to attend the promotion of the Internet magazine > >ZAYAC No. 5 >and the >New video spot of the music group "String Forces" >made in co production with the Contemporary Art Center - Skopje. > >http://zayac.scca.org.mk >http://zayac.scca.org.mk/index2.htm >http://zayac.scca.org.mk/zayac5/menu/index.htm > > >Wednesday, 11.04.2001, at 20.00 hrs. >CIX Gallery >(Orce Nikolov 109) > >In new issue of ZAYAC the authors are attempting to give their own views >on the actual situation in the cultural life in the community where they >live. >Ivanka Apostolova is commenting and providing short briefing on events in >media-culture and cultural politics that some media are trying to develop. >Dejan Spasovic is conveying a story about traditional instruments from >the territory of the Balkan peninsula and in the same time he is asking >the question which of those instruments are really traditional and have >ethnic marks. >Ana Bakalinova is making systematic research and bringing to us new >information about E-commerce. >Bobi Stojanovski in his project " Urban Life " is attempting to explain >stereotypes in urban way of live. >Phreddy Lee is present with his cycle of photographs titled "Pretty nice >day (for a party). >Slavko Popushilic VS Kofalanja is making fun of current events on the >political scene through a kind of " Strip-Trip". >In new issue of ZAYAC there are reports about two big projects that took >place on the end of 2000 and beginning of 2001. >"Tik Tak Tok", a co production between CAC-Skopje and University of Dundee, >Scotland >and "Capital and Gender" an international project held in Skopje on the >beginning of 2001 organized by the Open Graphic Art studio in >cooperation with the Contemporary Art Center - Skopje. >Together with the promotion of fifth issue of ZAYAC there will be promotion >of new video >clip of the music group "String Forces". The video clip is made in co >production between >CAC-Skopje, Profundus and Demek Productions. >- ---------------------------------------------------------------- >The idea for the creation of an Internet zine, in the field of visual arts, >is >strongly urged by the desire of young people who >are involved in contemporary art, and other cultural events to find a >venue for the realizing of their concepts. Following our aims we are >trying to develop ZAYAC as Internet space for the release of critical >texts, concepts, projects and other studies connected with exhibiting >and cultural aspects of contemporary and electronic arts in Macedonia. >ZAYAC is the first and so far only zine in this medium in Macedonia and >in Southeast part of Europe. >The basic aim of ZAYAC is to unite people who want to actively take part in >creating of the >young contemporary art sceneand is strongly connected to the use of new >technologies. >The concrete results of the issuing of ZAYAC as an internet zine are >related to the entering of new technologies in contemporary art in >Macedonia, as well as to the presentation of a part of the domestic art >activities to the international audience and in providing new contacts >of young people with the institutions and persons who act in the same >field all over the world. The long-term aim of ZAYAC is to develop a >greater interest among the artists for new technologies and to create >opportunities to work in international framework, aiming to involve the >Macedonian contemporary art in the current European and international >trends. > > >For more info contact: >Nikola Pisarev >editor of the ZAYAC magazine >Contemporary Art Center Skopje >Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541 >Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495 >nikola@scca.org.mk >scca@scca.org.mk > > >- ------------------------------------------------------- >Melentie Pandilovski >Director >Contemporary Arts Center - Skopje >Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje >Republic of Macedonia >Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541 >Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495 >Mobile: +389.70.217.075 >http://www.scca.org.mk >- ------------------------------------------------------- > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:25:37 -0400 >From: t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com> >Subject: [Research Symposium on ICANN Elections] > >- ----- Forwarded > >Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:02:06 -0400 >From: Hans Klein <hans.klein@pubpolicy.gatech.edu> >Subject: Research Symposium on ICANN Elections > > >The August 2001 issue of _INFO_ will be dedicated to the ICANN elections >and will feature contributions from eight authors. The table of contents >is below. > >Full abstracts are available on the symposium website at: > http://www.icannmembers.org/symposium.html > >Table of Contents: "Global Democracy and the ICANN Elections" >============================================================= > >Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State University >"ICANN, 'Technical Coordination,' and Majority Rule" > >Renee E. Marlin-Bennett, American University >"ICANN and Democracy: Contradictions and Possibilities" > >Eliesh O'Neil Lane, Georgia Institute of Technology >"Shaping Technology Policy Via Public Participation: A Case Study of ICANN" > >Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, University of Aarhus >"Towards A New Triletarism Between Industry, Citizens and Governments: >ICANN as a New Co-Regulatory Policy Model?" > >Hans Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology >"The Social Prerequisites of Global Democracy: Does the Internet Make >Global Democracy More Feasible?" > >Myungkoo KANG, Seoul National University >"ICANN Election and Asian Public Sphere" > >William F. Averyt, University of Vermont >"Exit-Voice Dynamics In The Domain Name Regime" > >Chistian Ahlert, University of Giessen >"How to Make Online-Democracy Work: Think Outside the Traditional Ballot >Box!" > > > > >=========================================================================== > Prof. Hans K. Klein > School of Public Policy, MC:0345 > Georgia Institute of Technology > Atlanta, GA 30332-0345 > hans.klein@pubpolicy.gatech.edu > http://www.spp.gatech.edu/people/faculty/hklein.htm > > Chair, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) > http://www.cpsr.org > http://www.civsoc.org > >======================================================================== > >- ----- Backwarded > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:04:26 +0200 >From: cast01@netzspannung.org >Subject: cast01: Call for Entries / Submission Deadline May 31, 2001 > >cast01 Conference on Communication of Art, Science and Technology >September 21-22, 2001 / GMD - Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin / >Bonn, Germany > >CALL FOR ENTRIES / deadline for submission: May 31, 2001 > >We invite you to participate in the cast01 conference on intersections >of artistic, cultural, technological and scientific issues of: > >LIVING IN MIXED REALITIES > >cast01 invites submissions of innovative research, media art practise >and theory. We are looking for ground breaking media art and inspiring >research projects on topics like: Semantic Web, Mixed Reality, Advanced >Interfaces and Future Media Spaces that symbolise the influence of >information technology on patterns of life and work in a networked >society. > >Proposed contributions (english or german) may be in the form of >research papers or artistic presentations as well as blueprints and >posters of developing concepts. Researchers, artists, theorists, >practitioners and entrepreneurs are encouraged to submit >interdisciplinary projects and critical reflections on the merging >of the virtual and the real. > >Topics: >* Agents and Narrative Intelligence >* Artistic Productions / Mixed Reality Architecture >* Awareness, Memory Space and Knowledge Discovery >* Cultural Archives >* Distributed Systems and Parallel Architectures for the Web >* Hypermedia Formats (XML, VRML, MPEG-4, MPEG-7) >* Interactive TV >* Mixed Reality Environments >* Performative Interfaces >* Tracking, Tracing, Vision Systems > >DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: May 31, 2001 >Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2001 >Camera-ready papers: July 15, 2001 >Early registration deadline: July 31, 2001 (reduced price) > >PROCEEDINGS: Accepted papers and blueprints will be published in the >Conference proceedings. A special issue of netzspannung.org journal of >Art, Design and Innovation Research will be published with cast01 >conference best papers. > >BEST PAPER AWARD: The best paper, artistic presentation, blueprint / >poster and student presentation will be honored with the cast01 award. > >http://netzspannung.org/cast01 >e-mail: cast01@netzspannung.org > >cast01 is organised by netzspannung.org and by the GMD - German National >Research Center for Information Technology. It is supported by the >German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (bmb+f) and by the >European Commission. It is hosted by MARS Exploratory Media Lab: >http://imk.gmd.de/mars > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 18:58:51 -0400 >From: Robert Atkins <robertatkins@earthlink.net> >Subject: Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum > >April 3, 2001 >For Immediate Release > >Contact: Robert Atkins, artery@allianceforarts.org, 212/662.2961 > > >Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum, (www.artistswithaids.org/artery) is proud to >announce its Spring Literary Special. An in-between-issues special >publication, it highlights several projects sponsored by Artery and the >Estate Project for Artists With AIDS. (The Estate Project for Artists With >AIDS, which produces Artery, is an initiative of the Alliance for the >Arts.) > >The Spring Literary Special features three essays from "Loss Within Loss," >an Estate Project-coordinated anthology of writers on major talents who¹ve >died of AIDS, published by the University of Wisconsin and edited by the >noted author Edmund White. In addition to White¹s introduction, Artery is >pleased to publish an essay by Andrew Solomon and Keith McDermott¹s memoir >of the artist Joe Brainard. > > The Spring Literary Special also features a gallery of portraits of >writers >who¹ve died of AIDS by photographer Robert Giard, and the finalists for "In >Rage and Remembrance," a poetry and prose contest co-sponsored by Artery >and >POZ magazine. (Winners will be announced in early July.) > >Artery is "the" resource for examining the AIDS crisis and its >ever-changing >face as reflected in the arts. Part zine, part data base, and part >conversational forum, Artery is now in its second year of publication. > > > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:00:31 +1000 >From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> >Subject: Third PGA conference > >From: "Peoples Global Action Secretariat" <pgasec@gmx.net> >Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 12:50 AM >Subject: Third PGA conference > > *** please distribute widely *** > > THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE > OF PEOPLES' GLOBAL ACTION (PGA) > ******************************** > > COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, September 16 - 24, 2001 > > [Deadline for applications: May 15 2001] > >By way of introduction: >*********************** > >What prevents us from realising our dreams and aspirations of a just and >peaceful society, where our dignity and our different ways of life are >respected? Do we have control over our own lives and communities? Who takes >the decisions that affect us? > >At no other time in history have so few institutions dominated so many >women and men. The 15 biggest corporations are present in over 120 >countries. Corporations control 70% of world trade. Our governments have >actively contributed to expand the power of these companies. This growing >centralised economic power has resulted in the creation of institutions >such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a legal vehicle for their >policies that counts with the support of almost all our governments. More >countries are now more deeply indebted than ever been before in history. >The Third World pays far more in terms of services and debt transfer than >it receives in the form of assistance, investment and aid. > >Whilst continuing to promise prosperity for all, the present phase of >capitalism is creating more victims, more environmental havoc and more >vulnerability than ever before. Wealth and power are concentrated in fewer >hands than they ever have been. In the last 30 years the rich have doubled >their capital while poverty and misery grow. The poorest 20% possesses less >than 4% of world resources whereas the richest control over 85%. The >complex life of this planet, which is the source of sustenance and cultural >diversity for all men and women, is increasingly transformed into a >merchandise, mercilessly exploited, privatised, patented and irreversibly >transformed. There are ever-increasing numbers of firearms in private >hands, more destructive potential in the form of modern armies and greater >stocks of conventional nuclear, chemical and biological weapons than ever >before. The purpose of the majority of them is to defend the privileges of >the leading players in the dominant economy. > >Peoples' Global Action (PGA), since its creation in February 1998, has >provided a common communication and coordination tool for movements that >struggle against the social, economic and political processes that have >increased vulnerability, dependence and environmental destruction. An >instrument done by and for those who, from their homes, fields, factories >and workplaces, are confronting all the authoritarian, centralising and >homogenising processes and institutions, and believe in the importance of >internationalising the struggle due to the global roots of their local >problems. PGA, although being still in its own process of construction, >provides a global forum for the struggles against the old and the new >capitalism to associate their efforts and share experiences and skills. It >has also nurtured the hope that, if we remain united within the respect to >diversity, we will prevent dignity and justice from being undermined, >manipulated or destroyed. > >This hope strengthens our commitment to fight against oppression, >domination and destruction, to unmask and abolish the institutions and >companies that regulate the global capitalist regime, to build a broad >unity based on the respect to difference and diversity, and to continue >defining, practising and spreading local alternatives to take back control >over our destiny. This hope, that lives in the irreverent determination of >our bodies, minds and feelings, can and must realise our dreams of >self-governance, freedom, justice, peace, equity, dignity and diversity. > > >due to oversize for nettime-l's announcer: > >----CUT > >What is Peoples Global Action > >Invitation to the 3rd PGA Conference > >Application form >Appendix I -Brief History of PGA >Appendix II -Convenors' Committee for the Third International > Conference of PGA >Appendix III -PGA Manifesto >Appendix IV -Organisational principles of the Peoples' Global Action > > >to watchout for the full length posting, visit: >http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/new/struggles/Bulletin6.html > >----CUT > > > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 01:49:22 +0530 >From: "shilpagupta" <shilpagupta@hotmail.com> >Subject: internet art projects : shilpa gupta : india > > > >Sentiment-Express.com, web based installation >Century Cities, Tate Modern, London >on till April 30 > > >an online version of this project is at >http://www.sentiment-express.com > > >As a large number of international companies re-route their phone calls and >internet sites through india, a new industry has developed in Mumbai, where >English is widely spoken, labour is cheap and productivity high. This >project draws attention to the implications of these 'sweat shops'. >Visitors are invited to dictate a love letter and also select paper and >scent for their letter of love! And your letter of love will be sent to >Mumbai to be transcribed and mailed to your object of affection. > > > > > >http://www.geocities.com/diamondsandyou >internet art project dealing with blood diamonds. >"At Diamonds and You, choose not only size, color, and shape of your >diamond online but also the origin, right from the best available bargain >from war zones of Sierra Leone on its way to being processed by eyes of the >youngest boys from Surat ..." > > > >Shilpa Gupta >Bombay, India > > > > > > >------------------------------ > ># distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission ># <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, ># collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets ># more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body ># archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold