Re next years EASA theme; sustainability.

That is the key to living. In 1981 they focused on the LOCAL, the city In 2003 we will focus on the GLOBAL, planet earth and beyond, our home

I say again to you, check when the W.T.O meeting are happening, I think its in paris in 2003. EASA finishing around 3 days after the event would be a good time. I am planning a workshop from next years base to copenhagen for a solidarity protest and city carnival when the talks are on I have been researching the social, economic, political mechanisms which are destroying this planet, our only home for the time being. Many people are challenging the world bank, W.TO. and I.M.F. An economic war has been on since the 1970`s. every year @ 7,000,000- 7 million people die, worldwide environmental destruction, poverty, hunger etc all exist due to unjust social, economic, political mechanisms. We are fighting back, nov 30th 1999 thousands protested and prevented the W.T.O. meeting from happening. More and more people are finding out about whats going on

Individuals are educating themselves, organizing, and taking direct action

Networks are being used and the battles are non violent largely peaceful protests. We aim to increase awareness and educate, and then to organize to peacefully fight the unjust system These are short-term urban events.

I was at ecotopia this year www.ecotopia2002.org it is the main euro tool for change re sustainability. Next year it is in ukraine, unlimited numbers can participate in the 2 week workshop sust living event. I would encourage all of you and all EASA people to come to the ukraine if you can. If you cant, communicate virtually with them and help bring about a more sustainable world

That’s about it. A lot of stuff has happened in the last month and a bit. Lots of connections have been made. Lots of stuff learned. Great times

if you want more info check out the book "the hidden connections" by fritjof capra, im trying to get him to give a lecture next year.

Thanks to all of you, for being interested and interesting

Life rocks

Dunk

The revolution is on, here and now

FUSPEY – fun – sustainable – peaceful – existence

Finally I present the first edition of our website with the results of the workshop "Landart & the Camera"...

And: Yes baby... the Washing Machine pictures and the Chair pictures are there!! And there is more to come!

Check out: www.landart.tk

Ciao, Jelk

as i posted already on this site i want to install a ftp-server to collect all the data about easa

but due to some problems it will take some more weeks to be online

ill let you know whats going on

marko

a lot of people are asking me about the music i had with me on my computer in vis so here you can find the list:

add n to x | anne laplantine | aoki takamasa | aphex twin | bauri | captain comatose | carsten nicolai | deus | double articulation (cd) | fisherspooner | funkstorung | geert waehgeman | holon | kid 606 | laurie anderson | magnetophone | mc900 ft jesus | moloko | monolake | mos def | mouse on mars | nikakoi | oren ambarchi | osmosis (cd) | oval | panasonic | steve reich | safety scissors | sonic acts | spectre | speedy j | stokhausen | substancia (cd) | sun electric (cd) | susumu yokota | tiger and syntherius | trans am | tricky | u-ziq | warp label | yazoo | zu takemura

enjoy margareta

where sun rays fan-like spatialize rainbows twosome go their way time dis-flows and stretches out where heaven's fruits pass by as star-grapes would where blue the sea gets bayed and white the beach is gonna get millenial

there I let a piece of mine leaving a dental gap it fell

Anybody who attended Don Foresta's lecture should be more or less able to figure out what our workshop is about.

Network – a common media term nowadays. The notion is «en vogue» and vague – as most modern terms are. Don Foresta spent part of his lifetime to put a meaning to this word. A bachelor in American History, a Master in International relationships, and a Doctor in Sciences and Arts made him on the one hand a man aware of history, living the present facing the future. On the other hand one of his major concern is about communication and human relationships.

Information Technologies have turned out to take a major place in our every day’s habits: Chatting, e-mail, file sharing, online shopping, online banking, online phone calls, online booking etc... So to him, high-tech broadband networks will be the communication channel of the future. But compared to older communication spaces as speech, dialogue, print-medias, radio, telephone, this new child of human imagination has the same major fault as other electronic media: a lack of complex human presence and of cultural content.

Commercial aims and purposes are threatening to create a vacuum of sense in this space. Selling and conning are the main “non-content” of today’s net spaces – as the examples pointed out already. Surfing the web one will find at least 90% of bullshit.

To Don Foresta, netspace should be an extension and broadening of the well-known communication spaces. To do so, they have to integrate human sensibility and meaning. The vaccum of non-content has to be filled.

As he points out, we are at a turning point of history – with impressive parralels to the renaissance, when old paradigms and models of perception of our world were torn down to be replaced by new ones. This resulting mechanical paradigm– which took 300 years to be generally accepted – is already fading and making place for another one: The network paradigm. People are becoming aware – little by little – that they are part of a bigger something. Connectivity, relational and dynamic aspects are being pointed out in nearly every domain.

How all this can be put into a workshop might seem quite hard to do. Don did.

If we are at a point where we have to fill an empty space with meaning, we are making something similar to what the first human artistic act and gesture might probably have been. So the approach was to get back to the roots of arts – which essence is mainly giving a meaning to something.

According to Don Foresta, the first human artistic gesture – which dates probably back to one million years ago – was picking an object out of its environment and to use it as a talisman, shrine or fetish .... And by that selection, give those objects a meaning.

In order to try to experience this process of giving meaning, we walked around different places, gathering – not only objects, but pictures, experiences, moments ... And we are trying to turn them into somethig else and by that way give them meaning.

Next step was to do so as well in the virtual space of the web. Surfing the web, picking up «objects», screenshots and use them to turn them into something else.

After the phase of gathering came the expression – a double step. We intended to work in two interacting realities: the «real» and the virtual. Our project had that in common: It's functionning and aim and it's form.

That has been described quite well by Duncan:

«(...) created the "samogor art gallery" as a centre point, hub, nucleus, heart of samogor where people could meet, communicate, do and see art, information could be exchanged, sunbrella articles read, a place to celebrate, have parties. and all else.

we have made a prototype website, a virtual "samogor art gallery". we hope it can do the same things as its real version. mainly allow for discussion, communication, interaction, a place to see and do.»

Personnally I see it more as one of several possible nodes in a network. But that doesn't matter – as it is my reality and everybody is free to have it's own – «we shape the world around us by looking at it».

Furthermore we wanted to leave an imprint of us on Vis:

«(...) about leaving an imprint, a positive trace of us, that we were here. We are experiencing something great - and perhaps it would be just as polite to give something in return. We all are going to go back home with some, adresses, icq numbers, experience, shared moments ... but perhaps a part of what we are bringing out into the world from this summerworkshop might as well be given to Vis itselfs.

That's what that art gallery might be about: a trace of our assembly. What we would like to do is to set up relations to the habitants of Vis - who often are wondering what the hell is going on here in Samogor. So that might be a start for something which is meant to stay longer than we do. » (sunbrella – workshop-report S18)

... and an imprint in the virtual world ... – something evolving in time, something living – let's make easa live (it already is!), let's make it last .

Hvala Dovidjenja

alx b.

What I've heard from the recent easa-meeting it seems as if things are pretty orgainzed these days - nearly everything was done by the croatian team, as e.g. the bar (strictly 7pm-2am, always with the same barkeepers), or not making it possible for anyone to play 'their' music at the large stage (with the effect that the spanish people had their own party somewhere else, as many others as well). Also I've heard of the troubles of a NC that tried to visit the base for a couple of days, not being let inside...

I wonder if these aren't all signs of over-organization and remember easa has been pretty open earlier, letting people do what they want to do, without such strict rules. Don't we architects learn to plan, organize and manage projects, isnt it most important for a community-concept as easa to offer a playground for such ideas?

As I did not have the chance to take part at Vis, this feeling is based on not more than personal reports - but I'd be interested in your idea of the easa-spirit, and your wishlist for the next gathering. Probably the responsible one's out there might take notice.

i just resized all my pics for the web... still 20mb - so you need a good line.

my homepage > fotos > easa

if you wantem full size youve to wait till ive the ftp server - i going to hook up 80Gb to our T3 pipe at university... hopefully ;-)

hope you all like my pics!

cu, marko

ps: i know - my site is really old...