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10:00 - 12:00: Balie Salon	- Indymedia Workshop A work and strategy meeting as a follow-up to the Indymedia debate on Saturday.
11:00 - 03:00: Melkweg Theater	Workshop Hybrid Media Studio Live tv, radio & internet production from public studio. During the festival itself Next 5 Minutes will generate an intensive program of live broadcasts from the Hybrid Media Studio, interviews with festival guests, live broadcast from festival programs, and edited festival reports.
12:00 - 14:00: Balie Grote Zaal	- Enduring Post Communism: Networks of Patronage In Central and (South-) Eastern Europe the cultural landscape has entered the Post-Soros Era, while still awaiting the arrival of the widely expected EU patronage for the arts and the civil sector. After the collapse of the communist state the Soros network paradigmatically took over the role of the patron of the arts and civil society, necessarily for a limited amount of time. When Soros started to withdraw from the region, surprise or no surprise, local governments by and large neglected it’s legacy. In this new interbellum, a strange vacuum between Post-Communism / Soros, and the impending arrival of the EU, a new generation of cultural actors, organisations and artist initiatives has established itself, finding it’s way in the context of enduring post-communism.
12:00 - 20:00: Paradiso Oude Kelder	Installation BAkSCII mobile internet cafe by ASCII (the Amsterdam Subversive Code for Information Interchange) The BAkSCII is a wireless internet cafe, ready for instant deployment whereever and whenever the need arises. Constructed around 4 Open Brick computers, 4 TFT flatscreens, one hub, a 12 V battery and a wireless network station, the BAkSCII was originally intended to be mobilized on a Bakfiets ["Box-bike", i.e. a bicycle with a large cargo box on the front] during the N5M4 TML. Since ASCII's relocation due to an unreasonable rent increase on their space, the BakSCII has been the core component of their internet cafe at the squatted EasyCity space. http://squat.net/ascii/
12:00 - 14:00: Melkweg Max	Panel/debate Paper Tactics and the Revenge of Print Is the paper medium in the wireless era simply passé for activists? And are Zamizdat, fanzine and political magazines only interesting for historians? After the mid-nineties zine-crisis, due to a sudden rise of the cost of paper and the advent of the Internet, the actual role of magazines seems to be re-defined. Are zines still strategic tools for the circulation of ideas?
12:00 - 21:00: Paradiso Oude Kelder	N5M4-Extended The Tactical Media Tool Builders Fair 1 Next 5 Minutes 4 will host a mini-fair of tools developed by artists and activists, running continuously during the entire festival. At any time three or four projects will be presented simultaneously in the fair-space by the makers themselves who will be up for questions and discussion.
12:00 - 14:01: Melkweg Oude Zaal	- The 1001 Politics of the Archive Networked digital media have already transformed the shapes of archives and their social, political, cultural significance. Not only have they brought along increases in access to archives and the tools of archiving, which traditionally were rather located behind the doors of institutions. Archival practices themselves have changed shape with the expansions in collaborative and distributed archiving, real-time archiving, " raw archiving " (the storage of unedited recordings), and continuous appropriations among data reservoirs. These shifts in the practices of archiving call for a fresh evaluation of the politics of archiving. As the work of Foucault makes forcefully clear, the archive has traditionally played a big role as part of disciplinary and regulatory regimes. With the spread of extra-institutional practices of archiving, the politics of archiving also comes to be associated with heterogeneous practices of critique (monitoring power and its abuses) and the re-configuration of collective memories (the archive as a site for the enactment of diasporic cultures). Here the activist tradition of relying on archives for investigative purposes, of which the human rights movement is a most well known example, becomes particularly relevant. More generally, as media consumption relies more and more on information technology, archives such as Google's index of the Net become key hubs of everyday culture. As such archives currently s offer forceful platforms for political contestation. But at the same time the notion of " the emancipated archive " remains a very fragile one, as data always remains appropriatable.
12:30 - 14:00: Melkweg Cinema	Film Screening Environment 1:In search of climate change 2:Green Gold 1: IN SEARCH OF CLIMATE CHANGE Nanette Danckaarts, NL, 2001, 11' Scientists and locals give their side of the story about climate change during the Climate conference in Marakech 2001. 2: GREEN GOLD Ell Southern & Heidi Bachram, 2003, 40' This documentary investigates "Carbon Trading", the so-called "market friendly" solution to climate change. it was filmed during the time of the WSSD, World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg South Africa in august last year
13:00 - 13:45: Balie Salon	Open Space YOMANGO Because you can't buy happiness
13:00 - 13:45: Balie Kleine Zaal	Open Space Numinous Doubles Tjader-Knight inc.
14:00 - 17:00: Melkweg Cinema	Film Screening Global Conflicts 3 1:WSB Hassan Sabbah 2:Local (Mahali) 3:Scenes from an Endless War 4:On Borders 1: WSB HASSAN SABBAH Toni Serra and Joan Leandre, USA and Spain, 1999, 3', beta sp A quotation of William S. Burroughs is given new meaning. 2:LOCAL (MAHALI) Imad Ahmed, Ismail Habash, Raed Al Helou, Palestine, 2002, 52', Beta SP The three filmmakers, who work as TV news cameramen in Ramallah, are caught in their offices when the Israeli military occupies the city in March 2002. This film is a chronicle of the days they spent inside, under curfew, as the siege of Arafat's compound dragged on. It follows the mundane realities of trying to live under a military curfew with humor and dignity, and ends with their escape from the office. 3:SCENES FROM AN ENDLESS WAR Norman Cowie, USA, 2002, 32' Scenes from an endless war is an experimental documentary on militarism, globalization, and the "war against terrorism." Part meditation, part commentary, Scenes employs recontextualized commercial images, rewritten news crawls, and original footage and interviews to question received wisdom and common sense assumptions about current American policies. 4:ON BORDERS Danielle Arbid, FR, 2002, 59' "I spent four weeks, two days and a few hours circling a country that has two names : Israel and/or Palestine. I never once crossed the border. I watched the country through the eyes of those who look at it from the outside, fantasising, hating, loving. My film follows my wanderings. We are face to face with a country as intriguing as inaccessible.
14:00 - 17:00: Balie Grote Zaal	Panel/debate Contestational Science Identifying the Sites of Struggle in the Life Sciences This panel that introduces six key themes that we believe need further development and attention as they relate to resistant activity.
14:00 - 14:45: Balie Kleine Zaal	Open Space Het IJ C. Della Giustina
14:00 - 14:45: Balie Salon	Open Space Newsreal Inter-continental activist video news experiment in progress
14:00 - 16:00: Melkweg Max	Panel/debate The Indymedia Debate As a global network of more than 100 open-publishing news-websites run by volunteers using free, open source software, Indymedia represents a successful example of tactical media. The scale of reporting and global collaboration is flexible. Individual websites, although "branded", are customised according to the needs of local collectives. Apart from websites, Indymedia uses a wide range of old and new media from photocopies to radio streams and video. However, the very diversity of Indymedia and its rapid expansion leads to contradictions, conflicts and debates. Is Indymedia a model for the further development of tactical media or has it reached its limits?
14:00 - 16:00: Melkweg Oude Zaal	- Language Some key work in the process of localisation revolves around language. The exponential rate of language extinction and the possibilities of revitalization are big issues for many groups. Experts tracking indigenous language loss, say that intergenerational use of the mother tongue is the critical issue for vibrancy. No amount of multimedia or web dictionaries or student newspapers can overcome the lack of real use in and by families.
16:00 - 16:45: Balie Kleine Zaal	Open Space Zeroglab Rotterdam Károly Tóth & Veronika László
17:00 - 18:30: Balie Grote Zaal	- Debates & Credits - Media / Art / Public Domain Book and DVD Launch The Amsterdam part of the Dutch Russian media and art project “Debates & Credits - Media Art in the Public Domain” was organised last year in conjunction with the Amsterdam TML. The project consisted of a series of media art projects and interventions in public space in Amsterdam, Moscow and Ekaterinburg - both in the city spaces as well as the media spaces of these cities.
17:00 - 17:45: Balie Kleine Zaal	Open Space Online networks and public outcomes in Canberra, Australia Tracey Benson
17:00 - 19:00: Balie Kleine Zaal	Film Screening Global Conflicts 1 1:Mother Nature 2:RE: THE_OPERATION 3:Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and The News 1:MOTHER NATURE Mike Stubbs, UK, 2003 In MOTHER NATURE, Zeke (Zeke Roberts from Hull) is seen chatting with his mate Paddy close to his home about the impending war: a short, sharp, vernacular assessment of the current realpolitik _ a corrective to the general Newsnight gloss. 2:RE: THE_OPERATION Paul Chan, USA, 2002, 27:30' Based on a set of drawings that depict George W. Bush's administration as wounded soldiers in the war against terrorism, RE:THE_OPERATION explores the sexual and philosophical dynamics of war through the lives of the members as they physically engage each other and the "enemy". 3:SEEING IS BELIEVING: HANDICAMS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEWS Katerina Cizek, Peter Wintonick ,Canada, 2002, 52' SEEING IS BELIEVING: HANDICAMS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEWS shows to what extent the camera has acquired a political and social function. Video images sparked off riots in Los Angeles after the Rodney King incident. They sustain the trial against Milosevic, who has been charged with war crimes, in The Hague. They expose social abuses, accompany fund- raisers and set relief actions going.
17:00 - 20:00: Melkweg Cinema	Film Screening Brazilian Screening Graziela Kunsch will present videos from around 30 Brazilian collectives [artists and activists] and also the work of some individual artists. The videos reveal a retaking of the streets and other public spaces by these collectives/ artists. After-ratos, A.N.T.I. cinema [Sao Paulo], As 712 baratas [Rio de Janeiro] Atelier 491 [Rio de Janeiro], Atrocidades Maravilhosas [Rio de Janeiro] Bete vai a guerra [Sao Paulo], Bicicletada, C.M.I. - centro de midia independente Confeiteiros sem fronteiras, Empreza [Goiania], Entorno [Brasilia], Espao Coringa / Negrabilis [Sao Paulo], "GRUPO" [Belo Horizonte], Laranjas [Porto Alegre], Los Valderramas [Sao Paulo], Midia Tatica Brasil, MTAW - Movimento Terrorista Andy Warhol, Nucleo Performatico Subterranea, Phoder Paralelo [Rio de Janeiro), Poro [Belo Horizonte], Rejeitados, A revolucao nao sera televisionada [Sao Paulo], RRADIAL [Rio de Janeiro], Sid Moreira [Sao Paulo], Telephone colorido [Recife], Transicao Listrada [Fortaleza], Urucum [Macapa], Valmet [Goiania], Videohackers, ZOX 1999 [Sao Paulo].
17:00 - 19:00: Melkweg Oude Zaal	Panel/debate Going WSIS? Public Discussion In December of this year Geneva will host the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Behind the facades of the proven all-inclusive UN summit rituals the participants are supposed to develop 'a common vision and understanding of the information society'. The 'common vision' developed during the WSIS charade, of course, will serve to occlude the real agenda of the Northern bloc: increasing control of information and consolidating intellectual property in order to advance its interests on the global scene.
18:00 - 18:45: Balie Salon	Open Space Media Strategies for the Everyday Trebor Scholz
18:01 - 22:01: Waag Society	- '\An`a*tom"ic\ "Related to the structure of an organism" In February of this year, Waag Society embarked on an experimental trajectory to uncover the creative use of networks and media art. It started its weekly open studio at the Theatrum Anatomicum, hence the name "anatomic", inviting a wide range of young technological artists to collaboratively perform with various technologies online.
19:00 - 19:45: Balie Salon	Open Space Mother Nature Mike Stubbs
19:00 - 20:30: Balie Grote Zaal	Film Screening Political Protest 2 1:Radical Teen Cheer 2:We Interrupt this Empire 1: RADICAL TEEN CHEER Eli Elliott, 2003, USA, 10', VHS ntsc Eli Elliott's inspired portrait of Los Angeles high school students who boldly express their political views as cheerleaders. From cheers against third world country sweatshops to the hypocrisy of the United States government, Radical Teen Cheer shows a rare group of youths speaking out on issues in an interesting new form of political expression. 2:WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE San Francisco Bay Area Video Activist Network , USA, 2003, 54', mini dv What happens when a trigger-happy cowboy with a pocket full of loot aims his guns on an oil-rich, people-poor nation? The San Francisco Bay Area Video Activist Network presents the story you won't see on Fox News: an eye-popping, jaw-dropping look at the Bay Area's radical resistance to an illegal war.
19:30 - 22:30: Balie Kleine Zaal	Film Screening Gregg Bordowitz Screening + Interview 1:Fast Trip Long Drop 2:Habit 1:FAST TRIP LONG DROP Greg Bordowitz, VS, 1993, 54' Activist and HIV-positive filmmaker Gregg Bordowitz addresses his gay and Jewish identities and explores the political dimensions of the AIDS crisis. 2:HABIT Greg Bordowitz, VS, 2001, 53' Habit (2001) is the name of Bordowitz's new video work. A sequel to his earlier work, Fast Trip, Long Drop (1993), Habit addresses contemporary AIDS activism and a historically specific autobiographical perspective on living with AIDS
20:00 - 06:00: Paradiso Grote Zaal	Performance programme No Escape Completely Safe Environment This evening program is a challenge to the current security concerns that have seized public discourse not only in the United States but also increasingly in countries such as The Netherlands. The occasion of the Next 5 Minutes festival is used to introduce a new complete security system bringing absolute safety to performance and club spaces such as Paradiso. CSE addresses the needs for security of a society in distress. We want to cater to this need with absolute perfection. The program is devoted to the inauguration of this new security system. No Escape is a program with experimental electronic music, installations and several surprising guest performances. No Escape might be a long stretch: starting off at 8pm it only comes to an end ten hours later, at 6am. Invited artists: Funckarma vs. Shadowhuntaz (Dub / Skam), Cane (Warp), µ-Ziq (Planet-Mu), Erol Arkan, Rauw, Carbon Defence League, and Joost van Bellen.
20:00 - 20:45: Balie Salon	Open Space Cinema Nova
21:00 - 06:00: Melkweg Max	- 'fem snd' 'fem snd' will be a party within Next 5 Minutes which features electronic music by women. In live performances and DJ sets the invited artists introduce a variety of ground-braking conceptual and technical innovations, presenting electronic music, ranging from experimental to dance floor. The idea for 'fem snd' has been conceived during the TML Berlin, in the workshop 'sounds tactical'.
21:00 - 22:30: Melkweg Cinema	Film Screening Tactical Technologies 2 1:Retooling Dissent 2:Owned 3: 1:RETOOLING DISSENT Street Rec Collective, USA, 2002, 20', vhs Tactical mediaprojects during the World Economic Forum and protests in New York in March 2002. 2:OWNED Jennifer Read, VS, 2002, 70' Owned gives the viewer a glimpse into the ecusive world of computer hacking. Tracing the history from the phone phreakers of the 1960s through the modern day computer hackers, it provides a face and a voice to the hacker handles and shows a diversity in the hacker community. We watch as a stereotypical hacker sits at his computer and hijacks web pages and also visit the Defcon convention in Las Vegas as hundreds of hackers gather to exchange information
21:00 - 22:30: Balie Grote Zaal	Film Screening Argentina (programma o.v.) 1: Ni Oublie Ni Pardon 2:Control Obrero - Los Tranajadores de Brukman 3:Piquete Puente Pueyrredon 1:NI OUBLIE NI PARDON GAC, Arg., 10' On the ongoing struggle in search of the people who dissapeared during the militairy dictatorship 2:CONTROL OBRERO - LOS TRABAJADORES DE BRUKMAN Contra Imagen & Grupo De Boedo Films, Arg.,, 2002 26' The factory Brukman was founded in the thirties with German money. More than a year now, the factoryworkers occupy the place and stive for autonomy. 3:PIQUETE PUENTE PUEYRREDON Indymedia Argentina/Proyecto ENERC, 2002, 35' A huge demonstration on 26 of June 2002 where workers and unemployed people go on the streets ends in a rough and brutal repression and the dead of two of the unionleaders.
22:00 - 00:30: Balie Salon	Open Space Swap Meet Hosted by De Geuzen (.nl) De Geuzen is organizing a swap meet where tactical traditions, such as buttons, flyers, T-shirts, pie throwing, stencils and stickers can be displayed and generally talked about. For the event De Geuzen has designed blankets that operate as a tactical interface. Made to be viewed vertically as a banner, or horizontally as a surface, or from above as a shelter, the blankets are intended to be a nomadic, carry-all, platform for attending participants who have reserved them in advance.
23:00 - 00:30: Balie Grote Zaal	Film Screening Political Protest 1 1:The Horribly Stupid Stunt 2:Globalisation and Media 3:The Salivation Army 1:THE HORRIBLY STUPID STUNT The Yes Men, USA, 2001, 45', mini dv ntsc "Come join the Yes Men as they deliver a deathly horrible lecture to a group of high-powered lawyers, who think they are listening to the World Trade Organization. The lawyers'shocking response drives The Yes Men to the depths of depravity, with stupid results." 2:GLOBALISATION AND THE MEDIA Undercurrents, UK, 2003, 21', mini dv Undercurrents explore how the media is involved in shaping public opinion during the 'war on Terrorism' and Globalisation. They offer a wide range of viewpoints from broadcasters, journalists, media activists, and news editors. Winner of One World film festival 2002 3:THE SALiVATION ARMY Scott Treleaven, Canada, 2001, 22', beta sp pal A tale of blood, sex, spit, spunk & cult recruitment: for three years the Salivation Army operated a counterculture zine aimed at restless queer punk youth. But during their brief existence what began as a small, local gang transformed into an increasingly dangerous cult network. Part confessional, part recruitment drive. A vicious, erotic and instructional cut n' paste portrait of the underground.
23:00 - 00:30: Balie Kleine Zaal	Film Screening Urban Displacement 1:Pigeon 2:Cultural Quarter 3:BOOM! The Sound of Eviction 4:Industrial Strength 5: Buitenland Campsite (drijf-in-cinema) 1:PIGEON Reggy Timmermans, Beatrijs Albers, B., 2002, 2' The title says it all. 2:CULTURAL QUARTER Mike Stubbs, UK, 2003, 10' It is a perfect summer's day. From a bedroom window we gaze on a group of families enjoying themselves in their own recreation. Is th road they play in a public or private place? Who owns it? Are they aware they are being filmed?? Cultural Quarter presents the relationships of observation in the city to its citizens, whilst begging ethical questions on surveillance, the gaze and human behaviour. Within the very current phenomena of city marketing and 'regeneration', Cultural Quarter exposes some of the gaps between developers' dreams and citizens' perceptions of what cultural space means and how to use it. 3:BOOM! THE SOUND OF EVICTION San Francisco Bay Area Video Activist Network, USA, 2002, 60' BOOM explores the relationships between the dot-com boom (and bust) and community displacement and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly in the largely working class and Latino Mission District. By turns humorous and scathing, Boom delves into the ironies and contradictions of the "New Economy" and delivers a potent social critique that is ambitious in its scope while remaining close to the human scale. 4:INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH Laurie Petrou, Canada, 2003, 8' This video is a response to the notion that machine aesthetics can be read and were read as a metaphor for the fascist politic. It draws on research involving the Futurists, icons, army formations, language and aesthetics of the National Socialists, as well as examination of the functions and semiotics of machinery. 5:BUITENLAND CAMPSITE (DRIJF-IN-CINEMA) 0:00 - 02:00 The man who fell to earth Nicolas Roeg, Location: Nieuwe Meer Amsterdam Bring a boat and an FM radio
23:01 - 00:31: Melkweg Cinema	Film Screening Tactical Technologies 1 Spectres of the Spectrum SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM Craig Baldwin, 1999, 93', 16mm SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM is a feature-length 16mm film utilizing old 'kinescopes' to create an eerie, haunted "media-archaeology" zone for a sci-fi time-travel tale, wherein live-action actors search for a hidden electromagnetic secret to save the planet from a futuristic war-machine, inspired by HAARP, the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research.
01:00 - 03:00: Melkweg Cinema	Film Screening Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut, FR, 1966, 112', 16mm From the Ray Bradbury novel, Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature that paper will burst into flame. Oskar Werner plays a fireman who does not put out fires, but who searches out books and burns them. Books make people unhappy. In a parody of social correctness, all discordant strains are removed. The world is a lonely one of separate people in which Werner begins to read the books before burning them.