Net Community Hacks Cultural Funding System

Vienna, 2 May 2006

“Our much-discussed, game-theory-oriented approach to cultural funding represents a clear rejection of all the Austrian cultural industry’s hegemonic tendencies,” states MANA coordinator Stefan Lutschinger: “This hack of the outmoded jury and committee system opposes every rationalistic funding cut with pure difference, contingency coping and the fruitful development of paradox.”

East German utopia stories from the 70's collected and converted into spoken words by Lars Loick. Music mixed by Joerg Lohse. Please enjoy.

Part 1
Part 2

You can't do anything in New York without being fashionably late, so I caught up with the March for Peace organized by United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) at Canal on my way into the city from good ol' Bklyn around 1pm.

New video performance work by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir on DVblog

This video is the first in a series of forthcoming performance-art videos by Peppermint & Nadir which engage issues, ideas, and mythologies of the American concepts of wilderness, space, the frontier, and humans’ ethical relation to animals, forestlands, and nature.

http://restlessculture.net/practicalperformance/

Join May Day Virtual Sit-In! All Day Long.

Bodies On-line and Bodies in the Street Together.

NO ILLEGAL BORDERS! NO ILLEGAL LAWS!

CLICK HERE*CLIQUEN AQUI
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/MayDay2006/Start.html

The Electronic Disturbance Theater and the borderlands Hacklab call for a
virtual strike in solidarity with the May 1st General Strike / Walkout /
Boycott in the US and actions for Freedom of Movement taking place all over

From: "Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Political Action"


The war in Iraq has now lasted longer than the entire Korean War. Yet, our political leadership in Washington continues on the same disastrous course. We need a new direction that will bring our troops home.

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 29th, there is a massive "March for Peace,
Justice and Democracy" in New York City organized by United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) to demonstrate against the war.

http://www.hyfntrak.com/neilyoung2/AFF23252/

European Cultural Policies 2015: A Report with Scenarios on the Future of Public Funding for Contemporary Art in Europe

A collaboration between Iaspis, eipcp and åbäke

http://www.eipcp.net/

From the introduction:

In 2015 art is almost completely instrumentalised in the economic sense, regardless of whether financing is private or public. Art then services either national or European interests that wish to construct a certain identity: it is a desirable marketable commercial good for private ownership and it contributes to regional development and provides society with new creative employment opportunities.

Congratulations are in order for Matthew Coolidge, director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) and winner of the 2006 SAAM Lucelia Artist Award. The Center is a bold choice, if only for the obvious fact that an institution is a tricky pick for an artist award. But that’s what makes Coolidge’s organization such a compelling project—CLUI straddles the borders distinguishing artist and collective, observer and activist, micro and macro.