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Paper Cranes for Peace ben moretti <bmoretti@chariot.net.au> Call for a collection of Video Materials Alessandro Ludovico <a.ludovico@neural.it> Version 5.0 now online "ViolenceOnlineFestival" <agricola-w@netcologne.de> Announcing Re-Code.com [a collaboration between Carbon Defense League and Conglo "Nathan Hactivist" <nathan@hactivist.com> \\international\media\art\award 2003 : last call for entries Petra Kaiser <kaiser@zkm.de> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:11:20 +1030 From: ben moretti <bmoretti@chariot.net.au> Subject: Paper Cranes for Peace The following is from a group here in Adelaide, Australia, called Circle of Friends, who are a support group for refugees held in detention centres. They are going to make paper cranes to post to politicians as reminders of peace. Other people of like mindedness might like to do the same around the globe. Here's the steps: 1. Make a paper crane 2. Put it in an envelope and address it to your politician of choice 3. Attach a stamp and put it in the post box 4. Go to Step 1 A good website for the paper folding inclined is http://www.origami.com Cheers Ben - ---------- Forwarded Message ------------ PAPER CRANES Remember Sadako, the Japanese girl who wanted to make a 1000 paper cranes for peace? She died of radiation poisoning from the Hiroshima bomb before she finished but others have followed her example at different times. Deborah, Julie, Felix and I will be making paper cranes on the steps of parliament house next Monday between 11-2. We will send out more details shortly including instructions. Please come along boost our numbers and learn how to make paper cranes. When we have 1000 we will send them to Howard. We are hoping this simple gesture will be copied across Australia. Please let me know if you can make it. - ---------- End Forwarded Message ------------ - -- ben moretti bmoretti@chariot.net.au http://www.chariot.net.au/~bmoretti ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:49:33 +0100 From: Alessandro Ludovico <a.ludovico@neural.it> Subject: Call for a collection of Video Materials >Call for a collection of Video Materials > >http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/176245.php > > >Almost two years after the beatings by the police in Genoa the >investigations are now concluding. Those who investigated the death >of Carlo Giuliani have decided that, in the context of the materials >available to the prosecutor, Placanica acted to defend himself >legitimately, firing a pistol shot in the air that, after having hit >a stone, killed Carlo. >This decision is based principally on a study of the video images >from Piazza Alimonda. >The same magistrate however, at the moment of asking for the >dismissal of the case, did say that many people were to be seen with >videocameras and cameras in their hands nearby Carlo, people who saw >and filmed, but either did not want, or could not, contribute to the >establishment of the truth. Now we're at the end of the >investigation and, if we don't demonstrate that in Piazza Alimonda >the truth lies elsewhere, the story will be closed. > >Likewise the investigations of the massacre in the Diaz school and >the beatings of Via Tolemaide are about to draw to a close. In these >cases once again video images have been crucial. Also footage of >that which took place during the whole evening opposite the Media >Center, and during and after the police burst into the Diaz and >Pasquali schools, could turn out to be fundamental in order to >demonstrate what really happened. The Italian Police chiefs have >lied or have been reticent before Parliament and the District >Attorney of Genoa. The records from the interrogations given to the >judges, which have appeared in the press, show this, But they are >not enough. > > >We are still looking for victims and witnesses that it seems cannot >be found and who could provide decisive testimony. And particularly >we're looking for video footage because no testimony is stronger >than that of the image. Many of the beatings in the streets of the >city will be dismissed if it is not possible to identify those >responsible and the arbitrary character of many of the arrests can >only be proven using footage. In addition to the work of the >lawyers, it is thus necessary that we activate every communications >network so this material can be tracked down and made available so >as to prevent the shelving of this Genoa in such a manner that there >could be another Genoa. > > >Please make a copy of your footage and send it to: > >Daniele Jenni (Lawyer), >Speichergasse 31, >3011 Berne >Switzerland. > >"Without Truth, No Justice." > >Genoa Legal Forum >with the support of IMC Italy > > >contact >e-mail: inchiesta-g8@indymedia.org >tel: Genoa legal forum 00 39 010 24 61 413 - -- Alessandro Ludovico Neural.it - http://www.neural.it/ daily updated news + reviews English content - http://www.neural.it/english/ Suoni Futuri Digitali - http://www.neural.it/projects/sfd/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 07:54:59 +0100 From: "ViolenceOnlineFestival" <agricola-w@netcologne.de> Subject: Version 5.0 now online PRESS RELEASE Violence Online Festival v.5.0 www.newmediafest.org/violence/ *********************************** Now it is so far! Only a few hours and there will be definitely war in Iraq. But all the little Bushs in the world don't have to go so far, the new Violence Play Station offers all of them pure war fun and happiness. Just join Version 5.0 of Violence Online Festival www.newmediafest.org/violence/ which is launched on 18 March 2003 on occasion of the participation in "Videoformes - 18th International Video and Multi-media Festival Clermont-Ferrand (France) 19-22 March 2003" www.videoformes.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *********************************** summary: Violence Online Festival is a New Media art project reflecting the phenomenon of "Violence", curated, organized and created in Flash by Agricola de Cologne, curator and media artist operating from Cologne/Germany. As an ongoing project Violence Online Festival is developed for being presented in future in the framework of physical and virtual media festivals and exhibitions. For each event a new project version will be created adjusted to the actual needs including additions of new artists/works and other changes. *********************************** Version 5.0 of Violence Online Festival includes works of following new artists: Restate, Francesca da Rimini, Tamara Lai, L.L. de Mars, Ryan Griffis, Isabel Saij, Ventsislav Zankov, re:combo, Agricola de Cologne, pedropez, Stephen Mead, Sergei Teterin, Mike Haskett, Joy Garnett, Team of Get Carted, Andy Deck, Bruce Ives Irene Marx, Guillaume Dimanche, jgjeux, Peter Jacobi, Giacomo PiccA, Stephane Tomora, Clemente Padin, Antonio Mendoza, Josh MacPhee, Judith Villamayor, jen Mara Infidelious, Markus Christian Koch, Michael Crane, John Burgermann Maria Papadimitriou, David Vegezzi, Home Team, Lorenzo Taiuti, Floe Florin, Scott Becker, Robert Labor, Miguel Carlos Labra, Cendres Lavy, Feargal O'Malley, Audrey Mantey, Per Pegelow, Tigran Tovmeysyan, Hughues Rochette, Daniel Hanequand, Timothy Bowen, Cezar Lazarescu, Caterina Davinio, ego, Marc Garrett, Mona Vatamanu, Jatom Joon , Ivan Abreu, Bill Berry , Isabel Aranda Yto Alan Sondheim, ED Mole, Katie Bush, David Crawford, Edward Marszewski Tolya Glaukos, Dyian Anguelov, Bluescreen, David Sansone, Noya Abdelaziz Fight, beat them, hit them! Join Violence Play Station!! *********************************** introduction: The human character contains both a light and a dark side, good and bad, individually manifested. Deeply rooted is a dark-sided element: Violence. In happy surroundings, it becomes hardly visible and in less happy surroundings - either of a physical, psychological, environmental, ideological, economic or political nature - nearly automatically a kind of survival strategy with all the known consequences we see manifested in conflicts on a small or large scale. Violence is present anywhere, hidden or sleeping, hesitating, waiting or in action, starting from simple mobbing via verbalor physical attacks, the bandwidth has no end. Nowadays, globalization, social injustice, unemployment, increasing wealth on one side and on the opposite increasing poverty (without mentioning some causes) produce a climate where violence has a fertile soil. From the attack on 9/11 in the USA, people from the Western civilization became painfully aware that security of any kind is a mere illusion; not only the internal, but also the external enemy is present anywhere. Artists are said to be the consciousness of a nation or society as they reflect the actual state of the psychological and physical environment. When this state is penetrated by violence, nobody is surprised that violence becomes a universal subject for artistic reflection, the difference may only be the view on it and its perception depending on the respective cultural background. 'Art and violence both seem to stem from the abstract: that place beyond logic, the realm of the emotion. When they intersect we are simultaneously repelled and attracted, frightened and excited. Historically this meeting has been wrought with complexity, and as cultural violence in every society increases, we are prevented by paranoia, censorship and ethical demands from asking, and sometimes even posing, some of the most important questions violence and art together and separately produce: how is violence represented, and what or how much of it do we need to resist the cultivation of fear and the encouragement of dependency? Is violence a tool, a process or a result? When are artistic portrayals of violence justifiable? As intellectual exercise, ritual, or spiritual enhancement? For other purposes? Or are they never justifiable? Is violence in art an action, reaction, or reflection? ' (quotation: festival statement). How different the results of an artistic reflection can be is shown through the Violence Online Festival, a New Media online exhibition project curated and organized as an individual event by Agricola de Cologne including more than 150 artists from 30 countries presenting their work. It forms a dynamic collaborative art work presenting very individual visions and use of media. The relevance of violence becomes visible also through the high quality standard of all the included works. Each of them represents another aspect of violence - caught in textual poetry, running as a video or embedded in an interactive environment of a net-based art work. In reaction to the key role (mass) media plays by displaying and even promoting violence, a new environment (interface) has been created for Violence Online Festival, which houses and hosts the art works within a virtual media company named "Violence Media Incorporated". By dividing the company into different departments (eg. "Violence for Happiness" , "Violence Marketing" or "Violence Broadcasting"), it becomes clear that their meaning has a rather ironic or sarcastic character, which gives the embedded art works a new meaning. While surfing through this environment, the visitor is forced to ask and give answers, and becomes slowly a part of this network of art through his reflections and changes of perception. ************************************** The list of all 270 participating artists from 40 countries can be found on www.newmediafest.org/violence ************************************** Visit this dynamic exciting show. There are optional following accesses: direct: www.newmediafest.org/violence but also www.newmediafest.org and www.a-virtual-memorial.org ************************************* Violence Online Festival on Rhizome Artbase: http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?7503 Presentations: * Version 1.0 : Online part of Violens Festival Tábor (Czech Republic) 17 - 31 August 2002 * Version 1.1 : Featured Project in September 2002 on A Virtual Memorial www.a-virtual-memorial.org * Version 2.0: Computer Space Festival 2002 Sofia (Bulgaria) (18-21 Oct 2002) and Liberarti Festival /Liverpool Biennale 2002 (10 Oct - 01 Dec 2002) *Award: Special Prize of Computer Space Festival Sofia (Bg) *November 2002 feature/review on faf - Fine Art Forum http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_16/faf_v16_n11/reviews/reviews.ht ml *Version 3.0: "e-magic - New Media events" 43rd International Filmfestival Thessaloniki (Greece) 12-16 November 2002 http://www.filmfestival.gr/2002/emagic/uk/emagic.html *Version 4.0 - New Media Nation - Festival des Festivals Bratislava (Slowakia) 20-22. February 2003 www.nmn.sk *Version 4.1 - Spotlight on TURBULENCE www.turbulence.org/spotlight/agricola *Version 5.0 - Videoformes - 18th International Video und Multimedia Festival 20-23 March 2003 www.videoformes.com Preview: Version 6.0 will be launched on 4 April 2003 on occasion of the participation in 1st New Media Art Festival Chiang Mai (Thailand) 4-15 April 2003 Reviews on: Neural.it, Random, NOEMA, El Pais, FineArtForum etc. ************************************** technical requirements optimized for VGA resolution 1024x768 PC Pentium III 600 Mhz or better or comparable MAC Soundcard, recommended 56K or 64K modem or faster, browsers: MS Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Netscape Navigator 6.0+ Players/Plug-ins: essential the latest Flash 6, Shockwave, Real Player, Quicktime *************************************** copyright: Violence Online Festival www.newmediafest.org text, conception, programming, visalization curator, organizer = Agricola de Cologne - *copyright © 2002-2003 . All rights reserved. *copyright © of all art works of the participating artists hold the authors or owners. NewMediaArtProjectNetwork - the experimental platform for the arts in Intenet is founded and created by Agricola de Cologne. copyright © 2000-2002 by Agricola de Cologne. All rights reserved. **************************************** Special thanks to: Fatima Lasay - DMF2002 Festival/University of the Philippines http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/ Nisar Keshvani editor-in-chief, fineArt forum = art + technology netnews http://www.fineartforum.org **************************************** contacts: Press press@newmediafest.org Violence Online Festival violence@newmediafest.org *********** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 20:46:51 -0500 From: "Nathan Hactivist" <nathan@hactivist.com> Subject: Announcing Re-Code.com [a collaboration between Carbon Defense League and Conglomco] March 19 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2003 Announcing Re-Code.com www.re-code.com Re-Code Your Own Price! Promotional Video www.re-code.com/videos.html RE-CODE.COM is a free web service that allows its customers to share product information and create barcodes that can be printed and used to re-code items in stores by placing new labels over existing UPC symbols to set a new price - participating in an act of tactical shopping. RE-CODE.COM at its core is a shared database, updateable by our customers. Participation is free and requires no special membership agreements or software download. After entering the website, customers can choose to search and view information in our database currently or add their own collected data to the system. Using our custom Barcode Generator application, barcodes are drawn in real time and made available to the user. If you like to save money, you've come to the right place! Our unique process of shared database building based on preshopping, recoding, and postshopping, enables you to pay only what you are willing to for the name brand products you want. In the process, we save our customers millions and millions of dollars! Here's the inside scoop on how our revolutionary 'Re-Code Your Own Price' service works. Our customers and community members, travel to their local chain stores to collect information about the products the stores carry, when possible noting major brands and their generic equivalents. Using our convenient downloadable Data Collection Sheets, RE-CODE.COM customers are able to easily note UPC ID number, name, product packaging, and price. This information can then be easily added to the RE-CODE.COM supercomputer to help build a shared database. The process of adding original item UPC's and prices to RE-CODE.COM is known as postshopping. Postshopping is critical in building a large database of products for each area of the country. A database which is both ours and yours! It's a simple concept, but by recoding a product's original UPC barcode with another item sold at the same store's code, and with a much more acceptable price, enables tremendous savings for you the customer. By planning your store purchases in advance, and logging on to our website, you can engage in the process of preshopping. Preshopping's value is determined by you the customer, as you search our database for the prices you want to pay at the stores you plan to shop at. Be sure to take note of packaging materials for each product to make the recoding process simpler. Either generate product barcodes on the fly using our custom Barcode Generator application, view search results and cut, copy, and paste resulting barcodes into any graphical layout utility, or find a Pre-formatted Barcode Sheet for a store near you. After locating the codes you want in one of these three ways, simply print your barcodes at home onto label paper available at most office supply or electronics stores and cut out your codes in preparation for re-coding. We encourage our customers to re-code brand name items with generic item codes. Through this process, the customer pays a more reasonable price for what is a quite similar product. It is best to make only slight adjustments such as these to avoid the notice of our competitors - the chain stores and the major brands they carry. Checking out is simple. Many stores even offer self scanning checkouts. This is of course the easiest way to scan your re-coded items undetected. In situations where this is not available, cashiers will assist you through their workplace boredom by only listening for a beep as they scan your item rather than noticing the product name which their register might display. Again, if recoding brand name products using their generic equivalents' UPC codes, it is likely that the registers product name displays will not appear all that different. In one test, both Kellog's Frosted Flakes ($3.39 US) and Better Valu Sugar Frosted Flakes ($1.69 US) appear with the word Flakes in their name at the register. This helps the cashier to remain focused on the beep rather than the product name as they scan away your savings. Of course, this requires some flexibility on your part, but this is what allows you to save up to 40% on brand-name products every day. Press Contact / Interviews: press@re-code.com URL: www.re-code.com PR Image downloads: www.re-code.com/pr Promotional Video www.re-code.com/videos.html * We in no way endorse the theft of products or services. Re-code.com was created as satire. We intend only to make aware the prevelance of barcodes and begin a critical discussion about what their pervasiveness means. This is not a product designed to be used in any malicious or illegal manner. Any such use is strictly prohibited. You should not use any of the barcodes available from this site for any illegal activity. They are here for your amusement only. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:39:46 +0100 From: Petra Kaiser <kaiser@zkm.de> Subject: \\international\media\art\award 2003 : last call for entries \\international\media\art\award 2003 Deadline: 1st April 2003 The competition for the \\international\media\art\award 2003 is being organised jointly by Suedwestrundfunk Baden-Baden (SWR) and ZKM| Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in co-operation with Swiss television SF DRS and arte. This award is the successor to the International Video Art Award, awarded for the first time in 1992. The \\international\media\art\award is intended to provide a forum on the television and in the general public for artistic videos as well as other media and interactive arts projects. Subject \\ Constructed Life: Scenarios of Fiction among computer games, cyber-sex, nanobytes and robotic arts More information and the application form: http://www.medienkunstpreis.de This award is sponsored by LB-BW Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg. ZKM| Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie ZKM | Center for Art and Media Lorenzstr. 19 76135 Karlsruhe Tel. +49-721-8100-1150 / Fax -1139 http://www.zkm.de medienkunstpreis@zkm.de ------------------------------ # 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