. Art

25/10/01 ncc48.
For forty-eight hours (from today to Saturday) Graz, Austria, becomes the center of the worldwide debate on net.art. Here, in fact held ncc48 , a 'community NETART congress', which constantly try to produce information, thoughts, documentation and production spaces physical and non-physical. The red wire is 'the internet in the context of art' organized by the Austrian network mur.at. Among the panels: 'open_source & free software' on the application of open source models to net.art, one of the major promises of change of the current schemes, involving the Italian Jaromil and Richard Stallman in remote link; 'neighbour.net ', on the relationship between physical boundaries and culture / communication network superimposed with Kristian Lukic, Peter and Walter van der Tomas Dobrile Cruijssen remote connection;' net.perform 'show streaming on the dark late at night, with Rose and Berlin Station noton; 'transfer.net' cultural-economic conditions of the development of art in the network and the ability to continue countercultural practices in a phase of strong pressure on the industry's creative output, with Andreas Broeckmann and konsum.net; 'net & literature 'on the narrative of the new spaces and concepts become ambiguous' presence', 'public' and 'private', with die flut, hugi and Igor Markovic; 'net.art', the structure and the necessity of art on the net , including its tools needed technically and culturally evolving (with questions such as: mailing lists are still not sufficient for the development of these practices?) in an attempt to develop a production and distribution system that develops around the 'net-work of art ', with Josephine Bosma, Andreas Broeckmann, Katharina Gsoellpointner, Derick de Kerckhove, Ulli Meybohm, Heat Bunting, and Geert Lovink in remote connection.