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INTERSTANDING 3 BEYOND THE EDGE Escaping from Marginality Tallinn, November 23 - December 12, 1999 Final Programme, November 22, 1999 >From November 23 to December 12 1999 the Centre for Contemporary Arts Estonia, in co-operation with the Estonian Academy of Arts and various partners, will organise a series of international art and media events in Tallinn. INTERSTANDING3 is a follow-up event to the successful Interstanding 1 and Interstanding 2 conferences which took place in Tallinn in 1995 and 1997. INTERSTANDING1: Interstanding - Understanding Interactivity. International Interdisciplinary Conference on Computer Mediated Communication and Interactivity. The conference tried to create a coherent perspective on the social, cultural and economic implications of an emerging global infrastructure for computer-mediated communication and the interactive multi-media industry. The conference aimed to put these developments in perspective for the Baltic and neighboring countries. http://www.interstanding2.ee/i1/i1.html INTERSTANDING2: The focus of the events shifted towards the possible strategies and opportunities for the arts in the 'expanded field' of electronic media and the world-wide interconnected computer networks. Interstanding 2 addressed the possibilities and threats for free personal and cultural expression in the emerging information society. http://www.interstanding2.ee INTERSTANDING 3 will consist of separate layers of interrelated events: EXHIBITION / SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES / CONFERENCE / WORKSHOPS / SPECIAL EVENTS Programme Day to Day: >>>>>> Tuesday November 23 & Wednesday November 24 <<<<< Net.radio workshop guided by Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits - net.radio OZONE / E-lab (Riga) http://ozone.re-lab.net/ >>>>> Thursday November 25, 1999 <<<<<< 17.00 Rottermann's Salt Storage Arts Centre, Ahtri 2, Tallinn Interstanding Key Note Address: Saskia Sassen (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago) "The new geography of power in a global era" 19.00 Rottermann's Salt Storage Arts Centre Opening of the 6th Annual Exhibtion of the Center for Contemporary Art, Estonia "Interstanding - Beyond the Edge" November 26 - December 12, 1999 An international media-art exhibition in the Rotermann Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture. Participating artists: Zoe Beloff/USA, Luchezar Boyadijev/Bulgaria, Roza El-Hassan/Hungary, Jaanis Garancs/Latvia, Harwood/UK, Takahiko Iimura/Japan, Eduardo Kac/USA, Kai Kaljo/Estonia, Kiwa/Estonia, Adriene Jenik/USA, Marko Laimre/Estonia, Russet Lederman/USA, Zhao Liang/China, Tony Oursler, Constance DeJong&Stephen Vitiello/USA, Ervin �unapuu/Estonia, Zoltan Szegedy-Maszak&Márton Fernezelyi/Hungary, Telematic Workgroup (Benjamin Bachmann, Marcus Carl, Frank Fietzek, Jan Heise, Stefanie Körner, Matthias Lehnhardt, Stefan Rosendorf, Kirsten Rusche, Uli Winters)/Germany, Jon Thomson&Alison Craighead/UK, Mare Tralla/Estonia/UK, Cátálin Vastagu/Romenia, group Very Hopeful (Arvids Alksnis, Martins Ratniks, Dzintars Licis, Peteris Kimelis)/Latvia, Vesna Vesic/Yugoslavia 22.00 Mustpeade Maja, Pikk 26 CLUB Interstanding live acts: monophon (ger), elast (riga), uni, pastacas dj's: varka crew (riga), raul saaremets (rubu cru), erkki tero (side, heven), aivar tõnso (ulmeplaadid) video-mix by f5 art team (riga) & wireframe (tallinn) live internet broadcast by net radio ozone (e-lab, riga) <http://ozone.re-lab.net/live.ram> >>>> Friday November 26, 1999 <<<<<< Conference: "Beyond the Edge - Escaping from Marginality" Rottermann's Salt Storage Arts Centre, Ahtri 2, Tallinn 11.00 Welcome - Ando Keskküla & Katrin Kivimaa 11.15 Introduction - Eric Kluitenberg (Amsterdam) 11.30 Carl Biorsmarck (Locomotive, Riga) - Borderland 12.00 Luchezar Boyadjiev (Sofia) - <here@there.com> 12.30 BREAK 13.00 Graham Harwood (London) - Mongrel / National Heritage 13.45 Mike Riemel (Berlin) - Sub-culture-bizz-media - Rumours about open community ghetto's 14.30 BREAK 15.00 Linnar Viik (Tallinn) - Connectivity for Estonia 15.30 Pit Schultz (Berlin) - nettime: a model for distributed net discourse 16.15 - 17.00 Closing Discussion Day 1 Evening Programme Rottermann's Salt Storage Arts Centre, Ahtri 2, Tallinn 17.30 Artist Presentations: - Julia Friedman (Chicago) - Eduardo Kac's Genesis - Ravi Jain (Boston) -- Works >>>>>> Saturday November 27, 1999 <<<<<< Conference: "Beyond the Edge - Escaping from Marginality" Rottermann's Salt Storage Arts Centre, Ahtri 2, Tallinn 11.00 Stephen Kovats (New York) - Ostranenie 1993 - 1997 / Media Revolution 11.45 Marko Peljhan (Ljubljana) - Insular Technologies 12.30 BREAK 13.00 Katrin Kivimaa (Tallinn) - A (trans-)local critique 13.30 Hanno Soans (Tallinn) - Backdoor Media 14.00 Raivo Kelomees (Tallinn) - Media Non Grata 14.30 BREAK 15.00 Stephen Kovats - Wrap Up of Interstanding #3, followed by Closing Debate Moderated by Stephen Kovats & Eric Kluitenberg, With: Luchezar Boyadjiev, Ando Keskküla, Raivo Kelomees, Katrin Kivimaa, Marko Peljhan, Mike Riemel, Pit Schultz, Hanno Soans, and others? CONFERENCE THEME: BEYOND THE EDGE Escaping from Marginality A two-day conference in Tallinn, November 26 & 27 The conference will bring together critical ideas about art, media and the new international orders of culture and economy. Theme: Critical cultural activity has always identified itself with an existence at the edge of society, but that position has become increasingly dubious. Increasingly we seem to be living in a society without clear and fixed boundaries: A globally interconnected economic and social system with constantly shifting borders. Our time seems to be one of limitless possibility. Ideas and money travel at the speed of light through virtual networks, and capital can accumulate in boundless quantities. Our time also seems to be one of limitless brutality and violence (Rwanda / Kosovo). A time of limitless political transformation, where empires disintegrate without a clear reason (SU). A time also where new economies collapse even more quickly than they emerged (Asian Tigers). Where the dream of independent economic success is bought away by foreign investors overnight (Estonia and other newly 'emerging states'). The boundaries of society have become so fluid and open that any attempt to define what exists 'inside' and 'outside' of the social framework becomes irrelevant. The edge of culture can quickly be turned around into a profitable mainstream trend. The outsider becomes the trend-setter, the oblique the eccentric, the perverted the exclusive. Otherness is embraced as a market opportunity. Meanwhile, authoritarian politics implode, but re-emerge shortly after as if nothing ever happened (Juganov). The role of the avantgarde artist, finally, becomes a tragic joke. The advertisement industries have long understood the shock of the new, and make art look retrograde. The utopian visionaries have become entrenched in an increasingly self-referential art-scene that propagates itself through exclusive coffee-table books and glossy international art-zines. So, where is the edge? The third Interstanding "Beyond the Edge", should be understood as an attempt to get away from the clichés of what supposedly constitutes the edge in culture, in social live and in politics (be it regional or international). By leaving behind the false oppositions between "system" and "opposition", between mainstream and so-called sub-culture, it could also be an attempt to escape both repressive systems as well as a marginal existence 'at the edge'. The aim is to map out a new territory of culture, social live and power that reveals new opportunities and new discontinuities for critical cultural activity; inside society, as well as in the shifting constellations of the international community. It is necessary to map the new minefields, to avoid treading on a misplaced shell.... * SATELLITE EVENTS * - NYYD - International Contemporary Music Festival, Tallinn, November 23 - 29 - offline@online media art festival The 2nd editionof this festival, called "Media Non Grata", is organised in conjunction with Interstanding 3 by the E-Media Center, of the Estonian Academy of Arts, in Tallinn, November 25-26 Interstanding 3 - Editorial Team: - Sirje Helme - Ando Keskküla - Eric Kluitenberg (Amsterdam) - Stephen Kovats (Dessau / New York) ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress