jens p. on Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:53:03 +0100


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Syndicate: infozone a temporary workspace in Paris


infozone a temporary workspace in Paris

The poject infozone shows up in a space in the center of Paris, as an
open mixed-media-studio has creating, collecting, selecting, linking,
resuming and  distributing of information and contents as a goal.
Article are predominantly social, political and cultural questions. In
infozone should be the possibility for the comment, interview,
discussion and for the presentation of the different users.

infozone is ambient space and file, pin wall and global newspaper,
represented locally by the workspace and world-wide by Internet. From
this diversity the project can be started, planned however nevertheless
improvised as laboratory, is connecting old and new media, which
presents itself in a dynamic system openly and closed, privately and
publicly.

infozone mixes old and new media, a crossover of different disciplines,
which in its structure, spontaneous re-organizations are to develop.
This is to be operated by discourses, presentations, seminars, events,
and many guests in this infozone.

It is a place of critical thinking and productive conflict, a social
space, in the consent is manufactured and disagreement in course set. A
place at the distribution, accommodation and production compress
themselves and extend. In the social context the relationship between
senders and recipients, let the things develop.

Meanwhile will the traditional mass media such as radio, television and
magazines to technical metaphors around information " on the network ".
infozone however energize  a direct public and a co-operation with
producers, groups and other forums and makes available the space for a
easy and direct way to produce alive contents.

The distribution outside of the workspace infozone is achieved over
Internet and printed media. A publication planned afterwards will
document the flow of information and contents during the three months to
made it further accessible.

http://campus.ensba.fr/infozone
...greetings jens gebhart