[spectre] Invitation to the NetArtCommunityCongress 24th/25th October 2003

[esch at mur.at]

eva schwinger
projektkoordination
ncc03.mur.at
mail an: esch at mur.at

Dear ladies, dear sirs!

We like to inform You about the NetArtCommunityCongress organized by mur.at
taking place at the Dom im Berg/Graz/Austria, 24th/25th October 2003 and invite
You to visit us either online or physically.

The “ncc03” will be an internationally oriented 25-hour non-stop event staged by
the mur.at community on site and online in the Dom im Berg in Graz. A team made
up of mur.at members will program the course of the conference in hour units.

During theese 25 hours, there will be 24 theme units (+ 1 concluding round-up)
devoted to various thematic focuses, covering current developments and debates
surrounding Net Art and production strategies on the Internet from a range of
perspectives. Networks, communities, literature, software, art, communication
models and much more will come under topical analysis. Theese and other
questions will be discussed in situ and remotely via the Internet by
inter/national participants, including some internationally renowned artists and
experts.

“ncc03” will not, however, follow the pattern of a conventional conference: the
conference itself will be an experimental stage for the discussion and
presentation of a range of themes. There will not be the traditional
relationship between presentation and reception. The Dom im Berg will be
transformed into a complex network accessible to visitors in situ or on the
Internet via a large number of interfaces. The 25-hour agenda also means that
there will be 25 hours of documentation by video teams on site, 25 hours of
reflections in meetings, discussions, presentations, statements and chats, 25
hours of online streaming, 25 hours of information compression. Hence in its
very conception the conference represents a response to those production
relationships that are themselves the subject of the event. The event will take
place in a showcase setting drawn from the “localtask” Net art exhibition and
which will be tried out in this form in Graz once more. The ncc03 will therefore
not only tie in with the 2001 ncc48, but also with the long tradition of
experimental and trend-setting media work in Graz.

The ncc03 is not only geared up for the Internet art public. The media, and
above all “the Net”, is also always has a lot to do with politics. The
“netz.konsortium.at” interest group will be meeting within the context of the
ncc03. The group was founded at the ncc48 as a fusion of all of the major
Austrian Internet/cultural initiatives in order to keep on gaining new members
and to represent the interests of cultural initiatives that – mostly without
proper funding – are active with and on the Internet, and which are working
against attempts at restriction and comprehensive control mechanisms in order to
help set up open and public access to the Internet.


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