http://borderlineacademy.org/this is the v2v video syndication newsfeed for the distribution of high resolution video material through P2P-networksTue, 23 Oct 2007 05:45:47 +0000 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:45:47 +0000 FI6BZZRKIS6V7TZF7WLADBGLQ5F4M3AHDer Film ist im Rahmen einer Diplomarbeit an der Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main entstanden. Untersucht wird die Informations- und Medienarbeit der Bundeswehr. Ausgehend vom “sicherheitspolitischen Paradigmenwechsel” am Ende des kalten Krieges werden Kontinuitäten und Wechsel in diesem Bereich betrachtet. Anhand von Zeitzeugeninterviews mit Soldaten aus Einheiten für “Psychologische Kampfführung” (PSK) bzw. “Psychologische Verteidigung” (PSV) wird deren vornehmlich gegen die DDR gerichtete Propaganda- und Zersetzungstätigkeit beschrieben. Der Apparat der PSK bzw. PSV wurde einhergehend mit einer Skandalisierung seiner verdeckt ausgeführten Ausforschungs- und Einwirkungstätigkeit im bundesdeutschen Inland zum Ende der 80er Jahre aufgelöst. Über eine sogenannte “Studiengesellschaft für Zeitprobleme e.V.” waren getarnte Propagandaprodukte der Bundeswehr an vermeintlich wehrkritische Zielgruppen in der BRD lanciert worden. Aus der in Waldbröl angesiedelten “Akademie für Psychologische Verteidigung” wird 1990 die “Akademie für Information- und Kommunikation der Bundeswehr” (AIK). Spezialisten der PSV übernehmen die leitenden Positionen der neuen Dienststelle, die dem Presse- und Informationsstab des Verteidigungsministeriums zugeordnet wird. Sie untersteht direkt dem zeitgleich im PR-/ Infostab neu gegründeten “Grundsatzreferat” und dient als “Thinktank” für die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit im Inland. Wie der Film belegt, werden wesentliche Tätigkeiten der PSV-Akademie fortgeführt, allerdings mit neu formuliertem Auftrag und mit neuen Zielsetzungen. Das Führungspersonal der 1994 nach Strausberg bei Berlin verlegten AIK gibt im Film ausführlich Auskunft über Auftrag und Tätigkeiten der Akademie. Eine wesentliche Aufgabe bestand nach der Wende in der Grundlagenbeschaffung zur sicherheitspolitischen “Umorientierung” der ehemaligen DDR-Bevölkerung. Neben der Ausbildung von Fachpersonal der Presse- und Informationsarbeit wird auch heute im Rahmen von Seminaren ein “sicherheitspolitischer Dialog” mit “interessierten Bürgern” geführt. Dabei handelt es sich vornehmlich um sogenannte Multiplikatoren wie Journalisten; Richter, Staatsanwälte und Polizisten werden zu Seminaren über die “Vernetzung von innerer und aüßerer Sicherheit” eingeladen. Um weitere Bevölkerungskreise zu erreichen, arbeitet man in Strausberg mit Wissenschaftlern, Universitätsdozenten und Lehrern zusammen. Neben der AIK ist aus der “Psychologischen Verteidigung” auch die “Truppe für Operative Information” (OpInfo) hervorgegangen. Bezeichnenderweise trägt sie im NATO-Sprachgebrauch weiterhin die Bezeichnung “Psychological Operations” (PSYOPS). Die bundesdeutschen PSYOPS-Truppen sind heute in Mayen stationiert. Dem dortigen Zentrum Operative Information (ZOpInfo) ist ein zusätzliches “Einsatzbataillon” in Koblenz unterstellt. Soldaten der OpInfo werden seit 1993/94 im Rahmen von bewaffneten Auslandsoperationen der Bundeswehr eingesetzt und wirken mit propagandistischen Mitteln auf Zielgruppen im Einsatzgebiet ein. Im Film wird hauptsächlich die Tätigkeit des ZOpInfo im Dezernat “Video” dargestellt. Die OpInfo verfügt über weitere Kapazitäten in den Bereichen “Print”, “Radio”, “Neue Medien” “Lautsprecher” und in der Direktkommunikation. Im ZOpInfo ist auch das “Dezernat Einsatzkamera” (Combat Camera) angesiedelt. Sogenannte Einsatzkamerateams (EKT) dokumentieren weltweit Einsätze der Bundeswehr und erstellen oft schon vor der Ankunft regulärer Truppen Lageberichte für Führungsstab und Einsatzführungskommando der Bundeswehr sowie für das Verteidigungsministerium. “Auch eine Weitergabe an die Medien wäre denkbar, wenn es ein konkretes Interesse gäbe”, hieß es bereits im Mai 2003 in der Publikation Bw Aktuell. Ganz sicher jedoch wird nach entsprechender Freigabe Material der EKTs an den internen Fernsehsender der Bundeswehr, BwTv weitergegeben. Die EKTs können bei Bedarf live aus dem Einsatzgebiet senden. BwTv wiederum ist Teil des “internen Medienmix” der Bundeswehr und wird verschlüsselt per Satellit ausgestrahlt, da den Streitkräften eine direkte Einflußnahme auf die eigene Bevölkerung gesetzlich verboten ist. Das Studio von BwTv ist im Hause der Informations- und Medienzentrale (IMZBw) der Bundeswehr in St. Augustin bei Bonn untergebracht. Hier wird neben der Koordinierung der Mitarbeiterkommunikation auch der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zugearbeitet; die IMZBw verwaltet das Bildarchiv der Bundeswehr und beherbergt Onlineredaktionen für verschiedene Webseiten der Bundeswehr. BwTv wurde 2002 mit Hilfe der PR-Agentur Atkon AG aufgebaut. Wie die Recherchen zum Film ergaben, wurde eine 100% Tochterfirma der Atkon AG, die Atkon TV Service GmbH damit beauftragt, sendefertige Fernsehbeiträge an private und öffentlich-rechtliche Fernsehanstalten abzugeben. Beiträge aus Material von Bundeswehr TV werden dazu über die Internetseite www.tvservicebox.de angeboten und können dann in Sendequalität bestellt werden. Die Filme bestehen aus ungekennzeichnetem Material – ein Verweis auf die Quelle wird der abnehmenden Redaktion überlassen. Völlig unklar bleibt für den unbedarften Betrachter, ob nicht auch Videomaterial der EKTs via BwTv in die Beiträge gelangt. Die Informations- und Medienzentrale besteht darauf, dass durch dieses Vorgehen keinesfalls gegen das Verbot eines Staatsfernsehens verstoßen würde. Vielmehr könnten die Journalisten die Beiträge redaktionell bearbeiten. Gemeint ist damit vor allem, dass die Beiträge auf die entsprechenden Magazinformate zugeschnitten werden dürfen. Wie die Geschäftsbedingungen der Servicebox zeigen, ist eine “inhaltliche Sinn- und Zweckentfremdung” ausdrücklich untersagt. Atkon TV Service verfügt über ein Netzwerk von Journalisten, die im Auftrag der Bundeswehr mit Themenvorschlägen, Kontakten und Material beliefert werden (“Media Relations”) Erst kürzlich hat das Verteidigungsministerium ein Besuchsverbot u. A. für Journalisten und Parlamentarier beim Afghanistan-Kontingent erlassen. Desweiteren werden Informationen über Anschläge auf das Kontingent nur noch auf direkte Anfrage der Presse herausgegeben. Einer freien Berichterstattung über die Bundeswehr und ihre Einsätze soll mit den dargestellten Beeinflussungs- und Zensurmaßnahmen augenscheinlich das Wasser abgegraben werden. Offenbar fürchten Ministerium und militärische Führung, die von der AIK als “konditional” bewertete Zustimmung der Bevölkerung zum Auftrag der Bundeswehr im Falle von Berichten über Verluste oder intensive Kampfhandlungen rasch zu verlieren. Länge: 62´14 min Entstehungsjahr: 2006 (Dreh Mai-Juni) Drehformat: DVC Pro 25/ MiniDV, 4:3 Onlineformat: OggTheora (384x288) 182,7 MB kostenloser Player unter www.videolan.org (VLC) Mitwirkende: Oberst i.G. Thomas Beier – Kommandeur Informations- und Medienzentrale der Bundeswehr (St. Augustin) Oberleutnant Martin Besinger – Redakteuroffizier Einsatz Kamera Trupp (EKT), Zentrum Operative Information (Mayen) Oberstleutnant Reinhard Busch – Leiter Bundeswehr TV, Informations- und Medienzentrale der Bundeswehr (St. Augustin) Oberstleutnant Hartmut Dressel – Leiter Zielgruppenanalyse Zentrum Operative Information (Mayen), ehem. Soldat im PSV-Bataillon Clausthal-Zellerfeld Claudia Haydt – Soziologin und Religionswissenschaftlerin, Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) www.imi-online.de Dipl. Psych. Dr. Hans-Victor Hoffmann – Wiss. Direktor FB Kommunikation der Akademie für Information und Kommunikation der Bundeswehr (Strausberg) Oberstleutnant Michael Kötting – Leiter Bereich Lehre der Akademie für Information und Kommunikation der Bundeswehr (Strausberg) Oberst i.G. Horst Matzeit – 1988 Kommandeur der Akademie für Psychologische Verteidigung (Waldbröl) (Archivmaterial) Dr. Alfred Mechtersheimer – ehem. Ausbildungsoffizier an der Schule für Psychologische Kampfführung (Schloß Alfter bei Bonn), dann u.A. MdB (Die Grünen) und Gründer der rechtsextremen Deutschland-Bewegung (Archivmaterial) Thomas Mielke – Schriftsteller und Werbefachmann (Berlin), ehem. Soldat der Psychologischen Kampfführung Hauptfeldwebel Stephan Schwaldat – Kameramann EKT, ZOpInfo Bw (Mayen) Oberst Rainer Senger – seit 11/2002 Kommandeur der Akademie für Information und Kommunikation der Bundeswehr (Strausberg) Dr. Olaf Theiler – Leiter FB Information der Akademie für Information und Kommunikation der Bundeswehr (Strausberg) weitere Stichworte: Dr. Eberhard Taubert, Dr. Werner Marx, Franz Josef Strauss, Helmut Kamphausen, Jörg Lolland, Ortwin Buchbender, Horst Schuh, Briefzensur, Zoll- und Devisenverbringungsstelle Hannover, Organisation Gehlen, Bundesnachrichtendienst, Prof. Renate Riemeck, Deutsche Friedensunion, Friedensbewegung, Ostermärsche, Impuls TV, Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz 2006, SIKOhttp://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/FI6BZZRKIS6V7TZF7WLADBGLQ5F4M3AHSat, 09 Sep 2006 17:30:00 +0000 LI644FBUC72TXVBBI456JVSI42QJPZVUIn 2006, a group of friends decided to make a film about filesharing that *we* would recognise. There have been a few documentaries by 'old media' crews who don't understand the net and see peer-to-peer organisation as a threat to their livelihoods. They have no reason to represent the filesharing movement positively, and no capacity to represent it lucidly. We wanted to make a film that would explore this huge popular movement in a way that excited us, engaged us, and most importantly, focussed on what we know to be the positive and optimistic vision many filesharers and artists (they are often one) have for the future of creativity. Hopefully you'll enjoy the first part of Steal this Film ('stockholm, summer 2006'). It achieves some, but by no means all, of our goals. To continue we need your help. this film is free for you to share, watch on your dvd player or on your ipod, or show in cinemas. But if you like the work we've done and want us to carry on, use our donate link to send us a couple of dollars or euros. We will start making the second part straight away, and release it on this site and on major bittorrent trackers, when it's done. Each part, we estimate, will take about 2 months to complete. the plan for the second part is on our wiki. Feel free to add suggestions. The league of noble peers. august 2006 - à nous la liberté!http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/LI644FBUC72TXVBBI456JVSI42QJPZVUThu, 24 Aug 2006 08:28:00 +0000 APPKBVFRYDLPHOFDMBNNJQ5CJ2Z6QKNOFire comes to us from the sky and the sea Here we are, 24 years later, again besieged by the same enemy History, however, does not repeat itself, it perpetuates itself The foreigners are leaving (many among them are Lebanese who enjoy a double nationality) Who witnesses for the witness? asked Paul Celan in another time Disaster takes care of everything I wanted to raise my left fist, but in the meantime I lost my sense of humour Oh cities that have never been invaded Have you no nostalgia for the enemy?http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/APPKBVFRYDLPHOFDMBNNJQ5CJ2Z6QKNOThu, 10 Aug 2006 15:48:00 +0000 AEA6CG2YWS4WH45QGCDGS36VTSNRZRETLecture Performance by LInda Lindheimer, Malte Scholz and Tobias Brenk, April 6th, 2006, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/AEA6CG2YWS4WH45QGCDGS36VTSNRZRETSat, 05 Aug 2006 10:23:00 +0000 TTIGGJG6AGKD7LGE7DMKOSJ34AXIROPSLecture Performance by Vera Knolle, January 5th, 2006, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/TTIGGJG6AGKD7LGE7DMKOSJ34AXIROPSFri, 04 Aug 2006 15:23:00 +0000 ZI4QMBUNLVZVTZXGXWBXMXND76H32VHLLetters from Beirut to the World Subtitles in English and Frenchhttp://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/ZI4QMBUNLVZVTZXGXWBXMXND76H32VHLTue, 01 Aug 2006 08:07:00 +0000 JAPMPM3GJ3FV4AZKPQWCF4UUIU5M5ETXSunday, July 23 2006 Everyone knows that World War II was a global war. However, knowledge of its development and impact on Western Europe is rather limited. At least in the last two centuries knowledge of war crimes has increased. The purpose of today’s lecture is to draw a rough outline of the neglected aspects of this war and to raise some interest in the exploits and suffering of the people who were affected by fascism, “Herrenmenschentum” and aggression, and fought against it.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/JAPMPM3GJ3FV4AZKPQWCF4UUIU5M5ETXTue, 25 Jul 2006 09:35:00 +0000 JXANWYLMBTY72DVZQW6LDIB2KVOHIEEDSunday, July 23 2006 Rio, Peking, Kairo, Istanbul, Genf, Kyoto, Habitat, Houairou, Konventionen, Protokolle, Deklarationenhttp://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/JXANWYLMBTY72DVZQW6LDIB2KVOHIEEDTue, 25 Jul 2006 09:33:00 +0000 S3J3TZXVOZWXT3E3J6FB54YZIJM2CEMPSunday, July 23 2006 What sort of language is war, if it is one? What would "total" conflict be? When does escalation become impossible? When the violence is not exercised to force others into a conversation, or to change the terms of a debate, but in order to end a debate, to remove the other party in a debate once and for all, when debate itself -- or politics, or language -- is itself the target of the violence .... is that the limit? Is that the moment when things actually can't get any worse?http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/S3J3TZXVOZWXT3E3J6FB54YZIJM2CEMPTue, 25 Jul 2006 09:32:00 +0000 UCLD6IWEAMBSCM57H5L24ORUFJTKEMP7Sunday, July 23 2006 Presentation of a works will reflect the dramatic transformation of the region, connected in particular with decay of the local totalitarian regimes during the 1990's. By representing various forms of ethnic, religious or political predestination and manipulation symbolizing the contrast social situation in his homeland.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/UCLD6IWEAMBSCM57H5L24ORUFJTKEMP7Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:27:00 +0000 JZTUEEKVAFQMHSJYC5XYZ7V2RYVSAWSUSunday, July 23 2006http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/JZTUEEKVAFQMHSJYC5XYZ7V2RYVSAWSUTue, 25 Jul 2006 09:23:00 +0000 2OJYI22MNUTOAWBLMHOXNK2OGVUO5TEQSunday, July 23 2006 Relativizing the Absolute "Resistance" is among those terms that although seemingly clear-cut, are in reality difficult to define. What is resistance? Who defines what it is? What conditions have to be met so that who identifies or recognizes what to be resistance? And which and whose interests stand behind the label?http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/2OJYI22MNUTOAWBLMHOXNK2OGVUO5TEQTue, 25 Jul 2006 09:22:00 +0000 H3XAQ44CT6OYBGELMPVQ33BTVVLRMOHTSunday, July 23 2006http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/H3XAQ44CT6OYBGELMPVQ33BTVVLRMOHTTue, 25 Jul 2006 09:20:00 +0000 4UHZYQZ63OUBIA5WQMRA4XZ365AEDV7CSunday, July 23 2006http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/4UHZYQZ63OUBIA5WQMRA4XZ365AEDV7CTue, 25 Jul 2006 09:00:00 +0000 YQXHEK2HMSRHXOIZW5WP4RPSEKE4FSC7Sunday, July 23 2006 There is no war without pop, and there is no pop without war.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/YQXHEK2HMSRHXOIZW5WP4RPSEKE4FSC7Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:57:00 +0000 G3UC3XHXJGZA3JKP6AMFOUR5DWOKRUEOSunday, July 23 2006 We are currently entering a hegemonic war regime dominated by strategies of preventive intervention and crisis management, and therefore subject to the logic of the police. Elements of private enterprise war, of low-intensity warfare, of counter insurgency, of biopolitical administration, and of the police state of emergency are combined and legitimated as humanitarian mission, civilian-military cooperation, or just war. This war regime follows a calculation of control and security.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/G3UC3XHXJGZA3JKP6AMFOUR5DWOKRUEOTue, 25 Jul 2006 08:56:00 +0000 CEJUXRZ2YU5MEHVIXHE6B5EMR5S56BXJSunday, July 23 2006 The concept I'm going to present draws directly from the work of Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan. It describes the economic phases of "depth" and "breadth," and correlates them with the first- and second-order cybernetics of control. It attempts to situate the functions of cultural-communicational labor within these economic phases. It questions those autonomists who thought it would be possible to transform a broadly expansionary phase of capitalism, like that of the nineties, into a qualitatively different society. It’s not a polemic, but seeks to open up a field of strategic debate. It doesn't assert a future, but observes the unfolding of the present into the depths of violence, which has robbed resistance movements of their potential, again. The concept is Peace-for-War.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/CEJUXRZ2YU5MEHVIXHE6B5EMR5S56BXJTue, 25 Jul 2006 08:39:00 +0000 W345YL57W3NTMRFYTZ4SFBN7RQW7FHCOSunday, July 23 2006http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/W345YL57W3NTMRFYTZ4SFBN7RQW7FHCOTue, 25 Jul 2006 08:09:00 +0000 EVPLUT5KNOKTAKHEYU5WBK4EAVTJFDBRSunday, July 23 2006http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/EVPLUT5KNOKTAKHEYU5WBK4EAVTJFDBRTue, 25 Jul 2006 07:25:00 +0000 WR47MR3FOFVN327BNUKDBTVTKAYUVL2RSaturday, July 22 2006http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/WR47MR3FOFVN327BNUKDBTVTKAYUVL2RMon, 24 Jul 2006 22:45:00 +0000 EOHV6DKAHAI2CVVN25HT6GOUFDX3E5CESaturday, July 22 2006http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/EOHV6DKAHAI2CVVN25HT6GOUFDX3E5CEMon, 24 Jul 2006 18:31:00 +0000 ECXQW7OKLOVHO3HEU4COXKLA5OMKZ3VXSaturday, July 22 2006 disciplining in order to fight is "hot" - it mobilizes, transgresses and fuels the passions. Disciplining in order to effectively use force is "cold" - it controls, regularizes, and curbs the affects. The mix ratio is changing and the history of military disciplining can be described as a change between rather "hot" and rather "cold" epochs.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/ECXQW7OKLOVHO3HEU4COXKLA5OMKZ3VXMon, 24 Jul 2006 18:09:00 +0000 OLEFGL4RVVAII6LZKT443EIJ2L566MJTSaturday, July 22 2006http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/OLEFGL4RVVAII6LZKT443EIJ2L566MJTMon, 24 Jul 2006 17:24:00 +0000 3UVYIFIYDIEH6QDEGQ7FRTGSIGTPDMMSSaturday, July 22 2006 At 12 o'clock on April 8, 2005, in the Ostarrichi-Park in front of the Landesgericht (the regional court), a temporary monument to the defeat was unveiled that triggered a debate on the process of denazification and made an issue of the fact that this process was still unfinished today. The eight-sided object was conceived as a monumental plinth and it measured 2 meters in height and had a circumference of 11 meters.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/3UVYIFIYDIEH6QDEGQ7FRTGSIGTPDMMSMon, 24 Jul 2006 16:45:00 +0000 ZRQN2SVZUUUZZ2HDLW5QWZ5DKSKY4B76Saturday, July 22 2006 andcompany & Co. Feat. Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord, Sascha Sulimma & Co. In their lecture performance KRIEGSERKLÄRUNG they will explain and declare war at the same time, talking in stolen words, quotes borrowed from John L. Austin until Vladimir I. Lenin. For supplementary reading please check out the text "Die Kriegserklärung " by Karl Marx http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me10/me10_168.htmhttp://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/ZRQN2SVZUUUZZ2HDLW5QWZ5DKSKY4B76Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:17:00 +0000 UQNDZFVN67G4HXGTNTRSOVWPCV5MECVJSaturday, July 22 2006http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/UQNDZFVN67G4HXGTNTRSOVWPCV5MECVJMon, 24 Jul 2006 15:36:00 +0000 CZ3FZA4GEU67A25YR3HE3HMKJDG225DPSaturday, July 22 2006 Der traditionell militärische Begriff der "Camouflage" galt bisher immer als nationale Repräsentation. Zur Camouflage bringe ich einen anderen militärischen Begriff: das Flaggezeigen, das zur Fußball-WM 2006 andere Konnotationen in den neuerdings privatisierten und korporatisierten Öffentlichkeiten erhielt. So gegensätzlich die beiden Methoden in ihrer Intention sind, so scheinen sie als kulturelle Praktiken doch demselben Repräsentationssystem zu dienen. Beide erscheinen in einer einzigen Konstellation, wenn von Piraterie gesprochen wird. Kann dies einen neuen Handlungsraum für nicht repräsentative Praktiken eröffnen?http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/CZ3FZA4GEU67A25YR3HE3HMKJDG225DPMon, 24 Jul 2006 15:16:00 +0000 OYQTIK5IWA6VP7LEQFAWEKNOMK7NUAVRLecture Performance by Lone Twin (GB), March 24th 2006 in Frankfurt.
Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/OYQTIK5IWA6VP7LEQFAWEKNOMK7NUAVRSun, 23 Jul 2006 18:38:00 +0000 QTIYXP47SHCCF2H53ZUXUWLTIAMGX3N5Lecture Performance by Martin Nachber, February 16rd, 2005, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/QTIYXP47SHCCF2H53ZUXUWLTIAMGX3N5Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:29:00 +0000 SD6KUCOOQXF72TNVAMV7KWVUVWFIEWZSSaturday, July 22 2006http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/SD6KUCOOQXF72TNVAMV7KWVUVWFIEWZSSun, 23 Jul 2006 17:42:00 +0000 ACDR6ZBORDHFTR2TKBJYYPBPTSHECILOSaturday, July 22 Eyal Weizman, israeli architect is going to formulate an "exergue" that will deal with the actual situation and build a connection to the first edition in Frankfurt.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/ACDR6ZBORDHFTR2TKBJYYPBPTSHECILOSun, 23 Jul 2006 11:20:00 +0000 XBYDV77URWN422KXMWVTLTLIZR7ZKZKCThe Cut (2006) is a circa twenty minute video that condenses two years of research on the history of the John Huston film Freud the Secret Passion. Rather than present a linear history of the film, The Cut attempts to fill the gaps with fictional scenes that question the possibility of representing history and historical figures. Freud the Secret Passion (1961), starring Montgomery Clift, Larry Parks and Susannah York, is a little-known biographical film that presents the discovery of psychoanalysis as a kind of detective story. The screenplay was based on a long, complex scenario written by Jean-Paul Sartre and subsequently rewritten by a series of Hollywood screenwriters. Working through the layers of material left out, erased, forgotten and repressed, another narrative emerges – a narrative that deals with the traces of Freud within the popular imagination, with fiction, memory, and history, and with the unavoidable complexities of translation and communication.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/XBYDV77URWN422KXMWVTLTLIZR7ZKZKCThu, 08 Jun 2006 09:24:00 +0000 4XG3KO5XMJNTYX5I2FYOT2YD3VB4OE3DFriday, June 2 19:00 - 19:30http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/4XG3KO5XMJNTYX5I2FYOT2YD3VB4OE3DTue, 06 Jun 2006 09:55:00 +0000 YVDG7K6JTMZ5VREXBWJH5WRDANA7LFWPSaturday, June 3 21:30 - 21:50 AND THE RAIN RAINED EVERY DAY.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/YVDG7K6JTMZ5VREXBWJH5WRDANA7LFWPMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:40:00 +0000 OUZ5HRVPDACXFRX4NLZLEBLOSCGANUEUSaturday, June 3 21:00 - 21:20 Movements in space and movements of the mind: The trip as the mobilisation of empathy, mimesis and sympathetic magic; between depression and delirium. From Joseph Conrad's outposts to todays checkpoints. From the Gates of Perception to cinematic gestures and sovereign continuity.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/OUZ5HRVPDACXFRX4NLZLEBLOSCGANUEUMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:39:00 +0000 BQRFQZDVUV7FLP5BAICDPQTOSJZYGKLJSaturday, June 3 20:30 - 20:50 In this video piece, Association Apsolutno presents the view of the Balkans from the outside as a view which is not direct, but rather mediated through a filter of technology and media representations, based on various assumptions.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/BQRFQZDVUV7FLP5BAICDPQTOSJZYGKLJMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:38:00 +0000 APKVRFKU4CQYW4YJL2VRZAPQOM6RAVFYSaturday, June 3 20:00 - 20:20 Timescapes/B-Zone (Becoming Europe Zone) is a collaborative, non-linear video editing project investigating techniques of narration against the power politics of the segmentation of memory and communication located in a (post-) war zone where state politics concerning migration and mobility are thought of as warfare.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/APKVRFKU4CQYW4YJL2VRZAPQOM6RAVFYMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:37:00 +0000 VPROIFK2BLXOVSBM56WLTWHBYYKTNXBGSaturday, June 3 19:30 - 19:50 Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" (1957) based on Macbeth was originally titled "SpiderWeb Castle" - tales of ambition ridden lord Washizu (played by Toshiro Mifune) and his vicious lady (played by Isuzu Yamada) set in medieval Japan. Lord Washizu was driven to his downfall following an encounter with a witch in the SpiderWeb forest. " You will never lose a single battle, unless the spider web forest begins to move and approaches the castle." advises the witch to the bewildered Washizu. What follows is the classical plot of betrayal schemes that lead to the final insurgence of Washizu's own archers while the revenging troops marching with tree branches as camouflage towards the castle. Take off from the final scene of "Throne of Blood",I propose a project "moving forest" . The SpiderWeb forest transformed into the deep web forest. The revolt arrives from within. The central power is the imaginary one. The oppositon is AMONG us. The central is AMONG us. Moving forest of today is a forest of wifi transmitter fed on public wireless, moving within the city jungle towards a power deprived central. Moving forest is to be developed as a (global)citywide wifi mobile operatic manoeuver sound event, orchestrated yet asynchronized.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/VPROIFK2BLXOVSBM56WLTWHBYYKTNXBGMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:36:00 +0000 UD2AAQNFBLOXWGF6HFPBSSBNKCSVFXA3Saturday, June 3 19:00 - 19:20 Proposal for a theatre of operations for the dictionary of war. Drawing package, references, materials. "It was recognized that the chronologic development of these elements would vary from theater to theater. In theaters where a long buildup period was possible, a fairly elaborate system of communications zone sections or bases would develop well in advance of the rest of the theater elements."http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/UD2AAQNFBLOXWGF6HFPBSSBNKCSVFXA3Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:35:00 +0000 CXV6C6K5KGTGMLYSYPMBNX4KBGTBELMHSaturday, June 3 18:30 - 18:50http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/CXV6C6K5KGTGMLYSYPMBNX4KBGTBELMHMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:34:00 +0000 TI7CJF5BH2IRVXSUO2NIOECQCY5IM5A5Saturday, June 3 18:00 - 18:20http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/TI7CJF5BH2IRVXSUO2NIOECQCY5IM5A5Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:33:00 +0000 U3CACWOQBLHCZQTIFGNYUY7VR3AS3HDSSaturday, June 3 17:00 - 17:30 Rhizomic Maneuver is an emergent logic and form of maneuver, that divers from the traditional paradigm. Rhizomic Maneuver is based on disorder, complex geometry, a different epistemology, a different kind of learning. Unlike the industrial manoeuver which is idealistic, rhizomic maneuver is heretical.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/U3CACWOQBLHCZQTIFGNYUY7VR3AS3HDSMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:31:00 +0000 LRSYKFGY27Q2VJGXMAPKVDOMYDNJ6ZJDSaturday, June 3 16:30 - 16:55 "Instead of calming the situation, the army shot at people for no reason... We are trying to calm the situation on both sides and I believe that we have almost succeeded. But the protesters are extremely angry. Some of their friends are dead and they are furious." - Member of the Lebanese Parliament explaining the situation after the shooting of protesters in May 2004http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/LRSYKFGY27Q2VJGXMAPKVDOMYDNJ6ZJDMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:30:00 +0000 E3UIGPTOQYYAUSBIUUXRQQTMKBVR36XNSaturday, June 3 16:00 - 16:25 Es gibt einen Einsatz. Man wird irgendwo ein- und wieder ausgeflogen. Das schwere Marschgepäck muss gepackt werden. Da muss jedes Detail stimmen und jeder Handgriff sitzen, damit man später auf jeden Fall die Stellung halten kann in seinem Nest.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/E3UIGPTOQYYAUSBIUUXRQQTMKBVR36XNMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:29:00 +0000 MQWDSDMGKVVWWYEG5F4A3SIVXFKGZAW2Saturday, June 3 15:30 - 16:00 Two points seem to be particularly interesting when we think of neutrality as a mean to manage postcocolonial, ethnic, racial, gender, political, social, military, technological, cultural transitions, as a dispositf of change of the contemporary space, tuned to balance the conflictual forces that flare up in almost every human settlement. First of all, in constructing an overview of contemporary human settlements, we are thinking of a world without borders, a world whose parts have become increasingly plugged into each other, and which today is completely cordless at every turn, in which we have migrations of an endless kind almost at every point of the world. The second point is that the implementation of this borderless world is accompanied by an intermingled and entangled overlapping of logistic supply networks, buffer zones, enclaves, extraterritorial bases. Wherever these transitions are occurring, new principles have been theorised to examine the nature of war and contemporary transformation processes. Today, not to have a policy, not to stand for something, not to take part, not to participate, to be a-political is becoming more and more a difficult, contrasted, almost immoral condition. Yet it might be in these very difficulties that to be neutral acquires a novel significance.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/MQWDSDMGKVVWWYEG5F4A3SIVXFKGZAW2Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:27:00 +0000 YA33MLKAMVFZ75BQY37FZOCLELNDUWPRSaturday, June 3 15:00 - 15:30 On NATO's misunderstanding of cultural history and its effects on the decision to bomb certain buildings in Belgrade.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/YA33MLKAMVFZ75BQY37FZOCLELNDUWPRMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:25:00 +0000 6I4TGVQIBIU2LLKEYVYFVPNCPXWHPIJHSaturday, June 3 14:30 - 15:00 "Representing manhood in the American war against terror: Pat Tillman and Scott Helvenston": Both Tillman and Helvenston played out traditional masculine roles in American public life before enlisting for combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. The events that followed would colour the personas they had constructed earlier.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/6I4TGVQIBIU2LLKEYVYFVPNCPXWHPIJHMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:24:00 +0000 2DQ246CG2WLIEHC3RTAAFKQJVCLDYL2IFriday, June 2 21:00 - 21:20 The video proposes a sensual study on the fragmented self. The I as container can not contain itself. Selfcontainment is an unfinishable process of oneself being there for the first time and placing yourself and being placed in a constructed historical order. If I was you who were you then? The video is based on Gherasim Luca's "The Inventor of Love".http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/2DQ246CG2WLIEHC3RTAAFKQJVCLDYL2IMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:23:00 +0000 EM7V6GOFTDUAMMI6KL2TNHCGFU7EFDMUFriday, June 2 20:30 - 21:00 when the iraq war started i made a composition called "the air between". a work about powerlessness. now, quite some time later, and with the images of the war distributed by cnn, bbc, ... i examine what's left of the emotions. how do i/we remember?http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/EM7V6GOFTDUAMMI6KL2TNHCGFU7EFDMUMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:22:00 +0000 XXG2H4TQV4CFNMFZYUHJQDCYPQU4IFKGFriday, June 2 20:00 - 20:25http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/XXG2H4TQV4CFNMFZYUHJQDCYPQU4IFKGMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:21:00 +0000 RU3APMQ5KVZAJ7LUNA6IFRZZXNGIJ4SQFriday, June 2 19:30 - 20:00 A montage of two kinds of montage, two types of assembling images about, in between, beyond, as a war machine within the images themselves. A fine line between love and hate: 1. Jean Genets »Un chant d’amour« (A love Song) – how to make love through a wall and que(e)r it (smoke). 2. The Godard/Gorin/Mieville machine »Ici et Ailleure« (Here and Elsewhere) – how to use a two-image-assembly to ruin the war montage itself - are we not mature to read an Image yet? (Fascism)http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/RU3APMQ5KVZAJ7LUNA6IFRZZXNGIJ4SQMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:20:00 +0000 M26SPDJH5VUZNOXKAIPGL2XFMBKWGBIIFriday, June 2 18:30 - 19:00http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/M26SPDJH5VUZNOXKAIPGL2XFMBKWGBIIMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:18:00 +0000 243HDK3WD2CRGXM6IVI3GC52VUGUCUD7Friday, June 2 18:00 - 18:05 =/°\http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/243HDK3WD2CRGXM6IVI3GC52VUGUCUD7Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:17:00 +0000 FZFYY2ZASISYHEHSNZMCLEAUQIB6OLAXFriday, June 2 17:30 - 17:55 "Conflicted/Inflicted" is a video based upon a found telephone answering machine tape belonging to someone named Linda. As we listen to the audio, the crisis and tensions in her life are slowly revealed.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/FZFYY2ZASISYHEHSNZMCLEAUQIB6OLAXMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:16:00 +0000 AIQLHMSAWPGO3QDSTYMOI25GS7PANSSWFriday, June 2 17:00 - 17:15 I declare war on damaged hair and split-ends. Victory! Because I'm worth it. - Kate Moss for L'Orealhttp://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/AIQLHMSAWPGO3QDSTYMOI25GS7PANSSWMon, 05 Jun 2006 20:15:00 +0000 EKKTTDLRCELJQ66HJ2GU36RPV7IJFV7EFriday, June 2 16:30 - 16:55 An architectural arms race is a competition between two or more countries for supremacy through the means of architecture and urbanism. Each party competes to produce architectural imagery or concrete built form to achieve a relative gain over the other. Such gain could be accounted for either symbolically, or physically interfering with urban practices in the country of the opponent.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/EKKTTDLRCELJQ66HJ2GU36RPV7IJFV7EMon, 05 Jun 2006 19:58:00 +0000 RZVXKQVGE22HCRTGJ5UFC7EWN77HFNITFriday, June 2 16:00 - 16:15http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/RZVXKQVGE22HCRTGJ5UFC7EWN77HFNITMon, 05 Jun 2006 19:44:00 +0000 4QGJ2WMWPK77DDLBX6H7SW62MSHNYKD5Saturday 25th of March 2006 marked the start of the initiative to open the abandoned bicycle factory Rog for temporary use, with the intent to carry out non-profit, non-established activities on its premises. It is not a classic occupation of space, but a temporary alteration of its purposes. The 7000 square meter large factory - owned by the City of Ljubljana (MOL) - has already been left to decay for 15 years. As long as MOL doesn't develop and begin implementing a clear strategy to solve the problem of these empty premises, we self-initiatively wish to open it to all individuals and groups engaged in the non-profit sector, for the realization of independent production of cultural and social content. Rog - Smo zacasni / We are temporary is a documentary made by the temporary users of the factory Rog premises.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/4QGJ2WMWPK77DDLBX6H7SW62MSHNYKD5Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:54:00 +0000 HROW5NHB7BA2JS27EEBOA666JBGUCZCU"Even in disaster areas, I want to create beautiful buildings,this is what it means to build a monument for common people" Shigeru Ban gives in this talk at the Museum of Architecture in Stockholm an overview of his practice and his interest in specific materials and extraordinary conditions for architectural creation. Shigeru Ban is one of the central characters in architecture today due is specific relation to material and innovative approach to residential areas and humanitarian projects. Shigeru Ban offers in this lecture a context to his contributions to architecture through the use of unconventional building materials still achieving formal elegance and economical efficiency. See further http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Ban. International Festival proudly presents the first downloadable lecture out of many which will be collected on v2v sites as well as on www.international-festival.org and www.thetheatre.euhttp://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/HROW5NHB7BA2JS27EEBOA666JBGUCZCUFri, 19 May 2006 16:15:00 +0000 VO54ZSHI4DQZHPEVHOUIQBO35SGVRDX3FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE 9EME COLLECTIF DES SANS-PAPIERS FOR THE IMMEDIATE LIBERATION OF LASSANA C. AND NIAME D., FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE BILL ON IMMIGRATION (CESEDA), AND OF THE CIRCULAR OF FEBRUARY 21, 2006, FOR THE IMMEDIATE HALT OF THE RAIDS, AND PEOPLE SAYS NO PRODUCTION Presents CONTRE-FEUX (A visual communiqué 5) Realised by Lars Ivy GOGEEN (S1G) Lassana C., Niame D., are currently in a detention center. What is their fault ? To be foreigners. To be without papers. Their ARREST on the spot of their dwelling makes sign towards the most absolute arbitrary and informs us about the state of our "democracies" : Raids, emergency state, covers fire, development of a new bill (CESEDA), diffusion of a circular on February 21, 2006 for better stopping the people of foreign origin... This film tries to show and denounce the logics which underlie these policies : to foreigners is reserved the sempiternal posture of the SCAPEGOAT. The fact that the popular and average classes are impoverished tirelessly, that employment becomes a rare good and that unemployment marks with red iron the whole of the generations, that the richnesses are not redistributed any more to the greatest number..., would be ascribable to an immigration allegedly "undergone". By making immigration and people without-papers an ELECTORAL STAKE of first scale, the government does nothing but divert and distract the French population from major problems and which engage its becoming. A war is thus carried out. A social war. A racial war. It does not save and will not save anybody. Everyone is concerned. This film calls the population to fight against these iniquitous policies and claims the liberation of the two prisoners.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/VO54ZSHI4DQZHPEVHOUIQBO35SGVRDX3Mon, 01 May 2006 22:59:00 +0000 BYZRLK5S5VN6564QSNA2I7GLOXKBQCGRThe video shows a slightly edited recording of the conversation between the theorist Irit Rogoff and the artist Kutlug Ataman. It was held at the occasion of the opening of the exhibition curated by Rogoff "De-regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman" which is shown in MUHKA Antwerp, from March 16 till May 28 2006. The exhibition project brings together a body of work by the contemporary Istanbul/London based Turkish artist, Kutlug Ataman including 7 multiple and single screen installations by Ataman: Never My Soul, Vicious Circle, Twelve, 1 + 1 = 1, TV Room, Martin is Asleep, and Women Who Wear Wigs. This is the first time a range of works by this innovative artist have been assembled together in continental Europe. The exhibition created an open field which collates many materials; a visual essay by the German artist and theorist Stefan Roemer, Istanbul based theorist Nermin Saybasili has gathered together an archive of wedding culture among the many different ethnic groups in the city, while London based academic and conceptualiser of the exhibition Irit Rogoff has assembled film posters from Turkey’s rich film culture and numerous images of Ataturk, which are a prevalent feature of the Istanbul urban landscape.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/BYZRLK5S5VN6564QSNA2I7GLOXKBQCGRSun, 09 Apr 2006 07:20:00 +0000 B4J3IV6VRXX54WHI7RXK34G655VU36XFThe tightening of immigration laws in France created in 1996 the movement of the "sans-papiers". With spectacular actions and a startling series of church occupations they called attention to the precarious situation of illegalized migrants: "Des papiers pour tous!" Papers for all was the slogan of a movement that spread rapidly all across europe. The film tries to review the situation three years after the brutal eviction of the first collective of "sans papiers" from the church St. Bernard in the north of Paris in summer 1996. It features former speakers of the sans papiers like Madjiguène Cissé, Traore Gaousson, Ababacar Diop and Kamara Hamady who recall the making of the movement - alongside interviews with Guy Laveuve, one of the priests of St. Bernard, Monique Chemillier-Gendreau, professor for international law and member of the „College des Mediateurs", as well as Ariane Mnouchkine, director of „Théatre du Soleil", who supported the sans paiers movement from the very beginning. The film was part of the arte theme evening: "no one is illegal" broadcasted in 1999.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/B4J3IV6VRXX54WHI7RXK34G655VU36XFFri, 07 Apr 2006 22:55:00 +0000 T7E4MJWWYC7OCFMKMOR37U7M5X6PNGBQThe film tries to show how the new law project about immigration, that has been presented Thursday 9 February 2006 by the French minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, is a war machine against the foreigners. A machine that DESTROY existence (Family, health, solidarity…), and a machine that PRODUCE people without papers, slaves of the shadow. Immigration and people without paper are treated like an ELECTORAL STAKE by the French government and an entertainment for the French population : this last one don’t think about its dramatic issues (unemployment, retired pensions, etc.) and the government can make profit for a minority of people. It is a WAR. A war without mercy against the sharp forces of the country. A social war. A racial war. Everybody is concerned. Both films want to call the population to fight these kind of manipulations.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/T7E4MJWWYC7OCFMKMOR37U7M5X6PNGBQFri, 17 Mar 2006 14:34:00 +0000 T42W5BIJSNZ27OGKDW2CNH7ZZGZA2BREThe film tries to show how the new law project about immigration, that has been presented Thursday 9 February 2006 by the French minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, is a war machine against the foreigners. A machine that DESTROY existence (Family, health, solidarity…), and a machine that PRODUCE people without papers, slaves of the shadow. Immigration and people without paper are treated like an ELECTORAL STAKE by the French government and an entertainment for the French population : this last one don’t think about its dramatic issues (unemployment, retired pensions, etc.) and the government can make profit for a minority of people. It is a WAR. A war without mercy against the sharp forces of the country. A social war. A racial war. Everybody is concerned. Both films want to call the population to fight these kind of manipulations. NOW!http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/T42W5BIJSNZ27OGKDW2CNH7ZZGZA2BREFri, 17 Mar 2006 14:27:00 +0000 R4VZPEOUGFXWTQJSALNN6ZWR7ET32SQPInternational Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically. Some of the presentations will be given specific weight to the project itself, others will be concerned with local projects or with more general issues concerning performance and architecture in its widest possible meaning. The first seminar was given at the art space Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm 3-5 February 2006. Nicolina and Sergej Pristas opens in this presentation for a number of contemporary strategies of performance. In the work of BADco., a collaborative performance team based in Zagreb, modes of information flow and spatio-temporal conditions are investigated in ways where the dialectics of critique is phased to comprise an affectual opportunity rather than a territorial pressure. In their latest work “Deleted Messages” BADco. produce a kind of performance close-up in which the audience, without transforming into something else, lose, or rather multiply, orientation. This multiplication however is not homogenizing but an opportunity for desire production of an inorganic capacity. Nicolina and Sergej Pristas address here as well the complexity of space not as space but as place; a social and situational aspect without outlines rather then a geometrical and orientational space. BADco. is a Zagreb-based collaborative performance group. The core of the group are: Pravdan Devlahović, Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš, Ivana Sajko.
The artistic work of BADco. is not so marked by the choice of subject matter as it is by the production of various problematic aspects of working in/as collaboration i.e. through specific ways of self-organization of the authors involved in a particular project during the process of work. Authors see their performances as performance machines which can enter various referential contexts such as social, political, intimate, dance and artistic contexts in general. Instead of thematic naming which stands closer to the traditional ideas of theatre the group prefers thinking in terms of eventality. Some key words for our thematic interest are: vitalism, virus material, collective, flesh vs. body, strategies of observing? 

BADco. was founded in 2000 while some of the authors worked together on the project Confessions in Theatre &TD. It was founded as a non-profit organization to produce collaborative performance work. So far the group has produced the following performances: Man.Chair (2000), 2tri4 (2001), Diderot's Nephew or Blood is Thicker than Water (2001), Solo Me (2002), RibCage (2002), Walk This Way (2003), Mass (for Election Day Silence) (2003), Deleted Messages (2004) and Fleshdance (2004).http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/R4VZPEOUGFXWTQJSALNN6ZWR7ET32SQPFri, 17 Feb 2006 00:01:00 +0000 3WO4J7FOCFP7CNUSN6JX22J4MHNIOUPAInternational Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically. Some of the presentations will be given specific weight to the project itself, others will be concerned with local projects or with more general issues concerning performance and architecture in its widest possible meaning. The first seminar was given at the art space Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm 3-5 February 2006. Celiné Condorelli gives in this presentation in depth orientations of three central projects in her and Support Structures activities over the last few years. Celiné Condorelli’s work bring archicture into fields of social and political complexity where spaces addressed open for introspection of their inherent hierarchical and productive coordination. Specific notice is taken in respect of how and when collaboration or shared work produces autonomy rather than concessions. Celiné Condorelli and Support Structures work produce this certain kind of autonomy precisely through offering space and activity as open ends. Celiné Condorelli is an architect. She is teaching at London Metropolitan University and her practice is concerned with architecture as interface, through art and architecture collaborations. Recent works include developing ‘Support Structure’, an RSA Art for Architecture and Arts Council England project with Artist-Curator Gavin Wade, through several exhibitions including at the Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2003, and The Economist, London, 2004, as well as taxi_onomy with artist Beatrice Gibson, supported by Arts Council England, the British Council and V2 Rotterdam.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/3WO4J7FOCFP7CNUSN6JX22J4MHNIOUPAThu, 16 Feb 2006 22:13:00 +0000 ITTZQTYBJWLDBPXE4CFQIZ3CVID2OQMOInternational Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically. Some of the presentations will be given specific weight to the project itself, others will be concerned with local projects or with more general issues concerning performance and architecture in its widest possible meaning. The first seminar was given at the art space Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm 3-5 February 2006. In this presentation International Festival speed talks through some visions on architecture and performance in relation to mobility and spectacle. The conclusion is simple: On the path to innovation we discovered something beautiful. It’s not enough to change, real change implies to change the way things change. International Festival is a platform that operates between architecture and performance, emphasizing the performative potentiality of space and relations. International Festival brings in context-specific projects, challenging social conventions and ways of communication through methods of filling in, shifting via oblique perspectives and ontologies of exchange. International Festival dislocates performance from its dialectical dispositif in order to produce possibilities for multiplicity of production and performance where the spectator become activated. International Festival is formulated as a project that always finds and occupy holes in a context, and at the same time is a matter of being radically generous. International Festival in so not a matter of institutional critique but instead a generous gesture which acknowledges the heterogeneity of institutional frames. International Festival is luxury for everyone. It's everything you could ever want it to be. www.international-festival.orghttp://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/ITTZQTYBJWLDBPXE4CFQIZ3CVID2OQMOThu, 16 Feb 2006 21:01:00 +0000 GF34YSV7F7YVVEI5KVA52XL3KWRMPBDGInternational Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically. Some of the presentations will be given specific weight to the project itself, others will be concerned with local projects or with more general issues concerning performance and architecture in its widest possible meaning. The first seminar was given at the art space Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm 3-5 February 2006. In this presentation ORTLOS lays out their activity as a kind of matrix, an infinite, constantly changeable field of the creative entries of those who shape it. From a certain size on, the constructs show the first signs of selforganization. And so it has been with ORTLOS right from the beginning. It is a kind of virus that is spreading, and although in the background, it makes you gradually sink into a world whose laws correspond to a different logic. ORTLOS is an instrument for the nomadic working methods. ORTLOS architects was founded by Ivan Redi and Andrea Schröttner as a network of interdisciplinary partners, with a commitment to the on-line working methods as well as their strong interest in expanding classical architectural tasks by simulating virtual environments to be applied to future realities, with the use of cutting-edge computer technologies. Their work has been published and exhibited world wide, among others at La Biennale in Venice 2000. They are currently teaching at TUGraz. ORTLOS architects have recently brought out their new book “ORTLOS: Architecture of the NetWORKS”, 2005 – Hatje Cantz Verlag. www.ortlos.athttp://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/GF34YSV7F7YVVEI5KVA52XL3KWRMPBDGThu, 16 Feb 2006 19:36:00 +0000 5MM65A7ZYSXJW4WSDGJKBOXO4CMO27HPInternational Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically. Some of the presentations will be given specific weight to the project itself, others will be concerned with local projects or with more general issues concerning performance and architecture in its widest possible meaning. The first seminar was given at the art space Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm 3-5 February 2006. Testbedstudio offers in this presentation very interesting models for collaboration and shared development from concept to finished project. Anders Johansson is presenting a series of projects with strong vision to change conventions of public space and their modes of efficiency. Anders Johansson opens his presentation with a document from Volksbühne in Berlin where architecture as performance is being actualized. Testbedstudio with offices in Malmö and Stockholm are working with architecture from a number of perspectives connecting expertise from a multiplicity of fields. Their projects emphasize research and investigation combined with a strong social focus. www.testbedstudio.comhttp://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/5MM65A7ZYSXJW4WSDGJKBOXO4CMO27HPThu, 16 Feb 2006 15:22:00 +0000 HJET373VUFXCYQZHVHDAOVWIEDNJ4FR6International Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically. Some of the presentations will be given specific weight to the project itself, others will be concerned with local projects or with more general issues concerning performance and architecture in its widest possible meaning. The first seminar was given at the art space Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm 3-5 February 2006. Platforma 9,81 gives in this presentation an overview of their work based in Zagreb. Marko Sancarin gives special weight to their project Invisible Zagreb in which the architectural office mapped abandoned areas of the city and its surroundings. Platforma 9,81 was created in 1999 as a reaction to the inability of the architectural scene to establish an interdisciplinary and open dialogue within the scene and externally in regard to the problems of urban space culture, digitalization of the environment, influences of globalization to the perception of space and the needs of new educational methods in architecture today. Their projects have a profoundly public quality and regularly draw together a large number of people from different domains of life. Their relation to architecture and urban planning is marked by an informal approach, non-institutional strategies of action, tendency towards research and away from habitual practice. Platforma 9,81 have so far realized a number of media projects /1:1000, Architecture Live, Architecture to the People, Open Programme, Mobile Living Room/ that have dealt with the problem of built-up environments and have popularized the contemporary relationship with architecture. The realized projects and installations have a program link to art, media and urban culture /Zone of Movement of the Blind, installations for Vote ’99, the interior for the program Art Lazareti in the quarantine of Dubrovnik, the display of the 26th Youth Salon/. At the meeting of architecture students on the island of Vis - EASA 2002 – they coordinated workshops and lectures and participated in the organization of the event. The workshop “Light” was exclusively organized and carried out by Platforma 9,81. Platforma 9,81 feel especially proud to participate as members of the active art and NGO scene in Croatia, a scene incorporating a critical mass of people and knowledge in aim of realization of developmental urban culture projects. We collaborate with numerous Croatian and foreign institutions that work with architecture and culture.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/HJET373VUFXCYQZHVHDAOVWIEDNJ4FR6Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:46:00 +0000 ZW5DSXL2XY6AFS33KAUEYTJEYR25UEW3Lecture Performance by Felix Kubin, December 8th, 2005, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/ZW5DSXL2XY6AFS33KAUEYTJEYR25UEW3Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:52:00 +0000 BAWCET6ASVYZ54BGUZO45NWH6PYB6ONCLecture Performance by Jürgen Fritz (Black Market), November 10th, 2005, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/BAWCET6ASVYZ54BGUZO45NWH6PYB6ONCSun, 15 Jan 2006 18:29:00 +0000 CZWEFOKPLSZ3SAM4C6BSTWERGHBA2BRCThe series of videos created under the motto “many and half good” continues. The sixth version is not much at all, just a bit of happiness with the editing software and a certain love for good commercials. Reediting commercials is of course not something new but one can wonder what position this work offers in respect of viral marketing. International Festival is in this series interested in using a particular cinematic segment, in a fast processes of editing, and to issue as many different perspectives into a scene as possible. How vast is the potentiality of a particular scene, and what can post-production processes offer to it. The Plastic Bag Videos series can be understood as a number of etudes not on creation but in respect of what new technologies provide in respect of post-production.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/CZWEFOKPLSZ3SAM4C6BSTWERGHBA2BRCFri, 13 Jan 2006 13:34:00 +0000 M7XI2SI4RIYYPSU6J5J2M7J6YJYPN6ALThe cartography that describes this archipelago of state-of-exception extraterritorial spaces, leads us to reflect upon the scope of the sovereignty of the traditional State and also upon the nature of power, the validity of political rights and the value of human life in an increasingly interdependent world. The closing session of the conference "Archipelago of Exception - Sovereignties of Extraterritoriality" from november 10 to 11, 2005, in CCCB Barcelona, features Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds, and as a respondant, Giorgio Agamben, Professor of Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts and Design, University IUAV of Venice.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/M7XI2SI4RIYYPSU6J5J2M7J6YJYPN6ALFri, 09 Dec 2005 12:36:00 +0000 MYUMIBO4WPD4U2H7YUZWNNSKGGNQYSZTRobert Verzola (Philippines) notes that the utility of personal technical skills depends on context; working in rural projects, he concluded that farmers have more important skills in relation to local needs. Verzola has been trying to find a way to apply his technical knowledge to rural projects, yet many places have no electricity. Going there with a laptop is like going to help the poor from inside a limousine. Alternative uses of technologies - building on technologies already integrated into everyday lives - can be very effective, such as VCDs (commonly used as karaoke machine), and mobile phones (mainly used to contact overseas working family members).http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/MYUMIBO4WPD4U2H7YUZWNNSKGGNQYSZTSat, 05 Nov 2005 18:51:00 +0000 7XHQORYICT4KYIJ6JRF2IBJ4PRARJORMFor Ravi Sundaram (India), the central dynamic of 'development' is an informal network economy on the margins (or even outside of) of modern property regimes. His research focuses on ordinary people constructing decentralized technological infrastructures through extra-market, non-legal forms of organising access to media. Even though in countries like India, many users of electronic media exist outside the dominant property regime, development organisations continue to employ a simplistic schema of civil society, state, and market actors and a morally-charged language of representation that is out of synch with the dynamic of informal network economies, relating to it only in the negative terms of piracy and a violation of property rights, of its formalization, and of the mediation of the conflicts between informality and a new regime of property rights.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/7XHQORYICT4KYIJ6JRF2IBJ4PRARJORMSat, 05 Nov 2005 18:34:00 +0000 JMUIG7PBDZATP6UWZTFWIE5Y4SPRIQBHBernardo Sorj, who is researching telecentres in Brazil, argues to develop an integrated view on the use of Internet in the slums. Digital inclusion is not an aim in itself. It only makes sense in a broader context of social and political If you can't read of type it is cynical to talk about universal access. These days, civil society is facing a crisis of maturity. Global civil society is a nice utopia but doesn't exist. Instead we should talk about national civil society. Resources are in the North and not in the South. We should to make global agendas, this time with good intensions. Brazil is not Afghanistan is not Cote d'Ivor. There is not one solution for all countries.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/JMUIG7PBDZATP6UWZTFWIE5Y4SPRIQBHSat, 05 Nov 2005 18:26:00 +0000 A7OOYTWOB3VFZAS4NSKKM5HASDKK2ZANShuddhabrata Sengupta (India) calls on those promoting ICT development to 'develop a thought of our own obsolescence', just as today's gadgets will be obsolete tomorrow, our self-image as those who already represent a technological future that has yet to arrive elsewhere is mistaken. He also stresses the need to approach collective efforts in a more factual way, beyond the romantic idea of cross-cultural collaboration as an end in itself, and instead focus on the aims, ethics, and protocols of collaboration. The idea of development arrived in the info-technological context long after it transformed agriculture and industrial technology transfer, yet it tends to be used in a linear, rather uncritical way. Instead, Sengupta suggests focusing on the conditions of potentiality in all spaces, beyond simplistic local/global distinctions and the assumptions about needs and communal authenticity that accompany them.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/A7OOYTWOB3VFZAS4NSKKM5HASDKK2ZANSat, 05 Nov 2005 18:16:00 +0000 6GI4XCE4BV7IA3TDVB3LFKHBAQHDXBOHSylvestre Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso) works at an NGO called Yam Pukri, meaning 'open your mind'. Whereas Western countries tend to think that everyone should have a computer, Ouedraogo stresses the fact that it is more important to learn how to use the computer as a tool for information gathering and communication means.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/6GI4XCE4BV7IA3TDVB3LFKHBAQHDXBOHSat, 05 Nov 2005 18:12:00 +0000 IKAIXDQX6RXYCEFYDJW76FXVFOZM6VSUThe Australian digital media theorist Ned Rossiter (Northern Ireland-based) comments on the rise of China and the consequences of geopolitical shifts for the future study of media. He regards the rise of civil society as a consequence of the void left by neo-liberalism, and addresses the limits of transferring central tenets of representative democracy - accountability, representativeness, transparency - to non-state actors. Furthermore, Rossiter elaborates on the crisis of civil society and the emergence of new forms of institutional articulation like the organized network. He recognises a danger in assuming that all of us in fact continue to live in the same world, especially in the context of ICT debates that revive simplistic North/South divides.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/IKAIXDQX6RXYCEFYDJW76FXVFOZM6VSUSat, 05 Nov 2005 18:07:00 +0000 DXEBT3CCGJFNAQP37TT37VHQY5EWTGK5Richard Rogers (The Netherlands) focuses on the implications of global civil society's 'issue drift'. As global civil society moves from issue to issue, from place to place and from forum to forum, the question is: do they remember to keep up with what is happening on the ground? Rogers and his colleagues at the Govcom.org Foundation strive to answer such questions through web and news analysis. Analytical software tools such as the Issue Crawler and the Issue Scraper are based on the assumption that the web can be mapped to show where an issue is currently 'located'. Rogers also addresses the rise of 'rights talk', including the development of new communication rights, cultural rights and internet rights, and reflects on the circumstances under which issues should (not) be turned into rights.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/DXEBT3CCGJFNAQP37TT37VHQY5EWTGK5Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:00:00 +0000 K2X2WWSDRYQVEIBOCGWIQOLORBI4MVYSLong-time analyst of development regimes, Jan Nederveen Pieterse (USA) summarizes Incommunicado 05 as 'civil society meets development', since commercial parties and governments were not represented at the conference. The current vortex of change, in which corporations try to maintain information monopolies, calls for a new political rendez-vous in which emerging information economies can challenge these monopolies in areas like intellectual property rights. Digital orientalism is a concept of our times: Western content and representations are deeply wired into all levels of information technology. According to Nederveen Pieterse, the world of development studies has been one of great fashions and plain humbug, but also very profound criticism, great hopes, struggle, and negotiations.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/K2X2WWSDRYQVEIBOCGWIQOLORBI4MVYSSat, 05 Nov 2005 17:52:00 +0000 BVQAWXYVXRVU2H4PLNJI2PMFA777RDZWTracey Naughton (South Africa) comes up with a few humbling accounts of the fundamental obstacles to (info) developments. She argues to go back to the seventies, a time in which work for and with the poor could be done in a direct and non-bureaucratic manner. According to her we need a more human-centrered globalization, one in which people are in the centre of development concerns and work is done on the ground by people who have a holistic combination of skills.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/BVQAWXYVXRVU2H4PLNJI2PMFA777RDZWSat, 05 Nov 2005 17:46:00 +0000 VEDWHW5W6WH37OC5RLO77HX7OHDMJY4IMonica Narula (Delhi) talks about the 'listening project' she did with Raqs Media Collective. Sometimes you have to listen beyond the words, and an event like Incommunicado 05 means being attentive to one another. At Sarai, Narula works with the broadsheet collective, with which she publishes a broadsheet, a poster/factsheet/newspaper. Narula recognises that the contemporary vision of the world is thoroughly mapped, difficult to break down, and while the north-south metaphor has been useful, it will limit our view if we cling to it.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/VEDWHW5W6WH37OC5RLO77HX7OHDMJY4ISat, 05 Nov 2005 17:23:00 +0000 FWBDGR5Z5R7RWJUNGJ43743G5OWFAU6HMuthoni Dorcas (Kenya) is the co-founder of LinuxChix Africa, an initiative that facilitates the active participation of African women in the FOSS (free and open source software) movement across this region. She considers free software an affordable way for people to develop software for local markets. Refusing to talk about Africa as 'poor', Dorcas rather thinks of it as a continent under-utilizing its manifold resources.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/FWBDGR5Z5R7RWJUNGJ43743G5OWFAU6HSat, 05 Nov 2005 16:54:00 +0000 FQVF2MODIYBMQEMURT2TCRAYMT2URSJPThomas Keenan (USA) points out that the human rights movement is very sensitive to the criticism. Critics therefore are often regarded as being in support of the wrong actors, and betraying its ideals. Keenan considers the notion of 'global civil society' to be a very tricky term, since its dynamic is strongly related to global media platforms (satellite tv, internet etc). There is a certain actuality to global civil society that needs to be criticized, acknowledging the danger that it is being enlisted as the front actor of a borderless market world. To understand and recognise what is left out, global civil society needs to reshape itself. And while market forces should certainly not be underestimated, it also does not make sense to think of markets only in antagonistic terms.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/FQVF2MODIYBMQEMURT2TCRAYMT2URSJPSat, 05 Nov 2005 16:46:00 +0000 FCKBACBYMPQHVKN4DPJ7VNPZGZFG76NUEdnah Karamagi (Uganda) stresses the importance of including the rural population in development projects. Otherwise, the divide between the rural and the urban will simply increase. NGOs play an important role in Uganda, because they succeed in reaching out to local grassroots organisations. ICTs should be considered in terms of technologies rather than just machines, including the use of community radio in local languages, or using technologies for music, dance and drama.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/FCKBACBYMPQHVKN4DPJ7VNPZGZFG76NUSat, 05 Nov 2005 16:39:00 +0000 WRJDLV47ZGDW74VR27E6UXZ4HZMBNOZSICT consultant Michael Gurstein (Canada) compares the use of civil society in developing and developed countries. He discusses its involvement in the WSIS process and advocates the need to strengthen citizen involvement rather than 'civil society'. Furthermore, Gurstein suggests possible uses of the idea of digital orientalism in the digital divide debate.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/WRJDLV47ZGDW74VR27E6UXZ4HZMBNOZSSat, 05 Nov 2005 16:32:00 +0000 Y7BSF4GYHHCT7EUMMGSPNHRXJNIKML4HFelipe Fonseca (Brasil), free software activist and consultant to the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, discusses the strategic use of free software by the Brazilian government, the tension between governmental FOSS adoption as a cost-cutting measure and the need for a broader debate about software development. Fonseca advocates a broader definition of digital inclusion beyond access, including the creative re-appropriation (rather than mere use) of these technologies and their possibilities.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/Y7BSF4GYHHCT7EUMMGSPNHRXJNIKML4HSat, 05 Nov 2005 16:19:00 +0000 ZL6UXOZFYFY6J3RILJR2RJUQOXO74MJKThrough examples from his 8-month, 30,000 km offline travels, Steve Cisler (USA) reflects on whether or not there really is a need for the kinds of information technologies he used to promote as an Apple researcher and IT consultant. Reporting on his encounters, he raises a number of questions regarding ICT4D approaches, including the allocation of development resources, the emphasis on different kinds of literacy, the need to write grant applications that are 'buzzword compliant', and the total-cost-of-ownership model as an alternative and more comprehensive approach to project evaluation.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/ZL6UXOZFYFY6J3RILJR2RJUQOXO74MJKSat, 05 Nov 2005 16:03:00 +0000 J2H4GVPA2UYAUBLDQSISJQLIXKHFQQRIFor Anriette Esterhuysen (South Africa) of the APC network, development critique tends to forget the practitioners, who are marginalised by theoretical discourses simply because they don't hear and speak them. Naive critiques of private sector involvement in development fail to acknowledge that markets are necessarily part of the solution.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/J2H4GVPA2UYAUBLDQSISJQLIXKHFQQRISat, 05 Nov 2005 15:40:00 +0000 E42N3F2R257IFZHXRIL54MFAUITXJEXWFor Enrique Chaparro (Buenos Aires), the buzzwords in the ICT for Development discourse (info-society, info-development) are simply substitutes for an older discourse. He focuses on free and open source software, but acknowledges that computers will neither end world poverty nor close the digital divide. A firm believer in free markets - ideally, everyone getting into the market has an equal position, without taxes or monopolies -, he does not expect such markets to exist anytime soon, even given the efforts and hard work by many civil society organizations in reigning in dominant market actors.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/E42N3F2R257IFZHXRIL54MFAUITXJEXWSat, 05 Nov 2005 14:58:00 +0000 VPHSL3SVGXY7JGW2TVDQWZTVBBSYPF6VThe free software activist Beatriz Busaniche (Argentina), member of Fundacion Via Libre, talks about the free software community and its ethics, the need to shift from technical to political discussion of software and ICT, and the tendency to approach ICT as a new utopianism. She addresses civil society as a dangerous concept that shifts emphasis from citizens and the grassroots to self-selected organizations marked by their dependence on donors and the burden of having to 'represent'. Busaniche places the development of free software into a broader political, even revolutionary perspective.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/VPHSL3SVGXY7JGW2TVDQWZTVBBSYPF6VSat, 05 Nov 2005 14:43:00 +0000 3QU4NTAVWMHJEHDFRE44UMNS6F42U4YQSally Burch talks about her WSIS experiences and how social movements are linking up in order to exchange experiences and concepts. Solidarity is no longer going in one direction, from North to South. The World Social Forum is creating a new platform where social movements, that previously only worked on one issue, can come together. Burch stresses the need for communication rights in a media landscape which is increasingly dominated by big players and converging technologies.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/3QU4NTAVWMHJEHDFRE44UMNS6F42U4YQSat, 05 Nov 2005 14:33:00 +0000 OMH2DEZXMQQCHELSCIP27PSO54QKEFD5Solomon Benjamin Urban Planner Solomon Benjamin (India), speaks about Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, and his work in a cross-disciplinary team on city-based work focusing on local politics. Bangalore is a city on which the recent boom of the IT industries has had a huge impact. Stressing that we shouldn't lose sight of what is happening on the ground as we theorize ICT matters, Benjamin argues that civil society initiatives enrich the local knowledge and create a platform that is also available and valuable to other actors.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/OMH2DEZXMQQCHELSCIP27PSO54QKEFD5Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:19:00 +0000 Y3HLUBN46F5FA2H6LC6H2OV2NR7CGQ2KReflecting on his work on internet adoption in Middle East countries, John Anderson (USA) focuses on social uses of technology and the alliances needed to build them. Some of the debates around information rights seem a repeat of earlier 'mass media' discussions on new terrain. Both imply a generality of communication whereas communication is always very specific. On the notion of a 'global civil society', Anderson feels that the premier position of NGOs is undeserved, since civil society is always intensely local.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/Y3HLUBN46F5FA2H6LC6H2OV2NR7CGQ2KSat, 05 Nov 2005 11:04:00 +0000 6LJJG7OMMB7ZNIRZ2KY4FBUX4P6KPGP4International Festival Plastic Bag Videos
 The series of videos created under the motto “many and half good” continues. In this fifth extended version of 17 minutes yet a new mode procedure is used. The scene from American Beauty has been crossed edited with the scenes from Hitchcock’s Rear Window were the curious James Stewart is looking out onto his backyard. A dialogue between the two subjects of the movies are established and we can both experience how we introduce subjectivity to the plastic bag and at the same time see to what extent Stewart is producing direction and causality. Classical action images are thus transformed through the process of post-production into a kind of time image. International Festival is in this series interested in using a particular cinematic segment, in a fast processes of editing, and to issue as many different perspectives into a scene as possible. How vast is the potentiality of a particular scene, and what can post-production processes offer to it. The Plastic Bag Videos series can be understood as a number of etudes not on creation but in respect of what new technologies provide in respect of post-production.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/6LJJG7OMMB7ZNIRZ2KY4FBUX4P6KPGP4Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:29:00 +0000 HHLZDLKOYIL3GVUFNZPEVQQ3ISJTKK3XInternational Festival Plastic Bag Videos
 The series of videos created under the motto “many and half good” continues. In this fourth video a different mode of reference is made. The video works by Bruce Nauman from the early 70s is here recycled and recontextualized. The narrative through an appropriation of Nauman's structure introduce a kind of exhaustion, or rather complete which passes notions of technique and ability. To the tacky soundtrack by Thomas Newman is this time superimposed with Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells which we all recall from “The Exorcist”, yet a reference to turning bodies, and perhaps also a hidden desire to offer a way out of the grip that the neo avant-garde still hold on contemporary art practices; to exorcise the avant-garde. On another level this version also alludes to Nauman's relation to his studio as a site of production of art. "Whatever I do in the studio it will be art" - this series of works understand digital editing devises similarly as a site for production of video. International Festival is in this series interested in using a particular cinematic segment, in a fast processes of editing, and to issue as many different perspectives into a scene as possible. How vast is the potentiality of a particular scene, and what can post-production processes offer to it. The Plastic Bag Videos series can be understood as a number of etudes not on creation but in respect of what new technologies provide in respect of post-production.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/HHLZDLKOYIL3GVUFNZPEVQQ3ISJTKK3XMon, 24 Oct 2005 16:07:00 +0000 DUPFCJVRTPWCZA3FUQUNTCLXDUL7W66GInternational Festival Plastic Bag Videos
The series of videos created under the motto “many and half good” continues. In this third video a sequence from a recently released advertisement for Citroen is used to recontexualize the scene. To the tacky soundtrack and the tremendously sentimental narrative a computer rendered voise has been addred, which render the scene a radically different quality. Questions about subjectivity is here asked in respect of contemporary notions on mediatization.
International Festival is in this series interested in using a particular cinematic segment, in a fast processes of editing, and to issue as many different perspectives into a scene as possible. How vast is the potentiality of a particular scene, and what can post-production processes offer to it. The Plastic Bag Videos series can be understood as a number of etudes not on creation but in respect of what new technologies provide in respect of post-production.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/DUPFCJVRTPWCZA3FUQUNTCLXDUL7W66GTue, 18 Oct 2005 16:47:00 +0000 BHSXMUU3ASYHCUSCJJVCEFFR2BUUS4FVLecture Performance by Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment), September 3rd, 2005, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/BHSXMUU3ASYHCUSCJJVCEFFR2BUUS4FVTue, 18 Oct 2005 12:29:00 +0000 3ZKUL6DTQPQYTD6SR3VWUMKRCI26B223Lecture by Stefan Kaegi, August 14th, 2005 in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover at AtelierFrankfurt.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/3ZKUL6DTQPQYTD6SR3VWUMKRCI26B223Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:04:00 +0000 LDIKLZA3XS3QW3XFG4TXA7XQKTEHMSDMLecture Performance by Sibylle Peters, June 16th, 2005 in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover at AtelierFrankfurt.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/LDIKLZA3XS3QW3XFG4TXA7XQKTEHMSDMSat, 08 Oct 2005 16:41:00 +0000 MNRBS4W5T2QIOV7BXL54D6ZTPS7SQCDLPerformance by Kattrin Deufert + Thomas Plischke (Frankfurter Küche Leipzig), July 21st, 2005 in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover at AtelierFrankfurt.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/MNRBS4W5T2QIOV7BXL54D6ZTPS7SQCDLSat, 08 Oct 2005 12:04:00 +0000 M6CLBRRU4U5KM5MSLJRQXS3BIYIUCW4OLecture Performance by Petra Sabisch, January 27th, 2005 in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover at AtelierFrankfurt.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/M6CLBRRU4U5KM5MSLJRQXS3BIYIUCW4OFri, 07 Oct 2005 17:35:00 +0000 HNE25DGEPHTQP5IC5NTT42QLUMFZHJNKInternational Festival Plastic Bag Videos The series of videos created under the motto “many and half good” continues. In this second video a sequence from a recently released film “Four Brothers” (John Singleton) are used to recontexualize the scene. To the tacky soundtrack and the tremendously sentimental narrative highly violent images are attached, which render the scene a radically different quality. However, in respect of cinema, is it still ‘American Beauty”. International Festival is in this series interested in using a particular cinematic segment, in a fast processes of editing, and to issue as many different perspectives into a scene as possible. How vast is the potentiality of a particular scene, and what can post-production processes offer to it. The Plastic Bag Videos series can be understood as a number of etudes not on creation but in respect of what new technologies provide in respect of post-production.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/HNE25DGEPHTQP5IC5NTT42QLUMFZHJNKTue, 04 Oct 2005 22:34:00 +0000 OSEXG7C7TGNDMR64JPPYRSSQ4KEH62N6International Festival - Plastic Bag Videos In October 2005 International Festival issues a series of videos created around the representation of plastic bags in cinema. The starting point is a scene from American Beauty where the plastic bag is addressed as a dancer. International Festival is in this series interested in using a particular cinematic segment, in fast processes of editing, and to issue as many different perspectives into a scene as possible. How vast is the potentiality of a particular scene, and what can post-production processes offer to it. This is perhaps not about making good videos but many and half good.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/OSEXG7C7TGNDMR64JPPYRSSQ4KEH62N6Sat, 01 Oct 2005 21:40:00 +0000 7U5LPWTSJVDAXLISYAWZRPMZHEJD27W4"Tanger nonstop" is a 97 minutes documentary in and about the morrocan city of Tangiers featuring the writer Mohamed Choukri, the story-teller Mohammed Mrabet, the painter Hamri and the Jilala musicians. The film goes on a trip criss-crossing the myths of the legendary "Interzone" and encounters a postcolonial presence. Situated in the very north of Marokko, Tangiers is today a city like any other in the socalled "third world": surrounded by slums and a free-trade zone of sweat shops where young women from the south produce cheap clothes for the seasonal sale. The sell-out seems to be the remaining perspective for a city and its inhabitants: immigrants, smugglers and passers-by -- such as the german post-wave band Kastrierte Philosophen who are roaming through Tangiers dressed up in old colonial style and endlessly reciting fragments of Brion Gysins novel "The Process". Ten years after the first release the film is now available online with german subtitles. Original languages are english, arabic, spanish, french.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/7U5LPWTSJVDAXLISYAWZRPMZHEJD27W4Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:56:00 +0000 DNV6RTYQSMB6NGZDLSM76SPLLCHEN6E3Stan Vanderbeek (1927-1984) experimented with the interaction of man and the Intermedia-Network of film, TV, video and computer graphics. He subverted the industrialized mass-media by revealing their structure in his works. At first he used collages of magazine- and newspaper imagery or painted directly onto the film. In 1963 he set up the "Movie-Drome", a multiprojection enviroment. The idea was to set up centers like this all over the world and to network them via satellite, enableling intercultural communication between artist communities. (see http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/source-text/133/) In 1966 he produced computer films with Kenneth Knowlton from Bell Telephone Laboratories (now AT&T). He also worked as "Artist in Residence" at WGBH TV in Boston, at NASA and at the M.I.T. Center for Advanced Visual Studies. As seen in this documentary Vanderbeek explored the man-machine graphical interface and produced works of great beauty.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/DNV6RTYQSMB6NGZDLSM76SPLLCHEN6E3Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:11:00 +0000 DEOXNAKV4OTV546GSZU7PPKCQ576LQ57jueves 4 de agosto 2005: "desde la terraza" un hibrid-dorkbot simultaneamente desde angola, saas fee, medellin. Orientados hacia selectas terrazas del barrio gotico de barcelona.

altred.net y medellinwireless presentaran desde medellin los beneficos estrategicos de tener un lugar desde el que se puede dominar la ciudad. en barcelona [autonomiaAerea] estaran algunos de los madridwireless plus yves y los vecinos de las terrazas (live!) desde las 4.30pm hora locombiana, 11.30pm hora catalana.(tba alejo velez presentara algo del netlabel series de mde). un evento organizado por ninguno (dont make your name using others people work!) KDaG!!http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/DEOXNAKV4OTV546GSZU7PPKCQ576LQ57Sat, 13 Aug 2005 20:54:00 +0000 K7ZU72A3C3LRLDUSOYMBZTLHAUMTVWGGThis ' video newsletter ' features interviews with housing activists from Cape Town (specifically, Vrygrond, Delft and QQ section and Kwezi Park in Khayelitsha), talking about the ongoing housing struggle in the city.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/K7ZU72A3C3LRLDUSOYMBZTLHAUMTVWGGSat, 30 Jul 2005 08:09:00 +0000 HSX3CTRTFYKL3UQPFXYMINJGGZZDWBERThis ' video newsletter ' features interviews with housing activists from Cape Town (specifically, Vrygrond, Delft and QQ section and Kwezi Park in Khayelitsha), talking about the ongoing housing struggle in the city.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/HSX3CTRTFYKL3UQPFXYMINJGGZZDWBERFri, 29 Jul 2005 17:41:00 +0000 JKDJUWC3ERQZJLDDDMARQZQRAJZOLMYYThis was shoot during dash workshop in ljubliana, in march 2005, but doesn't want to be a sort of documentary, in the way i was there not to make documentation but to listen to.....thx to Taja to let me use her poem and to Ana for poem translation.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/JKDJUWC3ERQZJLDDDMARQZQRAJZOLMYYWed, 27 Jul 2005 17:13:00 +0000 CWRIXTT3NDZMSVL5GAXD3JZ6FECQYN2XAdem, a young journalist from Tetovo, Mazedonia, is interviewing Zelimir Zilnik on his film "Kenedi comes back home". Zilnik had presented his latest documentary in the course of the evening program of the Youth Organising Institute, a summer school, that took place in Novi Sad from July 12th to 22nd 2005. The Youth Organising Institute (YOI) is run by the Johns Hopkins University of Bologna and was held in 2005 in cooperation with Kuda.org, the students union of Novi Sad University, kein.org and freelance trainers. YOI brought together 40 young people from the balkan region (Croatia, Mazedonia, Moldavia, Romaina, Serbia and Montenegro and more) that are active in their communities in order to train them, to offer a space for project development and to connect and network on the issues of their local projects.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/CWRIXTT3NDZMSVL5GAXD3JZ6FECQYN2XMon, 25 Jul 2005 13:38:00 +0000 Y4R433ABRSKKSFKNE35QOFVD2DV6FY5QThe two directors of the film, Alexandra Weltz and Andreas Pichler, explore the background of Antonio Negri. They research for biographical, theoretical and historical points of decision makings and portray an unusual life between philosophy and revolt. In meetings with Negri and its political fellows and friends the film shows continuities and breaks from the 60's to today.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/Y4R433ABRSKKSFKNE35QOFVD2DV6FY5QThu, 14 Jul 2005 10:19:00 +0000 RGO7DBUHQT2GWDNF4ZNU4UP2WQOWIRJMAn insight into the culture of tourism, how can it be that we all the time get lost when we are out travelling. The castle Jimena de la Frontera is situated a short distance from Gibraltar. In its striking location it has played an important role in the region since the 8th century. Flowers are adored not only for their fragrance but also for the visual pleasure they produce. IFtv honours the colours and shapes of the vegetable kingdom. Finally we focus on the current political situation where Spain unexpectedly made a bold move regarding the influx of immigrants from non-european countries.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/RGO7DBUHQT2GWDNF4ZNU4UP2WQOWIRJMMon, 27 Jun 2005 13:56:00 +0000 TEP5CSKOXZVF5QA3XM2NP2TYHGHFFHCQOur chef and cooking expert Mette Ingvartsen takes a thorough look into a Spanish kitchen and offer us to share a real paella. This paella is not just any paella but cooked in accordance with the secret recipe of the southern frontier. As you will see paella also has a strong connection to Moroccan culture. During the visit to the tiny city of Tarifa our team found a book café where they could exchange their favorite books. As the café was closing for the season the exchange developed into a race against the clock. What don’t we do for literature? A visit to the market continues IFtv’s focus on public space, the market being a site for precarious workers and illegal aliens to establish informal exchange. Individuals without an address often have difficulties to obtain a mobile telephone, IFtv therefore reflects on the importance of public phones.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/TEP5CSKOXZVF5QA3XM2NP2TYHGHFFHCQSun, 26 Jun 2005 20:03:00 +0000 OQLBU74YFHZ6ACMC7JBTNGORZCGF2WSGThe beach, the square and the playground are all examined through unexpected perspectives, where different kinds of inter-human communication are underlined. Communication becomes a more direct theme for two reportages: a political contemplation on the abundance of antennas, and the daily contribution from IFtv’s correspondents in Second Life. Body boarding an important part of today’s beach life, are put on a strange wave surfing in the direction of the far east. Our ice-cream aficionado Palle Torsson brings his critical eye closer to the local ice-cream production. In Tarifa he found a stand where the traditions of home made ice-cream was proudly maintained.http://borderlineacademy.org/v2v/show/OQLBU74YFHZ6ACMC7JBTNGORZCGF2WSGSun, 26 Jun 2005 19:40:00 +0000 FWFTXQFF2CLCIJPQ5AJAUFQYTI2TZEP2International Festival takes a grip on the southern most part of Europe. Together with the team we visit the old and the new, work and leisure, urban as well as the rural. The harbor has for centu