[Nettime-bold] ASU2 = [art+alt+act]x[servers+streamers+spaces]xUNLIMITED

[Zeljko Blace <zblace@alu.hr>]

                ________ASU2_____

                .art/.alt/.act
                servers   < uvw >
                streamers (~˘°o@)
                spaces    [ >-< ]
                u n l i m i t e d
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meeting/festival with hands on workshops, demos, trainings,
presentations, discussions, public performaces, webcasts...
of non-profit cultural organizations/initiatives/individuals
______________________________________________________________

organiser :      http://www.LABinary.org/

co-organisers :  http://www.ljudmila.org/
	         http://www.pro.ba/
	         http://mama.mi2.hr/
partners :       Croatian & Slovenian Linux User Groups
	         CARNet - Croatian Academic & Research Network

time :           September, 08th - 15th  2001.
location :       KUC "Lamparna",
		 Rudarska 1.
		 52220 Labin
		 CROATIA

contact :        Zeljko Blace - zblace@alu.hr &
                 Joanne Richardson - subsol2001@yahoo.com
__________________________________________________________________________

	The first Art Servers Unlimited was organized by Manu Luksch &
Armin Medosch on the summer weekend of 1998, in London's NewMediaCentre,
Backspace and ICA, as a forum in which over 50 participants from
European countries gathered to analyze models, compare histories and
agendas, and exchange experience of what were loosely named "art servers".
ASU was a bottom-up set of initiatives to support the blend of
creative/experimental/artistic/ critical use of the net  which included
providing internet access, bursaries, workspace, meeting, presentation.
http://asu.sil.at/

	In the context of the recent trend towards unconditional
commercialization of croatian net space (same applies for the whole
region), it has become increasingly important to organize ASU2 meeting in
Croatia at the present moment to help span some of the new and alternative
ideas on production and conceptualisation of cyber buzz.
By organising event in Labin we are providing good access to regional
participants and avoiding short form meeting which is conditioned by high
organising costs in EU countries. The fact of being 4Km from beach of
Adriatic see should be regarded as accidental ;)

	A number of projects (net.radio, web portals, clubs, media
labs...) whose work is beneficial to the emergence and development of
internet specific structures, forms of organization, hybrid-hyper-media
and netwok distributed productions are invited to present discuss and
reflect on their work. ASU2 is planned as a meeting of projects from the
most active fields of independent non-profit web production:
	.art - net.art,
	.alt - alternative technologies &
	.act - autonomous media.
we try to further connect this three areas and enhance their activity in
different ways by merging the most interesting and relevant content, with
new technology and active audience participation.

	ASU2 is a meeting, workshop and festival bringing together
pioneers of independent media/media-art projects, newly emergent media
spaces/labs, and autonomous art servers which provide services/tools to
the cultural sector. It is a collaborative union of what were initially
conceived as two independent projects,
Art Servers Unlimited and Art Spaces Unlimited.

	The goal of Art Spaces Unlimited is to develop ad hoc associations
that will lead to sustainable networks of communication in the future:
collaborations on organizing joint events, group applications for funding
and sharing of resources, establishing information lists and sites. Many
independent art spaces in East-Central Europe, including technologically
sophisticated media labs, still rely on the monopoly of commercial net
space and technologies for disseminating material and for facilitating
networks.
	The idea to combine the Art Servers Unlimited and Art Spaces
Unlimited, sprang from the current need to extend the activities of
self-organized art spaces toward developing new autonomous servers, and
simultaneously, from the desire to provide existing art servers with links
to local initiatives that could provide content as well as the possibility
to collaborate by hosting events.

	The first Art Servers Unlimited was a meeting of a technologically
sophisticated but closed culture of art servers. ASU2 is extended to those
who are not already "experts" in order to expand the field beyond its
present boundaries. The goal is to begin building a comprehensive
infrastructure necessary for an autonomous culture to possesses its own
spaces, networks, and technologies and to control its own destiny. By
doing this we are helping laverage cultural production of EU and Eeastern
Europe, in the area of most dynamic cultural production (new technologies
and media arts).

	From its inception, ASU2 has assumed the form of a open
collaborative work; the organization of the structure and content of ASU2
is being discussed and planned on an email list, with suggestions for
program and scheduale made by all participants.

Objectives and Goals :
- to present projects, initiatives, institutions and individuals who
creatively use new technologies for media production, content distribution
and archiving, while reflecting on strategies.
- to start training programms in cultural management, organization, and
funding for newly established NGO's, and to extend the technical
capabilities of media centers through workshops on web streaming
technologies, media production, distribution and archiving strategies,
content managment systems, and community based publishing.
- to establish a partnership with educational institutions for both
technology and disemination of knowledge/skills/sensibility for
non-commercial cultural production.
- to establish permanent exchange of practical skills, knowledge,
experiences in wider European context through system of annual meetings,
workshops, dedicated webservers with relevant resources, and the
production of training materials (readers & video material);
- to establish network of non-commercial content providers in fields of
art, alternative technology and autonomus media that would produce and
distribute content, share resources and knowledge while expanding it's
reach to wider audience. Establishing of such international body would
help influence international(EU) policies in ICT and new media culture;
- to connect existing initiatives in this field from other regions of
Europe (ECB, NICE, Interfund...) with local initiatives.


web: http://www.labinary.org/ & http://browse.mi.cz/asu/

+ new bilingual issue of LABinary newsletter will be available on
Ars Electronica Festival in Linz and from co-orginisers as of 1th of Sept.

Best,
organizers of ASU2.

.. :::...::  ::.:::...:..:.:: .. .. ::..::: .. ::.:: ..
                    .plan as a mission




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