february 2004 makeworld paper#4 n/NEURO-networkinge europe THURSDAY 26-2-2004 FRIDAY 27-2-2004 SATURDAY 28-2-2004 SUNDAY 29-2-2004 18:00 MET Kunstarkaden 18:00 MET Muffathalle 11:00 MET Cafe 11:00 MET Cafe NEURO_STREAM Vernissage »Remaking Destiny« by NEURO_OPENING Greetings by Fred Schell NEURO_LOUNGE Breakfast with bavarian veal NEURO_LOUNGE Save image as? Matinee about Shahidul Alam (BD), »Der neue Mensch« by Armin (Managing Director, JFF, Munich), Renate Schmidt sausages compression, conservation and restauration of mov- Smailovic (DE), »Mobile« by Michaela Melián (DE) (German minister for youth, Berlin), Director Joao ing images with Enno Patalas (DE), Sebastian and videoinstallations by Ivan Grubanov (YU) Vale de Almeida (European Commission Directorate 13:00 MET Muffathalle Luetgert (DE) and Ralph Giles (GB) General for Education and Culture, Brussels), NEURO_PITCH New border review: The western Thomas Krueger (President of the Federal center for enlargement of east europe: Presentations by 13:00 MET Muffathalle political education, Bonn). Mama (HR), Cyberpipe (SI), Ljudmila (SI), RIXC NEURO_PITCH Tools for collaboration: Crowd LOCATIONS (LV), KUDA (YU), D MEDIA (RO) and many more Compiler, GForge, Fluter, OPENMUTE, Reboot FM, Muffathalle, Zellstr. 4, 81667 Muenchen 19:30 MET Muffathalle V2V, TamTam, TEXTZ.COM, XIPH.ORG Kunstarkaden des Kulturreferats der NEURO_TALK Networking against exclusion Shahidul 14:00 MET Cafe Landeshauptstadt Muenchen, Sparkassenstrasse. Alam (BD), Annetta Kahane (DE), Geert Lovink NEURO_TALK Female, young, migrant: Biopolitical 14:00 MET Cafe 3, 80331 Muenchen (NL), Florian Schneider (DE) researches on the transformations of labor: NEURO_TALK Social ontologies of open source: Die Bank, Muellerstrasse 42, 80468 Muenchen Precarias (ES), Valery Rey Alzaga (US), Thomas Strategic considerations and tactical collaborations 21:00 MET Cafe Atzert (DE), Nicholas Bell (FR), Andrew Paterson by David Berry (GB), Manse Jacobi (LB), Roland NEURO_TALK Civil society goes Empire: Critical (LV) and more Mas (FR), Giles Moss (GB), Alan Toner (IR) reflections by Andrej Grubacic, Joanne Richardson, BACKGROUND Soenke Zehle 15:00 MET Muffathalle 15:00 MET Muffathalle From February 27th to 29th young artists, filmmak- NEURO_LOUNGE Brothers Keepers: Presentation by NEURO_PITCH Migrations: APABIZ (DE), Collectif ers, musicians, theorists and activists from all over Precipite (FR), D-A-S-H (DE), Al-Jwarizmi (ES), Europe and many other parts of the world meet at Kanak Attac (DE), myBrandenburg (DE), THE VOICE the Muffathalle in Munich for NEURO; a number of FORUM (DE) events, speeches, discussions, presentations, per- formances, concerts and actions reflecting the 16:00 MET Cafe pulse of the age. About two years after the first NEURO_TALK Freedom of movement: Sandro make-world festival, NEURO will again interface with Mezzadra (IT), Manuela Bojadzijev (DE) current debates around migration and mobility, racism and nationalism, civil society and global 17:00 MET Muffathalle mobilisation, networking and new technologies, Ade Odukoya (DE) NEURO_PITCH Label-Talk: Bomb Mitte, DiskoB, informatisation and precarious labour, education 21:00 MET Muffathalle Kompakt, Loca-Records, Miklataklitim, Source and control society, common organising, and digital NEURO_LOG KIOSK for useful knowledge, Berlin 16:00 MET Cafe Records culture. (DE) featuring: Drazen Pantic (US) and Micz Flor NEURO_TALK The making of: The general intellect. (DE), Ted Byfield (US) and Zeljko Blace (HR) Round-table-talk with Ted Byfield (US), Antonio 18:00 MET Cafe But NEURO is not only a conference, nor is it just a Conti (IT), Thorsten Schilling (DE), Dieter NEURO_TALK Constitutive practices: Closing debate fair or a conventional festival. Rather it is a place 21:30 MET Muffathalle Schlönvoigt (DE), Jacqueline Ann Stevens (US) on ad-hoc-networking and virtual organising for three days of collaboration and common produc- NEURO_STREAM Random_Inc, Frankfurt (DE) tion. The challenge is to commonly use existing 17:00 MET Muffathalle 19:00 MET Muffathalle technological possibilities and to reclaim new forms 23:00 MET Muffathalle NEURO_PITCH Radical image exposures: Project NEURO_CINEMA The Corporation, Mark of a public that stays outside of the metaphors of NEURO_LOUNGE Open code: Conversations presentations by AgoraXchange (US), CandidaTV Achbar/Jennifer Abbott/Joel Bakan, Canada, 2003, market and open-plan office and that does not dif- between Thomas Meinecke, Munich (DE) and David (IT), Egoboo.Bits (HR), Ivan Grubanov (YU), 145 min ferentiate between production and reception, cre- Moufang/Move_D, Heidelberg (DE) Hackitectura (ES), Bruno Kuhlmann (D), Dunia ation and distribution. NEURO is about a critical, Kukovec (SI), Sebastian Lütgert (DE), Undercurrents 22:00 MET Cafe connected practice and a practical critique of net- (GB), Zalea TV (FR) and more NEURO_LOUNGE Data Pop: Tobias Thomas, Koeln working: to present the results of present projects in D-A-S-H EUROPE (DE) and Ralph Christoph, Koeln (DE) order to make them available beyond the occasion 18:00 MET Cafe of this event, to discuss new ideas, plan and start NEURO--NETWORKING EUROPE has invited over 250 NEURO_CINEMA I love you all, Eyal Sivan, common project. people to come to munich: they are coming from France/Germany, 2003, 89 min Helsinki to Sevilla, from Dublin to Bukarest, Belarus Exhibitions First of all, NEURO stands for »Networking Europe«. to South Italy and have gathered valuable experi- 19:00 MET Muffathalle Parallel to the activities in Muffathalle NEURO is Only a few weeks before the official eastern ences in handling new media and technologies, in NEURO_STREAM Bukaka says: Another war is possi- presenting exhibitions and installations in the enlargement of the European Union, the central order to engage themselves politically, to exchange ble! Videoperformance by Publix Theatre Caravan, gallery »Kunstarkaden«, Sparkassenstrasse 3, near question concerns, at what point are the driving and network with each other. Wien (AT) Marienplatz (Open from 11 am to 7pm): powers of a virtual europe relating to each other, where the traces of this association runs and how NEURO will be opened with the launch of the 20:00 MET Cafe REMAKING DESTINY, a foto-exhibition and installa- they can be bundled into creative alliances. Though Internet-Platform D-A-S-H, which will be started on NEURO_TALK Crisis of representation and politics of tion by Shahidul Alam, fotografer from Dhaka, not an end in itself, networking is now raising more the 27th of February 2004 by the JFF, Institut for space: Presentations by Eyal Sivan (FR) and Brian Bangladesh, is about the expectations, dreams, than ever questions that cannot be answered at Mediaeducation in Research and Practice, after Holmes (FR) duties and needs that circumscribe the life of a straightaway: What does networking actually mean almost one year of preperation and in cooperation migrant. nowadays? What does networking have to do with with european youth initiatives and with support of 21:00 MET Muffathalle freedom of movement? How do social movements the EU-Commission as well as the federal youth NEURO_STREAM Dead News, videoinstallation, DER NEUE MENSCH, a foto exhibition by Armin network? Or: how can technologies be used in ways ministry. Yanoon, Yanoon music- and video performance by Smailovic, fotografer from Berlin, maps the path- that they don't just change the self but the com- Eran Sachs, Aviad Albert, Ariel Efron, Niv Hachlili, ways of struggles around migration, movements and monality ? How do we conceptualise the common NEURO is presented by Multitude e.V., Muffathalle dispara!, shuffle, Jerusalem (IL) networking. that is created in and through networks whilst not and »D-A-S-H -- networking against exclusion«, a being reducible to them? Ten years after the start project of the JFF, Institut for mediaeducation in 21:00 MET Muffathalle A GUY I KNOW and THE CAGES are videoinstalla- of the internet boom, the crisis of the idea of net- Research and practice. With kind support of the NEURO_LOG KIOSK for useful knowledge, Berlin tions by Ivan Grubanov, artist from Belgrade. works is long overdue. Alongside the collapse of the program of action »Youth for tolerance and democ- (DE) featuring: Sandro Mezzadra (IT) and Geert new markets, the bombastic constructions about racy - against right winged extremism, xenophobia Lovink, James Stevens (GB) and Micz Flor (DE), MOBILE is an installation by Michaela Melian, artist media art, media theory and media activism have and antisemitism«, the program YOUTH of the Franco Bifo Berardi (IT) and Valery Rey Alzaga (US) from Berg, near Munich. MOBILE consists of 59 fallen like a house of cards. Nevertheless, in the European Union, the Federal Institute for Political oval panes of plexiglass, printed with sections of ensuing impasse, a new generation of media and Education and the Rosa Luxemburg foundation. 23:00 MET Muffathalle faces or items related to them taken from the IDEN- networking initiatives have formed and taken NEURO_LOUNGE Friendly noise in collaboration TIKIT program run by the State criminal bureau. onboard the discussion and reflection on everyday with Reboot.FM, Berlin (DE) feat.: Meme (UK), life, and new tasks, methods, functions, challenges Markus Hablizel (DE) and perspectives. Content MAKEWORLDS (2) 03 The Withering of Civil Society NAME 05 Notes on the State of Networking NEURO -- networking europe 07 Electronic Markets and activist networks 09 From Utopia to networks DATE 10 Struggle, event, media