: LABinary :

: LABinary :

Project ASU

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ASU is an international meeting to be held in Labin, in the summer of 2001. By combining both conference and festival form we plan to gather some of the most interesting and important projects from 3 fileds of non-comercial web production:

.art - net.art

.alt - alternative technologies

.act - activistic media

Organization: LABinary & Ljudmila

with partners: mi2 - Multimedia Institute, SiLUG - Slovenian Linux User Group, HULK - Croatian Linux User Group, pro.ba - Sarajevo

Time & location :

7 working days + 2 days for arrivals and depature in first week of June (or first week of September - depending on funding provided).

Most of the programm will be held in Cultural Center LAMPARNA, Labin - CROATIA and all accomodation will be organized in private housing facilities within city of Labin(located in Istria within walking distance of a seaside).

Programm (by form and topic)

4 discussions:

convergence of Internet technologies

(content+service, client+server)

presenting content on web

(FACEing an interFACE, db ae, scalability/accassibility)

media archiving/menagment/distribution

(digital media archives)

problems of relation in between content-form-technology

(form|function|tech)

2 two-day workshops :

dynamic portals with database beckend

(DIY web server, dynamic beckend, DMOZ.org)

realtions of media - old & new, digital & analog,

pasive & interactive

(net <+> broadcast media)

presentations of concepts, content and technologies used by all projects invited (up to 1hour each)

broadcast concert/performance(last two days of the event)

Newsletters :

Before and after the festival LABinary will publish dedicated issues of the newsletters quarterly discussing some of the most interesting aspects of non-comercial production :

EgoBOO - issue with the subject that reflects a specific term describing socialy involved developers/authors in the field of IT who share the products of their work (softver, txt, music, video) for public use.

ProSUMER - "Do-It-Yourself" technologies with it's specific technical limitations and attitude towards creation/production and consuming (producer + consumer = prosumer , Alwin Toffler, Third Wave)

ASU - as festivall "reader" that would contain materials of the conference part

MetaContent - presentational issue that would deal with hybrid forms of content. Experiances gained in practical workshops and talks with authors of presented projects.

Financing:

-> Croatian governments office for NGOs http://www.uzuvrh.hr/

-> Apex Change http://www.eurocult.org/

-> cultural policy http://www.soros.org/

-> ECF http://www.eurocult.org/grants.html

-> East-east ? http://www.?.hr/

-> KulturKontakt http://www.kulturkontakt.or.at/

Project ASU ==========> A[r|l|c]T Servers Unlimited

Art Servers Unlimited was international meeting held in Londonu July 1998. which gatherded 48 participants from around 20 different organizations and projects.

Concived to combine conference and festival form, this was a meeting of projects from the field of net.art, alternative technologies and activistic/tactical media.

Organizers of first conference Manu Luksch & Armin Medosch expressed interst in helping to set project ASU II if held in Croatia. With regards to current situation in Croatian net space and genral trend towards unconditional comercialisation it seemed kwite logical for event to be held in Croatia.

First conference gathered a wide virety of webprojects which ware not part of the narrow interpretation of the art production and so we wanted to mark that fact as specially important (nominaly) by adding the achronims of .act(for activistic media) and .alt( for alternative technologies) with the one of .art .

This 3 exceptionally dynamic fields of production have kept some of the most important concepts neeeded for inovation in the fields of net technologies (unformal/unconstrained production, experimentation and organization). These activities free of usual market constrains

(need for profitability, short term results, meeting deadlines ...) offered new and creative ways of production on internet.

Within wide production in this area we menaged to select a number of projects whose work was beneficial to the emargence and development of internet specific structures, forms of organization, hybrid-hyper-media and netwok distributed production.

In this way net.radio stations founded inbetween few enthusiasts get exposure and mark their way on global level over internet while using it to both produce and exchange programms.

Digital media made production more accessible (in terms of price)

and closer to professional standards (in terms of quality).

Collectives start their own community based news/media projects which are competitive to the big production media centers whithout any previuosly known market logic.

New highly profilled web portals made for targeted groups of people by the people from the same field (but willing to get to terms with technology) are evolving as centers for most uptodate informations

out of reach by big mainstream portals of service providers.

Invited projects/organizations/groups/institutions

(obavljeni kontakti) :

Rhizome.org (de/us) - najznačajniji portal, prezentacijski i komunikacijski prostor za digitalnu umjetnost na webu sa kuratorima na svim kontinentima. Započeo kao iniciajtiva dvojice entuzijasta iz Berlina prerastao u najlegitimniji centar za internet umjetnost.

Slashdot.org/everything2.com (us) - jedan od fenomena on-line novinarstva kraja 90tih kao prvi veliki community driven news portal + "knowledge menagment system" koji održaju sami korisnici medija tj. čitatelji

XS4all (nl) - jedan od najstarijih primjera alternativnih ISPa u Evropi nastao za vrijeme prvog velikog vala internet popularnosti u Nizozemskoj

Irational.org (uk) - umjetnički-aktivistički projekt koji radi na tehnologijama za potporu net umjetnicima i organiziranju novih struktura u svijetu umjetnosti (neovisnih o institucijama)

Indymedia.org - IMC (us/eu) - centri nastali za potrebe distribucije informacija koje su nedostupne kroz konvencionalne komercijalne medijske kanale (u vlasništima velikih korporacija)

C3 - Center for Culture and Comunication, Budimpešta (hu) - jedno od ključnih središta za kulturnu, umjetničku i medijsku produkciju u digitalnim medijima u ovom dijelu Evrope

Public NetBASE, Beč (at) - najveći neovisni Internet presence provider u Austriji za područje kulture, umjetnosti, neovisnih medija i civilnih inicijativa

Thing.net (us) - od 1991. BBS provider s vremenom postao jedan od najpoznatijih community portala i providera za kulturu

radioaqualia (au/uk) - online umjetnička suradnja koja smjera na otvaranje elektroničkog portala u ekscentričnosti radio prostora. Koristeći raznovrsne softvere za emitiranje na internetu, eksperimentira s konceptom emitiranja, koristeći internet i tradicionalne medije, poput radija i televizije, kao primarne alate.

re-lab.net, Riga (lv) - pioniri net.radia i pokretači Xchange mreže alternativnih audio projekata i net.radio stanica

International guests:

- ASU, Manu Luksch (UK/AT)

- Irational.org, Heath Bunting (+?) (UK)

- Slashdot.org/Everything2.com/Slashcode.com (?)(US)

- Rhizome.org, Alex Galloway (DE/US)

- XS4ALL, Adam Hayd (?)(NL)

- Indymedia.org, Tony Prug (Independent media centers)(?) (US/UK)

- Public NetBASE, Dieter Kovatcic (+?)(AT)

- r a d i o a q u a l i a , Honor Hager (AU/UK)

- Thing.net, Ricardo Domingez (+?)(US/int.)

- C3 - Center for Culture and Comunication (+?)(HU)

- re-lab.net (+?)(LV)

- http://orang.re-lab.net/ (DE)

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- .ogg & mayo developers

- DMOZ (open content directory service)

- Mozilla (open source web browser)

Croatian participants:

- ZamirNET http://www.zamir.net/

- Culture Net - Croatia

- Klik (Branka Cvjeticanin, Ante Magzan) - http://www.klik.hr/

- [radio.active] - http://www.mi2.hr/radioactive/

- moderna vremena - http://www.moderna-vremena.hr/

- Bulaja naklada - http://www.bulaja.com/

- individuals invited: Igor Markovic - (Op.a)

Slovenian particapants:

- Kibla Maribor

- individuals invited:

Jaka Zeleznika - Delo, Vuk Cosic -