live-net:art-brunch at 12/13:30 into two locations with a discussion about digital election/voting systems. One Part of the virtu-real meating will take place in Vienna, Austria and the second half of the desk wil be placed in Tallinn, Estonia.
The Event took place in the scope of PARAFLOWS, the viennese netart & -culture festival 2006 http://www.paraflows.at/index.php?id=30
Newspaper article about open.Window.006
http://www.moles.ee/06/Sep/11/3-1.php
WHEN: Sunday 10th of September
Tallinn at 13:30 Baltic European Time
Vienna at 12:30 Central European Time
WHERE: Live Connection via Internet-Confernce between the Auditorium of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn (Tartu mnt. 1) and the BLUMBERG Gallery, Vienna. (Blumberggasse 20, 16. District ) www.blumberg.at - www.artun.ee
WHO: sonance.artistic.network & BLUMBERG in the scope of the PARAFLOWS festival.
Moderation Tallinn: Simon Haefele (sonance.net)
Moderation Vienna: Noname Yet.
Estonian Food Receipts by
enter.sonance.net - www.paraflows.at
Invited Individuals:
Ian Grigg, financial cryptographer.
Jaan Toomik, Performance Artist.
Raivo Kelomees, Media Artist.
Dagmar Kase, Media Artist.
Developers of the Digital Election System in Estonia.
Local Social Scientist, Art Critics & Politicians.
The Heads of Skype. (Developed in Tallinn)
Technik Estonia: Allan Tonissoo, Austria: Ramiro Cosentino
Propaganda Estonia: Daniel Kupferberg, Austria: Paraflows
Cooking Estonia: Thomas Geiger, Austria: Ruth Haselmair
Estonian Receipts by Mariliin Kindsiko
For this Sunday the 10th of September, we cordially did invite you to a bidirectional online brunch with open discussion about online-voting-systems. Within the context of this year's Viennese NetArt & -Culture Festival PARAFLOWS we want to open a window for cultural exchange between Vienna and Tallinn.
As Estonia is already running a digital voting-system in a real case scenario of national elections. We see a great opportunity to exchange the experience and expertise gathered: How did you get around certain problems in order to exchange thought, opinions, meaning and solutions on this very important topic about the democratic election systems of the future.
We hereby invite people form very different disciplines to contribute in this world-wide discussion, which will be a major topic in the future development of especially the European and US-American societies. Experts of technical development, social-science, politics, business and the art are questioned to share the knowledge about the advantages and doubts of such systems: What will the social and political impact of this election-speedup be, if every member of a state or an area will be able to take part in any important decision within milliseconds with the help of his mobile device? Would we even need a parliament any more? Could we use flexible user-profiles of citizens in order to ask a "voting bot" (Marko Kosnik) what the decision of the commonalty would be?
Over the last two years, the Vienese netart & -culture producer scene has experimented with different voting systems, and tested and developed models and modes, in order to find a fair and equitable way to distribute the public art & culture fund of 500.000 euros amongst a community of 200 groups and individuals. During these experiments, discussions, thoughts and thinking, we had to surmount challenges and problems towards the realization of digital voting systems. Both technical and social challenges: The technical realisability proved daunting, and jealousy and fights arose around the money as different solutions favoured different results. All these results informed us on the potential long term impacts on society and democracy.
Thanks to Simon Haefele, Michael Lampert, Ruth Haselmair, Ramiro Consiento, Edith Schild, the Blumberg Gallery (where the other end of the desk will be) and the organizers of the Paraflows Netart/Culture Festival, especially Angela Dorrer & the Estonian Academy of Arts, we are able to invite you to a wonderful, relaxed first sonance.artistic.network branch release006. The event will be documented and the documents are going to play during the whole PARAFLOWS exhibition in the Blumberg Gallery & on our web-page.
List of Material used for the artistic intervention / panel discussion:
2 Rooms (One Gallery and one Auditorium)
2 Big Tables melting into one over the virtual invisible border.
(One half of it will be in Tallinn and the other in Vienna. - > The Stargate.)
2 White Sheet to Cover the Table
2 Cameras
1 Beamer & 1 Television Aparat
4 Microphones (Maybe wireless.)
2 Audio Mixer
2 Amplifiers
4 Speakers (Preferable lots of headphones in order to avoid feedback.)
2 Daylight-Lamps
2 Computers with high-speed Internet-Connection
with Conferencing Software Installed onto them.
+ Two or more cooks to prepare the food served.
+ Artists to prepare the room & make documentation.
+ Interesting/Interessted Experts & Audience.
+ Pro and Contra positions, meaning & opinions.
+ Estonian Cooking Receipts.
+ Potatos, Beetroot, Vodka, Pease Pudding, Herrings, & more.
Invisible Elements:
Light, Cooper, Companies, Funds, "Human Resources", Electric Power,
Electromagnetic Waves, loaded Air, Brains, Bits, Platines, Patents,
Metallic & Fossil Resources, Good Will.
General Ideas & Concepts. Concrete.
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open.Window006 = an estonian-austrian net::art branch/brunch
a bidirectional online e-cooking tutorial - is this now i-democracy?
+ potatos, beetroot, vodka, pease pudding, herrings, & more.
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