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From: hameyer@hrz.uni-kassel.de (Herbert A Meyer)
Subject: Official programme Next 5 Minutes: Tactical Media
PROGRAM OF THE 'NEXT FIVE MINUTES' CONFERENCE
Amsterdam/Rotterdam, january 18-21, 1995
Next 5 Minutes: tactical media is a conference and exhibition that will
take place at Amsterdam's Balie and Paradiso and at Rotterdam's
V2_Organisation from January 18th till January 21st 1996. The conference
will be officially opened Thursday evening in Rotterdam with a performance
of the Critical Art Ensemble from Chicago about the matter of media.
Underneath you can find the official program. All updates
are to be found on the Next 5 Minutes website: http://www.dds.nl/n5m. For
more detailed information about the Amsterdam conference please contact De
Balie, phone 020 - 62 33 673 and ask for Sjoera Nas or David Garcia. For
information about the Rotterdam programme please contact V2_Organisation,
phone 010 - 404 76 93 and ask for Andreas Broeckmann. Or e-mail N5M@dds.nl
PROGRAM
Friday January 19
programme in Amsterdam
Balie theatre: 10.30-12.00 hours
From Access for All to Access for What
Can strategic combinations of old and new media make the dream of genuine
public access a reality?
* Presentation by DeeDee Halleck (New York) co-founder of Paper Tiger
TV and Deep Dish TV, with screenings of influential old and new material
from the Paper Tiger collection
* Interview with Juergen Linke (Berlin) director of the Berlin Open
Channel and Nico van Eyk (Amsterdam) former board member of SALTO,
Amsterdam Open Channel, as representatives of important examples of public
access to cable television in Europe
* Presentation by Mark Dery (New York) cyber critic and author of
'Culture Jamming', with a street level perspective on the future of public
access
* Spoken column by Rop Gonggrijp (Amsterdam) co-founder of XS4ALL and
of Amsterdam Digital City
Moderation: David Garcia (Amsterdam) Centre for Tactical Media.
Paradiso hall: 10.30-12.00 hours
Copyright in the Next Century
To be able to interpret our history we must also be free to access and use
information. With digital collage and sampling playing an ever more
important role in daily culture, is the concept of copyright becoming
obsolete?
Moderation and organisation: Tjebbe van Tijen, International Institute for
Social History (IISG), Amsterdam.
Balie Salon: 13.00-14.30 hours
Workshop: Curator Activists
Participants: Kathy Rae Huffman (Vienna) networker; Renate Lorenz (Zurich)
exhibition organiser; Norbert Meisner (Leipzig) media artist currently
involved in Kanal X; Alla Mitrofanova (St. Petersburg) arts curator.
Moderation: Chris Hill (Buffalo) media curator and involved in the public
access movement and Keiko Sei (Prague) media curator.
Balie theatre: 14.30-16.15 hours
Beyond the Metaphors of War
Does the use of violent metaphors beget more violence? From South Africa
to Northern Ireland a number of societies are at various stages of
transition from war to peace. What are the images and strategies that will
enable them to grow towards reconciliation?
* Introduction by Marilyn Hyndman (Belfast) to the screening of key
works by the Belfast based tactical television group Northern Visions.
* Presentation by Chris Gutuza (Bellville South Africa), producer of
the Media Training & Development Trust.
* Interview with Maya van de Velde (Amsterdam) expert on Palestinian
tactical communication, from magazines to electronic networks.
* Presentation of Radio Doble F (San Salvador) previously the voice
of the resistance, the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberation Nacional.
This radio station is supported by XminY Solidarity Fund.
Moderation: Michael Pollman (Nijmegen) founder of Antenna, access provider
and networking node.
Balie theatre: 16.30-17.00 hours
Screening of 'Shock is Spreading',
by Olivera Todorovic (Belgrade 1995).
Short documentary about life in Belgrade in the past 10 years, about the
energy of youth so rarely noticed on film or video.
Screening of fragments of 'Zombietown'
by Marc J. Hawker (Glasgow 1995).
Documentary about radio B'92 and surroundings in Belgrade.
Paradiso hall: 14.30 -17.00 hours
The Desire to be Wired
A series of performance-lectures that will form a radical critique of
cyberculture
* Calin Dan (Bucharest) visual artist, member of the artists group
SubREAL.
* Konrad Becker (Vienna) video and computer artist,
.
* Sabeth Buchmann (Berlin) member of Minimal Club, editor of the
theoryzine A.N.Y.P..
* Heath Bunting (London) street culture hacker .
* Pit Schulz (Berlin) electro artist, editor of the theory database
Webstop.
* Dirk Paesmans (Amsterdam) media and web artist .
* Alla Mitrofanova (St. Petersburg) art curator and media philosopher.
* Steven Kurtz (Chicago) member of the media/art activists group
Critical Art Ensemble.
Hosted by Geert Lovink (Amsterdam) Centre for Tactical Media.
Paradiso Cellar: 16.00-18.00 hours
Workshop The impact of radio
on civil conflicts
Participants: Democratic Voice of Burma, Radio B'92 (Belgrade), Radio
Kameleon (Tuzla, Bosnia), La Voz Popular (Guatamala), Radio Doble F (El
Salvador), Community Radio (South Africa), Martha Hawley (Amsterdam)
European Community Medmedia Program.
Moderation: Rita Brakel (Amsterdam) XminY Solidarity Fund.
Balie theatre: 19.30 - 21.00 hours
Lecture 'From Cyberspace to Neurospace'
by Peter Lamborn Wilson (New York), member of the collective Autonomedia.
Paradiso hall: 21.00-22.00 hours
Performance by vakuum tv
Unplugged TV from Budapest
In the context of new forms of censorship in Hungary, these artists
invented a new way to transmit their political opinions. In a small theatre
in Budapest they transformed the stage into a television set. Every Monday
they talk back to the media.
Paradiso hall: 22.00-23.30 hours
Screening of the movie 'Predictions of Fire' (1995)
by Michael Benson
Movie about the Slovenian arts collective 'NSK' During the 80's this group
shocked many people in western Europe with their use of fascist
iconography. Only later, after the Balkan explosion, did people realise
that 'NSK' were merely predicting the flames of militant nationalism that
were to come.
Saturday January 20
Balie theatre: 10.30-12.00 hours
Reality Check
Do the new media really lead to greater democracy?
* Presentation by Steven Lenos (Agora) and Nina Meilof (Beurs TV,
Digital City), about current experiments with tele-democracy in Amsterdam
* Presentation by Rena Tangens from Zerberus (Bielefeld), alternative
computer network
* Debate with Katja Diefenbach (Munich) journalist, Kees Schalken
(Tilburg), researcher at the Catholic University Brabant.
Moderation: Marleen Stikker, Director of the Society for Old and New Media.
Paradiso hall: 10.30-13.00 hours
The Metaphor Machine
The issue of metaphorical language is not abstract. It poses the vital
strategic question what language to use. An investigation of language and
metaphor in the technological age.
* Performance interview by Graham Harwood and Matthew Fuller
(London), with demonstration of the CD-ROM
* Rehearsal of Memory' (1995) showing the physical memories of
several patients of the Ashworth Mental Hospital.
* Presentation by Stephan Geene (Berlin), member of Minimal Club,
about the language of biotechnology.
* Presentation by Karin Spaink (Amsterdam), author, about the
Cyborg-metaphor.
* Video screening of fragments of 'Simultaneous City' (1994) by
RongWrong Productions (Amsterdam). With the growing uniformity of the world
- the same TV programmes, the same food, the same advertisements - culture
shock is replaced by a shocking familiarity. Cities are as anonymous and
interchangeable as hotel bedrooms.
* Presentation by Jochen Becker (Berlin), member of B=FCroBert, about
'Telepolis' and the impact of digital cities on urban spaces.
Moderation: Geert Lovink (Amsterdam) Centre for Tactical Media.
Balie theatre: 14.30-17.30 hours
Tactical Media as Tools for Survival
Series of presentations from front-line activists who use tactical media as
tools or as weapons in a struggle for survival.
* Lecture by Sivam Krishnapillai (Cambridge) scientist, about the
ethno-national cyberquarrels in Sri Lanka.
* Presentation by Vesna Jankovic (Zagreb), editor in chief of Arkzin,
the bi-weekly anti-war magazine that combines politics and subculture.
* Screening of the new video of Jelenko Bantic (Zagreb) about the
armed struggle for a free radio station in Northern Kroatia
* Presentation of the Democratic Voice of Burma by Thein Htike Oo,
the radio station of the democratic alliance, that has been banned by
official authorities. The radio station is supported by XminY Solidarity
Fund, who will be launching an action campaign to put them on the air
again.
* Screening of videos about the current media activities from the
Zapatistas in the Chiapas region in Mexico.
* Presentation by Sacha Mirkovic (Belgrade), producer from the radio
station B'92.
Moderation: P.L. da Silva, social scientist at the University of Amsterdam.
Balie Autonomous Zone:
15.00-17.00 hours
Workshop: Mortal Acts. The Tactical Body.
A workshop produced by Almanac, an Amsterdam based tactical television
program. On the symbolic use of the body in art and political intervention.
Paradiso upper floor: 15.00-17.00 hours
Workshop: Low End Technology
>From a wide assortment of consumer cameras to wind-up radios, scanners and
other hacking devices, this workshop celebrates the vitality of using cheap
technology.
Participants: Heath Bunting (London street culture hacker); Leo Jacobs
(Film and Television Academy Amsterdam); Pauline Krikke (Amsterdam City
Council); Debra Solomon (Amsterdam media artist); Bobby Tuazon (Peoples
Television Network of the Phillipines Manila).
Moderation: Raul Marroquin (Amsterdam) media artist.
Paradiso upper floor:
17.00-18.00 hours
Workshop: Latino Networks on the Net
Video conference / CUSeeMe in the two most widely used languages on the
Net: English and Spanish.
With Lourdes Cillerulo (Universidad del Pais Vasco), Marcelo Exposito
(Universidad de Valencia), and the Universidad de Chile.
Moderation: Mariano Maturana (Amsterdam).
Paradiso upper floor:
18.00-19.30 hours
Workshop: Accessing Satellite Technology
Satellites need no longer be the monopoly of mainstream media, as tacticans
from all over the world learn how to appropiate communication satellites.
Participants: DeeDee Halleck (New York); Allan Fountain (London) formerly
Channel 4, currently involved in the Mondial Satellite Project.
Moderation: Raul Marroquin, Hoeksteen TV Amsterdam.
Balie Salon: 17.00-18.30 hours
Workhop: Media in the new Southern Africa
The role of the old and new media in social transformation: do the
electronic media have anything to add to the process of political
reconstruction in Southern Africa.
With: David Adams (Johannesburg) ANC media trainer; Shareef Cullis
(Johannesburg) Centre for Democratic Communication; Chris Gutuza
(Bellville) Media Training & Development Trust; Jeanne du Toit (Salt River)
Bush Radio.
Moderation: Bert Frereks (Amsterdam) Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika.
Balie theatre: 20.00-21.30 hours
Tactical Research -
The Myth of Easy Search
Serious research is the source of all tactical communication. Low budget
investigative journalism challenges the superficial knowledge presented as
background in mainstream media.
* Presentation by Frannie Armstrong (London) of One World of the
McLibel Case, the judicial procedures of the Green Peace London Collective
against McDonalds
* Introduction by Jamie Hartzell (London) of the screenings of the
London based video collective Small World
* Presentation by Christian Golla (Bonn) of the Copex incidents in
Germany
* Screening of fragments of Haiti: Killing the Dream by Babeth
(Amsterdam) visual artist. Providing an eye witness account of the coup
with enough inside knowledge to provide an account of CIA involvement in
events.
Moderation: Eveline Lubbers (Amsterdam) research collective Jansen & Janssen.
Balie Autonomous Zone:
22.30-24.00 hours
Workshop: Sex in the Age of Media
Open discussion to explore the pleasure principle, its directions and the
use of abuse in the media today.
Participants: Susan Janssen & William Levy; Peter Mueller Sziami, Mariska
Majoor, Xaviera Hollander, Michel Beaujart, Jeanette Genant & others.
Moderation: Marianna Padi (Amsterdam) writer and organiser.
Paradiso hall: 21.30-05.00 hours
E~Scape Technoparty by Digital
Artists Xperiments.
D.A.X. consists of Konrad Becker (Vienna) Monoton, Michael Wells (London)
Technohead, Robin Rimbaud (London) deejay Scanner, Dano (Amsterdam) deejay,
No Sweat (Amsterdam) producer, Liza 'n Eliaz (Antwerp) deejay.
Veejaying by Cut Up (Rotterdam).
With: hypermedia interfaces, videogates, interactive sound database, live
techno music.
Sunday January 21
Balie salon: 13.00-14.00 hours
Mr President
Interviews by Cecile Landman (Amsterdam) researcher with Giovanni Ruggeri
(Milan) the famous Italian critic, author of 'the business of Mr.
President' and Gianluca Neri (Milan) Peacelink, about the current
television and internet monopoly positions in Italy. What's behind Video
Online, the fastest growing Internet provider in Italy.
Balie theatre: 14.00-15.00 hours
Net Criticism
The emergence of the Net is so significant that it forces us to reimagine
the role of all other media. Like Art and Literature does the net require
it's own independent critical discipline?
Participants: Mark Dery, Katja Diefenbach, Paul Garrin, P.L. Wilson.
Moderation: Geert Lovink (Amsterdam) media theoritician, Centre for
Tactical Media.
Balie Salon: 14.00-15.00 hours
Workshop: Financing Tactical Media
Participants: Eveline Lubbers (Amsterdam); Arie-Willem Bijl (XminY
Solidarity Fund); Jamie Hartzell (London); and a representative of the
Soros Foundation.
Moderation: Rita Brakel, XminY Solidarity Fund.
Paradiso hall: 15.00-17.00 hours
New Impulses For Translocal Culture
Discovering ways to give a new prominance to the diversity of global media.
And eroding the dichotomy between the North and the South.
* Presentation by Sharad Argwal and Satuajit Sarkar (Delhi) on the
current position of independent video makers and internet activists in
India.
* Presentation of the Refugee Republic by Ingo Guenther (New York)
media artist.
* Presentation by Caetanno Scannavino (Rio de Janeiro) of the Video
Popular network in Brasil, a collective of media activists that put up wide
screens in small Brasilian villages with limited media access.
* Highlights of the efforts of South African Community Radio to
balance social justice with reconciliation.
Moderation: Olivier Pasquet (Queige, France) board member of Videazimut,
the internatio-nal organisation of independent video makers.
Final Debate
moderated by David Garcia (Amsterdam) Center for Tactical Media.
The final debate draws together the key ideas to have emerged during the
Next 5 Minutes and will ask whether such a diverse range of communities and
interest groups can create shared strategies and a common agenda.
other formats in Amsterdam
INSTALLATIONS
Censored information
by Babeth (Amsterdam)
is made up of original and shocking material recorded during the coup in
Haiti, and which is combined with a forensic analysis by Noam Chomsky of
how the artist's film Haiti: Killing the Dream was later censored by
American broadcaster PBS.
There will also be an informal screening of the award winning Haiti:
Killing the dream during the conference.
Rehearsal of Memory
by Graham Harwood (London)
is an installation based on his CD-ROM Rehearsal of Memory, showing the
physical memories of patients from the Ashworth Mental Hospital.
Zap Museum
by MauZ (Enschede, NL).
A normal living room with an abnormal television. In this installation the
artist realises the impossible dream of multi-channel tactical television.
performances
Unpredictable tactical interventions by:
* Ros Sinclaire (Glasgow)
* Hunter Reynolds (New York)
* Amalia Pevyovschi (Bucharest)
* The Electronic Cafe International (Santa Monica),
media platforms
Local television in Amsterdam and Rotterdam will be an integral tool of the
Next 5 Minutes. Radio and TV production and programming facilities will be
available to participants of the conference. A satellite link, ISDN lines
and other forms of tele-conferencing will keep the venues in the two cities
in continuous dialogue. Cable operators in the Amsterdam and Rotterdam are
available for cablecasting during the event for transmissions of tapes and
live-events allowing for active collaboration with visiting groups. A World
Wide Web site features an online journal, newsgroups,
tele-conferencing, etc., throughout the four days of the event, containing
extensive coverage of N5M debates and workshops. It will also be an
environment for a number of visiting artists to realise new works. Teletext
and other forms of digital television will keep people without computers
updated about the conference. An extensive archive and media library will
be accessible to all visitors on the upperfloor of De Balie.
Rotterdam
Programme V2
Connection with Amsterdam:
Thursday 18th January: Bus shuttle Amsterdam 18.00 hours - Rotterdam 23.00
hours. Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Bus shuttle Amsterdam 13.00 hours -
Rotterdam 18.00 hours. (with live-TV broadcasts from the bus)
Exhibition:
Paul Garrin (New York) video and webartist: MediaFilter
A multimediatic environment with on-line information and communication
facilities built around the Worl Wide Web site MediaFilter
. This project is located at the intersection
between art, media, politics and communities. During the Next 5 Minutes,
the exhibition space will house a number of presentations and workshops
about translocal networks and media communication in Ex-Yugoslavia and
other political crisis-areas.
Knowbotic Research+cF (Cologne) D/AUT artists' group: DWTKS
Dialogue With The Knowbotic South is an installation which deals with the
representation and formation of knowledge in electronic networks and with
their transformation into sensorial experiences. Through the usage of
independent computer agents, Knowbotic Research questions the autonomy of
human beings interacting with machines.
Krzysztof Wodiczko (New York) artist and industrial designer: Alien
Staff/Mouth Piece
Before and during the N5M, local operators will walk through Rotterdam with
the 'Alien Staff' and 'Mouth Piece' projects of Krzysztof Wodiczko. Aided
by electronic walking sticks and mouth-size monitors they will demonstrate
how to communicate in an unfamiliar cultural environment and language.
Thursday January 18
20.00-23.00: General N5M Opening Act
The Matter of Media
Performances by
* Kevin McCoy (Charlotte, NC) media artist
* Critical Art Ensemble (Chigago) cyberactivist collective
and a presentation of Techno-Parasites
Friday January 19
Translocal Media Networks and the Diaspora
Electronic networks offer new means of communication and contact between
the growing global migrant community and their
relations at home, as well as among the newly evolving translocal communities.
V2-Exhibition space: 14.00-16.00 Presentation
of several electronic support-networks for Ex-Yugoslavia: MediaFilter by
Paul Garrin, Zerberus (Bielefeld) by Rena Tangens, Arkzin (Zagreb) by Vesna
Jankovic, and ZaMir (Zagreb).
V2-Exhibition space: 16.00-18.00
Debate about media in the diaspora
with Sivam Krishnapillai, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and others.
Zaal De Unie 20.00 - 23.00:
The projects of Ingo G=FCnther
(New York) media artist
Presentation by Ingo G=FCnther about his recent projects in Cambodia, Bosnia,
and the Refugee Republic.
Saturday January 20
Aggregates of Information and Communication
Media and media environments can function as aggregates in which the
elements work together to form complex and productive structures. If
critically understood, these aggregates can be built and used to support
artistic and social strategies.
V2-Exhition space 14.00-16.00
Presentations of Media Cafes and
other Referential Environments
by padeluun (Bielefeld) media artist of the group FoeBud and Calin Dan
(Berlin) of the artists group SubREAL.
V2-Exhition space 16.00-18.00
tactical agents
Christian Huebler and Yvonne Wilhelm of Knowbotic Research explain their
installation DWTKS and talk about the tactical aspects of computer agents.
Zaal De Unie 20.00 - 23.00:
The projects of Krzysztof Wodiczko
(New York) industrial designer
Presentation of the Alien Staff and Mouth Piece projects by Krzysztof
Wodiczko. Videoscreenings of the impact of his projects in different cities
will be followed by a discussion of the significance of these instruments
in multi-cultural societies. Guests will include operators of the
instruments from Rotterdam and other cities.
Sunday January 21
Media Metaphors: Society / Information / the Body
Our notions of society, nature and the individual are undergoing a deep
transformation. Media artists are tackling the questions arising from this
process in installations, video work, and texts.
V2-Exhition space 14.00 - 16.00
Debate
about the impact of digital information and biotechnological developments
on our conceptions of nature and the human body, by Knowbotic Research and
Sabeth Buchmann of Minimal Club (Berlin), with video screenings and a
presentation of the new book by the Minimal Club, "Geld, Beat, Synthetik".
V2-Exhition space 16.00-18.00
Discourse about cyberfeminism
and subjectivity
between Renate Lorenz/B=FCroBert (Zurich) and Alla Mitrofanova (St. Petersburg).
Media Platforms
Local television in Amsterdam and Rotterdam will be an integral tool of the
Next 5 Minutes. Radio and TV production and programming facilities will be
available to participants of the conference. A satellite link, ISDN lines
and other forms of tele-conferencing will keep the venues in the two cities
in continuous dialogue. Cable operators in the Amsterdam and Rotterdam are
available for cablecasting during the event for transmissions of tapes and
live-events allowing for active collaboration with visiting groups. A World
Wide Web site features an online journal, newsgroups,
tele-conferencing, etc., throughout the four days of the event, containing
extensive coverage of N5M debates and workshops. It will also be an
environment for a number of visiting artists to realise new works. Teletext
and other forms of digital television will keep people without computers
updated about the conference. An extensive archive and media library will
be accessible to all visitors on the upperfloor of De Balie.