Syndicate: V2_East Newsletter 97/07

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

V2_East / Syndicate Newsletter 97/07

- Introduction
- Dates of upcoming events
- Updates

- General info about the Syndicate list
- Subscription


* Introduction *

Dear Syndicalists,

this is a short summer-version of the newsletter. It is around 30 C here in
Dresden and probably hotter the further you go south or east.

The list has been quite active in the last weeks, partly due to the 'Deep
Europe' Syndicate workshop in Kassel which brought together more than 20
people from many east and west european countries. Beside the newsgroup and
editorial area on the dX website (http://www.documenta.de/workspace), which
we can continue to use for Syndicate-related discussions, we are also
building up an area on the V2_East website, where all this material will be
kept for documentation.
(http://www.v2.nl/east/archive/deep_europe/hybrid.html) (If you have
photographs or video grabs taken in Kassel, please, send them so that we
can put them up on the site.) Several people have promised to write reports
and 'letters from home'about our time in Kassel which I think was extremely
productive, and nice.

An interesting detail: the Deep Europe workshop did not receive any
financial support from the Soros Foundation, none of the participants got
travel grants or whatever. Given that there were at least 12 people who
could have been eligible, this is quite surprising. (Support came mainly
>from the German Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen, and from the APEXchanges
fund.) In a way it was a relief to see that the equation: eastern
europe+culture(/money)=soros, is not necessarily correct any longer.

A reminder again that we are planning the next bigger Syndicate meeting for
the  Ostranenie Forum in Dessau/Germany from 5.-9. November. It would be
great if as many of you as possible would come to Dessau in November, so
please do start making yourtravel plans early and get in touch with the
team at <emi@stiftung-bauhaus.de> for information, invitations, etc. The
people in Dessau will be very happy to help with special invitations to
make it possible for people to apply for travel grants etc.

I wish you a good second half of the summer and hope to see you soon,

best wishes,

-a



* Dates of (some) upcoming events and exhibitions *
(check the archive at http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east for postings about these
events)

- 6 - 12 September: Just Watch, Zurich/CH
- 8 -13 September 1997: Ars Electronica Festival, Linz/A
- 12 - 18 September 1997: World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam/NL
- 15 September - 15 October 1997: Messages/REflections, Chisinau/Md
- 22 - 27 September 1997: ISEA 97, Chicago/USA
- 26 September - 4 October 1997: l'immagine leggera, Palermo/IT
- 1 - 3 October 1997: Digitale, Cologne/D
- 3 - 23 October 1997: Hi-Tech/Art '97, Brno/CZ
- 4 - 11 October 1997: 3rd Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor/SI
- 5 October - 2 November 1997: Screens, Trondheim/NO
- 7 - 19 October 1997: Interstanding 2, Tallinn/EE
- 10 - 12 October 1997: ROOTless  '97, Hull/UK
- 16 - 26 October 1997: VIPER 97, Lucerne/CH
- 18 October 1997: opening ZKM, Karlsruhe/D
- 21 October 1997: SeaFair: Interactive Narration/Int. CD ROM exhibition,
Skopje/MK
- 24 October 1997: opening Multimediale 5, Karlsruhe/D
- 3 - 9 November 1997: LADA 97, Rimini/It + San Marino/SM
- 5 - 9 November 1997: OSTranenie, Dessau/D
- 8 - 16 November 1997: Art & Communication, Valencia/ES
- 10 - 16 November 1997: Video and Electronic Art Festival, Riga/LV
- 4 -7 December 1997: Recycling the Future, Vienna/A
- 5 - 7 December 1997: VideoMedeja, Novi Sad/YU
- September 1998: Videonale 8 , Bonn/D
- September 1998: ISEA98, Liverpool&Manchester/UK
- November 1998: DEAF98, Rotterdam/NL


* l'immagine leggera, Palermo/It, 26 September UP TO 4 October 1997

International Video Art Competiton at the International Video Art, Film and
Media Festival.

THE AWARD - THE ONLY ONE IN ITALY - IS OPEN FOR VIDEOART
but out of competition cd-rom as well as internet projects
will be shown (please submit interactive art works)

FIND COMPETITION RULES, ENTRY FORM, and awards at
http://web.tin.it/iside/immagineleggera

SUBMISSION deadline: August 25, 1997

Mail all entries to:

L'IMMAGINE LEGGERA
Casella Postale 136 (P.O.Box)
I-90133 PALERMO  -  ITALY

phone: +39-91-696.17.40, +39-330-96.82.48
fax: +39-91-611.16.82
e-mail:  00253aaa@mbox.infcom.it
         immagineleggera@usa.net



* DIGITALE
'97 - Digital Dialects
Crossing Borders - Art, Computer and Culture
Cologne: Cinemathek, October 1 - 3, 1997

Cologne in June of 1997. Digital technologies have been increasingly
dictating the conditions of producing art. Numerous partnerships between
computers and film have long been made. International filmmakers,
"artists/developers" and managers will be coming together in the Cinemathek
at the 4th DIGITALE on October 1 - 3, 1997 to discuss the changing
influences of art and economics, technique and aesthetics plus universality
and individuality.

The main focus of the DIGITALE '97 will assess the possible existence of
"Digital Dialects". What influences do regional characteristics have on the
production of moving pictures? Is more hidden behind digital technologies
than their universal applicability? The participants of the DIGITALE '97
will discuss if modern computer technology allows different cultures to
speak a uniquely jargonized audio-visual language. In order to explain this
phenomenon three global regions with large socio-cultural, economic and
political discrepancies were selected: Brazil (Sao Paulo), Japan (Tokyo)
and Russia (Moscow). Each day of the DIGITALE '97 will be dedicated to one
of these countries.

The DIGITALE '97 is organized by the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in
co-operation with Media Kultur Koeln and commissioned by the Ministry of
Economics, Technology and Transport of North-Rhine Westphalia. Responsible
for concept and realization are Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski and Nils
Roeller.

For editorial questions please contact:
MEDIA KULTUR KOELN GmbH
Ulrike Erbsloeh         Tel.  +49 (0) 221 - 454 3202
Sabine Jansen           Tel.  +49 (0) 221 - 454 3205
                        Fax. +49 (0) 221 - 454 3209
                        e-mail: 106212,513@compuserve.com
                                        digitale@khm.de



* OSTranenie 97
International electronic media forum, Bauhaus Dessau/D
5-9 November 1997

This year, for the first time, in addition to the "traditional"
presentation of video works, multi-media installations, performances and
discourse, we would like to present as many network based projects as
possible, especially those which focus on the cultural/political context of
(Eastern European) society in transition.

Members of the V2_East/Syndicate will be meeting during the Ostranenie 97
forum in Dessau.

Please check out:
http://www.misa.uni-magdeburg.de/events/ostranenie97/ost_home.htm

Studio Electronic Media Interpretation
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Gropiusallee 38
D-06846  Dessau
Germany
tel.: 49.340/ 6508.313
fax: 49.340/ 6508.326
<emi@stiftung-bauhaus.de>
Stephen Kovats:  <100662.2476@compuserve.com>
Adele Eisenstein:  <adele@caesar.elte.hu>


* III INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION ON NEW TECHNOLOGIES:
ART & COMMUNICATION

8 - 16 November 1997
VALENCIA  (SPAIN)

Information society has once again been greatly affected by a new impact: a
genuine technological revolution that has pulverized the many classical
references and that is conditioning and modifying standards, perceptions,
discourse and structures.

Innovative digital technology and telecommunications are generating new
dimensions in the art world. In this context, CIBER@RT  ( III International
Exhibition on New Technologies: Art & Communication) has as its goal that
of being an open forum for debate, exhibitions and the exchange of ideas,
in addition to being a place where Technology and the Humanities join
together with Science and Art. Its objective includes that of fomenting
research, exhibitions, promotion and renovation within the various artistic
disciplines that explore a new conceptual aesthetics of audiovisuals, the
media art and multimedia culture. Ciber@RT brings together such diverse
areas of expression as electro-acustic music, video, photography, web art,
installations, conferences, performances, CD ROM's , and many other kinds
of artistic expressions derived from the digital culture.

CATEGORIES
1)  INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA
Works can be submitted in video or film, as long as they make use of new
technologies or can be considered within the context of the overall theme
of the exhibition.
Works of fiction, documentaries, art, simulation, special effects,
publicity, etc. will be accepted.
2)   SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES
Works may be sent by individuals or officially presented by a school or a
university.
3)   WEB ART
4)   CD ROM's
5)   PERFORMANCES
6)   INSTALLATIONS

SUBMISSION OF WORKS
The deadline for receiving all submitted works is Saturday, September 6, 1997.

For application details, application form, etc., please, get in touch with

 CIBER@RT
   C./ Jerâ??nimo de Monsoriu, 19, 3rd floor
   46022 Valencia, Spain
   telephone, 34.6.398.59.28
   fax, 34.6.398.59.65
   e-mail:  ciberart@ivaj.gva.es
   http ://drac.medusa.es/ ciber@rt97
   www.gva.es/ Ciber@RT/index.htm



* Festival VideoMedeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, Dec 1997

The second Video Festival "VideoMedeja", dedicated to presenting works done
by women, will be held from 5th to 7th December 1997 in Novi Sad,
Yugoslavia. The tematical span of this issue is representation of personal
female erotologies artistically directed towards dialogue with their own
possibilities in the argument with the opposite sex as well as possibilities
of artistic engagement today and investigations of functions and scope of
the art margins.

The Programme includes: 1) Projections of video works (official selection);
2) Video installations, performances (official selection); 3) Accompanied
programmes (opus presentation of outstanding authors, other festival's
presentations, video schools); 4) Round table (topic: New technologies in
Video Art).

In the official festival programme, which is of the competitive character,
"VideoMedeja" awards the following prizes:
- The figurine of the Sphinks (prize for the author's opus)
- "VideoMedeja" plaquete (three equal prizes)
- "Bogdanka Poznanovic" prize (for the best young woman author).

The Festival's Council composed of three members will make the sellection of
works and choose members of the Jury until November 1st 1997. Deadline for
sending the works is October 15 this year.

The production, organization and preparation of the Festival will be run by
artistic Association "Apostrof" in Novi Sad and the editor of the Festival
is Vera Kopicl.

The works must not be older than two years. The works should be sent to the
following address:
Festival "VideoMedeja"
Asocijacija "Apostrof"
Jevrejska 4/I
21000 Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

tel/fax: +381 21 621 308
E-mail: videomed@fodns.opennet.org


* Updates *

*Hironori Watanabe writes: ICC's new exhibition "Sensitive Chaos" will
start on July 29.
You can see it in detail at: http://www.ntticc.or.jp



* General Info *

V2_East is an initiative of V2_Organisation Rotterdam, which is aimed at
creating a network of people and institutions who are involved with or
interested in media art in Eastern Europe and which wants to create an
infrastructure that facilitates cooperations between partners in East and
West. With its 'Syndicate' mailing list, website <http://www.v2.nl/east>
and regular meetings, V2_East is becoming an important tool for fostering
ties within the media art community in Europe which makes it increasingly
obsolete to think in term of 'East' and 'West', and which will eventually
make the V2_East initiative itself redundant.

The V2_East/Syndicate is a no-budget network initiative rather than an
institution. <syndicate@AEC.at> is the address of a mailing list which is
dedicated to an exchange of information and ideas relating to the situation
and future development of electronic and media art in Eastern Europe. A
Syndicate-mail archive for messages that are coming in over the list (since
April 97) can be found at: http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/
The list members include more than 160 artists, curators, networkers,
writers, festival organisers, etc., from East as well as West European
countries and beyond, who, through the 'Syndicate', are trying to improve
the communication and cooperation between artists and organisations in East
and West. The list was first installed following the initial meeting of the
V2_East initiative at V2_Organisation in Rotterdam on January 21, 1996, at
the end of the second Next 5 Minutes conference. During the DEAF96 festival
in September, we held a V2_East Meeting in which around 30 people from 12
different countries participated. In April 97 the LEAF97 meeting in
Liverpool brought together more than 30 people from across Europe.


* Subscription *

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For more information about the Syndicate, please, contact <abroeck@v2.nl>
(Andreas Broeckmann).


*Please, send information that you feel should appear in the next edition
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