[Nettime-bold] digital_is_not_analog.01

[dina@salara.net]

[sorry for cross posting]


Salara presents:


digital_is_not_analog.01
net.art, hacktivism, reverse engineering, control, privacy, computer
love.

Lectures, debates, installations, exhibitions, concerts.

May 24th, 25th, 26th  2001
Salara, via don Minzoni 18, Bologna, Italy




### CONCEPT ###




digital_is_not_analog.01 is the second edition of an international
meeting dedicated to the net culture. After the successful debut of last
year, this year’s edition of digital_is_not_analog comes with a broader
and richer program. The goal of digital_is_not_analog.01 is to
investigate the origins, the growth and the development of net culture,
in its multiple expression, from net.art to free software to net
activism.

digital_is_not_analog.01 is a unique occasion to get to know some of the
main representatives of the contemporary artistic and cultural scenario
of net culture. digital_is_not_analog.01 is an important moment for a
collective review over some contemporary artistic productions, still
mostly unknown in Italy, and characterized by new ways of production and
new interpretation codes, that depart from the traditional aesthetic
principles to face the new communication of digital media and
information technology.

The protagonists of this new art scene will show us how net culture is
composed by very different personalities, coming from diverse cultural
and geographic background, that  nonetheless  often share a common
spirit and common goals, creating a network of collaborations and
confrontations that are able to express, in a new way, the cultural
implications emerging with the new network media.

The meeting will feature the presentation of net.art works and of
artistic software, debates, music performances and installations. The
program of digital_is_not_analog.01 reflects the plurality of researches
and interventions that characterize the international scene of net
culture. Some artists face the development of free software, dealing
with this new production under the creative manipulation’s standpoint,
as Adrian Ward does, and the theoretical and political implications, as
in Florian Cramer’s case, or the experimenting on different media, as
for Jaromil. The British Nullpointer will introduce Webtracer, an
alternative browser that is able to create new visualizations of the net
structure. In the same respect, Rhizome.org editor Alex Galloway is
currently working on a project called Carnivore ? after the FBI software
with the same name ? that uses packet-sniffing technologies to create
vivid depictions of raw data.

Among the projects closer to net.art, there is much expectation for the
presence of Netochka Nezvanova and for the net.artist activity of the
Italian Domiziana Giordano.

Much interest is raised also by Amy Alexander’s plagiarist projects, by
the presence of audio plagiarism’s pioneers, Negativland. On the Net
activism side, Ricardo Dominguez returns to Salara to present new action
of Electronic Civil Disobedience, that will be confronted by the
anti-corporate activity of Rtmark, a corporation of activists that
fights corporate business and culture.

Surveillance Camera Players will present their unique performance
activity, that takes place in front of surveillance cameras and security
systems, while the Spanish Retroyou will let us play with his modified
videogames. Also, for the first time in Italy at
digital_is_not_analog.01, the first exhibition dedicated to computer
virus, by the Italian group epidemiC, and the concert of the first
cyberpunk rock band ever, 386DX.




### PROGRAM ###




### Thursday 24 - 17:00 ###



Computer Deconstructing I
Reverse engineering applied to software, hardware, video games and music.


opening: Amy Alexander (USA) - Music performance

17:00 - Festival presentation
17:30 - Alex Galloway (US): http://www.rhizome.org/EI
18:15 - Bifo/epidemiC (Italy): http://www.ready-made.net/epidemic
18:45 - Retroyou  (Spain): http://www.retroyou.org
19:30 - Nullpointer (UK): http://www.nullpointer.co.uk/-/tracer.htm

break

bar ‘La linea’, palazzo Re Enzo, piazza Maggiore
22:00 - 386DX, cyberpunk rock band in concert (Alexei Shulgin)




### Friday 25  - 17:00 ###



Computer Deconstructing II
Reverse engineering applied to software, hardware, video games and music.


17:00 - Adrian Ward  (UK): http://www.auto-illustrator.com
17:45 - Florian Cramer (Germany): http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/index.cgi
18:30 - Surveillance Camera Players (US): http://www.surveillancecameraplayers.org

break


Computer Civil Disobedience
Electronic civil disobedience through campaign, performances and music
production


22:00 - Rtmark (US): http://www.rtmark.com
22:45 - Negativland  (US): http://www.negativland.com




### Saturday 26 - 17:00 ###



Computer Love
Net.art and creative production in the Internet through the creation of
websites and software.


17:00 - Amy Alexander (US): http://www.plagiarist.org
17:45 - Alexei Shulgin (Russia): http://www.easylife.org
18:30 - Ricardo Dominguez (US): http://www.thing.net/~rdom

break

19:30 - Netochka Nezvanova (Denmark): http://www.m9ndfukc.com
20:15 - Domiziana Giordano (Italy): http://www.domiziana.net
21:00 - Jaromil (Austria/Italy): http://www.dyne.org




Permanent installations:
"virii virus viren viry or the beauty of the source code", by epidemiC
"ASCII cam", by Jaromil



Moderators: Snafu, The Thing Italia - http://www.ecn.org/thingnet  /
Gabriele Cosentino, http://www.d-i-n-a.org




Info:


digital_is_not_analog.organization
http://www.d-i-n-a.org
e-mail: dina@salara.net


Salara Media Lab
via Don Minzoni, 18, Bologna
http://www.salara.net


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