Fwd: [mutella] *Mutella News* [16_OCTOBER_03]

> Date: Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:29:39 AM US/Eastern
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> Subject: [mutella] *Mutella News* [16_OCTOBER_03]
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> _______________________________________________16 October 03 _
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> ……..1. Editorial [Mutella News]
> ……..2. Web Exclusives [Update]
> ……..3. DMZ [New]
> ……..4. Mute Advertising [Information, Call, Special Offer]
> ……..5. Mute 20th C [Special Offer]
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> Editorial [Mutella News]
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> Hi,
>
> Since the last issue of Mutella News, Metamute has featured three new
> Webexclusives.
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> First up was the second part of our series on (and by) Eyal Weizman,
> on this occasion a review by Kate Rich of a Berlin group exhibition
> which included Weizman's work. (Part three is Weizman's artist's
> project for Mute27, due out in November.) Following on from its
> distinctly silent-whisperish appearance in UK cinemas, Eugene Thacker
> does a depth-reading of the thematic undercurrents of Danny Boyle's
> film, 28 Days Later. And finally, Ian White reviews the ICA's summer
> new media show, Radical Entertainment.
>
> Find them at Metamute.com, and go to the Webexclusive item for more.
>
> In advance of London's new media festival 'DMZ', due at the Limehouse
> Town Hall in mid November, we include a preliminary outline. Look out
> too, for special offers on our no-frills advertising policy, and
> Mute's back catalogue 1994-1999.
>
> All the best, and please keep those news emails for Mutella proper
> coming at: [email protected]. It's in the factory and coming off the
> belt soon.
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> Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Simon Worthington, Josephine Berry, Hari
> Kunzru, Jamie King, Matthew Hyland, Demetra Kotouza.
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> Web Exclusives [Update]
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> WEBEXCLUSIVE // Romancing the Black Box [16.10.03]
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> Buried away in the summer programme of the ICA, the new media show
> Radical Entertainment represented an ambitious attempt to anthologise
> recent interdisciplinary work focussed on the digital domain. Here,
> Ian White reviews the exhibition and asks whether our idees fixes
> about the new media genre - its levels of ludic subversion, its
> critique of the institution of Art, its interactive nature - aren't
> misnomers in the face of the realities of the white cube. Instead, he
> suggests, we might view these 'black box' works as a revitalisation
> of the legacies of Romanticism
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> WEBEXCLUSIVE // Body Horror is Back (Because it Never Left) [24.09.03]
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> By way of fortification against epidemics and bioterrorism, the
> bodies of populations are entrusted to bioinformatic administration.
> The horror of malformity and the perfectionist fascination with
> health provide the pretext for biological control, surveillance and
> management of the body. In this context, does it matter if the 'rage
> virus' epidemic portrayed in the film 28 Days Later is scientifically
> inaccurate? Eugene Thacker draws attention to contemporary mutations
> in the concept and practice of security.
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> WEBEXCLUSIVE // Making an exhibition [04.09.03]
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> National outrage can be a trigger for an eloquent art show. With a
> catalogue entitled LAND GRAB, Israeli architects Eyal Weizman and
> Rafi Segal secured the cancellation of their architectural project,
> 'A Civilian Occupation: the Politics of Israeli Architecture', as
> Israel's official entry in the World Congress of Architecture
> (Berlin, 2002). It was banned by the same Israeli Association of
> United Architects who had commissioned it. Here, as one of several
> other participants in the Territories exhibition in which Weizman and
> Segal took part, Kate Rich asks how, and why, their use of aggregated
> data is so devastatingly effective in a contemporary art setting.
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> DMZ [New]
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> Together with the other organisations funded through the Arts
> Council's 'Developing Digital Media in London' programme (Media Art
> Projects, Spc.org, and Digital Guild), as well as the many whose art,
> software, VJ-ing, filmworks, net works and more it will feature, we
> are currently preparing for a festival of digital media to be held at
> Limehouse Town Hall the third weekend of November. Below is the first
> flyer invite text, but do keep an eye on the website and Wiki
> resource to follow developments - as late arrivals, inclusions, and
> appearances are bound to be the icing on this particular cake!
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> DMZ Media Arts Festival @ Limehouse Town Hall on 14th and 15th
> November 2003
>
> You are invited to join the firewall-free mapping of media arts in
> London. DMZ is a two-day open festival celebrating the diversity of
> screen based and network based cultural practice in London with an
> exhibition, screenings, talks, installations, wireless networks, net
> art, live performances, workshops, stalls and a tea lounge as chill
> out zone.
>
> 'DMZ - the demilitarised zone - articulates the space where
> communication, exchange and experiment are seeded, grown and
> harvested in public. The progress of inspirational idelogies, diverse
> influences and convergent energies map themselves to the city terrain,
> reshaping the environment, rejuvenating hope and breeding optimism.'
> James Stevens,
> SPC.ORG.
>
> DMZ participants:
> ambientTV.net, a.b.a.k.e, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Amy
> Cunningham, Corby and Bailey, Digital Guild, Furtherfield, Simon
> Faithful, Pete Gomes, Hi8us, Mervin Jarman, The London Particular,
> Low-Fi, The Light Surgeons, MAP, Mute Magazine, onedotzero, PirateTV,
> Proboscis, SPC, Talkaoke, Thomson and Craighead and many more
>
> DMZ information:
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> 14. / 15. November, from 11 am to 6pm
>
> Limehouse Townhall 646 Commercial Road London E14 7HA
> Nearest Tube: Limehouse DLR
> Bus Routes: 15, 115, D6, D3
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> Parking: Pay and display area behind town hall.
> Access: Please ring to make special arrangements. There is no ramp or
> lift
> at Limehouse Town Hall; email Sandra Ross or Simon Gould on [email protected]
>
> DMZ Media Arts festival is supported by Arts Council England and Film
> London. For updates and more detailed program, go to www.dmzlondon.net.
>
> For more in-depth organisational information, go to the event's Wiki:
> http://map.southspace.net/view/Main/DmzMediaArtsFestival
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> Mute Advertising [Information, Call, Special Offer]
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> When Mute was a mere sprig of a mag, the experts taught the usual
> magazine mantra: Your *core* income is from advertising sales. Bread
> and butter, too, are subscriptions. You can *forget* about
> international sales & cash… And UK shelf-sales, pah, they're just
> the lolly for the way home!
>
> In the realm of advertising, we duly created your standard arts-mag
> sales 'model': single, half and quarter pages for sale, at big-bucks
> prices, which only large institutions, publishers and agencies could
> afford…
>
> Now that we've had a lot more time coming out as a magazine, defining
> our editorial and finetuning our format, we continue to see that
> Mute's main readership - individual artists and musicians, freelance
> educators & curators, small galleries, independent publishers and
> record labels, and so on - still cannot show their wares. So, like
> the god-awful banking mantra has it, we've decided to try things out
> 'another way'.
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> Like other magazines with loyal-but-small readerships made up of
> individuals and small organisations, we are building an area in the
> magazine where people can self-advertise, but at rates that we hope
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> Mute/Metamute has introduced a new advertising section with a flat
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