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Help B92
and the independent media
in Yugoslavia

>Dear All,
>
>As you will know, air strikes on Yugoslavia are now
>underway. One of the outcomes of this war situation is the
>closure of Yugoslavia's most important independent media
>entity, radio station B92.
>
>A group of people from Europe and from around the world are
>staging a campaign to help B92 continue to provide news
>updates about the situation in Yugoslavia as it develops.
>The campaign is centred in Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
>through the internet service provider, XS4ALL and the
>cultural organisation, De Balie. The group aim to achieve
>this through the establishment of a fundraising campaign, a
>website and a Real Audio service.
>
>The current crisis situation in Yugoslavia means that the
>potential for B92 continuing its independent news service is
>limited. The recently founded support group intends to take
>measures to distribute news by and about B92, from
>Amsterdam. For this purpose a special website has been
>established:
>
http://helpB92.xs4all.nl

>
>B92 is the backbone of the independent news service in
>Yugoslavia. Without immediate support this last source of
>independent news for the inhabitants of this region is
>endangered. A campaign has been started by the support
>group, with the objective of sending money and equipment to
>B92 and other independent radio stations in Serbia and
>Kosovo.
>
>There are four key ways that you can assist
the group in its
>support of B92.
>
>1) Link to our website:
>
http://helpb92.xs4all.nl

>
>by using the logo from the website and promote the spreading
>of this logo in any way you can. This logo is also attached
>to this email.
>
>Also link to the B92 website:
>
http://www.b92.net

>
>2) Help us raise funds for B92 and other endangered
>independent news services from Serbia and Kosovo. The
>special accountnumber that has been opened for donations is
>7676 (Postbank, Netherlands).
>
>by international money order payable to:
>Press Now
>Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10
>1017 RR Amsterdam
>Netherlands
>
>or by international bank transfer to:
>Postbank Amsterdam
>Swift address: INGBNL2A
>Accountnumber: 7676
>in the name of: Press Now (adress above)
>Please specify "Help B92".
>
>3) Distribute the press release about the fundraising
>campaign to your local media. You will find the press
>release at the end of this email.
>
>4) Sign the guestbook on the website if you want to express
>your individual support or, if you represent an organisation
>that wants to become part of the support group, mail us more
>details about the organisation and nature of the support
>offered, preferably accompanied by a small logo in
>gif-format to include on our website.
>
The Help B92 Team:
>
>B92:
http://www.b92.net/

>De Balie:
http://www.balie.nl/

>De Digitale Stad:
http://www.dds.nl/

>Next 5 Minutes:
http://www.n5m.org/

>Press Now:
http://www.dds.nl/~pressnow/

 
>radioqualia (Australia):
http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au/

>De Waag (MONM):
http://www.waag.org/

>XS4ALL:
http://www.xs4all.nl/

>
>

 
>
Press Release
>
>If you want to include the following press release
>in your website then please copy and paste as required:
>
>Pressrelease March 24th 1999
>
>
>Help B92 and the independent media in Yugoslavia Latest news
>at
http://helpB92.xs4all.nl

>
>Last night the transmitter of radio B92 from Belgrade was
>confiscated by the Serbian authorities. The editor-in-chief,
>Veran Matic, was held in custody in a police station for
>well over 8 hours. Despite this intimidation the station
>continues its independent news service. At De Balie in
>Amsterdam a support group has been founded tonight, which
>intends to support B92 and other independent media in
>Yugoslavia where possible in the continuation of these
>important news services.
>
>With the support of internetprovider XS4ALL B92 also
>transmits its signals via internet since december 1996.
>These digital broadcasts are picked up by the BBC
>Worldservice and retransmitted via satellite. Through a
>network of local radio stations the programs of B92 can be
>heard throughout Serbia, despite repeated attempts by the
>authorities to silence the station. At this moment it is
>still possible to follow the broadcasts of Radio B92 in real
>audio on their website, at http://www.b92.net

>
>In light of the current tense situation it is very likely
>that the possibilities of B92 to continue its independent
>news service will be limited even further. The support group
>therefore intends to take measures to distribute news by and
>about B92 from Amsterdam. For that purpose a special website
>has been opened at http://helpB92.xs4all.nl

>
>B92 is the backbone of the independent news service in
>Yugoslavia. Without immediate financial support this last
>source of independent news for the inhabitants of this
>region is endangered. A fundraising campaign is being
>started by the support group, in order to send money and
>equipment to B92 and other independent radio stations in
>Serbia and Kosovo as soon as possible.
>
>The founders of the support group are: B92, De Balie, De
>Digitale Stad, Next 5 Minutes, Press Now, radioqualia
>(Australia), De Waag (MONM) en XS4ALL.
>
>For more information or to send messages of support, please
>e-mail helpB92@xs4all.nl.

You can also digitally support this
>initiative by copying the special logo
onto your website and
>linking to Help B92.
>
>
>Use the HelpB92 logo on your homepage and copy the following html to
>create an instant link to the helpb92.xs4all.nl homepage.
>
><CENTER><A HREF="http://helpB92.xs4all.nl" TARGET="TOP"> <IMG
>SRC="http://helpB92.xs4all.nl/images/helpb92_m.gif" BORDER=0 WIDTH=150
>HEIGHT=47> <BR> <SMALL>Help B92 and the independent media in
>Yugoslavia.</SMALL></A></CENTER><P>
>
>
>
>

B92 live

Please Note that the following is the new link for
B92 live
internet audio stream:

http://
play.rbn.
com/?b92

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gerbrand Oudenaarden <gerbrand@oudenaarden.nl>
>To: Help B92 and independent media in Yugoslavia <info@n5m.org>
>Date: Friday, March 26, 1999 12:35 AM
>Subject: +++ Support the B92 Campaign +++
>
>
>>From the former Next 5 Minutes Production Office,
>now the B92 Support Campaign Center.....
>
>--- Please Forward ---
>
>from: helpb92@xs4all.nl
>

CTHEORY

For additional reading please also see:
Event-scene 67 - "Belgrade Burning?" In _CTHEORY_ (13 October, 1998)
http://www.ctheory.
com/e67.htm

CTHEORY THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE 99/03/27

Special Announcement Editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
Dear CTHEORY readers,

The black hole
in
the rainbow nation.

http://www.icon.co.za/~kendell/

My site is a combination of information texts by and on me as works of art that are entirely web based, and my work addresses language as a system and attempts to explore the parameters of that system, be it art or the net.

Sorry - a bit late...

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Strategies for a New
Cyberfeminism

Find out what they found out

Check out url:

www.obn.org

Old_Boys_Network <boys@obn.org>

* Discourses of  the New Cyberfeminism *

March 8-11-99

In recent years international telecommunications technologies have been causing profound changes (globally) in social and political cultures.
* And elsewhere:
* in the Human - immense growing prosthetic body, intellectual restructuring to fluid patterns, emotions as reflex tracts of the Data-Superhighways *
* In Art - transgressive matter, conceptual pilings, haunting
specters of intelligent technologies *
*In Science - simulations, remote control systems, personal scientific agents *

Increasingly,globalized society is being territorialized by western aesthetic and market strategies and cultural formations.
* as society is territorializing market strategies as cultural formative.* Many "alternative" subversive strategies * competing for the rare nishes in the system * have been harnessed * quoted * by pancapitalism to capture * invent * new markets and consumers everywhere.* to teach about resistance. *
This situation acts as a rallying cry * as the state-of-the-art * for a * of the *_New_ cyberfeminism for the 21st century. * embracing every brilliant, sad, effective, lusty, intellectual, desperate, wild, cool, sentimental, illogical, free, crisped and ugly premature feminsm ever existing under new technological conditions. *


A diversity of feminist critical, * deconstructive ** misfitting * aesthetic, and cultural practices* ways of thinking *have become more and more relevant as they decode, critique, and subvert * imitate and falsificate *the languages and practices of global capitalist culture.

What are the specific possibilities offered by the new technologies fora networked feminism?
What are the specific possibilities and conditions for agency and female subjectivity in a wired and globalised world?
Some energetic new cyberfeminists are already busy creating a liberatory and empowering use of communications technologies and attempting incursions into the masculinist* beloved ** mind-boggling *culture* shit *of the Internet. It is not to the utopian magic of a liberating technology* another technological restructuring of ourselves *we can look for the hard cultural work which needs to be done.* which is the only real thrill left to do. *Rather, women's * the new cyberfeminists *tactical and imaginative uses of the Internet are already bringing about new social * neuronal *formations and associations among very different constituencies.* The new Meta-Medium, the networked Computer, is being tested in different ways (THE NEW CYBERFEMINISN IS A TEST) as it is testing our abilities to change our pattern-recognition, to keep up with a lingering subversion of tradition. (THE NEW CYBERFEMINISM WAS FASTER) *

To some extent the "alternative" feminist institutions and services which sprang up everywhere in the 70s have been reproduced on the Internet: Feminist data banks and electronic news services provide information on war crimes against women, collective economic actions, international solidarity actions, and critical health news. There are on-line feminist directories for job news, self-help group organizing, starting your own business, managing your money, socializing, technological education, and the like.
* Do "alternative"-cyberfeminists analyze the imitations of the feminist institutions of the 70s on the Internet?
Do "baby"-cyberfeminists hack the tamagotchis homepage as smoothly as the Pentagon's archives?
Do "european intellectual" Cyberfeminists get their kicks on clicking their mouses quickly (and writing a Phd about it)?
Click here. Click now. Enter your creditcardnumber. Identify yourself.STOP. (ELSEWHERE) *


As Avital Ronell, Donna Haraway, and others have pointed out, it behooves feminists to become technologically skilled and knowledgeable lest the new technologies of global communication and domination once again perpetuate and strengthen the same old male culture and power structures. In this regard, feminists who have access to technological privileges need to be particularly alert to cultural, racial, and economic differences in the way women work, live, and use technology globally-differences which are rapidly shifting and increasing with the onrush of technological "advancement."  Some female hackers and computer engineers, as well as artists and tinkerers, are acquiring enough technological knowledge which if used strategically could seriously disrupt and disturb the still overwhelmingly male culture of the Internet.

* It behooves THE NEW CYBERFEMINISTS to ask new questions on the 19th century western gender dichotomy.
How do they call themselves feminists? Even women? Is this still a Fin-de-Millenium decadence? What could this mean while constantly undergoing sexual and gender orders in theoretical and practical ways, as is the daily cyberfeminist's virtual bread? Bits of XX..., byte, the X!
You should find out about that ( if you call yourself a CyberXX too!) *

Such disruptions presuppose a close entwinement of political and tactical thinking and technological know how-something which is quite possible given current international feminist resources. One can imagine other interventions:
Feminist leaders
* 'And when my brain talks to me, he says:
Take me out to the Ballgame
Take me out to the Park
Take me to the Movies
Cause I love to sit in the dark
Take me to your leader
And I say: Do you mean George?
And he says: I just want to meet him
And I say: Come on I Mean I Don't even Know George!
And he says:
Babydoll! Ooo oo oo Babydoll, Ooo He Says:
Babydoll! I Love It When You come when I Call'
Laurie Anderson: Baby doll *
and policy makers could communicate with activists working in diverse locations with working-class and poor women (who are often not connected to on-line resources)

* Note for the next meeting: Question: Isn't it a effective 'male' capitalist's work to connect even more third-world-women to the more or less qualified and jobs (from Data- Aquisition to Software-Engineering) at the computer-terminals in the globally wired systems? And shouldn't western capitalist feminists - promoting the liberating and educational use of Online-Computers - make their living, being paid by the computer industry? * on labor, employment, and displacement issues.
Feminist health, environmental, and medical workers could directly monitor the effects on different groups of women of the new biomedical and genetic technologies, etc. etc.

Instead of being subjected to the irrelevancies of Jennicam
* Jennicam: the realisation (and thus: suspension) of paranoia?
Historical reference to the case of Daniel Paul Schrebers:
'Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken'. Jennicam: The old subject's CYBERFEMINISM. *, perhaps we could figure out ways to become more familiar with day to day living conditions and the new experiences of women and girls in the global integrated circuit.
When the first Cyberfeminist International met at the Hybrid Workspace in Kassel, we daily recorded our discussions on video, and also emailed a daily report to the international women-only Faces list. Perhaps this was the beginning of modeling a new feminist consciousness raising for the 21st century-a networked, multi located, polyvocal
* voice 1 *
* voice 2 *
* Vocoder 2 *
* Letters 1b *
* Signifiers 0 and 1 *
* Information: as tunnel *
* Information: as skin *
* Information: as gender *

conversation, embodied and gathered locally and distributed globally by electronic means.

"Strategies of the New Cyberfeminism" hopes to address many of the issues introduced above. We invite intense conversations, controversies, speculations, papers, projects, presentations in many forms. We invite paradoxical approaches and diverse interpretations of cyberfeminist theory and practice. Our hope is to expand our connections to a wider circle of women, and to include an even greater mixture of cyberfeminists than participated in the First Cyberfeminist International. Following is a preliminary plan and structure for the Conference.

1. [What?]
Second Cyberfeminist International. Title: Strategies of A New Cyberfeminism.

2. [Who?] Cyberfeminist International. Hosted by TechWomen of Rotterdam, obn (Hamburg), and attended by an interdisciplinary,international group of women artists, writers, scholars, media critics, scientists and sociologists.

3. [When?]Dates: March 8-11 in Rotterdam
Related presentation:
March 12-14 Next Five Minutes, Amsterdam/Rotterdam
March 12: Cyberfeminist Presentation at Next Five Minutes in Amsterdam.
Participation at the conference will be free, but most participants will need to raise their own travel funds as there will be very little funding to assist in accomodations and travel

4. [Where?] Place: Rotterdam. (Culture cafe and possibly V2.)

5.[How?] Organizing group: Corrine Petrus (TechWomen, Rotterdam), Ingrid Hoofd (Leyden,liaison with n5m and V2 in Rotterdam) Cornelia Sollfrank (obn, Hamburg), Helene Oldenburg (obn,Rastede/Hamburg) Claudia Reiche (obn, Hamburg), Faith Wilding (obn,Pittsburgh) Yvonne Volkart (obn,Zurich/Wien), Julianne Pierce (obn, Sydney).

6.[How?] Format: There will be a mixture of public presentations and private discussions.
Initially, we are planning to have public presentations (in the afternoons and possibly one evening) at which up to 4 different presentations consisting of lectures, panels, short papers, performances,etc. will take place. Altogether we estimate that there will be approximately 16 different presentations in the public program.

7.[What?] Content: Presentations will be planned around the following main points of emphasis. More specific concepts of each topic will be posted soon:

Introduction: Myths, utopias, histories of CyberfeminismS. An introduction to the topologies and territories. What happened at Kassel?
What are the New CyberfeminismS? The embedding of feminist technical criticism, with women and gender studies (All).
A. Women/Media/Politics/Technology (Claudia, Yvonne, Helene)
B. Women Hackers; hacking strategies; Hacking as method and metaphor (Connie, Corrine)
C. Feminist Activism/Resistance/Intervention/Globalism (Faith, Yvonne)

Closing Summation and discussion.

Private discussions among participants will also center on these topics. And the discussions will also provide content for the planned presentation at the Next Five Minutes Festival in Amsterdam.


8. Documentation: We expect to have well-organized video and radio documentation of the entire conference. We also plan to issue a
publication on the model of the Cyberfeminist Reader.

9. Funding: A budget has been developed and funds are being solicited by Corrine Petrus (TechWomen) from several local Rotterdam foundations, and from other Dutch organizations. Additionally, Cornelia Sollfrank is looking into funding for a publication of the proceedings from Germany.
It is expected that participants will try to raise travel and accomodation funds for themselves from their local arts and culture funders.

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ARMO(U)R
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AMO(U)R
http://eserver.org/cultronix/wilding/default.html
Faith Wilding

I have been making a body of work whose subject matter is the erotics of armor and corsetry. As a claustrophobic, the psychosexual allure of confinement has always fascinated me.

Statement
for Funders:

The Cyberfeminist International is a diverse group of women from more than 12 countries who met for the first time in l997 at the Hybrid Workspace at Documenta X in Kassel. One strong impetus for forming this group was to research,discuss, and make information available about the many ways in which the new communications, imaging, and medical technologies are having profound impact on the lives, work, and health of women locally and globally.

Historically, technology has been male dominated, and the new technologies are still continuing this tradition. Women media technicians, programmers, computer scientists, hackers educators, home and office teleworkers, electronic chip producers, artists, students, scholars, economists, scientists, biomedical researchers, doctors--all have a common interest in changing the male culture of the new technologies and becoming centrally active in shaping economic and cultural policy for women in the global communications and economic networks.

The Cyberfeminist International seeks to bring together women from many >different fields of knowledge and interest to begin to work together on strengthening women's involvement and visibility in the developing policies and economies of electronic communications technologies and networks. In this second conference we plan to present a series of public programs which will consider many aspects of the way in which the new technologies affect women specifically, and to discover what strategies and techniques women are developing to meet these new conditions.

Old_Boys_Network
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from
cornelia@snafu.de
(Cornelia Sollfrank)Conference Call and Call for Proposals and Abstracts:

Links:

Hyperlink to
Donna Haraway

http://www.
asahi-net.
or.jp/~RF6T
-TYFK/
haraway.html

feminist stuff -
Links
http://ernie.bgsu.
edu/~ckile/
feminism.html

Women's
Resources on
the Internet

http://uta.marymt.
edu/~women/refs/
resource.html
You've reached an exciting compilation
of women's resources on the Internet, designed to complement the on-campus resources of Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY. Here you'll find information on a wide variety of websites focusing on issues of interest to women. This site, designed and maintained by Beth Schneider, Marymount Weekend College student, is updated frequently.

Russian
Feminism
Resources

http://www.
geocities.com
/Athens/2533/
russfem.html
This site is a
directory of online resources about
Russian women,
women's studies
and the women's movement in the
Former Soviet Union.

AMBITIOUS
BITCH

http://www.edita.
fi/kustannus/
bitch/index.html
CD-ROM & installation
- A Multimedia Dive
into Femininity

AMBITIOUS BITCH
has a new web site at WWW.MEDEIA.COM

Magical multitudes of femininity: a turn of the millennium update

Bad taste &
high culture,
Humour &
science, Art & media.

Ecstasy, critique, wit, BANG!

sexing the machine

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http://www.xrave.com

(now that´s true
feminism - everyone,
pick your gender!)

Face Settings
http://thing.at/
face/index1.htm
Face Settings will
seek to establish new international relationships that impact the growing nummber of women online. We will develop and continue this discourse through feedback, the feeling of involvement, and the interest of the participants.

AngstGrrls
http://www.
angstgrrl.com/
AngstGrrls are opinionated, passionate, intense thinkers. They love to get together and chat about new ideas. Whether it's a debate about the state of society, or a discussion about a movie (or a book, or a play, or a song...), AngstGrrls have something to say - and what they have to say will make you think.

Pat Cadigan

"Cyberpunks" to Synners:
Toward a Feminist Posthumanism?

http://ernie.
bgsu.edu/%
7Eswilbur/
cadigan.html

Shawn P. Wilbur
"For the first time
ever," Art said, "it's possible for people
to die of bad memes..."
Pat Cadigan, Synners

Gender & Race
in Media:
http://www.
uiowa.edu/%7E
commstud/
resources/
GenderMedia/
cyber.html
Cyberspace
See Also:
Digital Media

http://web.
nwe.ufl.edu
/~bruegg/
biopolitic.html

Biopolitics of Postmodern
Bodies

by Donna Haraway

Z I N E n

new media
A journal of
new media experimental visual literary theory practice
http://www.logicnet.com/ted.warnell/zinen/
A R T
L I T
N E W
W E B
+ + +
Ted Warnell

Cultronix
http://eserver.org/cultronix/
Cultronix is an interdisciplinary journal of art and
cultural studies, addressing critical issues in contemporary
institutions and practices. It publishes contributions spanning a wide range of media, and encourages
contributors to use new media in order to expand critical and
theoretical work to Internet reading audiences.

The Spitting Image

http://www.seatopia.com/
A Journal of Fictitious Molestations

"remote access movement"
by
Pedro Mendes

http://www.
umanitoba.ca
/mbvan/
proj/ram/
The Manitoba
Visual Arts Network
wishes to announce the installation of a new artist's web project, : "remote access movement"

CAGE -
Cyber
Art
Gallery
Eindhoven

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