[vorsicht] newsletter 5.0.2 (english)

Wed, 09 May 2001 10:39:21 +0200

METABOLICS//STOFFWECHSEL
NEWSLETTER 5.0.1 
http://www.linksverkehr.net/metabolics

TOC:

[1] METABOLICS#5 on 10th of May feat. Sebastian Luetgert,
Rafael Horzon, DJ Ran Huber
[2] METABOLICS special on 28th of May feat. Ricardo
Dominguez
[3] METABOLICS#6 on 14th of June feat. Auriea Harvey and
Michael Samyn
[4] Supplement to #2: 0100101110110101.org 
[5] Supplement to #2: Velimir Khlebnikov
[6] Supplement to #4: Geert Lovink
[7] Miscellaneous dates

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[1] METABOLICS//STOFFWECHSEL#5
Live stream: THU MAY 10 2001 20:00 + 0200  (MEST)
http://195.88.128.119:8080/ramgen/muffat/meta05/meta05.smi

The middle of Germany is Berlin. For ten years young people
coming from the german provinces to the inner city of Berlin
had time to riot and rampage in a deserted center of the
town. Now they are overhauled by tourists and the officials
of the start-up nation. The reconfiguration of Berlin is the
reinvention of Germany as a peaceful and civilized nation
headed by a new young and fashionable urban consumer elite.

On 10th of May three fabulous guys on the cutting edge of
Berlins netculture will be guests of METABOLICS#5 in
Muffathalle Munich: 

"One cannot make much, if one is not two". This is how
SEBASTIAN LUETGERT starts his "Introduction to a true
history of the Internet". Luetgert is nettime and
mikro-moderator, founder of rolux.org and the
DaimlerChrysler club, textz and project Gnutenberg, and last
but not least: "Last tuesday", a jour fixe in Berlins
"_lab", where people can "exchange mp3 files, beta-test new
viruses from Asia or vote for the most stupid new dot-com
brand".
http://www.rolux.org
http://rolux.org/intro
http://textz.gnutenberg.net/concept.php3
http://rolux.org/archive/archive.php3?message=805
http://rolux.org/archive/archive.php3?message=806

RAFAEL HORZON is CEO of the MODOCOM group and author of
books as "Be modern - Fit in your mind for the third
millenium (vol 1 + 2)" Horzon is a chronicler of the
dramatic changes in our times, but at the same time he
represents a driving force behind them. For the magazine
DE:BUG he writes a well known column about new marketing
strategies, trends and hypes coming from the german capital.
And with his own projects energetically he helped to create
the "New Mitte" of Berlin from both, the inside and the
outside. The "all-round rack", the only product of his
furniture chain store "Moebel Horzon", is utilized by
numerous start-up companies to arrange their ideas. Horzons
"Science Academy" is the innovative and challenging model
for the reorganisation of the educational sector. Next
september the modocom group will launch two new businesses:
a design center and a building company.
http://www.modocom.de

RAN HUBER escaped from a village in Upper Bavaria first to
Munich, then via Cologne to Berlin, where in the middle of
"New Mitte" he found again rural structures. Under the
slogan "amSTARt" he started a serie of concerts, which get
together bands from Munich and Berlin. His party-tips by
email and his column "the daily rape" are favourites of the
"Mitte"-community. As a DJ at METABOLICS#5 he brings the
soundtrack of the capital straight to Munich. 
http://www.ag-parka.de/amstart 
http://www.dorfdisco.de/stories/dailyrape.html

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[2] METABOLICS//STOFFWECHSEL#5.1

We are very glad to announce, that on May 28th a special of
METABOLICS//STOFFWECHSEL will happen in Muffathalle: By
actual reason Ricardo Dominguez, godfather of "Hacktivism"
and cofounder of the "Electronic desobedience theatre"
<http://www.thing.net/~rdom> will take part in a special
event about electronic protest and online demonstrations,
net activism and the "deportation-class" campaign:
http://www.deportation-alliance.com

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[3] METABOLICS//STOFFWECHSEL#6

METABOLICS//STOFFWECHSEL#6 takes place on 14th of  June. The
subject is "Broadband"
featuring the star designers and net artists Michael Samyn
und Auriea Harvey from Gent in Belgium. 
http://www.entropy8zuper.org

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[4] Your Query: 01 0 results found in 1 document

 You can do a lot, if you are two: 0100101110110101.org must
have send an e-mail to themselves and found some replies on
their life shared website. If you enjoyed their lecture at
Metabolics#2, you will find more dialogueism in
"Anti-Post-Net Art - A self-interview of
www.0100101110110101.org" 

http://www.0100101110110101.org/0100101110110101-self-interview.txt  

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[5] "Let air travel and wireless communication be the two
legs humanity stands on. And let's see what the consequences
will be" (Velimir Khlebnikov)

If there is anybody as influential as streamline visionary
Buckminster Fuller for Makrolab, then it is the Russian
Avant-Garde poet Velimir Khlebnikov. To share the
fascination for the "charming and irresistible mixture of
archaic futurology and an uncannily contemporary vision",
which a rhapsodizing Marko Peljhan brought to Metabolics#2,
you have to go to a library. But, at least, we can give you
an extract (in German only): 

Himmelsbücher 

"Auf den Plätzen in der Nähe der Gärten, in denen die
Arbeiter oder, wie sie sich nannten, Schaffenden der Ruhe
pflegten, ragten hohe, weiße Mauern empor, die an große, am
schwarzen Himmel aufgeschlagene Bücher erinnerten. Davor
standen, dicht gedrängt, die Scharen des Volks, während die
Gemeinschaft der Schaffenden in Schattenschrift die neuesten
Nachrichten in die Schattenbücher druckte, indem sie mit dem
leuchtenden Auge einer Laterne Schattenbuchstaben an die
Wände warf. Neuigkeiten vom Erdball, das Geschehen in den
Vereinigten Staaten von Asien, diesem mächtigen Bund aus
Schaafensgemeinschaften, Gedichte, die plötzliche Eingebung
eines Mitglieds, wissenschaftliche Neuigkeiten, Nachrichten
von lieben Anverwandten, Verordnungen der Ratsversammlung.
So mancher zog sich, beflügelt von den Aufschriften an den
Schattenwänden, für eine Weile zurück, um seine Eingebungen
zu notieren, worauf diese eine halbe Stunde später, durch
ein Lichtglas geworfen, in Schattenworten an einer der Wände
aufleuchteten. Bei trübem Wetter benützte man die Wolken zum
Abdruck der neuesten Nachrichten. Einige baten, sterbend,
man möge die Nachricht von ihrem Tod in die Wolken
schreiben. An Festtagen wurde ein "Malen mit Gewehrsalven"
veranstaltet. Geschosse mit verschiedenfarbigem Rauch wurden
an verschiedene Punkte des Himmels abgefeuert. Etwa, die
Augen - ein Blitz aus blauem Rauch, die Lippen - ein Schuß
aus Blutrotem Rauch, die Haare - Silbernebel. Ein plötzlich
am wolkenlosen Blau des Himmels erscheinendes, vertraute
Gesicht barchte die Ehrerbietung der Bevölkerung für ihren
Führer zum Ausdruck." 

Makrolabs introduction to Khlebnikov: 
http://makrolab.ljudmila.org/reports/pgp.html  

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[6] The Rise and Fall of Dotcom.mania: Cyberculture in the
Internet economy

Geert Lovinks text on the Dotcom.mania, which he presented
in parts at Metabolics#4, is published in the Sarai Reader
01, including his exciting analogy between dotcoms and the
Communist party: 

"Forget business magazines such as Red Herring, Fast
Company, Wired and Business 2.0 and their religious
positivism. Perhaps with the exception of the
www.thestandard.com, the Watchtowers of the New Economy have
willingly been blind after what happened in the aftermath of
the April 2000 NASDAQ downfall. The resemblance with
Communist party news media in the former Eastern Bloc is
remarkable: organized optimism, neglect of basic figures
mixed with portraits of heroes, achieving miraculous
breakthroughs at the forefront of financial schemes. Dotcom
propagandists keep on repeating their mantra of bankruptcy
as a spiritually cleansing experience, hoping that the storm
won't be that bad after all."

Read on: 
http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader1.htm 
PDF-Download: 
http://www.sarai.net/journal/pdf/109-116%20(dotcom).pdf

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[7] Miscellaneous dates

On 11th of May is the opening of "inSITEout" an exhibition
about real and virtual spaces
http://www.lothringer13.de

On 12th of May:  inSITEout-talk mit Zoran Pantelic
(apsolutno),  Wapke Feenstra, Angela Dorrer and Volker 
Möllenhoff.  "Moonshine Smile" (Présentation d'un film en
cours). Performance feat. Mourad Cherait, Nicolas Fernandez
and Stephen Waddell.

On 16th of May Konrad Becker from Vienna (public netbase)
will give a talk in Lothringer13: 
http://www.medienforum-muenchen.de/veranstaltung/2001/publicnetbase.html

On 29th of May Pit Schulz from Berlin, co-founder of nettime
and currently involved in "klubradio" will come to
Lothringer13 and talk about internet "after the hype".

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