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10:00 - 03:00:
Melkweg Theater |
Workshop
Hybrid Media Studio Live tv, radio & internet production from public studioDuring the festival itself Next 5 Minutes will generate an intensive program of live broadcasts from the Hybrid Media Studio, interviews with festival guests, live broadcast from festival programs, and edited festival reports. |
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11:00 - 12:00:
Balie Grote Zaal |
Presentation
A Strategic Guide to the Festival Some of the editors of this edition of Next 5 Minutes will introduce you to the themes and events of the festival. This strategic guide provides a program overview and hopefully some orientation for the bewildered visitor. We also want to acknowledge here the work of many international editors and other people who have worked with us over the last year to create the Tactical Media Labs and develop the debate about tactical media. The program of the festival reflects and is derived from this work, and will hopefully be the next step forward in an on-going discussion... |
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12:00 - 14:00:
Balie Grote Zaal |
Panel/debate
Multitudes Debate [details to be announced] |
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12:00 - 12:45:
Balie Kleine Zaal |
Open Space
Tax choice & Tax Report James Burke |
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12:00 - 14:00:
Paradiso Grote Zaal |
Panel/debate
Presentation of WITNESS Presentation of the work of WITNESS an organisation, which advances human rights advocacy through the use of video and communications technology. WITNESS (www.witness.org) partners with locally-based human rights organizations globally, equipping, training and supporting so that they can engage in digital witnessing and make and use powerful videos to fight for human rights. WITNESS has trained and equipped over 150 groups, and currently works with over 40 partner organizations worldwide. Sam Greggory and Gillian Caldwell of Witness, will discuss strategies for developing advocacy plans built around visual evidence, testimony and stories, and for using video to target domestic and international institutions including the UN and regional commissions, media and other audiences (including via the web) in order to create social change. It will include video clips and case studies of WITNESS partners’ work, as well as taking Questions about the challenges involved. Further WITNESS films and complete films will be shown during the N5M film program. |
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12:00 - 14:00:
Melkweg Oude Zaal |
Panel/debate
The Amsterdam Local Media Debate The Next 5 Minutes grew out of the lively mediaculture of Amsterdam of the eighties and nineties, which revolved around local radiostations such as Radio 100, Patapoe and Radio de Vrije Keyser, and local tv-stations such as StaatsTVRabotnik, de Hoeksteen and Vrije Keyser TV. Today most of these initiatives are either dead, dying or struggling to survive. What went wrong and what can we (still) do about it? An open debate moderated by Menno Grootveld. |
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12:00 - 14:00:
Melkweg Max |
Panel/debate
Feminist Approaches to Tactical Media Over the past several years, cyberfeminist activists around the globe have taken action in developing a variety of tactical media approaches specifically addressing gender related social injustice and under-representation of women’s concerns in both cyber and real space. Models and applications range from hands-on hardware skills workshops, to floating reproductive health clinics and interventions in the erotic entertainment industry, to name just a few. Compelled by the continuing urgent need for gender and racial diversification of cyberspace, and the seemingly never-ending reports of women’s rights violations around the world, it is timely to examine resistant feminist and activist responses to these issues in the context of this international gathering. Rather than focusing our debate primarily around theoretical discussions, the aim of this panel is to share first-hand practical and tactical experiences and methods in order to encourage an informed conversation between panelists and audience. |
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13:00 - 13:45:
Balie Kleine Zaal |
Open Space
Insecurity Guard Mark Barnsley |
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14:00 - 16:00:
Melkweg Max |
Panel/debate
New Landscapes for New Media
Part of the aim of the TML process was to go “deep-local”, to those places were the involvement of media makers in a local environment passes beyond a temporary presence and becomes a long-term commitment. In this section we wish to devote attention to initiatives demonstrating how deep local commitment can go hand in hand with translocal connections - in ways that reconfigure modernity in ways that take greater responsibility for local environments and communities. These initiatives generally operate in complicated social environments, most often inhabited by an economically deprived and marginalised constituency, but where surprisingly strong and highly unique centres of media culture have emerged. What is the story behind these initiatives that provide a platform for these voices at the edge? What is their model of success? |
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14:00 - 16:00:
Paradiso Kleine Zaal |
Presentation
Independent Media in Taiwan Presentation and showcase |
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14:00 - 16:00:
Balie Grote Zaal |
Panel/debate
*Radio Space* "wireless in your psyche" Although a single media radio (unlike television) is infinitely various in how it may be situated. The demographic spectrum of radio is very wide, on the one hand as Arun Mehta points out, radio is THE ONLY electronic communication medium that the poor man in India can afford. In the world where there's no Internet, no television, and not even much printed material radio is the critical medium, with Language revitalisation as a big issue for a lot of groups. But at the other end of the spectrum, Ted Byfield points out that one of the reasons for radio's importance in the US is that it is the only media that penetrates into cars. And often does so employing the more participatory forms such as "the simulacrally 'democratic' call-in talk shows, etc), this is a very powerful way to define and project political issues." |
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14:00 - 14:45:
Balie Kleine Zaal |
Open Space
Information & Post-Computerism Gabriel Pickard |
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15:00 - 15:45:
Balie Kleine Zaal |
Open Space
Interactionfield - Public Space in the Digital Age Mirjam Struppek |
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15:30 - 16:30:
Melkweg Cinema |
Film Screening
Maquila; a tale of two Mexicos MAQUILA: A TALE OF TWO MEXICOS Saul Landau, 1999, 55' mini DV ntsc The corporate globalisation process on the US-Mexican border, the so-called 'new' Mexico, is contrasted with the traditional Mayan civilization in Chiapas. Since the uprising of the Zapatistas, Chiapas is constantly disturbed by motorized army convoys that trespass on Indian villages. |
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16:00 - 16:45:
Balie Kleine Zaal |
Open Space
cristalweb.org Rainer Hawlik |
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16:00 - 18:00:
Paradiso Kleine Zaal |
Film Screening
Palestinian Video Presentation. Hona Sawt Filasten (Live from Palestine) by Rashid Masharawi and The Inner Tour by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz are two examples of recent documentaries, which deal with the Israeli/Palestine conflict from a surprising perspective. |
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16:00 - 18:00:
Balie Grote Zaal |
Presentation
My First Recession - by Geert Lovink BOOKLAUNCH My First Recession - Critical Internet Culture in Transition V2_Publishers, Rotterdam, 2003 Book Presentation by Geert Lovink My First Recession starts when the party is over. The study maps the transition of critical Internet culture from the mid-late nineties Internet euphoria up until the dotcom crash and the subsequent downfall of the global financial markets and Œ911.‚ Ignoring techno-libertarians who blame governments for the Œtech wreck,‚ the study sets out to critically examine contemporary Internet culture. What happens when new media become widespread? After having a good laugh about absurd dotgone business plans it is time to prepare for the tough battles ahead. Internet wars are on the rise. Fueled by spam, viruses and server attacks, tensions on the ever-expanding Net have increased dramatically. Open, egalitarian Internet communities have become vulnerable. The Œonline Other‚ is no longer met with hospitality. The general climate has become one of paranoia, conspiracy and distrust. Every downloaded email or piece of software can turn out to be a fatal Trojan horse. |
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17:00 - 18:30:
Melkweg Cinema |
Film Screening
Italian Activism
1:DISOBBEDIENTI Oliver Ressler, Austria and Italy, 2002, 54', mini dv The video "Disobbedienti" thematizes the Disobbedienti's origins, political bases, and forms of direct action on the basis of conversations with seven members of the movement.The Disobbedienti emerged from the Tute Bianche during the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001. 2:SUPERVIDEO G8 Candida TV, Italy, 2001, 36', mini DV History cannot be written by only one pen. SuperVideo, "mutant" hero of free communication, looks for the truth collecting voices togheter. He collects informations, snatchs signals, records choruses. Angry and calm voices, scared or clear, passioned or disappointed. It's the multitude that observed and animated the days of the protest of Genoa. |
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17:00 - 17:45:
Balie Kleine Zaal |
Open Space
The Permeability and Permissivity of Free Space: A physics of social inclusion SPACE Place |
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18:00 - 18:45:
Balie Kleine Zaal |
Open Space
Babylon Archives Toni Serra |
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19:00 - 20:30:
Balie Grote Zaal |
Film Screening
Global Conflicts 2
1: FROZEN WAR John Smith, UK, 2002, 11 A spontaneous response to the bombing of Afghanistan triggered by a disorientating experience in an Irish hotel room. 2:WHITE BALANCE François Bucher, 2002, 32' White Balance (to think is to forget differences) is an effort to uncover the geographies of power, the frontiers of privilege. Media and internet footage is intermixed with images shot in downtown Manhattan before and after the September 11th attacks 3:AFTERMATH GNN, VS, 2002, 35' Narrated by Hip Hop legend Paris and featuring interviews shot by GNN syndicate producers in six cities, AFTERMATH features nine (9) people answering eleven (11) of the most pressing questions that emanate from the terrible and, as yet, unexplained, events of that day. As you will see, these are questions that continue to overshadow and critically challenge the official 'version' of the story. |
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19:00 - 21:00:
Waag Society |
Presentation
\An`a*tom"ic\ "Related to the structure of an organism" High and local: For years, Waag Society has been experimenting with creative networks. Now in 2003, a weekly open studio in the middle of Amsterdam, high up in the towers, is slowly transforming into the temporary headquarters where artists pass through and build experimental performances: local but connected. And definitely wireless... a true locus solus! |
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20:00 - 22:00:
Melkweg Cinema |
Film Screening
Political Protest 3 1:Teoría de las Naciones 2:Berlusconi's Mousetrap 1:TEORÍA DE LAS NACIONES José Luis Tirado, Spain, 2:30’ A critical comment on the concept of democracy and it’s incarnation in contemporary society as well as on the concept of nation. And a parody of electoral propaganda. 2:BERLUSCONI’S MOUSETRAP Indymedia Ireland, 120’ This is a two hour video-documentary made by people from Indymedia Ireland, about the protests against the G8 conference in Genoa, Italy in the summer of 2001. One of the interesting aspects of the documentary is that activists look back at their own actions in Genoa, and conclude that often they played the exact role the police wanted them to play. |
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21:00 - 04:00:
Paradiso Grote Zaal |
Performance programme
Voicing Resistance
Fitting in the scope of the Next 5 Minutes festival, "Voicing Resistance" will take place in Paradiso Amsterdam Friday september 12th. Revelutionary and experimental Hip Hop from Latin-American rooted artists living in Miami, who use music and design as a protest against Globalism and Neo-colonialism. This evening will bring several musicians and collectives with divergent backgrounds together. A.O. Supersoul (Lex/Metatronix), Seth P. Brundel (Beta Bodega), Manuvers (Botanica del Jibaro), La Mano Fria (Beta Bodega) will perform followed up by Unspoken Heard featuring Blue Black & Ashura performing in Club Paradiso with many others. |
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21:00 - 04:00:
Melkweg Max |
Performance programme
Sabotage Performance night The programme consists of the following parts: 1.The Speculative Archive, Los Angeles, United States In the light of recent events (presentation) 2.State of Sabotage, Vienna, Austria Amikejo – national dish and SoS consulate (performance) 3.Clausthome / F5, Riga, Latvia Spectrosphere (sound and video mix) |
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21:00 - 22:30:
Balie Grote Zaal |
Film Screening
WITNESS
WITNESS trains and supports grassroots human rights groups to use video in their advocacy campaigns. "Witness empowers people to record injustice as it happens and makes us all eyeWITNESSes to Human Rights Violations." This presentation will feature recent works from WITNESS's human rights partner organizations around the world - including BOOKS NOT BARS, on the growth of the prison industry in the U.S. and NO PLACE TO GO, on villagers driven from their homes by the Burmese military, as well as RULE OF THE GUN IN SUGARLAND on indigenous rights and impunity in the Philippines and an excerpt from the documentary OPERATION FINE GIRL: Rape Used as a Weapon of War in Sierra Leone, which investigates the strategic use of rape against women during the decade-long war in Sierra Leone - It will be followed by a Q&A with WITNESS program staff. |
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21:00 - 22:30:
Balie Kleine Zaal |
Film Screening
Individual Tactics
1:TONI B., SQUATTING LAND IN RIO (Vulgo Sacopa) André Reyes Novaes and Pedro Urano, Brazil, 2002, 26' Toni B lives on the side of Sacopa Hill, on the shores of the Lagoon, in the heart of Rio de Janeiro's South Zone. From there, he watches the world, people and himself, while he fights for ownership of the place where he lives, in the company of the works he creates. An universe where day to day occurrences inspire mythical narratives and contain conflicts which rule our process of development and urbanization. 2: WALKING OFF COURT George Barber, GB, 2003, 10' It is 10 mins long and concerns a story I saw in the Times about a tennis coach called James Goodman who had a nervous breakdown around about the time that a motorway was built right outside his house. He spent a lot of time aimlessly walking in circles around new roads and road works. 3:VIDEOLETTERS - EMIL AND SASA EPISODE Eric van den Broek en Katarina Rejger, NL 2001, 23' Dutch directors Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek focus on the Bosnian Muslim Emil, and the Bosnian Serb Sasa. The two were best friends for 16 years. The didn't see each other for more then 8 years. Via VideoLetters they explain each other what happened. |
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23:00 - 00:30:
Balie Kleine Zaal |
Film Screening
Commercial Strategies
1:THE DELMARVA CHICKEN OF TOMORROW Andrea Luka Zimmerman, GB, 2002, 15' Cannibalism has long been a favourite on western menus. Other peoples' cannibalism, that is. More than a colonial culinary oddity, it divided the men from the animals; the savagery of the conquistadors was projected onto their victims - after all, they, too, sported feathers 2:RE-CODE US 2001, 15' Re-Code.com was a short-lived satirical website that humorously showcased an inherent flaw in capitalist systems by exploiting a shortcoming in the ubiquitous bar-coding system used in a majority of retail stores. 3: SAUCISSE James Schneider, Fr, 5' What is the view from a sausagevan? 4:WHAT ARE WE DOING TONIGHT? Marie Vermeiren, Belgium, 2002, 7' The film follows a group of women through the night while they undertake actions against the sexist advertisings. The film focuses on transmitting the energy that these women can develop: physical, creative or sensual. 5:INSTANT SALVATION Myriam Thyes, Germany, 2002, 3', mini dv A collage of quotations, image and sound - from the film 'Terminator 2 - Judgement Day' by James Cameron (1991), mixed with sentences out of the 4 gospels of the New Testament, spoken by a female voice. Thyes takes scenes from the film where Christian moral cliche's and myths of the saviour are shown, combines them with texts out of the bible, and interrupts them with product placements, shown in the same film. 6:CATCH US! IF YOU CAN kuda.org, New Media Center, Novi Sad, 10', Catch us! if you can is video documentation of street action that was made in Novi Sad and consists of statements and interviews made with ex dealers of pirated CD ROM’s, and citizens of Novi Sad about a new law that forbids any kind of piracy. Starting point of street action and interviews with ex pirate dealers was the distribution of DivX, a new and improved version of one of blockbuster movies in that period, "Catch me if you can" by Stephen Spielberg. 7:MAGIC IN THE AIR (Magia en el Aire) Toni Serra and Joan Leandre, USA and Spain, 1999, 11', beta sp USA 1942. The advent of a new religion: television. 8: A-CLIPS Short( 40-120 sec.) political statements on big issues like power or capitalism, shot on video, tranfered to 35mm and screened hidden between commercials in ordinary cinema's. The idea originated in Berlin in 1997, but is spreading fast. |
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23:00 - 00:30:
Balie Grote Zaal |
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Surveillance and Control
1:REICHSTAG Dmitry Vilensky, Russia, 2003, 6', mini dv The film was taken in the Reichstag's Dome - one of the main sights of Berlin, a place where shooting photos and video is officially allowed. Vilensky invited Frau Grunewald to visit this place. She is widely known in Berlin, due to her strange appearance and because she constantly works in the underground where she sells passengers her texts and asks for a donation. He asked her to walk with him under the dome, a symbol of German democracy, and explain what she thinks about power. After 2 minutes and 50 seconds they were stopped by security guards and forced to quit shooting and leave the building. 2:WELCOME TO NEW YORK Norman Cowie, USA, 2002, 26' Welcome to New York is an experimental documentary on the influence of a conservative think tank, the Manhattan Institute, on New York during the 1990s, and the response of citizens to the corporate-friendly policies of the Giuliani administration. It also offers a glimpse at the resurgent conservatism of the post 9/11 era in the U.S. With text, music, found footage and interviews, the tape is an irreverent essay on a neoliberal vision of urban life that has been marketed throughout the world. 3:REMOTE FRISKING Andy Weir, UK, 2003, 7', mini dv Border crossings. The movement of a body through technologies of biopolitical administration. Breath and flesh that must prove its innocence at every turn / the decoration of transitional architecture/ a stopped heart. 4:IN ORDER NOT TO BE HERE Deborah Stratman, USA, 2002, 33', 16 mm Images of suburban surveillance and violence that push up against the limits of the real. An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. By examining evacuated suburban and corporate landscapes, the film reveals a peculiarly 21st century hollowness; an emptiness born of our collective faith in safety and technology. This is a new genre of horror movie, attempting suburban locations as states of mind. 5: NOW LET US PRAISE AMERICAN LEFTISTS Paul Chan, USA, 2000, 2:30' Now Let Us Praise American Leftists is an experimental video animation that seeks to eulogize and ridicule the American leftist movement of the past century. Foregrounding the exclusionary nature of American leftist politics, and its persistent refusal to allow more diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation to enter into the larger political daialogue, the video presents representations of American leftists as they are: men with mustaches, created using FACES, a computer application used by North American law enforcement agencies to create composite pictures of criminals and suspects for wanted posters. 6: SAFE DISTANCE US AIR Force/ kuda.org, New Media Center, Novi Sad, 21' Safe Distance is a video that was recorded during nato air strikes against former Yugoslavia. The videotape shows the head up display of the US AIR Force plane. There were 4 airplanes flying from a NATO-base in Italy to a destination in Yugoslavia. Their mission objective was to bomb several targets in the area around the city of Novi Sad. On the way back, after the mission was completed, the plane was shot. This tape (sony video 8) was found near the crashed plane in Fruska Gora mountain in Srem region. It shows the head up display with basic graphical interface and voice communication between pilots. 7: VIDEOLABYRINTH Toni Serra, Spain and Morocco, 1999, 12', beta sp "Pirate Utopias and European Renegade Archives" presents a silent report on CCTVs -security cameras. A catalogue of tragedies and ideas for the future. |
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23:00 - 00:30:
Melkweg Cinema |
Film Screening
Tactical Technologies 3
1: REAL TV UK, 3:50 ', VHS TV Jamming out of a compost toilet. In three and a half minutes it becomes clear that it's possible to treat your neighbours to a television program that differs from what they were expecting. During real TV the best episode of Eastenders is interrupted by an Undercurrents program. All it takes is a compost toilet ,a transmitter and an antenna. 2: LET OUR VOICE BE HEARD! (Nek se cuje i nas glas!) Krsto Papic, Croatia, 1970, 18', dvd Pirate radio stations in rural north croatia were being set up as DIY constructions by peasants. 3: HIPPIES FROM HELL Ine Poppe, NL, 2002, 53', MinDV Hippies from Hell are a group of hackers, techies, artists, writers and puzzlers. In the eighties they published hacker magazine Hacktic and in 1993 they started the first Dutch Internet-provider, xs4all, thus opening the Internet for the general public. Apart from this they throw wild parties and organize open-air hacker festivals, using the Internet as their social platform. On their mailing list they discuss almost every aspect of our technology infested society. The Dutch hackers, as the hippies were called initially, are a special group within the international hacker movement, which they helped create for a large part. In the film artists play with hardware, young hippies hack their school-calculators, lock pickers open locks without a key: hacking is not just fooling around with technology, it is an attitude, an activity, a verb. |
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01:00 - 02:30:
Melkweg Cinema |
Film Screening
THX1138 George Lucas, VS, 1971, 95', 16mm George Lucas adapted this, his first film, from a short he made at University. THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt to escape from a futuristic society located beneath the surface of the Earth. The society has outlawed sex, with drugs used to control the people. |
