Saturday April 30
Version>05 NFO EXPO and Kunsthalle
Zhou B. Center
1029 W. 35th St.
noon - 8pm
The last weekend of Version>05 features a series of programs that includes
the Version>05 Kunsthalle exhibition, the NFO EXPO trade show for experimental
art and radical communication and a conference program. During the weekend,
video works will be screened and broadcast in the media lounge/installation
by Steven Eichhorn. Presentations and talks will take place during the conference
and workshop programs. Artists will present work, conduct demonstrations
and workshops and give tours. A summit for creating an alternative art space
and
artist collective network for North America will be held as well as the third
and final program of the Terry Plumming summit.
VERSION NFO EXPO
Version>05 has invited spaces and projects that straddle definitions
and are pushing experimental formats seeing culture as art + social + political
practice. The NFO EXPO is a trade show for experimental artists, info agitators
and organizers of cultural interference and part of the final program thread
for Version>05. Members of artist-run spaces, alternative institutions,
galleries, cultural and social spaces, co-ops, and individual artists and
activists will present their work and mission within a booth, installation
or on a table
at this two day event. Over 50 organizations and individual projects will
be participating. The NFO EXPO is open from noon to 8pm Saturday April 30
and
noon to 8pm May 1, 2005. See NFO EXPO exhibitors for particapnt
listings.
Performance program
10pm: Basement of the Zhou B Center
1029 W. 35th St
$10 donation
(Beverages Provided daytime NFO EXPO ticket holders can attend for free)
Version>05 and the Zhou B Center host an evening party featuring very
special guests and a cast of local national and international acts.
Princess is Spastic noise/rap/pop/rock collision in pretty dresses.
Total Gym in infaltables, noise and dance freak out.
Kazumoto Endo presents Harsh bursts of noise punctuated by short stabs of hip
hop and rhythm from this Japanese composer/improviser on Chicago's Boxmedia label.
and VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
Conference
For two days we will discuss, demonstrate and present and
share ideas and projects that are assembling for this year’s version.
Two locations in the Zhou B. Center will host the conference program: the
Media
Lounge and Chat Room.
11am Brunch
MEDIA LOUNGE PROGRAM
Noon The Security Environment: Terrorism + Architecture
by Benjamin H. Bratton
A free society depends on free space. The openness that makes democracy
function is not just a metaphor, it is a necessary criterion for successful
architectural and urban design. Architecture is one way that society organizes
the public body, channels it, contours it, enables it, envelopes it. Architecture
is also symbolic, at the most fundamental level, of what that society is
and what it means. To imagine a new architecture is to imagine a new society,
and vice versa. Likewise to attack a society is to attack its symbols and
its armatures, its architecture. Today that political tenor of architecture,
both productive and destructive, reemerges as an almost overwhelming set
of complications, and it is clear that conventional political heuristics
are not much help. They relegate architecture to an economy of empty icons
or to martial strategy of incarcerating the city. This presentation will
examine what architecture has to say and do with such complications and how
it can drive agendas instead of being driven by them.
1pm Ira Murfin
Arcology
The northern Arizona desert, 1970: construction begins on Arcosanti, a
showcase of Paolo Soleri’s conception of ‘architecture as human
ecology’. Planned as a city of 7,000 occupying only 25 acres of a
4060 acre natural preserve, the design mixed the cultural wealth of a condensed
urban environment with ready access to wilderness. Solar/wind power, energy
efficient structures, greywater recycling, and urban planning on a pedestrian
scale were the order of the day – yet 35 years later only a fraction
of the city is complete. Murfin here considers Arcosanti as place, idea,
experience, & possible model.
2pm Heidi Brush
Spinning the Spectrum: Bicycles, Wireless and the Recycling of Urban Spaces
This conceptual piece addresses the relationships between communication
and transportation in radical democratic politics, specifically in the
convergence
of bicycles and wireless technologies. The project itself invites connections,
both 2-wheeled and wireless, to retooled psychogeographic explorations – one
of which may follow the presentation.
3pm Scott Rogers workshop/demonstration
On the possibility of ANI spoofing (aka CPN spoofing)
ANI (automatic number identification) spoofing is the practice of providing
a fake source phone number and related street address to the telecom network
when placing a phone call – significantly more sophisticated than
simply tricking a caller ID unit. Obviously there are many applications
for ANI/CPN
spoofing, and with the advent of voIP the possibilities are endless.
4pm Diamond Jack
Turn on, tune in, drop out AND DON'T DROP BACK IN
Veteran activist and long time Lumpen contributor Diamond Jack has been out
of the Matrix for 30 years. He will give a presentation on sustainable living
strategies in 21st century urban western civilization.
5:30 pm dinner
6:15: Spinning the Spectrum by Heidi Brush
7pm Erika Mikkalo
MK3: Ceding the Commodification of Desire
MK3 offers herself as a living example of and experiment in the inescapable
abasement of market metaphors applied to human relations, an apparent inevitability
for those courting in the context of consumerist post-capitalism, a milieu
in which ‘pimp’ has become a standard and positive term in the
vernacular. She proposes a moderated target market focus group to direct
the rebranding of Erika Mikkalo from "scary poetess with day job at
law firm" to a more palatable product for the dating market – MK3.
Participants will be drawn from advertisements in ‘Personals’ media,
as well as word of mouth and interested attendees of Version>05.
Chat Room Program
CHAT ROOM PROGRAM
Noon Bob Sweeny
Between the Devil & Detournment: Artistic Responses to Surveillance
Bringing theory to practice, Sweeny highlights the relevance of concepts
like Michel de Certeau's ‘Practice of Everyday Life’ and
the work of Michael Serres to tactical media projects by the Surveillance
Camera
Players, the Institute for Applied Autonomy, and Steve Mann. A discussion
of these issues as they relate specifically to art education will ensue.
1:30pm Paul Sargent
Electric Lolita: Love and Hate in the Age of Surveillance
Like others raised on John Hughes films and literary tragedies of courtly
love, I have my own long list of embarrassing, Say Anything-type moments
that in reality are less like romance and, well, more like stalking. But
those were simpler times - no email, IM or Google searches, no cell phones,
Caller ID, night vision camcorders, yourexgirlfriends.com, or x10 2.4GHz
wireless Nanny-cams. Surveillance and privacy are common points of discussion
today, but - police/corporate-state worries aside - what must it be like
to be young and in love in the Age of Instant Information?
2:30pm Participants TBA
Alt.Space Panel
Spaces are on the frontlines of the culture wars. We look to these counter-institutions
as breeding grounds and emerging models for parallel communities worldwide.
Invited speakers from different alternative spaces will each give short presentations
on the origins, current situation, mission and future plans for their respective
space projects. It is our hope that a discussion on survival strategies will
highlight some of the best practices in cultural reclamation, giving birth
to a new media distribution network and artist touring circuit.
4pm Digital Disobedients
Digital Disobedients is a DVD/Magazine of Net Art and New Media. This presentation
features selected works for the upcoming Digital Disobedients magazine,
Electric Dreams. Participants include Conglomco media net web, Barbara
Lattanzi, Jason
Van Anden, Robert Praxmarer & ShangPing Lee. After the presentation
will be discussion and questions.
5:30pm dinner
6:30 pm Recipe For A More Effective Movement
Smartmeme
This panel looks at the void between grassroots organizing and tactical media
activism. Sharing long term vision is the challenge this panel seeks to address.
Can each practice bridge together to create more effective tools for activists
and movements?
