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ARTCOM in DEUTSCHLAND e.V.

 

 organizes events of "art and communication "
 
declaration at the occasion of the L`EUROPE DES CREATEURS `89 event, Nov. 23 to Dec 10, 1989, Paris, Grand Palais in :
Chinese,Czech,Dutch,English,French, German, Greek, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
 
- Communication Art enyos global communications media with networking capibilities,
- includes mass media as an instrument of both form and content,
- separates itself from definitions of art bound principally or exclusively to material production,
- tends to distance itself from definitions of the artist as an isolated genius and as someone of exclusive individuality; it favors the artist as an inventor and architect of communication events and as organizing and catalytic force,
- targets (inter)action, communication, demands an active public, a landscape of participants,
- is wholistically oriented in that it demands of aethetic levels different meanings simultaneously and in that it unites single individuals into a team at social levels,
- supports a global, a universal identity and relativizes local, regional and national identities,
- brings into play with it an ethical dimension important for current survival,
- is in no way only - though certainly - a dazzing (mass) spectacle, but rather a practical example for conscious employment of the senses and for a position of global responsability
 
ARTCOM IN DEUTSCHLANS e.V
Wolfgang Ziemer / Mozartstr. 39 / 50675 Köln / Germany
Tel.: ++49(21) 92315 11 / Fax ++49 (221) 92315 12 / ISDN ++49 (221) 92315 13 /e-mail : wziemer@netcologne.de
 
 
exemple for an " art and communication " event which was organized by
ARTCOM IN DEUTSCHLAND e.V.
 
WITHIN A NETWORK NOBODY CAN BE A FOREIGNER
Global Network Project, Köln December 3 and 4 , 1993
Background for the project was the rightist extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany which is , in recent years, proceeding with increasing brutality against non-Germans. The project took a stand decisively against this developement. Precisely in an era in which global communication with the capacity to eliminate borders are available to everyone, a posture of drawing up radical nationalistic borders has to appear anachronistic as well as absurd.
The project offered everyone participating, wether in Cologne or elsewhere in the world, the opportunity to experience and understand that the distance between home and another country can be as short as one single step.
Pupils from Goetheinstituts, colleges, high schools and other educational institutions throughout the world discussed topics like image of Germany abroad, as communicated by the mass media, phenomena of discrimination in other locations in the world and spontaneously exchanged information on every day life.
This communication with 28 locations worldwide was initiated by Cologne via telephone calls and intensified by a parallel communication using two further telematic channels: fax and e-mail.
Following reports of participants, the the project reached one of its important aims: to give participants the feeling that this world is very small and that telecommunications eliminates distance, bringing partners very close to each other.
 
ARTCOM IN DEUTSCHLANS e.V
Wolfgang Ziemer / Mozartstr. 39 / 50675 Köln / Germany
Tel.: ++49(21) 92315 11 / Fax ++49 (221) 92315 12 / ISDN ++49 (221) 92315 13 /e-mail : wziemer@netcologne.de
 
 
 
a project of Evgenija Demnievska (Paris) ,we help to organize now
 
EURINOME'S GAMBIT / CHAOS IN ACTION
EURINOME
 
Eurinome is the Greek goddess of Chaos.According to the Pelasgian myth of creation,in the begining Eurinome emerged, nude,from Chaos.Since there was no solid place for her to put her feet, she separated the Sky and the Ocean and, dancing on the waves, she made her way south. Her dance stirred the wind which was something new,something different,and now Eurinome could create.She rolled the wind between her hands and Ophion , the great serpent, appeard.
Eurinome's charismatic dance filled Ophion with desire. He coiled himself around her limbs and,with the help of the wind ,united with her.She took the form of a dove and brought forth the egg of the Universe. At hert her request, Ophion wrapped himself seven times around the egg, from which all that exists was born: the Sun,the Moon,the Planets, the Stars, the earth its mountains, rivers, trees, and all living things.
 
GAMBIT
 
A chess opening in which a player risks one or more minor pieces to gain an advantage in position.
 
EURINOME´S GAMBIT / CHAOS IN ACTION
 
is an interactive,creative multimedia event geared towards a world without borders : a planetwide participation.
 
Thessalonika, the host city of "Days of culture 97" for Europe and other cities: Paris, Rome, Skopie, Belgrade, Sofia, Istanbul, Bucharest ,Cologne . . . . would form the initial net for a planetwide event the symbolic circle of the material/virtual space and environment made more and more visible by today's technologies. -
Interaction increases energy and frees the spirit,guiding towards complete flexibility.The author,together with a multiprofessional team present in each of the participatiing cities,will initiate and record the continuous transiormation that itself is the work.
The participants can choose to be the possibility,and can choose freely which possibility they wish to be. Going beyond all of our experience and following our intuition we will take the risk of doing,feeling; the action which is cause and effect,approaching the essence of chaos ,reaching the magic place in ourselves from which the miracle is possible.
The same means: internet, fax, mail , telephone,television radio word of mouth...will be used both to invite people to participate and to enlarge the initial circle by building the virtual space of the collective consciousness.
The author will create an ambient,changeable installation in the real space in Thessalonika, and from there will coordinate the work of the teams in each city ,who will do the same thing. The teams will be composed of people from different fields :arts and sciences,people open to experimentation and new possibilities ,with the intuition and quick reflexes to initiation and record the turning points of the change in flux, leading the action in the direction of miraculous surprises.
It will be indispensable to the success of the project to have the cooperation and support of institutions which can provide access to the most advanced communications technology. In each city,the team should be provided with:computers with internet access and video conferencing,video equipment, fax, telephones, photocopiers, photography, and the coordination of radio and television.
 
ARTCOM IN DEUTSCHLANS e.V
Wolfgang Ziemer / Mozartstr. 39 / 50675 Köln / Germany
Tel.: ++49(21) 92315 11 / Fax ++49 (221) 92315 12 / ISDN ++49 (221) 92315 13 /e-mail : wziemer@netcologne.de
 
 
Membership of ARTCOM IN DEUTSCHLAND e.V.
If you want to become a member of ARTCOM IN DEUTSCHLAND e.V. don´t hesitate to contact us by mail or e-mail. We will send you more material and will answer to all the questions you may have
 
ARTCOM IN DEUTSCHLANS e.V
Wolfgang Ziemer / Mozartstr. 39 / 50675 Köln / Germany
Tel.: ++49(21) 92315 11 / Fax ++49 (221) 92315 12 / ISDN ++49 (221) 92315 13 /e-mail : wziemer@netcologne.de

 



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