Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008

Insulation is the silent twin of "mediation".
It is the wrapper of refusal that surrounds and protects an act of transmission, of exchange, or of transport. It is then a systemic, "objective" part of the ways in which we distribute ideas, information, and materials.

When visible, insulation provides an image in outline, of the symbolic order: shapes that tell the story of distribution, mark the boundaries of commodities, their flows, and provide a surface for continuous conflict...

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008

Sholette's research into politically-engaged artists' collectives raises the following proposition: cultural economies are secretly dependent upon a sphere of hidden social production involving cooperative networks, systems of gift exchange, unwaged labor, and collective forms of practice that act as a type of missing mass or dark matter, which the art world typically refuses to acknowledge. Thanks in large part to the spread of digital networks, however, this dark matter is getting brighter.

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008

In his lecture entitled Conflicts within Peace, Peace within Conflicts, Dr. Chen will discuss the unique situation of simultaneous war and peace that seems to exist across the Taiwan Strait. It goes without saying that the cross-strait political relationship is an extremely unusual case in international politics, and although most countries don't acknowledge Taiwan's nationhood and maintain it is a part of China, Taiwan is active on the international stage as a sovereign and independent national entity.

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008

As the Russian army invaded the Georgian territory, right in the same day China celebrating its "one world, one (Olympic) dream", mainstream media soon were flooded with the term "new cold war". Russia is back, and right now United States of America is facing its most serious, urgent, catastrófico economic Recession that is going to influence the world.

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht
- 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund -

Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info***

11:30 Was für ein Urheberrecht braucht kreative Arbeit? // Standpunkte mit
RA Wolfgang Schimmel, Sekretär im Fachbereich Medien, Kunst und Industrie, ver.di, Stuttgart und
Ilja Braun, freier Journalist, Köln sowie
Paul Keller, Senior-Projektleiter Creative Commons Niederlande & Vorstandsmitglied iCommons, Amsterdam und

Christian von Borries, Dirigent, Komponist und Produzent, Berlin
Moderation: Dr.

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008

"To open to civilization the only part of our globe which it has not yet penetrated, to pierce the darkness which hangs over entire peoples..." With these words the "King of the Belgians", Leopold II. welcomed the participants of the "Geographical Conference" that took place in September 1876 at the Royal Palace in Brussels. Only nine years later nearly one million square miles in central Africa, an area that Joseph Conrad once called "the blankest of all blank spaces", has been named the "Congo Free State".

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008

Ever since September 11th not only has the perception of risk escalated but the meaning of fear has changed. At a personal level people have been speculating over their exposure to danger and institutions revising their security measures. Their capacity to cope with threats has been undermined by a loss of trust and morale. Fear has saturated every aspect of life. The American government has had to measure their ambition for global domination against the simmering prospects of revenge and sabotage occurring in their own locale.

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008

The accident has been seen as an origin myth for a new prosthetic enhancement to the body in its drive to war (Marinetti). Recently, Paul Virilio calls the accident the diagnostic of technology, its inherent drive to catastrophe. What about the accident as the image of everyday danger in a city? Not an outside, not an inside.

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

- 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund -

Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info

11:00 Eröffnung:

Udo Mager, Geschäftsführer Wirtschaftsförderung Stadt Dortmund

Dr. Inke Arns, HMKV

Dr. Volker Grassmuck, iRights.info