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Palais Lichtenstein, Fürstengasse 1 A-1090 Wien

14.00 -15.30: HYPERDEMOCRACY

ab 21.00: RAVE GEGEN RECHTS

mit DJ Pita, DJ Tin A 303, DJ Pure, Xaos und Konrad Becker, "Sensation" Live

Zero News Update 1. 5. 1995:

Ms.Guidance on E-Text and online books

Zero News Update 23. 4.1995:

Finally the transcripts of the opening events with Peter Lamborn Wilson, Derrick De Kerckhove and Mitsuhiro Takemura are available.
Also a long diskussion between Hakim Bey and users of Public Netbase.

with Konrad Becker, Heidi Grundmann, Margarete Jahrman, Franz Manola, Markus Wailand and others.

Tuesday 25.4.1995 18 hours
Cafe Stein Währingerstr. 6-8 Vienna A-1090

Ideas Futures
Ringo++
Public Netbase

(from ORF press release)

First Prize: Ideas Futures http://skyler.arc.ab.ca/~jamesm/IF/IF.shtml
Although it was not formally entered among the contestants, the jury felt
compelled to propose IF for the first prize because it fulfilled the
criteria of webness, distributed presence, community forming and
supporting, powerful metaphorical value, and creation of sustainable
virtual entities. The artistic content of IF may not be evident at first
sight. But it is a model of a self organizing realtime collective
thinking and information processing system. It deals with our collective
creative power which is one of the best areas of creativity there is.

IF is a working model of our future where scientific claims and artistic
projects are treated as futures on the mercantile exchange system. Users
buy and sell futures on these ideas. This is a new model for funding
ventures and research programs. Like e-money but with much more
complexity, this site is the best collective forward thinking process the
jury has encountered on the web.

Second Prize: Ringo++ http://ringo.media.mit.edu/
Ringo is one of the most interesting social experiments that is available
to anybody who accesses the web. A model of your musical taste, based on
the preselection of your favorite artists allows Ringo to suggest other
artists you may enjoy or wish to avoid. The system can compare your
model with those of other users with whom you can then communicate on the
basis of shared musical interest; complex group tastes profiles can be
compiled and featured on-line.

Third Prize: t0 - Public Netbase http://web.t0.or.at/t0/
The importance of Netzines as a category cannot be overestimated.
However the criteria to differentiate between simple magazines on-line
and truly weblike varieties must include user input coupled with a self
organizing database that works either on the chatline or the conference
basis. Public Netbase was selected for three reasons.
1. It was closer to the arts than a netzine like Hotwired, for example,
2. It was more interactive than Tightrope
3. Thanks to its hypermail concept, allowing users to send linked input
using ordinary e-mail protocols it was conceptually closer to the heart
than anything else we had seen in the zineworld.

Opening Events Public Netbase:

PETER LAMBORN WILSON (USA)
"Temporary Autonomous Zone", "Sacred Drift"

Co-editor of Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia, one of the most interesting publishing houses in the US. Author of studies in cultural science, radio personality and political activist. The popular writer of the postindustrial network culture is an untamed intellectual explorer at the fringes of everyday life.
"Fascinating..." William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker: "Deadcool.", Rudy Rucker: "Hard-core Dada-Surrealism...", Church of the SubGenius: "this has made us think...", Bob Black: "Tell it to the judge...", Allan Ginsberg: "exquisite..."

Saturday, 18.3. 1995
16.30 - 19.00 hours, Depot
Afternoon talk with PETER LAMBORN WILSON

Tuesday, 28. 3. 1995
19.00 hours, Depot

DERRICK DE KERCKHOVE (Canada)
Director of the Mc Luhan Institute for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. His works on the effects of communication-media on the human nervous system include "Brainframes" and "The Alphabet and the Brain".

MITSUHIRO TAKEMURA (Japan)
New Media expert at Kyoto University, festival and exhibition curator. Member of the Board of InterCommunication Center Quarterly (ICC) Tokyo. Advisor to major telecommunication and media companies. Numerous publications on media esthetics and popular culture.

Monday 20.3. 1995
18.00 - 19.00 hours, Depot
Public Netbase registration and introduction
As of 20.3. 1995 every Monday 18.00 hours and by appointment

Public Netbase t0 @ Depot

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