Syndicate: Re: CHEAP despot actions

[Anna Balint <epistolaris@freemail.hu>]

Dear Marc,
shortly: I think free speech is a very important issue - 
even if it gives room for inarticulate messages - also 
because of the political situation in Austria, Italy, 
Macedonia, Yugoslavia, in Hungary, Belgium and other 
countries as well. It was in a similar situation that dada, 
surrealism, suprematism grew out. If Syndicate conceived 
itself as a meeting place for East and West Europeans, I 
couldn't support that somebody like nn who likely identify 
herself as East European gets banned from the forum. If nn 
is a programme - besides that programming is also a way for 
self expression - I consider it a good one. When so many 
words get a negative connotation in different political, 
commercial, technological, corporate contexts I find 
setting up an own language very constructive. Probably nn 
speaks about her own experience with software development, 
about her artistic and commercial environment, and I would 
regret to miss her reflections - besides that as a curator 
I think it is of my obligation to listen. I don't see her 
as taking over the list, I think she more added her content 
in the time of rising of a new generation of media artists. 
She is also not paid for the contributions.
Myself I am on the list in order to gain unmediated 
information as an alternative to the anachronistic 
Hungarian press and art magazines, I wish to follow the 
work and the attempts of artists and organizers for 
collaboration in different regions, I seek to read about 
their artistic experience and their efforts to grasp local, 
regional, geographical, political, social, cultural or 
ethnic identities and issues with regards also to 
distinctions of gender. I wish to see also reflections 
about hot topics in East and West Europe. I am really sorry 
for instance that no reflections came about the verdict 
pronounced in the process of Radislav Kristic in Hague, and 
no comments were made on the role of technology and media 
in the building of evidences against him. 
As an administrator I am sorry that Andreas and Inke have 
difficult time, I seek to facilitate the list and keep it 
working. 
best wishes, please transmit my greetings to Karen as well,
Anna Balint     

   



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