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NEXT 5 MINUTES JOURNAL
Live from the festival
PROGRAM OF THE 'NEXT FIVE MINUTES' CONFERENCE Amsterdam/Rotterdam, January 18-21, 1996
email n5m@dds.nl
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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
Balie theatre: 10.30-12.00 hours
Paradiso hall: 10.30-12.00 hours
Balie Salon: 13.00-14.30 hours Balie theatre: 14.30-16.15 hours
Balie theatre: 16.30-17.00 hours
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
Paradiso Cellar: 16.00-18.00 hours
Paradiso webspace:17.00-19.00 hours
Balie theatre: 19.30 - 21.00 hours
Paradiso hall: 21.00-22.00 hours
Paradiso hall: 22.00-23.30 hours
Balie theatre: 10.30-12.00 hours
Paradiso hall: 10.30-13.00 hours
Balie theatre: 14.30-17.30 hours
Tactical Media as Tools for Survival
Balie Autonomous Zone:15.00-17.00 hours
Paradiso upper floor: 15.00-17.00 hours
Paradiso upper floor:18.00-19.30 hours
Balie Salon: 17.00-18.30 hours
Balie theatre: 20.00-21.30 hours
Balie Autonomous Zone: 22.30-24.00 hours
Paradiso hall: 21.13-05.00 hours
E~Scape
Balie salon: 13.00-14.00 hours
Balie theatre: 14.00-15.00 hours
Balie Salon: 14.00-15.00 hours
Paradiso hall: 15.00-17.00 hours
Final Debate
Censored information by Babeth (Amsterdam) Rehearsal of Memory MauzZ ZapP MuseumM (Enschede, NL) Unpredictable tactical interventions by
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 < /n5m2/ > 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.
Connection with Amsterdam:
V2-Exhibition space: 14.00-16.00 hours
V2-Exhibition space: 16.00-18.00 hoursDAILY PROGRAMME AMSTERDAM
Friday January 19
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?
Moderation: David Garcia (Amsterdam) Centre for Tactical Media.
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.
Workshop: Curator Activists
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?
Moderation: Michael Pollman (Nijmegen) founder of Antenna, access provider
and networking node.
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.
The Desire to be Wired
A series of performance-lectures that will form a radical critique of
cyberculture
Hosted by Geert Lovink (Amsterdam) Centre for Tactical Media.
Workshop The impact of radio on civil conflicts
Workshop: Latino Networks on the Net
Video conference / CUSeeMe in the two most widely used languages on the
Net: English and Spanish.
Lecture 'From Cyberspace to Neurospace'
by Peter Lamborn Wilson (New York), member of the collective Autonomedia.
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.
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.
Reality Check
Do the new media really lead to greater democracy?
Moderation: Marleen Stikker, Director of the Society for Old and New Media.
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.
Moderation: Geert Lovink (Amsterdam) Centre for Tactical Media.
Series of presentations from front-line activists who use tactical media as
tools or as weapons in a struggle for survival.
Moderation: P.L. da Silva, social scientist at the University of Amsterdam.
Workshop: Mortal Acts. The Tactical Body.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Moderation: Eveline Lubbers (Amsterdam) research collective Jansen & Janssen
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.
Technoparty by Digital Artists Xperiments.
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.
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?
Workshop: Financing Tactical
Media
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.
Moderation: Olivier Pasquet (Queige, France) board member of Videazimut,
the internatio-nal organisation of independent video makers.
other formats in Amsterdam
INSTALLATIONS
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.
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.
expositie "Presence in A Living Room"
A normal living room with an abnormal television. In this installation the
artist realises the impossible dream of multi-channel tactical television.
Bus shuttle Amsterdam 18.00 hours - Rotterdam 23.00
hours.
Bus shuttle Amsterdam 13.00 hours - Rotterdam 18.00 hours.
With live-TV broadcasts from the bus
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. More info: MediaFilter.org/MFF/mfhome
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. More info: www.t0.or.at/~krcf/
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.
20.00-23.00: General N5M Opening Act
The Matter of Media
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.
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).
Debate about media in the
diaspora