Halo! Recently we set up the discussion boards for setting up the program of upcoming festival (14-18 Apr) on Ning site. Free to join: http://multiplace.ning.com.

Take a look at the current overview on the program list here (in Slovak).
By cities: Praha, Brno, Banská Bystrica, Krakow, Žilina, Ústí nad Labem, Nitra, or set up a new one!

OZ Multiplace vyhlasuje sutaz o vizual festivalu sietovej kultury
Multiplace 2009!

Vymysli, navrhni a posli koncept vizualu 8. rocnika medzinarodneho
festivalu sietovej kultury Multiplace 2009, vyhraj tak 500 euro, moznost
realizovat ho, a stan sa dalsim atraktivnym bodom v sieti…

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Podmienky sutaze
Autor predstavi vizualny koncept, ktory bude aplikovatelny v roznych
mediach (tlacoviny, digitalne media, web…) v dostatocnom rozsahu (ukazky
realizacii, popis, skice). Potrebne su minimalne dve aplikacie – plagat,
letak. Navrhne, ako prisposobit povodne logo festivalu potrebam
noveho vizualu, alebo vytvori nove logo.

Vitazny koncept bude realizovany a oceneny sumou 500 euro (dalsia
financna odmena podla dohody pri realizacii). Dalsie dva najlepsie navrhy
budu ocenene sumami 50 euro. Zdruzenie Multiplace si vyhradzuje pravo
nevybrat vitaza alebo neocenit dalsie navrhy v pripade, ze nebudu dosahovat
pozadovanu uroven.

Okrem “povinnych” realizacii uvitame i navrhy prinasajuce nove formy
spoluprace pri tvorbe dizajnu a vyslednej prezentacie festivalu (PR
strategia, moznosti vizualizacie temy festivalu, kolaborativny dizajn…).

Terminy
Sutaz konci 23. 2. 2009
Vysledky budu zverejnene najneskor 28.2.2009 na webe www.multiplace.org
a emailom zucastnenym.
Realizacia: 29.2.- 29.3.2009

Kontakt
Pre dalsie informacie k sutazi, specifikacie podkladov a tiez k zasielaniu
vasich navrhov, piste na adresu: gata at 13m3 dot sk / alebo admin at
multiplace dot sk

O Multiplace
Multiplace je siet ludi a organizacii, venujucich sa interakcii medii
a technologii s umenim, kulturou a spolocnostou. Vyvrcholenim aktivit
siete je kazdorocny festival, ktory sa kona zaroven na roznych miestach
sveta. Jeho program je otvoreny dielnam, instalaciam, diskusiam, koncertom,
performance, vystavam, prezentaciam, projekciam a predovsetkym novym
formam kreativity. Povodne zameranie na kulturu novych medii prechadza
od roku 2002 trvalym vyvojom, okrem technologickeho aspektu digitalnych
medii v umeni, su predmetom zaujmu taktiez suvisiace esteticke, socialne,
kulturne, pravne, ci politicke otazky. Cielom “festivalu-siete” Multiplace
je vytvorit zazemie pre podporu medialnej tvorby, tvorit v otvorenom
a kolaborativnom prostredi a posilnit kriticke uvazovanie o zivote
v medialnej kulture. Multiplace pritom kladie doraz na experimentovanie
s moznostami spoluprace a prepajania medzi jednotlivymi uzlami siete.

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NGO Multiplace calls for new visual of Multiplace network culture festival
2009!

Create and send us a concept of the design of the 8th Multiplace network
culture festival and win 500 euro and a ground for realising your concept.

Requirements
You will present your visual concept, which should be applicable in
various media (print, digital media, web etc.) in adequate form (previews,
description, sketches) Minimum of two applications is needed – poster,
leaflet. You also have to make a proposal of optimising the previous
Multiplace logo to the new visual concept or create a new logo.

The winning concept will be realised and honored with 500 euro (additional
financial compensation according to agreement after realisation).

Another two successful concepts will be honored with 50 euro.
NGO Multiplace reserves the privilege not to choose any of the adepts if
the concepts do not fulfill the requirements.

Besides “obligate” realizations also the proposals and ideas about new
forms of collaboration on the design and presentation of the festival are
welcome (PR strategy, visualisations of the main ideas of the festival,
collaborative design etc.)

Terms
Deadline for proposals: 23rd February 2009.
Results of the competitions will be published till 28th February 2009
both via email and on www.multiplace.sk
Realisation: 29th February – 29th March 2009

Contact
For more information about the call, specification of the portfolio
and proposal submission write to: gata at 13m3 dot sk / or admin at
multiplace dot sk

About Multiplace
Multiplace is network of people and organisations interested in interaction
between media, technologies, art, culture and society. Network activities
culminate every year into the festival, that is happening parallely at
several locations in the world. Its program is open to workshops,
installations, discussions, concerts, performances, exhibitions,
presentations, screenings and especially new forms of
creativity. Original focus on the new media culture has been evolving
since 2002 and besides the technological aspect of digital media in art,
the focus shifted also to questions related to its aesthetical, social,
cultural, legal and political issues. The aim of the festival-network
Multiplace is to create the fertile ground for media art, to support the
creativity in an open and collaborative environment and to encourage
critical reflection on the life in the culture shaped by technologies.

Overview of visual design of previous volumes of the festival:
MULTIPLACE 2008 http://multiplace.sk/2008/index.php?id=588
MULTIPLACE 2007 http://multiplace.sk/2007/?id=11
MULTIPLACE 2006 http://multiplace.sk/2006/?id=78
MULTIPLACE 2005 http://multiplace.sk/2005/
MULTIPLACE 2004 http://multiplace.sk/2004/index.php?tp=5〈=0
MULTIPLACE 2003 http://multiplace.sk/2003/index2.php?tp=50&dy=〈=
MULTIPLACE 2002 http://multiplace.org/2002/

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*** logo by michal fridrich / multiplace 2007 – brno

20.-22. Febr. 2009
Vienna, 1180 Peter-Jordan-Straße 82, Boku

Alongside a very agile globalization-critical movement many different projects of a solidarity economy gain importance. Our hope regards the strengthening and interlinking of all iniatives which combine critical theory and practical projects. They all seek collective ways aiming at sociopolitical, ecological and cultural change.

The range of solidarity economy should be widely applied – respective a solidarity as mutual support and an economy, which orientates itself at human needs and not the other way round. We do want not to narrow down the idea `solidarity economy´ in order to give enough space to the very different concepts and approaches and making controversial discussions possible. Here it is the critics of the genderrelations, of the boundary-regimes, capitalism and/or destruction of the natural environment and also to get a selfreflexive perspective upon solidarity projects, for instance:

selfmanaged rooms and companies, old and new cooperatives, alternative forms of habitation, appropriation of rooms and resources, communes, companies with social targets, initiatives for right of residence, barter rings, regional currencies, spaces for women and feminism projects, free of charge shops, alternative institutions of financing, fair trade, solidarian and crosscultural gardens, public couisine, agricultural selfmarketing, ecovillages, OpenSource, alternative learning institutes, knowledge sharing, basic income, and much more of this kind.

http://www.solidarische-oekonomie.at

http://www.aec.at/festival_about_en.php

Co se stalo v hudbě za uplynulý rok? Už tradičně se sejde několik hudebních publicistů, aby na tuhle otázku odpovídali každý po svém.

Uvedou Karel Veselý (Reflex, A2, His voice), Aleš Stuchlý (Týden, festival Stimul) a Pavel Klusák (Respekt) příběhy z bludiště hudby v čase krize. Zvuky, klipy, interpretace & čerpací stanice pro hudební nenasyty. USB-flashky a CDR s sebou!

Klíčová hesla: Dadaističtí hiphopoví skřeti a Obama. Disco z kosmických lodí. Murderpop, art-disko, amorfolk: severský průvodce soukromou apokalypsou. Písničkové DIY skládačky z Asie i Čech: fiktivní folklór, nebo hudební origami? Hauntologie, Ghost Box a duchové v přehrávači. Afričtí slepci slyší nejlíp. Více noisu pro nebojsu. Kauza ukradených chiptunes aneb osmibity budou bity! Češi objevují Ameriku, kdo objeví Čechy? Zahraj to švihle, Samiyame. Sex, sex, sex. Vědci v hitparádě. Nejmilejší zvuky Prahy. Peter Cusack. My.

http://fleda.cz/program/vse-2009-2-10-hudba-2008-krize-jaka-krize–625
http://www.archatheatre.cz/cz/menu/program/783.html

o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi)-newyorská zvuková umělkyně, skladatelka a členka sdružení SHARE se věnuje kompozici elektroakustické hudby, zabývá se zvukovými instalacemi, reflektuje současnou digitální kulturou a analyzuje zvuk pomocí experimentů s percepčními modely a kinestetickými reakcemi.

Její koncerty a instalace byly prezentovány po celém světě, mimo jiné v The Kitchen, Austrian Cultural Forum, Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S. 1, American Museum of Moving Image, Chelsea Art Museum, UnityGain, Rhizome.org, White Columns, Lincoln Center, MIT (Boston), atd.)

Renenze publikovaná v časopise Wired zmiňuje její hudbu jako ‘Unleashing an enchanted sea of sound: Fuzzed-out birdcalls flit through submarine drones, and scratchy beats crackle like a thousand records skipping as one’.

o.blaat spolupracuje například s: Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, Lloop, Miguel Frasconi, Timeblind, Eyvind Kang, Sachiko M, Tetsuji Akiyama, Aki Onda, Toshio Kajiwara, Christine Bard, Kaffe Matthews, Ralph Steinbrüchel, Günter Müller, Norbert Morslang, Anthony Coleman, Kurt Ralske, Lukasz Lysakowski, HC Gilje, Eric Redlinger, Klaus Filip, Karlheinz Essl, Bernhard Loibner, Takemura Nobukazu, Ryuichi Sakamoto, among others.
Byla členka skupiny Marina Rosenfeld’s 17 piece guitar/powerbook orchestra, ‘Sheer Frost Orchestra 2000’ a kvartetu s Ikue Mori, Kaffe Mathews a Marinou Rosenfeld.

další informace:
http://obla.at

vstupné: 60 kč

koncert je připraven ve splupráci s FAMU, radio lemurie.taz, které jej živě přenáší na internetu