The center of NEURO will be a collective installation of more than 50 groups, initiatives and projects in the Muffathalle, which will be transformed through presentations, performances and Ad-hoc-productions into a collaborative workspace.
Parallel to this a conference, sheltered in the Cafe of the Muffathalle, will hold lectures, dialogues and discussions on the constitutive practices of civil society, immaterial labour, migration, Open Source, and educational strategies
In conjunction with the conference tracks and grouped by topics a number of projects will present their specific approaches and experiences on a small stage in the center of the main hall.
At night, NEURO will host concerts, electronic music performances, local and remote DJ'ing and radio programs of participating artists.
NEURO will be accompanied by photo exhibitions, film screenings, live streams, video-jam-sessions, as well as near-to-realtime-encoding and audiovisual archiving.
NEURO offers many spaces for meetings taking place in a planned or ad-hoc fashion, in secure or unsecure, conform or informal ways, product- or process oriented, as training or strategy meetings.
NEURO is organized around seven major topics, that each constitute an area for debates on different levels and in different formats. Various input and output devices will be attached to these topics.
Scaling the summits: esf, wsf, wsis - Multi-stakeholder ideology and global governance scenarios - Snares of inclusion, pitfalls of political mediation and the development discourse
Outsourcing and lean production - The becoming migrant of labor - Cognitive labor and industries of affect - Division and recomposition: the biopolitical network of immaterial labor
Third generation wall and wireless lager - Management, mobility and post-human rights - Local and remote control
Mapping, mobile devices, games - Resisting virtual regimes - Protest in the non-protest
The collapse of techno-idealism - Hyper-alienation and property out of control - Ethics of open images and imagination
Educational projects in networking environments - Knowledge production, general intellect and the crisis of learning - Strategies of self-valorization from do-it-yourself to everyone-is-an-expert
Ad-hoc-networking and virtual organizing - Escape, exodus and refusal - Hijacking speech: multilingualism beyond identity and unity
Giorgio Agamben: The State of Emergency
Giorgio Agamben: We Refugees
Giorgio Agamben: Movement
Slavoj Zizek: Too Much Democracy?
Naomi Klein: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Paolo Virno: La festa del General Intellect
Border 04
paper#4
Gilles Deleuze: On Human Rights
Tomislav Medak: A Continuum of Knowledge - A contribution to the Political Economy of Copyleft
Young people from all over Europe struggle against racism and exclusion. Day after day, country by country. In order to exchange experiences and share skills, ressources and capacities the online platform D-A-S-H has been set up. D-A-S-H offers access to information as well as all kind of networking services and support. It's a platform for open-minded people to present their activities and get to know about what others are planning...
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From February 26th to 29th young artists, filmmakers, musicians, theorists and activists from all over Europe and many other parts of the world will meet at the Muffathalle in Munich for a number of events, speeches, discussions, presentations, performances, concerts and actions reflecting the pulse of the age. NEURO is not only a conference, nor is it just a fair or a conventional festival. Rather it is a place for collaboration and common production. It's about a critical, connected practice and a practical critique of networking. It will host debates, presentations and reports on the results of ongoing projects and provide an opportunity to discuss new ideas, plan and start common projects. First of all, NEURO stands for "Networking Europe". Only few weeks before the official eastern enlargement of the European Union, it ill promote the networking of new media initiatives and projects from within Europe; in and outside of the new borders. The central question will concern, at what point young people in Europe join together with one another, where the traces of this association runs and how they can be bundled into creative alliances. Though not an end in itself, networking is now raising more than ever questions that cannot be answered at straightaway: What does networking actually mean nowadays? What does networking have to do with freedom of movement? How do social movements network? How can technologies be used in ways that create social change on a broader level than the self? How do we conceptualise the common that is created in and through networks whilst not being reducible to them. Ten years after the start of the internet boom, the crisis of the idea of networks is long overdue. Alongside the collapse of the new markets, the bombastic constructions about media art, media theory and media activism have fallen like a house of cards. Nevertheless, in the ensuing impasse, a new generation of media and networking initiatives have formed and taken onboard the discussion and reflection on everyday life, and new tasks, methods, functions, challenges and perspectives. About two years after the first make-world festival, NEURO will again interface with current debates around migration and mobility, racism and nationalism, civil society and global mobilisation, networking and new technologies, informatisation and precarious labour, education and control society, common organising, and digital culture. None of the initiatives present at neuro will offer a one-size-fits-all solution to global wrongs. However when taken together it is imagined that they will exhibit the power of generating communicable ideas out of small, laboratory contexts that are embedded within different environments and in dialogue with one another. NEURO will be a major opportunity for forming creative alliances - within a coherent discursive field - between all those that share the aspiration to raise theory and activity to a level adequate to the practice of digital generations.
THURSDAY 26-2-2004
18:00 MET Kunstarkaden Vernissage "Remaking Destiny" by Shahidul Alam (BD), "Der neue Mensch" by Armin Smailovic (DE), and videoinstallations by Ivan Grubanov (YU)
FRIDAY 27-2-2004
18:00 MET Muffathalle Greetings by Fred Schell (Managing Director, JFF, Munich), Renate Schmidt (German minister for youth, Berlin), Joao Vale de Almeida (EU general directorate for education and culture, Brussels), Christian Ude (mayor of the city of Munich), Thomas Krueger (President of the Federal center for political education, Bonn).
19:30 MET Muffathalle Networking against exclusion Shahidul Alam (BD), Darius Cuplinskas (HU), Annetta Kahane (DE), Geert Lovink (NL), Florian Schneider (DE)
21:00 MET Cafe Global civil society
21:00 MET Muffathalle KIOSK for useful knowledge, Berlin (DE)
21:30 MET Muffathalle Random_Inc, Frankfurt (DE)
23:00 MET Muffathalle Open code in collaboration with Reboot.FM, Berlin (DE): Conversations between Thomas Meinecke, Munich (DE) and David Moufang/Move_D, Heidelberg (DE)
SATURDAY 28-2-2004
11:00 MET Cafe Breakfast with bavarian veal sausages
13:00 MET Muffathalle New border review: The western enlargement of east europe:
14:00 MET Cafe Female, young, migrant: Biopolitical research about the transformations of labor
15:00 MET Muffathalle Brothers Keepers: Presentation by Ade Odukoya (DE)
16:00 MET Cafe The making of: The general intellect
17:00 MET Muffathalle Radical image exposures
18:00 MET Cafe I love you all, Eyal Sivan, France/Germany, 2003, 89 min
19:00 MET Muffathalle Bukaka says: Another war is possible! Videoperformance by Publix Theatre Caravan, Wien (AT)
20:00 MET Cafe Crisis of representation and politics of space: Presentation by Eyal Sivan (FR)
21:00 MET Muffathalle Dead News, videoinstallation, Yanoon, Yanoon music- and video performance by Eran Sachs, Aviad Albert, Ariel Efron, Niv Hachlili, dispara!, shuffle, Jerusalem (IL)
21:00 MET Muffathalle KIOSK for useful knowledge, Berlin (DE)
23:00 MET Muffathalle Friendly noise in collaboration with Reboot.FM, Berlin (DE) feat.: Meme (UK), Markus Hablizel (DE)
SUNDAY 29-2-2004
11:00 MET Cafe Save image as? Matinee about compression, conservation and restauration of moving images with Enno Patalas and Ralph Giles
13:00 MET Muffathalle Tools of collaboration
14:00 MET Cafe Social ontologies of open source
15:00 MET Muffathalle Migrations
16:00 MET Cafe Freedom of movement
17:00 MET Muffathalle Label-Talk
18:00 MET Cafe Constitutive practices: Ad-hoc-networking and virtual organising
19:00 MET Muffathalle The Corporation, Mark Achbar/Jennifer Abbott/Joel Bakan, Canada, 2003, 145 min
22:00 MET Cafe Data Pop in collaboration with Reboot.FM, Berlin (DE) feat.: Tobias Thomas, Koeln (DE) and Ralph Christoph, Koeln (DE)
Kunstarkaden im Kulturreferat, Sparkassenstrasse 3
Remaking Destiny
by Shahidul Alam Who am I? Where do I belong? Who determines my future? Society has no answer to these restless questions. Our sense of identity, kinship and community, are at worst shattered by the experience of migration and at best are thrown into uncertainty. The universal declaration of human rights talks of a world without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status�. The reality, particularly for the economic migrant, is very different. Physical, emotional, social and intellectual exclusion reinforce a migrant�s sense of displacement and alienation. The powerful may glide over such barriers, touching down for business, for pleasure or even out of guilt. For those without power, parting is painful, and each barrier crossed, like the ferry ghats of the big rivers, broadens the distance they must travel to return. Expectations, dreams, duties and needs circumscribe the life of an economic migrant. The single hope, to change one's destiny, is what ties all migrants together, whether they be the Bangladeshis who work in the forests of Malaysia, the bonded labourers in the sugarcane plantations in India, the construction workers in the Middle East or the hopeful thousands bound for the promised lands of Europe and North America. They see migration not merely as a means to economic freedom, but also as a passport for social mobility. The wealthy can purchase the future they desire. But a migrant who chooses to rewrite an inherited destiny swims against the current and faces the wrath of the gatekeepers who shape that destiny.
Der neue Mensch
by Armin Smailovic
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NEURO -- networking europe
February 26-29, 2004
Muffathalle, Zellstr. 4,
81667 Munich (Germany)
Kunstarkaden des Kulturreferats der Landeshauptstadt MŸnchen, Sparkassenstrasse. 3, 80331 MŸnchen
Die BankMuellerstrasse 42, 80468 MŸnchen
A new generation of media and network initiatives from all over Europe and different parts of the world present and work on their projects in a broad interactive framework that explores the different conceptual and practical idioms used to articulate and create new social, political and artistic practices. Originating within the networking culture of open communications and free exchange the event aims to connect contemporary debates on mobility, migration and social movements with new media instruments, information and communication technologies.
The new is emerging in unknown and multiple ways. It is emerging from the exhaustion and crisis of conventional political concepts that are no longer adequate to the unstable, informatic and immaterial dimensions of the emerging division of labour. The new technologies of the common are not universal hierarchies of political right but small scale and intimate practices of constitution. The new involves those who see the limitations of individual social practices of self-realisation and desire to turn them into general and transferable social technologies of emancipation.
It is time for intellectual and political debates to merge with technology. Both to evaluate the current state of social movements and to build on those orientations that are pushing the limits of what are individually considered possible. NEURO sets out to create and map a new discursive terrain and practical horizon: the ideas of 'freedom of movement' and 'technologies of the common' draws into a synergetic perspective the range of irreducibly conflictual practices whereby society is reproduced.
Without losing sight of the (translocal) constitution of the local as indispensable site of intervention, NEURO seeks to review and research practices of networking that are already redefining the political geography of Europe. In the ongoing diversification of the social, processes of integration can no longer be clearly separated from mechanisms of exclusion. The working out of these tensions at a political and economic level is producing new levels of complexity as well as new opportunities for provocative and experimental projects that challenge orthodoxy and convention.
The focus on social reproduction is an acknowledgment that its various modes are proliferating across an ever-expanding terrain in a process that suggests that collective responses will themselves have to explore some of the idioms and tools of the network in each of the subjects under discussion, whether human rights and citizenship, Empire and Europe, free software and intellectual property regimes, the spectacle of civil society, or the institutional and bureaucratic mentalities present within post-governmental environments.
Beyond the juridical parcelisation of people into discrete, sovereign and rights-bearing subjects, the present offers a unique chance to express and form solidarities that catch up in political terms with the sociality of our being. For these struggles, networks and intercommunicative agency are not goals but their very conditions of possibility. Thus the new sits in opposition to the current forms of exclusion because the appropriation of subjective freedoms within Europe and beyond it are part of the foundations on which these political edifices themselves rest.
After the thin promises of new markets and new media, what aspirations remain for evolving struggles for information, knowledge and communication? What is the role of civil society in the framework of global governing practices of political mediation today? What is the impact of immaterial and affective labour for practices of migration and the reconfiguration of the global economy of biopolitical production? What projects of self constitution emerge from practices of refusal and exodus? How has the movement reposed the question of the autonomy of the political in the midst of a crisis of representation? Is mapping the only way to express horizontal structures of cooperation and technologies of the common?
Julie Aigoin, Shahidul Alam, Aviad Albert, Valery Rey Alzaga, Kosta Argaliotis, Thomas Atzert, Octavian Avram, Birgit Beese, Nicholas Bell, Franco Bifo Berardi, David Berry, Richards Bewicks, Zeljko Blace, Arianna Bove, Thierry Braibant, Francesca Bria, Annett Busch, Maksym Butkevych, Ted Byfield, Hamish Campbell, Dumitru Chihai, Ralph H. Christoph, Lize De Clercq, Antonio Conti, Ramiro Cosentino, Emmanuelle Cosse, Courtoric, Pierre-Vincent Cresceri, Branka Curcic, Maxim David, Leo Decerca, Jose Perez De Lama, Pablo De Soto, Yves Degoyon, Ariel Efron, Erik Empson, Aleksandar Erkalovic, Luka Frelih, Micz Flor, Franziska Frielinghaus, Raquel Garcia, Joachim Gatti, Jan Gerber, Ralph Giles, Andrej Grubacic, Ivan Grubanov, Markus Hablizel, Blaz Habus, Niv Hachlili, Matthias von Hartz, Gerda Heck, Drew Hemmet, Reni Hofmueller, Jogi Hofmueller, Ronald Hoehner, Brian Holmes, Hannah Hurtzig, Manse Jacobi, Frank John, Nataliya Kabatsiy, Anetta Kahane, Paul Keller, Jamie King, Hagen Kopp, Plakor Kovacevic, Juergen Kraeftner, Jelena Kranjec, Ziga Kranjec, Nataliya Kravchenko, Dunja Kukovec, Borut Kumperscak, Andrej Kurnik, Ben Leavy, Jean-Baptiste Leroux, Alon Liebman, Geert Lovink, Sebastian Luetgert, Marin Lukanovic, Bruno Kuhlmann, Matteo Mandarini, Stefan Mannes, Andrea Mayr, Marcus McCallion, Diana McCarty, Roland Mas, Thomas Meinecke, Sebastian Meissner, Michaela Melian, Chema Mexicatl, Sandro Mezzadra, Gill Moss, David Moufang, Nat Muller, Ema Nik, Christian Nold, Ade Odukoya, Sunny Omwenyeke, Binyamin Oren, Peter Ostholt, Philipp Otto, Adrian Pancu, Zoran Pantelic, Drazen Pantic, Enno Patalas, Andrew Paterson, Rene Paulokat, Ivana Pavic, Ana Pavlisic, Luka Princic, Signe Pucena, Anat Radnay, Timo Reinfrank, Joanne Richardson, Nenad Romic, Jay Rutledge, Eran Sachs, Isabell Saints-Saens, Vladyslav Savytskyy, Norbert Schepers, Thorsten Schilling, Jule Schmidt, Florian Schneider, Pit Schultz, Andreas Schuetzeck, Grzesiek Sedek, Keiko Sei, Eyal Sivan, Orfeas Skutelis, Armin Smailovic, Christoph Spehr, Bostjan Spetic, Ann Stafford, Knut Soeren Steinkopf, James Stevens, Jacqueline Ann Stevens, Tobias Thomas, Alan Toner, Andraz Tori, Agnese Trocchi, Elise Vallois, Nancy Wagenknecht, Helmut Weiss, Christina Wendl, Joerg Windszus, Simon Worthington, Matthias Wrba, Soenke Zehle, Raul Zelik
A+M, AC/Intermittents, Act up! Paris, AFIU Anti-fascist Initiative of Ukraine, Agoraxchange, Al-Jwarezmi, Alaska, Amadeu-Antonio-Stiftung, Apabiz, Autonomedia, Autonomous Time Sharing Collective, Bildungsoffensive, Bildungsteam Berlin-Brandenburg, Bomb Mitte, Brothers Keepers, Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung, Bureau d'etudes, Candida TV, Colectivo Aljaima, Collectif Precipite, Collectif Sans-Titre, Consume.net, Crowd Compiler, Cyberpipe, Cyberrex, D Media, D-A-S-H, De Waag, Der Neue Mensch, Drik, DSM!, Dyne.org, Egoboo.Bits, European Civic Forum, European Newsreel, Everyone is an expert, Fadaiat, Fluter, Foobar, FreeSpeech TV, Futuresonic, Generation Online, GForge, Gomma, Guerillamarketing, Hackitectura, Incommunicado, Indymedia Estrecho, Indymedia Italy, Indymedia Switzerland, Justice for Janitors, JuX, Kanak Attak, kein mensch ist illegal, KIOSK, Kompakt, Kuda.org, Labournet, Libresociety.org, Loca Records, Location1, MaMa, Marcel, Mute magazine, myBrandenburg, Nettime, Neue Methode, New Global Vision, Noborder network, Noborder Ukraine, Open Society Institute, Openmute, Peoples global action, Posse, Precarias, Public Netbase, Radio Alice, Radio Helsinki, Random_Inc, Real2Reel, Reboot FM, Rekombinant, RIXC, Rosa Luxemburg Initiative Bremen, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Miklataklitim, Secretariate, Shoa.de, SO36.net, Source Records, Studio672, Subtropen, Tacheles Reden, TamTam, Tavolo di migranti, Textz.com, The Voice, The Yesmen, Undercurrents, V2, V2V, Vacarme, Volxtheater Karawane, Xiph.org, Yo Mango, Z Communications, Zalea TV, Zuendfunk
NEURO_MAP of Muffathalle
NEURO_MAP Mixer
Regional map of Munich
Innercity map of Munich
The team that is organizing NEURO will provide the latest news about the event on a weekly basis. In order to register to NEURO and to subscribe to the newsletter fill in your email adress here and press subscribe
Accomodation in Munich is pretty expensive. If you want to avoid high priced Hotel reservation, the organizers of NEURO can help you with lists of youth hostels or maybe arrange private accomodation. For further information please contact neuro@kein.org!
Most participants will stay in a hotel near the main station in the south of
the innner city: Easy Palace, Mozartstrasse 4, 80336 Munich, phone: +49-89-558797-0
Participants and guests may find some useful informations
on a map of the Munich metro system or the
electronic itinery planner. Electronic Maps are available at:Stadtplandienst and Map24
In order to link to the NEURO website you are welcome to use these banners:
NEURO_BUTTON1: 120x90px, transparent GIF
NEURO_FLYER (MU): 110x148mm, 45Kb, PDF
NEURO_FLYER (MH): 110x148mm, 159.8Kb, JPG
Join the NEURO_CHAT by pointing your Jabber-client to the groupchat: neuro@neuro.kein.org.
NEURO--networking europe
c/o JFF
Pfaelzerwaldstrasse 64
81539 Muenchen
Germany
Phone: +49-89-68989-0
Fax: +49-89-68989-111
email: neuro@kein.org
The event is a collaboration between D-A-S-H, a project by JFF, Institute for Media Education in Research and Practice; Muffathalle; Multitude e.V.; and Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung (BpB). Parts are supported by the Youth program of the European Union; Bundesministerium fuer Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (ENTIMON); Youth education network of Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung; Cultural Department of the City of Munich.
http://www.makeworlds.org
http://d-a-s-h.org
http://www.muffathalle.de
http://www.kein.org
http://www.generation-online.org
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