related sites
prenzlnet
Berlin - http://fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de:8080/%7Ehuette/prenzlnet/
Das Projekt prenzlnet untersucht die Möglichkeiten alternativer Vernetzung. Ziel des Projektes
ist es, die Voraussetzungen für eine möglichst weitreichende, selbstgestaltete Teilnahme an
neuen Kommunikationsstrukturen zu schaffen. Dabei steht der Bildungsaspekt sowie die
Förderung kultureller und künstlerischer Projekte im Vordergrung.
Access for All FAQ
Berlin - http://www.icf.de/vgrass/afa-faq.html
The basic idea is that during the ongoing process of formation of the Matrix, political, legal,
technical, cultural, social decisions are taken that concern us all. The basis for opinion forming
and participation in these decision processes is access.
MISERA MEDIA
Salzburg - http://www.t0.or.at/~diagonale/hypermed/misera.htm
Zur Lage der Neuen Medien in Österreich. Eine Bestandsaufnahme und kritische Diskussion.
AStA der Gesamthochschule Kassel
Kassel - http://www.uni-kassel.de/ssv/asta/
Der AStA ist Teil der Hochschulselbstverwaltung, d. h., daß Studierenden die Möglichkeit gegeben wird, das studentische Leben zu einem Teil selbst zu gestalten.
Internet 1996 World Exposition
http://www.town.hall.org/fair/
This fair is different in many ways from the great World Expositions, but it is a real world's fair.
Cyberspace is part of the real world, and this fair is not a virtual project. It is also an
ever-changing fair: we open our construction site on January 1, and construction continues
throughout the year as people add pavilions, places, and events.
Siberian Deal - Virtual Real
Wien -http://www.t0.or.at/~siberian/ or http://www.icf.de/siberian_deal/.
Siberian Deal is a project on /objects and /information emphasising
contacts of people, involving them and sharing tangible and intangible
things.
Eva Wohlgemuth, KathyRae Huffman, and Tatjana Didenko
are going to find out what western goods are worth in Siberia
(not for money but for trade).
Travel will start at September 19th, 1995.
Critical Art Ensemble
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~sbarnes/
Critical Art Ensemble is a collective of five artists of various
specializations dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical
politics, and critical theory.
e-zines
Mediamatic
Amsterdam - http://www.mediamatic.nl/. An international
quarterly about the cultural implications of new media. Since '85 in print.
Since '94 on line. The magazine's raw material is the text of theory: analysis,
polemics, experimental theory, speculations and sometimes pure fiction. Authors
from Europe, Japan and North America examine whatever theme through the filter
of Mediamatic's only assumption: that New Media are changing every facet of
human endeavour more rapidly than you can guess.
CTHEORY
Canada - http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/ctheory/ctheory.html.
CTHEORY is an international, electronic review of books on theory, technology
and culture. Sponsored by the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory,
reviews are posted periodically of key books in contemporary discourse as well as
theorisations of major "event-scenes" in the mediascape.
TightRope
Saarbrücken - http://www.phil.uni-sb.de/tightrope.html.
TightRope is produced with the aim of creating a discussion forum related to artistic,
philosophical and social topics in the context of changing media-landscapes and
structures of communication. The digitalisation and transport of information is a fast
growing and important subject in our society. Mass media will be affected by it as well
and the corresponding machines will soon be found in our homes. We want to contribute
to the ongoing discussions of how to deal with these developments by presenting
realistic viewpoints related to the use of these precious resources.
Blitz Review
Köln, Wien - http://blitzreview.thing.at/.
Blitz Review widmet sich interessanten und aktuellen visuellen Erscheinungen, die
in der Bildenden Kunst, den Neuen Medien, der Werbung, der Architektur sowie
in den flexiblen Schnittmengen dieser Bereiche auftauchen. Blitz Review ist Information
und Kommentar zugleich. Wenn Sie ablehnender oder zustimmender Meinung zu einer Blitz
Review sind, können Sie diese kommentieren. Äuserungen von Belang werden
dann der entsprechenden Blitz Review für alle lesbar hinzugefügt.
congresses online
Next 5 Minutes
Amsterdam/Rotterdam - http://www.dds.nl/~n5m/
Next 5 Minutes is a conference and exhibition project about tactical media, due to
take place on January 18th - 21st, 1996, which is being organised by De Balie,
Paradiso, V2_Organisatie, the Society for Old and New Media and the Centre for
Tactical Media in collaboration with other national and international organisations.
Telepolis München - http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/MLM/telepolis.html.
Telepolis WWW-Site serves a twofold purposes. First we would like to inform you about "Telepolis -
Exhibition and Symposium on the Interactive and Networked City" in Louxemburg, November 3 - 12,
1995. Second we consider this form of electronic publishing an autonomous medium, which we try to
demonstrate through an appropriate presentation.
The Telepolis W-3 site is divided into three sections. Under "Information" you will find basic facts
concerning the exhibition (schedule, whereabouts, and information about our partners. We kindly invite
you to register or to subscribe to a mailing list. "Telepolis" stands for a detailed preview of the
exhibition and the accompagnying symposia. In the "Telepolis-Journal" you can look up the discussion
on culture and theory in the Internet. This journal is still expanding and you can take part in it by sending
us your opinion or articles.
We started the Telepolis W-3 site in March 95 with only a few plain text pages. But soon it began to
show a dynamism of its own and we are happy about the positive feedback. Well, there was a
misunderstanding: Telepolis on the WWW is not another virtual city like the "Digital City Amsterdam" or
"International City Berlin". To us Telepolis represents a theorical and organizational reservoir for all
innovative digital city projects. We hope that our Telepolis pages will stay an interesting meeting point
in the Internet!
interface3
Hamburg - http://www.hfbk.uni-hamburg.de/interface3/link.html
"Interface 3 - Conference" will take place November 1st to 3rd, 1995 in Hamburg.
There will be lectures dealing with the themes
"Netze denken", "Kunst verkehren", "Verbindlichkeiten"
"thinking networks", "circulating art", "commitments".
"Interface 3 - Network" started march 1995 in collaboration with interface3 participants.
"Structures" will be developed to explore the shape of "Interface 3 network-conference" by
means of º WWW º e-mail Salons º MOO º NewsGroups º ftp º.
The discussion tracts between the conference and the network will cross-road in the
"bit_link_bar"
European Media Art Festival
Osnabrück - http://www.emaf.de/.
European Media Art Festival - that means five days of films, videos,
performances, installations, CD-ROMs and internet projects.
At different venues in Osnabrück international media-art will be presented and
discussed. The art gallery Dominikanerkirche offers the fascinating environment for
the exhibition due to it´s gothic ambience.
Various approaches in the production of moving images apart from convential
narration and standerized contents, show the innovative power and vitality of
media arts, also and because of the anniversary of cinematography.
``Arts and Body'' are the topical frames of this years festival programme. Many
artists deal with the human body as the main focus in their work and ask which
influence the interactive media might have on the individual.
We invite you to take part on a journey of images from the beginning of the film
avantgarde to the future of the cybernauts in the global village.
ISEA96
Rotterdam - http://WWW.xs4all.nl/~isea.
The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) was founded in July, 1990. It is an umbrella
organization for the electronic arts whose membership consists of a wide range of
electronic art institutes and organizations, as well as individuals - artists, scientists and
other interested parties.
The global aim of ISEA is the structuring of a systematic approach to the potentials and
problems of electronic art. To do this, communication between scientists, artists and
technologists is essential. Communication between their institutes and organizations is
especially important.
On a more practical plane, the Inter-Society fosters such communication by means of an
electronic network and databank, a monthly newsletter (in both electronic and hard-copy
versions), the International Symposia on Electronic Art and the International Journal on
Electronic Art (currently in preparation).
ISEA promotes cooperation between scientists, artists and technologists by advising or even
adopting electronic art projects. ISEA actively raises funds for selected projects proposed
by members.
The idea is to support collaborations among qualified practitioners as determined by the
requirements of each project. As a collective organization, ISEA can often make a stronger
case for acquiring subsidies for projects.
DEAF95
- http://www.vpro.nl/www/arteria/V2onW3/DEAF/DEAF.html.
Dutch Electronic Art Festival
with: Exposition; Music and Interfaces; World Wide Web; CD-ROM and
CD-I; Symposium; Adventures Night with film, performances, and music.
Organisation: V_2 Organisatie. Dates: 21 - 26 November, 1995.
DEAF95 is a festival on art and (media)technology. A festival where current
developments in art are set next to current developments in science and technology.
DEAF95 is an interdisciplinary festival. The increasing blurring borders between
the (art)disciplines that result from the mixture of art and technology will
characterize the festival curriculum; thus, the cooperation between the different
disciplines.
institutions/projects/groups
ART+COM
Berlin - http://www.artcom.de/.
ART+COM is an interdisciplinary group concerned with the integration of
computertechnology, communication and design. ART+COM was founded in 1988
as a centre for computer aided design and communication, with the intention to
promote co-operation between science, design and education. Since 1988 ART + COM
has established itself as a melting pot for new ideas and new technologies, where
specialists from the Arts, from Science and from industrie come together to combine
their ideas and goals. The method of working at ART+COM is characterized by an openness
towards new projects and novel approaches, the readiness to question old patterns and
ways of thinking and the ability to speed up complex development-processes.
Ponton European Media Art Lab
Hannover - http://www.ponton.uni-hannover.de/index.html.
Ponton European Media Art Lab is a private research institute. Artists, scientists and technicians are
working together on socio-cultural projects for tomorrows interactive world ranging from
interactive TV to 3D user interfaces for networks. The focus of our interest is on telematic culture
and the resulting new forms of people to people communication.
Ponton's projects are often a work in progress. Prototypes are realised and developed in a process
of simultaneous use. The resulting experiences allow to understand individual representations in the
information society.
For us technology is not a means by itself. It is only a transport medium for communication in
electronic public space. The center of our research is people.
Institute for New Media
Frankfurt - http://www.inm.de/.
INM is a research site and forum for art, science and technology in new media. There are
four levels of cooperative projects in the fields of audio, video, 3D-graphics and
interactive media: 1) Postgraduate projects for art students and trainees in New Media art.
2) Professional video and audio studios, multimedia and computer graphics ateliers for
new media artists.
3) Experimental laboratories for scientific projects related to interactive media.
4) Advanced new media projects: interactive multimedia catalogues, multimedia environments
for exhibitions, 3D-computer graphics and 3D-animation,
experimental videos, cyberspace events, Internet and World Wide Web projects
(Frankfurt Digital Marketplace) and all those media projects living at the edge.
Academy of Media Arts
Köln - http://www.khm.de/.
The Academy of Media Arts began its study programme in October of 1990. At present, it
offers a four-year undergraduate programme as well as two-year postgraduate and
occupational programmes in "Audio-visual Media".
The Academy of Media Arts Cologne is the only art academy in the Federal Republic of
Germany embracing all areas of audio-visual media. It brings together several different areas
of media which interact in practice, but are generally kept separate at other institutions of
higher education. Collaboration with other academies, cultural institutions, broadcasting
corporations and the media industry both at home and abroad contributes to this process of
integration.
At the Academy of Media Arts, the areas of art, technology and science work in cooperation.
Different forms of thought are brought together: Theory meets practical design, and technical
training interacts with the artistic imagination. Great value is placed on giving the students an
awareness of the social and political responsibility which they as artists, designers, directors
and authors assume in their work with the media.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
San Francisco - http://www.eff.org/.
A non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy,
free expression, and access to online resources and information.
Station Rose
Frankfurt - http://www.well.com/user/gunafa/.
Based in Frankfurt Germany, Station Rose/STR is a bunch of 2 ensemble avec other electronic artists
beeing part of a Global Sprawl Community, spreading our hypermedia art through products such
as CD-ROMs, Audio CDs, through Live-Performances in the Techno-Underground, as well as through
Academic Research, and finally through the net.
The Turing Galaxy
Tokio - http://www.race.u-tokyo.ac.jp/RACE/TGM/tgm.html.
The Turing Galaxy is a hypertext system. Well, right now it is nothing more than a raw sketch, the
skeleton of a structure to be.
Eventually TG will be three things.
1. an online multimedia Ph.D. thesis on media theory in general and an application to the case of
Japan.
2. A museum of media - theory spaces to walk around in, and discover. An edutainment themepark
on media.
3. A Mud - since it's more fun to discover things together, to talk about them, and leave your own
marks, there will be a Mud- like multi-user realtime interactive structure connected to the museum.
As a thesis on media, TG is at the same time an experiment in exploring the new Universal Medium by
using it. TG contains different categories of text (= texture, net, web), different interface metaphors (=
media), different invitations, each biased towards a certain "mindframe" (Derrick de Kerckhove), but
each providing entry points to the whole system. Each of the three parts will have a basic linear structure
that the visitor can follow like the rooms in a museum or the pages in a book. But all of them will, of
course, also be interconnected.
Ping datascape
Berlin - A HREF = "http://www.artcom.de/ping/mapper.
On an interactive map you position images, hypertexts, movies, sounds, and objects located in the
WWW, which then form the ping datascape. A virtual camera, called the eye agent, is constantly
moving through the datascape, thereby generating the Ping-movie, a live and real time flight through the
Internet.
OTIS - Operative Term Is Stimulate
- http://sunsite.unc.edu/otis/.
OTIS, at it's most basic interpretation and intention, is a place for image-makers and image-lovers to
exchange ideas, collaborate and, in a loose sense of the word, meet. OTIS is collection of images and
information accessible mainly via INTERNET that is open for public perusal and participation. The
quickest analogy drawn is that OTIS is like an "art collective". Not only because it's a place to see art,
but also because of it's social reverbs. People do meet "on OTIS". Ideas are exchanged. Conversations
are had via electronic-mail. Influencial works do "hang" on
OTIS. People have been inspired. But this "coop" is open 24hrs and serves an ever increasing
"community". The Net. This art collective is hardly exclusive, it's fairly easy to get your works displayed
on OTIS.
Art from OTIS has been featured in several publications, including WIRED, Lunatic Fringe, The
Mac-Internet Tour Guide, ZomBit. Exhibits of OTIS work have been held in cities around the globe,
sometimes on small screens and other times (like at FISEA and CyberCulture Houston) on a bit larger
scale. More and bigger exhibits are planned for the future.
OTIS began in January of 1993 as a tiny FTP site by the good-graces of John Van Oast's Underworld
Industries and blossomed into a major receptacle of images and info via UNC's SunSite. OTIS has also
sponsored a number of critically grumbled-over "collaboration projects" under the flag of SYNERGY
and has set up an emailing list for the discussion of net-art, net-artists and the future of art itself.
t0 Institute for New Culture Technologies / Public Netbase
Wien - http://kernighan.imc.akh-wien.ac.at/t0/t0/t0home.htm.
"...info-highways, data-economy, information wars, interactive media. Keywords of new culture
technologies change the world. Economy, social interaction, language and the understanding of art are
subject to this transformation...." (Konrad Becker).
New @ Public Netbase: Public network terminals of the Institute for New Culture
Technologies at the Depot allow global access to scientific, communal and private databases on the Internet.
The t0 Netbase team gives accounts and assists in navigation and research.
t0 World Wide Web Servers are dedicated to the interrelations of culture and technology, science and
politics, art and society.
Idea Futures
- http://if.arc.ab.ca/IF.shtml.
"Imagine a betting pool or market on most disputed science questions, with the going odds
available to the popular media, and treated socially as the current academic consensus.
Imagine that academics are expected to "put up or shut up" and accompany claims with at
least token bets, and that statistics are collected on how well people do. Imagine that funding
agencies subsidize pools on questions of interest to them, and that research labs pay for
much of their research with winnings from previous pools. And imagine that anyone could
play, either to take a stand on an important issue, or to insure against technological risk.
"This would be an "idea futures" market, which I offer as an alternative to existing academic
social institutions. Somewhat like a corn futures market, where one can bet on the future price
of corn, here one bets on the future settlement of a present scientific controversy..."
From a background article by Robin Hanson. That's the goal. In the meantime, let's test out the
concept, develop consensuses, and have some fun.
The Seven by Nine Squares
Berlin - http://fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de:8080/~cantsin/.
Monty Cantsin. Neoism. Florian Cramer. Smile. Data.
Bildschirmdenken
Kassel - http://www.hrz.uni-kassel.de/fb3/psych../sim/hyper/dox/bildschirmdenken/Index_514.html.
Manual für hypermediale Diskurstechniken
Die imaginäre Bibliothek
Hildesheim - http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/ami/pool/home.html.
Eine wahre Geschichte über die unterschiedlichen Arten des Sammelns, Ordnens und
Vernichtens von Schrifttum - von der Antike bis in die Zukunft.
starting points
MS. GUIDANCE
Wien - http://www.t0.or.at/msguide/msguide.htm.
Your personal guide on the web, with -Surfer's Delite-, -Cyberwar and Information Warfare-,
-Xtra Dimensions, Hypermedia, Hyperspace-, -Music and Sounds-,
-VRML (3D) in the Internet-, -Virtual Events-, -Cyborgs and other machinic
adventures in space-, -Artificial Life-, -Robotics-, -TV online, live cam's and spycams-,
-E-zines and Online Journals-, -Digital Communities and Democracy Netprojects-,
-Daily Online News-, -E-Text and Online Books-, -Fringe Politics Part I-,
-Cults -, -Women's Studies-, -Zero Outlinks- and more.
city metaphor
Berlin - http://www.is.in-berlin.de/users/mfz/public_html/citymetaphor.html.
Smooth and carved spaces - compiled by Pit Schultz. You'll find a nice collection of links concerning
digital cities, tourist guides and city information, social architecture and urban planning,
more or less pure commercial sites and more.
SPEX Net Tourist Guide
Berlin - http://www.is.in-berlin.de/users/mfz/public_html/SPEXlist.html.
Collected by Pit Schultz for the readers of the German magazine SPEX.
Categories: city metaphor, overview, data bases, theory, hypertext, music, art, politics,
media and cyberculture.
Meyer's Bookmarks
Kassel - http://exp.psychologie.uni-kassel.de/~ham/boma.html.
A lot of hot links sorted by e-zines, city metaphor, congresses online, splendid projects,
archives, authors, starting points, music, psychology sites, commercial sites, webtools
and agents. Compiled by Herbert A. Meyer.
Scarabaeus's Lesezeichen
Hannover - http://scarabaeus.ponton.uni-hannover.de/Bookmarks.html.
Oh, yet Christian Wolff's bookmarks to click. He is since 1984 at Chaos Computer Club
and since 1990 at PONTON European Media Art Lab.
The Whole Internet Catalog
San Francisko - http://gnn.digital.com/gnn/wic/.
The Whole Internet Catalog (WIC) is a hand-picked collection
of the best sites the Internet has to offer. Each of the 1200
sites in the WIC has been reviewed and categorized by subject
by an editorial team. If we don't think our users will find a
site useful or entertaining, we don't include it in the catalog.
Tecfa's Door to the Web
Genf - http://tecfa.unige.ch/info-servers.html.
Indexes &, WWW services, good home pages & other information sources. A massive
collection done by Daniel K. Schneider.
Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet
Worldwide - http://lurker.dfv.rwth-aachen.de:7998/dummy/bdg_toc.html.
A round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and
Everything...The genesis of the Big Dummy's Guide was a few informal
conversations, which included Mitch Kapor of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) and Steve Cisler of Apple Computer, Inc. in June of 1991.
Links from the Underground
Chicago - http://www.links.net/.
Online since January '94! Done by Justin Hall (Yer Mama Net Productions).
Including 'The Weird, the Wild and the Wonderful on the WWW', 'Latest
Luscious Links from this Lascivious Lurker' and 'How you can bootstrap your
web career'.
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