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radical connector(s) 01
what means autonomy today?
how do protestmovements (de)form in the 21st Century?

a discourse- and media-art-festival in weimar, germany, from october 21st-24th and october 28th-31st.

abstract /// particpants and related links /// programm-overview /// location /// contact /// accomodation

radical connector(s) 01 takes place in the context of lecture-serie City & Protest organised by the alternative lectures at Bauhaus-University Weimar with friendly support of the Friedrich Ebert-Foundation (Thuringian), department of political education of the student-union of Bauhaus-University Weimar, Theaterhaus Weimar e.V., the Experimental Radio-Department of Bauhaus-University Weimar, the media-platform “pingfm” and the cultural initiative “salon k.”.

worldwide telecommunication is permeating almost all facets of our daily life. the telecommunications-multi sony ericsson revised its forecast of this year sold mobile-phones worldwide from 550 mill to 600 mill devices. media let spatial borders between private and public become transient. one's mobile turns the public space of the subway into a super-private realm when the webcam makes the sleeping-room somewhat public. with the ongoing transition of working routines in communicative situations the office and the factory are leaving their former abode. the production mode is entering the common sphere of everyday communication. although communicative interconnectedness is constantly expanding the user tend to become more isolated. the mobile-phone and its direct addressability introduce a social practise that stresses personal then impersonal relationships. we receive a situation where on one hand the technical capability of media-production reached the level of consumer, but is used only in a private context. on the other side the active area of the general media public is left to few corporations monopolising the global mediascape and are effectively forming public conception.
How do social and artistic movements face such situation, what does it mean for political and artistic autonomy?

radical connector(s) 01
will survey social and artistic movements of the last 30 years, which jut through their very own media-practise, and introduce their current projects, as well as create exchange with local initiatives

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participants:

short-info on the participants:

erick arellana-bautista (bogota)
is filmmaker, journalist and activst from colombia. aside others he produced the documentary-movie " N.N. "Den Verschwundenen eine Stimme", which is about t drastic situation of political opposition in todays colombia. Arellana-Bautista is member of the independent media-collective mmedia-p "Multimedia Proletaria"

franco 'bifo' berardi (bologna)
former radio alice, which has been closely related to the autonomia-movemment in 70ies in italy. radio alice was pioneering free radio and subject-matter of theoretical work of felix guattari. nowadays berardi is one of the initiators of the micro-tv network 'telestreet' to challenge the italian media-monopol of silvio berlusconi.
http://www.telestreet.it/
http://www.radioalice.org/

roger behrens (hamburg)
pop-theorist, author and editor of the magazine testcard, which is dedicated to a critical discourse on pop-culture.
http://www.taz.de/pt/2002/08/14/a0253.nf/text
http://www.testcard.de/
newst publiction has been "kulturindustrie"(culture-industry) on transcript(german):
http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts246/ts246.htm

regina bittner (dessau)
cultural theorist, study of cultural science and art history at the university leipzig. project coordination at the bauhaus dessau foundation, curator of exhibition on cultural history, editor and collaboration of numerous publications. working and research focus: study of east european transformations, ethnography, east german working culture, cultural history of urban entertainment, experience-society and city.
stiftung bauhaus dessau
bittner @ shrinking cities - iea competion 2004

Wolfgang Bock, Dr. phil., weimar
z.zt. taetig an der bauhaus-universitaet weimar [Theorie und Geschichte der visuellen Kommunikation habilitierte sich 1996 im Fach Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Bremen. Dort unterrichtete er von 1990 bis 2001 in den Fächern Germanistik, Kulturwissenschaft, Kunst, Pädagogik und Gesundheitswissenschaft.Publikationen über Neue Mythologie, Postmoderne, Rechtsradikalismus, Bildungstheorie und Neue Medien. 2000 erschien von ihm im Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld: "Walter Benjamin - Die Rettung der Nacht. Sterne, Melancholie und Messianismus", 2002 ebenfalls bei Aisthesis: "Bild, Schrift, Cyberspace. Grundkurs Medienwissen". Mitherausgeber der "Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie"

filmguppe chaos (kiel/bremen)
was founded in 1975 as a collective of super-8 filmmakers. the group has produced short experimental- and animationfilms as well as a documentary and a featurefilm of 2.5 hours each. the group always wanted to support the idea of a true underground and independent filmmaking. spreading information, lending out equipment, offering workshops and organizing small filmscreenings and bigger events as well as setting up some filmfestivals have always been part of their activities.
http://www.filmgruppe-chaos.de/

lloyd dunn (prague)
is audio- and visual-artist. dunn's first major project was PhotoStatic magazine, begun in iowa city in 1983. although initiated to showcase photocopy and generative art, it quickly took root in the 'mail art' and 'zine' sub-cultures that peaked in the late 80s. in 1986, dunn began composing music and audio art with ralph johnson and john heck. From this activity they formed the group the Tape-beatles. the idea behind the collaboration was to create music using recording technology itself as the sole musical instrument. they took their inspiration from musique concrete, fluxus, and some of the studio experiments of the 60s carried out by the beatles and certain other more 'experimental' rock groups. the do-it-yourself esthetic of punk and the zine movement was also a decisive influence.
PhotoStatic Magazine
public works (interview)

diana mccarty (berlin)
free media-activist und organisator of the independent cultural radio „reboot.fm“. she is co-moderator of the faces-mailinglist and is working aside others for the media research-foundation, Budapest.
reboot.fm
MEDIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION

T03K (Amsterdam)
is ulti-media-artist and one of the driving forces of the free media scene of amsterdam. He is working for/founder of the first dutch webcast-station dfm rtv international and the Amsterdam free radio 'Radio 100'. his work has been subject-matter of theoretical writing of geert lovink.
dfm rtv international
Agentur Bilwet

Christoph Goerg
Studium der Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft und Philosophie in Frankfurt; Privatdozent an der Universität Frankfurt/Main, zuletzt Vertretungsprofessor an der Universität GH Kassel, Schwerpunkte Staats- und Gesellschaftstheorie, kritische Theorie und gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse, Neueste Buchveröffentlichungen: Mythen globalen Umweltmanagements (Hg. zus. mit Uli Brand), Münster 2002. Regulation der Naturverhältnisse. Zu einer kritischen Theorie der ökologischen Krise, Münster, 2003; zus. mit Uli Brand: Postfordistische Naturverhältnisse, Münster 2003.
zur Person
text:"Neoliberale Globalisierung und Transformation des Nationalstaats"

matthias niendorf (erfurt)
currently visiting professor for east-central-europe at the university erfurt, he has been working for the historical institute warsaw
Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau
Professur für Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas an der Universität Erfurt

Mirjam Struppek (Berlin)
works as freelance urban planner and researches about public space and its transformation and acquisition through the new media. Since two years she is developing the online-plattform Interactionfield.de. She studied Urban- and Environmental Planning at University of Kaiserslautern and Nagoya University, Japan.

Claudia Reiche (Hamburg)
Medienwissenschaftlerin, Künstlerin, Kuratorin. Ihre Arbeit entwickelt (cyber)feministische Zugänge zur Frage, wie Mensch/Maschine Verhältnisse mit Worten und Bildern gestaltet werden. Mitarbeiterin im Frauen.Kultur.Labor 'thealit', Bremen, und in der ersten cyberfeministischen Allianz 'Old Boys Network'. Sie hat an den Universitäten/Kunsthochschulen Hamburg, Braunschweig und Paderborn gelehrt und war langjährige Beraterin des Referats für Frauenkultur der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg. Führte ein Forschungsprojekt an der Universität Hamburg durch: 'Körperbilder. Mediale Verwandlungen des Menschen in der Medizin', geleitet von Prof. Marianne Schuller.

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location:

the conference will take place at:

herderplatz 03
99423 weimar

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kontact:

to get in contact with the organisers please reach us via:

email: radical AT neture DOT org

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accomodation:

for visitors from "abroad" are very low priced till free of charge accomodation available

please contact us via email:

radical AT neture DOT org

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