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Table of Contents:

   [Sarai press release]
      "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
   Bulgarian ART
     Bulgarian ART <bulgarianart@bulgaria.com>
   Profits of Punishment
     JSalloum@aol.com
   Mikrokino FEST 2001
     Aleksandar Gubas <eurindie@sezampro.yu>
   kodwo eshun
     =?iso-8859-1?Q?In=EAs?= Neuparth <injs@ip.pt>
   CFP: Internet Research 2.0 - Association of Internet Researchers
     jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>
   Closure News (updated)
     Reinhold Grether <Reinhold.Grether@uni-konstanz.de>
   for announcer
     "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
   Press release:  New Web Soap Goes Live on 9 February 2001
     Arti Dillon <arti.dillon@lineone.net>
   last cuckoo of the summer
     Cuckoo <cuckoo@cuckoo.org.nz>
   R E A L T O K Y O  vol.12
     Tetsuya OZAKI <ozaki@blue.ocn.ne.jp>
   Fwd: new reviews in cyberculture (february 2001)
     jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>

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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:43:33 +1100
From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>

From: "Ravi Sundaram" <ravis@sarai.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 5:15 PM
Subject: Press release

PRESS RELEASE

23 February 2001: Inauguration of  Sarai: The New Media Initiative,
Delhi  - in partnership with the Society for Old and New Media (de Waag)
Amsterdam

Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies,
Delhi, one of India's best known research institutes.

Sarai will open its doors to the public on 23 February 2001 with a festive
three-day programme of presentations, informal workshops, screenings,
lectures and panel discussions on old & new media and urban culture. The
event will feature encounters and dialogue between media practitioners,
scholars and activists, from India and abroad, around the theme of "The
Public Domain".

The focus of the Sarai's activities will be on innovative research and
cultural practice across old and new media forms . At its well-equipped
location in Delhi, Sarai offers an environment for innovative encounters
between media practitioners, software programmers, theorists, social
activists and the public.Sarai's primary aim is to engage with the
creativity of the broad and diverse spectrum of media practitioners from
non-elite backgrounds and address contmeporary popular urban culture. Sarai
also aims to establish a new media network in South Asia with strong global
links. Projects will be initiated on media history, urban culture and
politics, new media theory, Internet and software culture, documentary
film, digital art and critical cultural practice.

Sarai emerged from a unique form of collaboration between media theorists &
practitioners.The initiators of the Sarai Programme are : Ravi Sundaram &
Ravi Vasudevan, fellows of the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, and Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula & Shuddhabrata Sengupta of the
Raqs Media Collective.

The Society for Old and New Media (de Waag) have been partners of the Sarai
initiative from its inception. The Waag and Sarai have jointly formulated a
three year exchange programme, running from 2000- 2002. The mission of this
partnership is to explore and demonstrate new possibilities of
collaboration in a cross-cultural context. Professionals associated with
the Waag Society and Sarai participated in workshops designed to help set
up the technical infrastructure at Sarai in the run up to the opening. In
the coming two years a series of Sarai-Waag workshops and other joint
excercises will be held (both in India and in the Netherlands).These
encounters will focus on the sharing of knowledge and develop collaborative
projects in new technologies, the media, and internet culture.

Topical articles and reports concerning the Sarai-Waag collaborative
initiative will be made available online in the Sarai-Waag  Journal. Users
of the Journal will be able to input their comments and discuss them with
the writers and each other in this online magazine.The Journal will be
available from 23 February onwards on the websites of the Waag and Sarai.

The two partners aim to strengthen the relationship between the new media
cultures of South Asia and Europe. With the opening of Sarai and the start
of the exchange programme, an important step forward is being taken in the
forging of a new network for knowledge sharing, cross cultural
communication and empowerment.

Sarai is made possible with the support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, the Daniel Langlois Foundation (Canada), the Centre for the Study
of Developing Societies (India) and the HIVOS Cultural Foundation
(NL-India).

More information can be obtained on www.sarai.net and www.waag.org.






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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:47:30 -0800
From: Bulgarian ART <bulgarianart@bulgaria.com>
Subject: Bulgarian ART


Dear ,

We apologize for the troubling you.
We are Bulgarian art gallery and we would like to make new contacts with
other art galleries and people which have interest to our art.
Our e-mail is open for any questions and offers.
A part of contemporary Bulgarian art you could see on our WWW page, which we
will gradually widen.
If you have some free time please, welcome to
http://bulgarianart.tripod.com

If you have WWW page and you would like to be include in our "link page",
also  in our weekly e-mail bulletin, please fill in the form :
http://bulgarianart.tripod.com/link.htm

Faithfully yours,
Gabriel Panev


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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:41:05 EST
From: JSalloum@aol.com
Subject: Profits of Punishment

Profits of Punishment

"I don't like empty beds. We are a private business"
Mike Samberg -  CCA prison warden

Profits of Punishment  Directed by Catherine Scott (cscott@tig.com) and 
Produced by Pat
Fiske will screen on COURT TV on JAN 31 2001 at 10pm EST and Feb 3rd at 6pm
EST

Profits of Punishment is about business behind bars in the United States.
The film's main focus is on the jailers and the glitzy commercial arena of
the prison industry.  This is contrasted with the world of their captives
living out their confined lives on the inside.  The prison is a
long-standing image of state power.  What effect will it have on our
society now that the bright new prison is becoming an image of corporate
power as well?  What does it mean for democracy if community safety
increasingly becomes tied to the thriving business of locking up large
numbers of people?

In the era of "Law and Order" and "Zero Tolerance", tough new sentencing
laws adopted by the US and many other countries are resulting in an influx
of prisoners, creating massive overcrowding. Rather than looking at
alternatives that might prevent crime and reduce prison populations,
governments are responding to this crisis by increasing the prison capacity
and contracting prison to private multinational corporations. This has
created an international prison market dominated by a handful of
American-based companies.

Profits of Punishment follows the prison entrepreneurs to places behind the
glossy brochures, to a giant prison convention. Here we observe hundreds of
salesmen marketing the latest prison products such as portable restraint
devices, stackable cells and the latest surveillance technology.  People
like George Wackenhut - a self-made billionaire who has amassed his giant
fortune through his international security firm and Corrections
Corporation, highlights the burgeoning market in private prisons.  Private
prison pioneers discuss their strategies to create a more cost-effective,
innovative, clean, lean incarcerating machine.

In Texas we visit a factory assembly line in the Lockhart Work Facility, a
private prison owned and managed by the Wackenhut Corporation. This on-site
prison factory produces circuit boards for LTI, a company that had closed
its previous facility in Austin.  One hundred and fifty people lost their
jobs before the company opened a new factory months later inside Lockhart
prison.

Companies such as CCA and Wackenhut are willing to build huge prison
complexes on spec in the likelihood that they will be filled. In California
City, an economic backwater in the middle of the Mojave Desert, CCA has
built a $110 million prison to house 2.300 people.  Sheriff Apaio who runs
a tent jail in the desert of Arizona, adapts a quote from the movie "Field
of Dreams," to describe the situation - "you build it and they'll come."

Sheriff Apaio is the ultimate "get tough on crime" folk hero, promoting
himself as an "equal opportunity incarcerator."  He has initiated the first
ever women's chain gang complete with stripped uniforms.  Despite working
nine hours a day, seven days a week, the inmates are expected to pay $1 a
day for baloney sandwiches.

Profits of Punishment is an emotional experience, but also a
thought-provoking study of the reality of a booming prison industry and its
commercialisation through the development of private prisons.

cscott@tig.com


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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:49:06 +0100
From: Aleksandar Gubas <eurindie@sezampro.yu>
Subject: Mikrokino FEST 2001

MIKROKINO FEST 2001
international short film festival
Belgrade, February 19-23

Mikrokino FEST 2001, previously announced for January 26-31, is
postponed to February 19-23. It will be held at the SKC (Student
Cultural Centre) in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, as an extra programme by the
29th FEST - Belgrade International Film Festival. Mikrokino FEST 2001 is
organized by LOW-FI VIDEO, an independent film group from Belgrade.
80 titles from many different countries have been selected to be shown
at the Mikrokino FEST 2001. This number will be larger, because an
Independent Exposure show by the Microcinema Inc. / Blackchair
Productions from Seattle will be included in the festival programme.

Mikrokino FEST 2001 programme will include:
- - 36 short experimental films (17 from Denmark and 19 from other
countries),
- - 22 short narrative films,
- - 12 short animations,
- - 7 documentaries,
- - 1 interactive CD-ROM film,
- - 1 full-length feature film,
- - 1 interactive CD-ROM multimedia project.

The films selected have arrived from 19 countries:
- - Denmark (17 titles),
- - UK (10 titles),
- - USA (8 titles),
- - Australia, Russia, Canada, Yugoslavia (6 titles from each country),
- - Croatia, Syria, Norway, Romania (3 titles from each country),
- - Poland, India, FYRO Macedonia, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden, Ireland (1
title from each country).
Also, there is 1 full-length feature film made as American-Yugoslav
project and 1 interactive CD-ROM multimedia project from Hungary.
Films from Europe make 70% of the Mikrokino FEST 2001 programme.

The detailed screening schedule will be announced later.
The festival catalogue will be available after the 10th of February,
2001.
The list of selected films can be found at the festival's Web site, at:
http://sites.netscape.net/mikrokino
For any further information please contact Mikrokino FEST 2001 at:
mikrokino@yahoo.com
Sincerely,

Aleksandar Gubas
Mikrokino FEST 2001


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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:39:51 -0600
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?In=EAs?= Neuparth <injs@ip.pt>
Subject: kodwo eshun

Hi!

Sorry to bother you but I want to invite Kodwo Eshun for an event in Lisbon 
Portugal and wonder if you could give me his direct email contact?
I understand he his too busy! Since Virtual Futures in Warwick that I am 
trying to catch up with him and never seem to be able to meet him. I  have 
been following his work and last time I  missed him was in NEXT SEX Ars 
Electronica 2000.
Please tell him mine  <injs@ip.pt>, and if he does not want to give the 
direct contact, tell him that I  would love to have a direction were to 
send more info - an email will be faster. Its not an institution, nor an 
amateur event. I THINK  he would like to come around, and surely i and 
lisbon will be very happy to have him here!

THANK YOU so much for your time and attention!

All the best

ines

PS if ever you are around here - lisbon - let me know ! I could probably be 
some help to you too!


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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:12:23 -0500
From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>
Subject: CFP: Internet Research 2.0 - Association of Internet Researchers


>INTERNET RESEARCH 2.0: INTERconnections
>
>The Second International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers
>OCTOBER 10-14, 2001
>University of Minnesota
>Minneapolis-St.Paul Minnesota, USA
>Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 2, 2001
>
>Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
>
>Phil Agre, Associate Professor of Information Studies, University of 
>California, Los Angeles, USA
>
>Anita Allen-Castellito, Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of 
>Pennsylvania, USA
>
>Lisa Nakamura, Assistant Professor of English, Sonoma State University, USA
>
>Sheizaf Rafaeli, Head of the Center for the Study of the Information 
>Society and Professor  of Business Administration, University of Haifa, Israel
>
>
>
>The Internet's ever-increasing points of connection to almost every 
>element of 21st century life have prompted strong interest in 
>understanding the social aspects of cyberspace. The popular press offers 
>wave after wave of speculation and vague forecasts, but what is really 
>needed to help us understand how to live in our wired world is research: 
>research that is collaborative, international, and interdisciplinary.
>
>In September 2000, over 300 people attended the first international 
>Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) at the 
>University of Kansas. This Conference built connections among Internet 
>researchers from across a range disciplines and from around the globe. In 
>October of 2001, INTERNET RESEARCH 2.0 will offer an opportunity to 
>reinforce and extend these connections. IR 2.0 will bring together 
>prominent scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students from many 
>disciplines and fields for a program of keynote addresses, paper 
>presentations, formal discussions, and informal exchanges.
>
>IR 2.0 will be held on the campus of the University of Minnesota, one of 
>the world's most technologically innovative campuses. The conference will 
>provide opportunities to network, learn from other researchers, hear from 
>leading players in Internet development, and take in the sights and sounds 
>of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
>
>The Association of Internet Researchers invites paper, presentation, and 
>panel proposals on topics that address social, cultural, political, 
>economic, and aesthetic aspects of the Internet. We welcome submissions 
>from any discipline, as well as work from those producing new media or 
>working in multimedia studies. Panel presentations which establish 
>connections across disciplines, institutions and/or continents are 
>especially encouraged. We also seek presentations which will make creative 
>use of Internet technologies and techniques, including (but not limited 
>to) digital art and e-poster sessions.
>
>We suggest the following as possible themes for proposals.
>
>*  communication-based Internet studies
>*  digital art
>*  distance education and pedagogy
>*  e-commerce and business
>*  gender, sexualities, and the Internet
>*  human-computer interaction (HCI)
>*  international perspectives on the Internet
>*  Internet technologies
>*  law and the Internet, including privacy and copyright issues
>*  methodological issues in Internet studies
>*  new media and Internet journalism
>*  psychology and the Internet
>*  the "Digital Divide"
>*  race and cyberspace
>*  rhetoric and technology
>
>This list is not meant to be exclusive, but rather to trigger ideas and 
>encourage submissions from a range of disciplines. When we are able to 
>identify scholars from a range of disciplines pursuing shared themes, we 
>will work to bring these scholars together for panel sessions.
>
>When preparing proposals, please consider the convention's conventions:
>
>*  Most conference sessions will be 90 minutes, with no less than the 
>final thirty minutes reserved for discussion.
>
>*  The average time allotted for a paper or presentation will be 15 minutes.
>
>If these time constraints are not appropriate for your panel/presentation, 
>please highlight this in your proposal. Also, please include any unusual 
>equipment needs or special considerations that might affect your presentation.
>
>Individual paper and presentation proposals should be no more than 250 
>words. Panels will generally include three or four papers or 
>presentations. For panel proposals, the session organizer should submit a 
>150-250 word statement describing the panel topic, including abstracts of 
>up to 250 words for each paper or presentation in the panel.
>
>Graduate students are highly encouraged to submit proposals. They should 
>note their student status with their submissions, and, if they wish, 
>submit completed papers by the March 2 deadline so their work can be 
>considered for a special Student Award. The winner of the Student Award 
>will have conference fees waived. Conference organizers are working to 
>ensure that IR 2.0 is affordable for graduate students, and indeed, for 
>all attendees. Details of anticipated costs will be posted to the 
>conference website (http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir ) in the coming weeks.
>
>We also invite proposals for pre-Conference workshops. These proposals 
>should be submitted as soon as possible (no later than January 31, 2001) 
>so that the workshops can be publicized.
>
>All proposals should be submitted electronically at 
>http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/confman/
>
>It is preferred that you use HTML to minimally format your submission.
>
>The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is Friday, March 
>2, 2001.
>
>If you have questions about the program, conference, or AoIR, please contact:
>
>Program Chair: Leslie Shade, University of Ottawa, shade@aix1.uottawa.ca
>Conference Coordinator: John Logie, University of Minnesota, logie@umn.edu
>A(O)IR President: Steve Jones, sjones@uic.edu
>
>More Information about IR 2.0 can be found on the Conference Website: 
>http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir For more information about the Association of 
>Internet Researchers, including information on joining the Association, 
>visit AoIR's website at http://aoir.org

Jeremy Hunsinger          	http://www.cddc.vt.edu
Instructor of Political Science	Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Webmaster/Manager CDDC     http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/cyber
526 Major Williams Hall 0130	http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage
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Blacksburg, VA 24061		(540)-231-7614  icq 5535471





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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 04:24:22 +0100
From: Reinhold Grether <Reinhold.Grether@uni-konstanz.de>
Subject: Closure News (updated)

Please find below the most important press articles about etoy
and eToys and their ongoing trademark conflict.
s o r r y   f o r   c r o s s    a n d    d o u b l e   p o s t i n g
- --------------------------------------------------------------
INFORMATION ABOUT THE etoy (ENTERTAINMENT
GIANT) VS. eToys inc. ( TOY RETAILER) CASE
http://www.etoy.com/tmlawsuit2001/
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
eTOYS REPORTS FISCAL THIRD QUARTER FINANCIAL
RESULTS (eToys, Jan 25, 2001)
http://www.etoys.com/html/about_press_012501.shtml

Lisa Bannon, EToys CEO Toby Lenk Affirms Faith in Eventual
Profitability (December 8, 2000)
http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/200012/msg00055.html

Lisa Bannon, Slowing Sales Left EToys in Lurch As Costs
Continued to Escalate (Wall Street Journal, Jan 22, 2001)
http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB980113514634649993.html

Matt Berger, Earnings preview: EToys (Upside Today, Jan 24, 2001)
http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3a6e1adf1

Matt Berger, EToys posts loss, holds creditors at bay
(Upside Today, Jan 25, 2001)
http://www.upside.com/Money/3a70bf0f37_yahoo.html

EToys Cries For Help (Wall Street City, Jan 25, 2001)
http://host.wallstreetcity.com/wsc2/Autoflag.html?Button=Get+Story&DB=SQL&SID=025u0911&Symbol=ETYS

etoy Corp. Sues eToys Inc. For Trademark Infringement
(Business Wire, Jan. 25, 2001)
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day1/210250514&ticker=

Alice Ratcliffe, European art group files suit in U.S against eToys
(Reuters, Jan 25, 2001)
http://www.moneynet.com/content/MONEYNET/News/NewsStory.asp?Symbol=ETYS&ID=SF-01/25-AnL25145157@NEWS-P2&Index=0&HeadlineURL=../News/NewsHeadlines.asp&DISABLE_FORM=&NAVSVC=News\Company

Joyzelle Davis, Etoy Files Suit to Revive Trademark Battle With
Retailer EToys (Bloomberg.com, Jan. 25, 2001)
http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=marketsquote99_news.ht&s=AOnCg7hZsRXRveSBG

EToys says met with creditors on restructuring
(Reuters, Jan 25, 2001)
http://www.moneynet.com/content/MONEYNET/News/NewsStory.asp?Symbol=ETYS&ID=SF-01/25-AnN2588790@NEWS-P1&Index=0&HeadlineURL=../News/NewsHeadlines.asp&DISABLE_FORM=&NAVSVC=News\Company

eToy Eyes eToys Domain As Retailer Struggles With Debt
(Newsbytes, Jan. 26, 2001)
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/161115.html

jamie, The etoy Strikes Back (Slashdot, Jan. 26, 2001)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/26/2242206

Fridtjof Küchemann, Gnadenstoss fuer Online-Spielwarenhaendler
(FAZ.NET, Jan 26, 2001)
http://www.faz.net/IN/INtemplates/faznet/default.asp?tpl=uptoday/content.asp&doc={36767AD3-2A54-4B4A-A265-6F3104C2450C}&rub={76B8D537-8E0E-4970-B366-37AC8DAA545F}





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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:35:18 +1100
From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
Subject: for announcer

From: "Christopher Byron" <cbyron@optonline.net>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:46 AM
Subject: DeleteYourBroker.com

You may be interested to know that I have this month published a book on
investing, with an emphasis on using the internet to conduct effective and
useful fundamental research.
The book is entitled DeleteYourBroker.com; Using The Internet To Beat The
Pros On Wall Street and is now on sale in bookstores everywhere. The
publisher is Simon & Schuster. Click on the hotlink below for Amazon.com and
you will be taken directly to the web page where you can buy the book online
for overnight delivery. Or alternatively, just drop by your local bookstore.
Hope you enjoy, and I would certainly welcome your feedback. Best regards,
Chris Byron

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684854686/qid=977328396/sr=1-2/002-5
411221-7905658




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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:01:53 +0000
From: Arti Dillon <arti.dillon@lineone.net>
Subject: Press release:  New Web Soap Goes Live on 9 February 2001

> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.


Press release:  New Web Soap Goes Live on 9 February 2001
desperate optimists -http://www.map50.com

map50 is a new 63-part web-soap set in North East London produced by
desperate optimists. The first seven episodes will be launched on February
9th 2001 and can be seen at www.map50.com or at the ICA's new media centre.
>From 9 February  until 6th April, seven new episodes will be uploaded every
Friday.

desperate optimists are a collective of artists and for map50 they have
brought together web designers, digital artists, photographers, video makers
and performance artists to contribute to a challenging and refreshing
web-soap. map50 is a story in nine parts and desperate optimists
commissioned seven individual artists to make their own version of the story
- - creating 63 episodes, making map50 seven radically divergent versions of
one narrative. 

The story is a sprawling, provocative tale of petty fraud, substance abuse
and bloody violence which takes place in North East London over 24 hours. It
is played out across the individual grid co-ordinates of map 50 of the
Greater London Street Atlas. map50 fully exploits the potential of web
authoring software and this is reflected in the diverse range of strategies
and approaches that can be seen across the episodes ranging from animation
to surveillance, and from archival interactive photography to
classic photo-roman. What each episode offers is a thought provoking and
compelling take on the experience of walking through, coping with and
surviving in any contemporary city.

For map50, desperate optimists are joined by the artists Chris
Dorley-Brown,The Max Factory, Roney Fraser-Munroe, Alan Howley and
pleasant_net, the designers/programmers Nicky Gogan and Simon Byford and the
performer Gillian Wylde. map50 was filmed on the streets of London in
November 2000. 

"Follow this web-soap and have your mental map of Hackney redrawn as you
find yourself on stray paths connecting your own version of events from the
many hidden fragments and clues offered up." desperate optimists

The first 7 episodes of map50 will be launched on February 9th 2001 in the
new media centre at the ICA and then can be seen at www.map50.com every
Friday until 9th April.

map50.com is funded by the Arts Council of England and supported by the ICA
New Media Centre and a Live Art Development Agency/London Arts One To One
Bursary.

For further information please contact desperates@aol.com or Kathryn Kelly
ICA Press Office 020 7766 1403

A MORE DETAILED LOOK AT SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS

Chris Dorley-Brown, a one time photographic archivist for Hackney Council,
cracked open his photographic archive and set about revisiting the exact
locations of 9 of the photographs he had taken years earlier - in some cases
up to 14 years earlier.  He then 'restaged' the exact shots but this time in
the year 2000 and with the added quirky presence of the fictional character
from map50.  What we experience here is the oscillation of the story
experienced through the, at times radical, transformation of an urban space.
In one location for example, old Victorian Œstyle¹ town-houses now exist
where tower blocks once stood and, absurdly, in one location it seems that
nothing more than the curtain been pulled has changed over in the
intervening 14 years.  For map50 what Dorley-Brown offers the viewer is a
highly interactive Œthen' and 'now¹ experience that not only taps into
questions about memory and place but also offers up some wonderfully funny
and unintentionally provocative juxtapositions.

Working from Frankfurt, Weimar and Berlin, the pleasant_net group approached
their episodes from the stand point of who they are - German tourists in
North East London.  On a simple day their Œresearch¹ involved staying in a
(modest!!) hotel in Dalston and visiting hot spots like Cedra Court, where
Reggie Kray once lived, but on a complicated day things got derailed and
suddenly, given the cultural diversity of this part of London, they needed
to question what London is.  What we get, therefore, is a unique Œvisitors¹
take on this very untouristy part of London played out as if it could be a
genuine holiday destination.

Joe Lawlor(desperate optimists) has used footage borrowed from over 48 of
Hackney's strategically placed surveillance cameras.  Lawlor then
painstakingly pieces together the movements of a single white female as she
walks through this locale.  Surprising it reveals the extent to which
someone's movements can be tracked, but  it also asks as much about the
experience of living in a large contemporary city.

   
- --------------------------www.map50.com-----------------------------------

desperate optimists: over the last eight years desperate optimists have
established themselves as a leading UK art group having created and
presented many high profile and successful works both nationally and
internationally.  Central to their work has been the creative exploration of
new technology and narrative.  Recent web work includes the highly
acclaimed: http://www.lostcause1-10.com







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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 02:12:00 +1300
From: Cuckoo <cuckoo@cuckoo.org.nz>
Subject: last cuckoo of the summer


- ----------------------------------

             CUCKOO

- ----------------------------------


Cuckoo is an ongoing itinerant project working gratis with artists and the
contemporary art community. (In other words we put on shows in other
people¹s galleries.)

Our second installment is at the Anna Bibby Gallery in Auckland, Aotearoa,
on Kitchener Street by the corner of Victoria Street in the city.

- ----------------------------------

The second of two projects there this January will be opening at 8pm (NEW
LATER TIME so we can all go to L. Budd¹s opening at Artspace at 6pm),
Wednesday 31st January, featuring staggering new photographs from Auckland¹s
Fiona Amundsen and David Bennewith, and, after dark, a video screening of
new work by visiting neu Berliner David Hatcher and Christchurch honey Paul
Johns.

The gallery will be open from 11am-5pm on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday
following the opening. All Cuckoo openings are BYO.


- ----------------------------------
         FOR MORE DETAILS
- ----------------------------------

For more details, check our website at http://www.cuckoo.org.nz. Send us
your address and get on the e-mailing list now for updates
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:30:56 +0900
From: Tetsuya OZAKI <ozaki@blue.ocn.ne.jp>
Subject: R E A L T O K Y O  vol.12

R    E    A    L    T    O    K    Y    O
_____30_01_2001_Tue_vol.12___________ http://www.realtokyo.co.jp/

[This Week's Index]

(1) Tokyo, 4 Weeks: Noda Map Special Stage: 2001 Man Play
       recommended by Hibino Katsuhiko
(2) Must-see Events Around the World: by Fukuda Miki
(3) Out of Tokyo 007: The Splendid Accomplishment of
       'Eureka' and 'L'empire des sens 2000' by Ozaki Tetsuya
(4) Present of the Week:
       Invitation to 'Asia in Comics' Exhibition and many others!

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(1) Tokyo, 4 Weeks
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Noda Map Special Stage: 2001 Man Play
    recommended by Hibino Katsuhiko

Noda Map's extra performance is always held in a small theatre
with a small cast. For instance, 'Shi' was performed by Noda and
Hashizume Isao. This time it will be the ultimate in minimalism:
a one-man play. While I am writing this, he is in the middle of
rehearsals as the playwright, director, and actor of many roles.
The details will be revealed at the theatre, but I can tell you
that the play is about image and real image....

http://www.realtokyo.co.jp/en/4weeks/0016-hibino.htm

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(2) Must-see Events Around the World
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by Fukuda Miki

The Hong Kong Heritage Museum is holding a digital art exhibition
called 'Art +01 - A Digital Exploration' until February 28.  The
works of ten artists will be exhibited, including a multimedia
installation by David Lui and the digital images of Ku Chiu-ping.
In this exhibition you won't find food or movies, but a new facet
of Hong Kong....

http://www.realtokyo.co.jp/en/must/must.htm

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(3) Out of Tokyo 007
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The Splendid Accomplishment of 'Eureka' and 'L'empire des sens 2000'
by Ozaki Tetsuya

The Japanese movie industry is a little more considerate of foreign
filmgoers than its European and American counterparts.  The good
fortune of those from other countries is limited, however, to films
made in their own languages.  This is because most foreign films
are not dubbed into Japanese, but shown in the original language
with Japanese subtitles.  There are few cases where Japanese films
are shown with foreign-language subtitles.  It's a shame that non-
Japanese speaking film fans in Japan cannot have access to Japanese
films in this age of 'internationalization'....

http://www.realtokyo.co.jp/en/column/ozaki07.htm

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* Invitation to the preview of 'BEST in SHOW'
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* Special goods of 'Ed and Ellis in Tokyo'
* Invitation to 'Asia in Comics' Exhibition
Invitation to 'MacWorld2001'
Invitation to 'Ao' by Pappa TARAHUMARA
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'Deep Seijun' catalogue
'Sweet and Lowdown' catalogue
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:44:39 -0500
From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>
Subject: Fwd: new reviews in cyberculture (february 2001)


>
>    *** apologies for crosspostings ***
>    ***   feel free to distribute   ***
>
>New Book Reviews in Cyberculture Studies
>
>Each month, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS)
><otal.umd.edu/~rccs/> publishes two or three full-length book reviews.
>The reviews reflect a modest attempt to locate critically various
>contours of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of cyberculture
>studies. To date, RCCS has reviewed over 75 books, covering a range of
>topics, from online culture, communities, and identities to hypertext,
>digital literacy, and online pedagogy to Internet policy, the digital
>divide, and online privacy.
>
>New reviews (found at http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs/books) include:
>
>   Beth Kolko, Lisa Nakamura, and Gilbert Rodman, eds., Race in Cyberspace
>   (Routledge, 2000)
>   Reviewed by Emily Noelle Ignacio, Loyola University Chicago and Andrew
>   Jakubowicz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia;
>
>   Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down To Size
>   (Viking Press, 1999)
>   Reviewed by Tavia Turkish, Yale University;
>
>   Kimberly S. Young, Caught in the Net: How to Recognize the Signs of
>   Internet Addiction and a Winning Strategy for Recovery (John Wiley &
>   Sons, 1998)
>   Reviewed by Thorsten Kogge, Humboldt University, Berlin.
>
>If you or your colleagues are interested in reviewing books for RCCS,
>contact us directly at <rccs@otal.umd.edu>.  As always, please feel free
>to forward this message.
>
>david silver
>http://www.glue.umd.edu/~dsilver
>
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