Interzone report of February 2005

French version

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Hi all,

I have been stuck on a bed since 15 days with a twisted vertebra which prevented me from sitting and standing up for a long time, and could not use a computer. So I could not write the report sooner, and it is a short one this month. Paul called for Dr Benway, and the result seeems better than the one of the men of the art, so I now am able to send it. :-) (I hope that my doctor will not sue Bill for illegal practice of medicine).

by Paul O'DONOVAN

Just after sending the report of January, I have had a printer problem , both printers decided to go on stike, so to sent one to repair. Hence, I could not make a part of the prints I had planned : booklet of the CD compilation 1, calendars, etc. So this was a month "without".

Whatever, here is the result.

 

Last letter of Yage :

Anthony Rousseau has to translate in English a Burroughs' letter to Allen Ginsberg : "Last letter of Yage". Rather than translating it, it'd be better to have the original version written by Bill. If anybody has it, thanks for sending it to Anthony at anthony_rousseau01@yahoo.fr

Erratum : After the sending of the report, Anthony tells me that he wrote this "Last letter of Yage" for a video he is going to make. So this is not an unknown text by Burroughs. I have translated it, but we need an English corrector for it to be in good English. Thanks for any help.

Kerouac books for sale :

"chrisdamitio" <chrisdamitio@yahoo.com> is selling his old Kerouac books . If any of you are interested you can have a look at http://www.fuknbooks.com

Ricardo Mbarak 's lecture : "Art and New Media in Lebanon"

Ricardo gave a lecture on sunday Feb 6, 2005. 16h-17h at the House of World Cultures, Berlin at the festival Transmediale.

Presentation of the lecture:

Ricardo Mbarak spoke about the emerging artists' approaches and positions in today's Lebanese multi-cultural society, where religion, politics, war and post-war environments are always affecting the identity and belonging crisis. The aim of the lecture is presenting a panorama on the Lebanese current art scene dealing with new media.

Mbarak conciders that art in Lebanon is strongly related to socio-politics. So to see how art is reflecting society, he started the lecture by presenting an historical background of Lebanon since its independance day till today's situatio. This is to give an idea about what are the historical icons our generation share today as part of their common geographical and historical context. While of course not all of them have the same translation or understanding of this and that event they or others caused.

R. Mbarak then rose the issue of how the art and cultural institutions are initiating projects and giving subventions, and how some individual efforts are investigated to organize new media events, with an overview on the public, critics and press roles. He focused on how the new technology of information and communication is cultured, specifically via his new media work as well as the works of colleagues with whom he is in direct contact.

Information about Transmediale Festival:

transmediale is the biggest and most significant festival for art and the creative usage of digital media in Germany. Once a year the festival presents new and outstanding projects in the field of digital culture and provides reflexions on the role of digital technologies in contemporary society. It is a forum of communication for artists, media workers and a broad public interested in arts of vital and still increasing international importance.

Ricardo Mbaka's CV:

New Media artist, lives and works in France and Lebanon.

Born in Beirut (Lebanon) in 1974. Ricardo Mbarak gets the diploma of State in "Painting and Drawing" (Beirut, 1996). Diploma in "Study in Cinematography and Audiovisual Techniques", option "Electronic Creations" (ESEC, Paris, 1998). "National Superior Plastic Arts Diploma" with the jury's felicitations, New Media section, from the National Superior Fine Arts School (Paris, 2001) . In the fall 1999, he moved to Pittsburgh, PA - USA - where he worked on New Media projects include Filmmaking and Digital Special Effects.
Since 1995, the works of Ricardo Mbarak enter many galleries, museums and festivals in Lebanon, Europe and Canada. France: Guislain Mollet-Viéville, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, ENSBA, ARS Electronica, Transmediale, ISEA 2000, Cinéma Balzac. Lebanon: Espace SD, Goethe-Institut, Alice Mghabghab.

Since 2002, he gives the course of "Art & Video" at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts - Beirut, where he is Coordinator for Art and Video.


Sites :

The site "La Sémantique Générale pour tous":

The site made by Yannick Chosse is on line at http://semantiquegenerale.free.fr . Yannick has added a forum. The site is in French, as its aim is to provide French resources on general semantics, but the forum can host exchanges in English or other languages as well.

Authors audio :

Jake has constructed a web site for interviewing authors. You can get in touch with him at www.authorsaudio.com

"Rasta Robert" <rr@cistron.nl> :

New URL and e-mail : http://rr.www.cistron.nl/ http://www.rr.dds.nl/
webcast archive on http://www.dread.demon.nl is a cut up made from about 9 hours of Burroughs lectures from the Naropa Audio Archive at archive.org.
Some corrections in the translation of the Last Words on the page on cistron.

Jon Nelson's blog :

http://www.cheblogs.com/roller/page/njon/

 Gary Leeming's flickr photos :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grazulis/

 

Interzone galleries :

*Binda 23's photo gallery on deviant art : http://binda23.deviantart.com/

*More paintings by Paul Donovan :

Paul has sent a number of new paintings which have been added to his gallery : see http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/odonovan5.html ,

 

Calendar :

The Interzone calendar of March 2005 is on line at http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/cal0305.html.

In case some want to buy it printed, it is for sale at 12 euros. You can choose the illustrations : Burroughs' collections or else (see the galleries of Interzone Creations at http://www.inter-zone.org/gal.html )

 

New pages on line:

In Interzone sites :

In the other Zoners' sites:

Gary Leeming's flickr photos :http://www.flickr.com/photos/grazulis/

Jon Nelson's blog : http://www.cheblogs.com/roller/page/njon/

Optical Sound Optical Sound Middle February Newsletter details in the news of February 2005 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9445/News66.html

Ricardo Mbarak : Lecture "Art and New Media in Lebanon"

Binda 23 : photo gallery on deviant art http://binda23.deviantart.com/

Jake : Authors audio : www.authorsaudio.com

"Rasta Robert" <rr@cistron.nl> : New URL and e-mail : http://rr.www.cistron.nl/ http://www.rr.dds.nl/
webcast archive on http://www.dread.demon.nl is a cut up made from about 9 hours of Burroughs lectures from the Naropa Audio Archive at archive.org.

This report is on line at http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/reportfeb05.html . The French version will be on line in some days at http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/reportfeb05fr.html

Best

Izzy

Images of the day / Images du jour / Imagenes del dia:

De Argentina : Daniel Gualda

From US Culturegrounds.org

Thoughts of the day / Pensées du jour:

Littlemute (US)

Grazulis blogspot and flickr photos (U K)

Novart: extrahuman collages

Jon Nelson's blog

 

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