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CONT3XT.NET.NEWS #02.07
CULTURE | INFORMATION | MEDIA | FRUITS OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Via: "benjamin"

Via: Jodi Hanel

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Werkleitz News #02 / 30.01.07
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1) Workshops Februar/März - *Special
2) Visiting Artist: Curtis Burz
3) Berlinale Weltpremière: The "Halfmoon Files" von Philipp Scheffner
4) "A Spiritual Journey" von Peter Zorn in Magdeburg


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1) Workshops Februar/März - *Special


Filmkritik – Mit Filmen denken und schreiben
23. - 25. Februar
Dozentin: Wenke Wegner
Teiln.: 10 - 20, Kursgeb.: 80,- / 60,- erm.

Was heißt Filmkritik? Filme bewerten, Daumen hoch, Daumen runter?
Oder geht es nicht vielmehr um eine Auseinandersetzung mit Film
in einem anderen Medium, ein Weiterdenken des Films, ein Beschreiben
von Gefühlen und von Beobachtungen, ein Assoziieren auf der Basis
bewegte Bilder und Töne. Im Mittelpunkt des Workshops steht das
Verfassen eigener Texte. Um dem eigenen Schreiben einen Hintergrund
zu geben, werden Grundkenntnisse der Geschichte der Filmkritik vermittelt
und Texte wichtiger Filmkritiker untersucht. Das gemeinsame Sichten von
Filmen und Filmausschnitten bildet den Ausgangspunkt für das Verschriftlichen
eigener Beobachtungen.



* Einmalige Gelegenheit: Workshop mit Hans Beller!

Theorie der Filmmontage - Vom klassischen Filmschnitt zur digitalen
Postproduktion
Dozent: Prof. Hans Beller, Autor des "Handbuch der Filmmontage"
2.-4. März
Teiln.: 8 - 20, Kursgeb.: 80,- / 60,- erm.

Seit den 90iger Jahren veränderte sich die Arbeitswelt der Cutter und
Editoren durch die Möglichkeiten digitaler Schnittsysteme teilweise
radikal. Wie beeinflussen Digital Cut, Compositing und nonlineares Editing
die arbeitstechnischen, gestalterischen und dramaturgischen Strategien der
Montage? Welche Möglichkeiten sind neu hinzugekommen, welche Erfahrungen
der handwerklich haptischen Filmmontage sind noch heute gültig?
Was haben rough cuts, direct editing und jump cuts mit veränderten
Sehgewohnheiten zu tun? Was hat sich unabhängig von technologischer
Innovation verändert? Welche Irrtümer von ehemals ehernen Regeln sind
überholt, wie z.B. the holy three und der unsichtbare Schnitt? Was haben
heutige Montagemuster auch mit den Vorgaben veränderter Kameraführung zu tun,
wie z.B. slam camera, whamo camera? Wie verändert sich die Schnittfrequenz
in den letzten Jahren. Dabei geht es sowohl im fiktionalen als auch im non-
fiktionalen Bereich um die Mikroanalyse von Sequenzen und um die Makroanalyse
der Gesamtdramaturgie durch Montage.
Der Workshop vermittelt gestalterische und theoretische Kenntnisse indem
klassische und neue Methoden der Filmmontage gegenübergestellt und an Hand
von Filmausschnitten aus der Film- und Fernsehgeschichte veranschaulicht.
Der Workshop richtet sich an alle interessierten Medienschaffenden, deren
Motivation über das operating der Schittsoftware hinausgeht, die sich
editing solutions nicht von der Software vorgeben lassen, sondern selber
reflektieren. Und an alle die Freude an der Kunst der Filmmontage haben.

Anmeldeschluss ist jeweils 14 Tage vor Workshopbeginn.
Anmeldeformular (pdf-download):
http://www.werkleitz.de/html_de/w_anmeld.html


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2) Visiting Artist: Curtis Burz
- Gespräche, Präsentationen, Diskussionen

Mo, 26. Februar, 19.30 Uhr
Curtis Burz

Re:Konstruktion

Curtis Burz' aktuelles Filmprojekt zeugt von seiner Faszination für
Lebensdramen jenseits des Erzählbaren. Zusammengestellt aus alten,
zum Teil mysteriös anmutenden Bildern, gefundenen Texten und Erinnerungen
rekonstruiert er Lebensgeschichten und Künstlerbiografien, die mitunter
explizit durchlittene Tabubrüche thematisieren. Seine filmische Heran-
gehensweise basiert auf der Methodik von Stanislawski, Vassiliy und Grotowski,
d.h. er bedient sich rein improvisierten Szenen und Interviews, Skizzen und
Entwürfen. Curtis Burz zeigt Ausschnitte seiner "re:konstruierten" Portraits
und präsentiert eine kurze Auswahl aus seinem Schaffen als Filmautor und Regisseur.

Eintritt frei.
Schleifweg 6, 06114 Halle (Saale)


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3) Berlinale Weltpremière: The "Halfmoon Files" von Philipp Scheffner

Philip Scheffners neuer Film "The Halfmoon Files" wird seine Premiere während der
Berlinale im Internationalen Forum des Jungen Films erleben. Der Film wurde letztes
Jahr mit einer Projektförderung von der Werkleitz Gesellschaft unterstützt.
Philip Scheffner folgt in seiner knapp 90minütigen experimentellen Spurensuche
"The Halfmoon Files" den Stimmen auf alten Schellackplatten von ehemaligen indischen
Kriegsgefangenen aus dem ersten Weltkrieg an den Ort ihrer Aufnahme: der Stadt Wünsdorf
bei Berlin und von dort nach Indien. Wie in einem Memoryspiel, das bis zum Ende
unvollständig bleibt, deckt er Bilder und Töne auf, in denen die Geister der
Vergangenheit zum Leben erwachen.
http://www.pong-berlin.de

Berlinale Termine :
14.02.07 16:00 CinemaxX5 (press screening) EN
16.02.07 15:00 CineStar 8 EN Urauffuehrung
17.02.07 13:00 Cubix 7 GER
18.02.07 20:00 Arsenal GER

EN: englisch untertitelte Version
GER: deutsch untertitelte Version


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4) "A Spiritual Journey" von Peter Zorn in Magdeburg

Dienstag, 06.02.2007, 19 Uhr

Auf der augenzwinkernden Suche nach Erleuchtung und Wegen abseits
konventioneller Religionen reist der Filmemacher durch Südindien und
besucht dort Orte wie den heiligen Berg Shivas, die Theosophische
Geselllschaft, die Krishanmurti Foundation und Auroville, die Stadt der
Zukunft.
Die Werkleitz Moving Spirits Produktion: "A Spiritual Journey" von Peter Zorn
wird am in Magdeburg in Anwesenheit von Regisseur und Kameramann gezeigt.

Veranstalter:
Totale bis Close Up -Der Filmabend mit Gespräch- Café Frösi (FH)
Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (FH)
Fachbereich Kommunikation und Medien
Bereich Journalistik/Medienmanagement
Haus 1
Breitscheidstr. 2
39114 Magdeburg


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Werkleitz News #02 / 30.01.07
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1) Visiting Artist: Curtis Burz
2) Berlinale Weltpremière: The Halfmoon Files"
Philipp Scheffner
3) "A Spiritual Journey" by Peter Zorn in Magdeburg


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1) Visiting Artist: Curtis Burz
- Talks, Discussions, Presentations

Mon January 26th, 7.30 pm.
Curtis Burz

Re:Construction

Curtis Burz' current film project reflects his fascination for life's
dramas beyond the narrative. From old, at times mysteriously looking
images, found texts and memories he reconstructs life histories and
artist biographies that also thematise lived through breaks with taboos.
His filmic approach is based on the methods of Stanislawski, Vassiliy
und Grotowski, with other words he uses solely improvised scenes and
interviews, sketches and drafts. Curtis Burz shows exerts from his
"re:constructed" portraits and presents selection of his works as a film
author and director.


Admission free. (The talk is to be held in German.)
Schleifweg 6, 06114 Halle (Saale)


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2) Philipp Scheffners "The Halfmoon Files" - premiering at Berlinale!

Philip Scheffners new film "The Halfmoon Files" is to be seen at his première during
the International Berlinale Filmfestival at the International Forum for Young Film.
The production of the film was supported by Werkleitz Gesellschaft last year.
http://www.pong-berlin.de


Screening dates: The Halfmoon Files
14.02.07 16:00 CinemaxX5 (press screening) EN
16.02.07 15:00 CineStar 8 EN Première
17.02.07 13:00 Cubix 7 GER
18.02.07 20:00 Arsenal GER

EN: English subtitled version
GER: German subtitled version


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3) "A Spiritual Journey" by Peter Zorn in Magdeburg

Tuesday, 6th of February, 7 pm.

“A Spiritual Journey” is a humorous reminiscence about generations of travellers
coming to India in search of spiritual enlightenment.
The Werkleitz Moving Spirits Production: "A Spiritual Journey" by Peter Zorn
will be shown in presence of the author and cameraman in Magdeburg.

Venue:
Café Frösi (FH)
Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (FH)
Fachbereich Kommunikation und Medien
Bereich Journalistik/Medienmanagement
Haus 1
Breitscheidstr. 2
39114 Magdeburg


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Via: Brunhild Bushoff

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..Deadline for interactive narrative projects in development: Feb 10 .......
..sagasnet....MEDIA 2007....................................................

Via: "Escha Romain"

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Love City - a mobile phone game between three cities
Thursday 1st February 2007, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (free wine from 5.30pm)

Love City is the new mobile phone game by Active Ingredient set to get
hearts racing across the East Midlands on 14 February 2007. Players
send messages of love between Nottingham, Derby and Leicester.

At this Salon Rachel Jacobs, co-creator of Love City, will talk about
the project and Active Ingredient before the game's launch on
Valentine's Day.

Text LOVE to 07785 200 350 to register for free updates about the game
or email play@lovecity.tv


Links:

Love City website - http://www.lovecity.tv

Active Ingredient - http://www.i-am-ai.net

Via: CULTURETV

Via: Tatiana Bazzichelli

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Presentation of the book: Networking | The Net as an Artwork
@ Transmediale, Sunday 4/2, 16:00, Salon
Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin, D
http://www.transmediale.de/site/salon+M5aa228131cd.html

moderated by: Diana McCarty [de]
with Tatiana Bazzichelli [it/de], Jaromil [it/nl], Gaia Novati [it/de]

Networking | The Net as an Artwork
Written by Tatiana Bazzichelli, with the preface of Derrick De Kerckhove
and the epilogue of the Italian videoartist Simonetta Fadda.
http://www.networkingart.eu

The book represents a first tentative to write a comprehensive history
of both analog and digital subcultural networked art in Italy, through
an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have
given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies - such as
Mail Art, Neoism, the Luther Blissett project, BBS culture, Telestreets,
and many other subcultural movements and networks.

The Italian network proposes a form of critical information, diffused
through independent and collective projects. Active in underground
environments, they use diverse media (computers, video, television,
radio and magazines) and deal with technological experimentation, or
hacktivism, depending on the terminology used in Italy, where the
political component is a central theme.

The book describes how in Italian subculture there was never a divide
between artistic and political activism, covering the evolution of the
Italian net culture from the Eighties till today. The book shelds light
onto the affinity of 1980s Mail Art manifesto to post-1990s Internet
culture, up to its terminology of artists as "network operators" and art
as a "network-web", the political redefinition of the term "Cyberpunk"
in early 1990s in Italy, the mutation of Cyberfeminism into Netporn
activism, and presents the works of many artists and activists, such as
0100101110101101.ORG, [epidemiC], Jaromil, Giacomo Verde, Giovanotti
Mondani Meccanici, Correnti Magnetiche, Candida TV, Tommaso Tozzi,
Federico Bucalossi, Massimo Contrasto, Mariano Equizzi, Pigreca,
Molleindustria, Guerriglia Marketing, Sexyshock, Phag Off and many others.

Networking | The Net as an Artwork, is printed on paper (Costa & Nolan
publisher, Milan, Novembrer 2006, pag. 336), but it is also available
online under:
http://www.networkingart.eu (Creative Commons License)
ENG: http://www.networkingart.eu/download_eng.html

Via: Dropping Knowledge

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From: newsletter@droppingknowledge.org

three free voices on life after capitalism

This was the week of the world forums. The World Economic Forum 2007 in
Davos started on January 24 and will last until Monday 28, 2007. This
annual meeting is characterized by growing business participation. This
year 800 of the 2,400 participants are chief executives or chairmen.
The participants will address this year’s theme “The Shifting Power
Equation”.

The theme of the 7th annual World Social Forum this week in Nairobi was
“People’s Struggles, People’s Alternatives”. The World Social Forum is
expanding democratic spaces for those seeking concrete, sustainable and
progressive alternatives to globalization. 

Both conferences triggered us to think about the question: “What’s
after capitalism?” Take a look at how some of our participants at
September’s Table of Free Voices answered the question. Then share your
own thoughts on the subject on www.droppingknowledge.org

Anthony Arnove is one of the most fearless of the younger generation of
American cultural commentator and activitists.

See Anthony Arnove's full video answer and transcript
http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/posts/focus/16465.page

Anuradha Mittal is the founder and director of The Oakland Institute, a
policy think tank dedicated to key social, economic, environmental and
foreign policy issues.

See Anuradha Mittal's full video answer and transcript
http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/posts/focus/18832.page

Mohau Pheko established Motheo Integrity Consultants to deliver
economic and social research to parliamentarians, women’s organisations
and civil servants.

See Mohau Pheko's full video answer and transcript
http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/posts/focus/19407.page

Over 100 more answers to this question can be found in The Table of
Free Voices Archive. Also be sure to check out how Table participants
answered questions like “Why is it socially acceptable to hoard wealth
while so many go without basic needs?” or “Does our wealth depend on
the 3rd world being poor?”

dropping knowledge in 2007

dropping knowledge invites you to stay active and drop your knowledge
in 2007. We are planning many exciting events and projects for this
year. A documentary film about the Table of Free Voices event will be
produced and more Tables are in the works. Stay tuned for more details.

If you don't want to receive any dropping knowledge newsletters
anymore, please unsubscribe by clicking here

Via: "Turbulence"

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January 25, 2007
"3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence"
Essays by Josphine Bosma, Belén Gache, and Eduardo Navas

Turbulence.org and New Media Fix (http://newmediafix.net) are pleased to
announce the publication of "3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence," three
texts about works from the Turbulence.org archive. The texts--published in
English, Italian and Spanish--were written and translated by members and
affiliates of New Media Fix. They include "The Body in Turbulence" by
Josephine Bosma; "Narrating with New Media: What Happened with Whatever has
Happened?" by Belén Gache; and "Turbulence: Remixes + Bonus Beats" by
Eduardo Navas. The translations are by Lucrezia Cippitelli, Francesca De
Nicolò, Raquel Herrera, and Brenda Banda Corona & Ignacio Nieto. Ludmil
Trenkov designed the PDF and HTML documents.

"3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence" was funded by the National
Endowment for the Arts. The essays may be read and/or downloaded at
http://www.turbulence.org/texts/nmf/ or http://newmediafix.net/Turbulence07/

BIOGRAPHIES

JOSEPHINE BOSMA (1962) is a writer and critic. She started working in the
field of new media art making radio shows, documentaries and interviews
about the topic for VPRO and Patapoe radio in 1993. She has published
interviews, reviews and texts about art and new media in various books and
magazine, both on and offline, since 1996. Her work mostly focuses on net
art, sound art and net culture. Bosma has also organized several events,
like the radio section of the tactical media festival Next5Minutes 2 (1996)
and 3 (1999), an evening about net art criticism (2001) and the newsletter
CREAM (2001/2002). She lives and works in Amsterdam.
http://houseoflaudanum.com/bosma

BELÉN GACHE has a Master's Degree in Discourse Analysis with a thesis on the
argentine writer Julio Cortázar. She has published books such as Escrituras
Nómades, del libro perdido al hipertexto (Nomadic Writings, from the lost
book to hipertext) (Spain, Gijón, Trea, 2006), El ser escrito: lenguajes y
escrituras en la obra de Xul Solar (The Written Being: languages and
writings in Xul Solar's works) (Madrid, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,
2002), Jorge Macchi, el destino como principal sospechoso, (Jorge Macchi,
Destiny as the Principal Suspect) (France, Centre Contemporain d´art,
Montebeliard, 2001). As a narrator she has published the novels Lunas
eléctricas para las noches sin luna (Electric Moons for Moonless Nights)
(Sudamericana, 2004), Divina Anarquia (Divine Anarchy) (Sudamericana, 1999)
and Luna India (Indian Moon) (Planeta, 1994). Since 1996 she develops
Wordtoys , a compilation of net poems and other non-linear works.
http://www.belengache.com.ar

EDUARDO NAVAS is an artist, historian and critic specializing in new media;
his work and theories have been presented in various places throughout the
United States, Latin America and Europe. He has been a juror for
Turbulence.org in 2004 and for Rhizome.org in 2006-07, New York. Navas is
founder and was contributing editor of "Net Art Review" (2003-05), is
co-founder of "newmediaFIX" (2005 to present) and is co-founding member of
"acute.cc", an international group of artists and academics who organize
event and publications periodically. Currently, Navas is a Ph.D. Candidate
in the Department of Art and Media History, theory and Criticism at the
University of California San Diego. www.navasse.net

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 • Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade