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n.e.w.s. letter August 2009

n.e.w.s. (http://northeastwestsouth.net) is a platform for participatory development of artisticand curatorial projects in contemporary art and new media framed by contributions from aroundthe globe, bringing together voices and images from North, East, West and South. n.e.w.s. reflectsgeographic diversity and facilitates a framework for collaboration, content and visions of changeoutside the normal parameters of the established art world networks. Comments and feedback

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n.e.w.s.@ISEA2009 August 29, 2009

N.e.w.s. celebrates one-year! with an invitation to present at ISEA 2009 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) on the island ofIreland. N.e.w.s. delivered the powerpoint presentation ‘Ruminations on Remuneration’ on Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 12:30,University of Ulster, Belfast. In this presentation (n.e.w.s.) addressed the artistic context of an emergent community investing increative production on the Internet, mapped out through notions of the gift, immaterial labour, debt and participatory technologies. Wealso introduced our forthcoming book 'Arbitrating Attention: reinvesting attention surplus in plausible artworlds' that rethinks the socialand economic conditions of art and explores alternative models of remuneration. Thanks to Mondriaan Foundation fo r their support.

Negotiating Equity at DAI January-July 2009

Negotiating Equity at the DAI (Dutch Art Institute/Master Programme /ArtEZ Institute of the Arts) aims to offer a participatory platformto address the ethics and practice of curatorship as a mode of art production. The nature and format of this project favors cooperativeendeavor, while considering the implications of self-curation. Specificially, this project addresses collaborative curation and the positionof the artist as curator- investigating experimental and conceptual art practices under physical as well as virtual conditions.

The past months contributors from the n.e.w.s. platform presented their individual approaches to curating and their particular social andeconomic criteria regarding art production. Using the ‘temporary reside’ from id11 and STeC in Delft as a space in which to engage theabove practices, DAI lectures and seminars focused on ‘creating context’ in the broadest sense of this term. Drawing upon a wide rangeof artistic and art-related practices, some off the radar, undocumented and under-theorized, others representative of art historicalparadigms, we examined how to use temporary housing as an exhibition and presentation model along with addressing and finding otheraudiences, virtual or otherwise, implicitly or explicitly challenging dominant regimes of spectatorship all too often considered self-evident. Negotiating Equity website contextualises the project that will continue next year at DAI. Participants: Raymond Huizinga,Hidenori Mitsue, Marina Tomic, Jimini Hignett, Julio Pastor, Laetitia Queyranne, Manami Yoshimoto, James Skunca, Amanda Koelman,Suzanne van Rest, Veridiana Zurita

ERRARE HUMANUM ESTMay 32-September 32 2009

Since first thing Monday morning, the 32nd of May, n.e.w.s. has been disorganizing an online forum on error and errorism, without quitegetting around to mentioning it. Here then, in a gesture of performative errorism, is the official announcement in the form of aninvitation to partake in our quest for error.

Though this may be a thorough error in judgment, this forum will consist of posting a number of theoretical and philosophical andpolitical texts – Errorist Manifestos, videos and images and odd and sundry, and then engaging a conversation in no particular directionwith everyone and all error involved. The Forum is thus a place to concoct, theorize on, commit, and to contaminate the world witherror. Error is its constituent principle.

This online forum paves the way for next year’s International Congress of Error and Errorism to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, onthe occasion of the bicentennial of South American independence – or two hundred years of error in Latin America. The point is todeepen our level of error in anticipation of the Congress. So to get the ball rolling (in the wrong direction of course, and with as manyballs as required) let this online forum acknowledge that it has already begun.

With: Loreto Garin, Federico Geller, Brian Holmes, Manray Hsu, Eduardo Molinari, Stephen Wright, Federico Zuckerfeld and InternationalErrorists

Unspeakably More October 1-4 2009

n.e.w.s. is co-organising a seminar 'Unspeakably More: Naming, Deframing: a lexicon for contemporary curatorship' (Art after Space) incooperation with KHOJ and Periferry in Guwahati in northeast India. Invited curators, artists, anthropologists, economists, critics,technici, interested parties and contributors from n.e.w.s. will all gather during a four-day weekend to initiate a new model ofdiscourse. Participants: Raqs Media Collective, CMP: Howard Chan, Siu King Chung, Tushar Joag, Sharmila Samant, Nishant Shah, SanjayBhangar, Nancy Adajania, Kaushik Bhaumik, Sonal Jain, Mriganka Madhukaillya, Pooja Sood, Stephen Wright, Prayas Abhinav, RenéeRidgway. More to follow.

n.e.w.s. website now

The past months we have been working behind the scenes gathering research for our forthcoming book, facilitating reconnaissance tripsto Paris, Amsterdam, Delft, Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi, lecturing and teaching en route along with redesigning and working on thewebsite. Not yet complete, we will be multilingual very shortly and the website will change and progress during the next months. Weare also in the process of recruiting contributors, interns, advisors as well as seeking funding for content. Interested parties shouldplease see the future online forums and join in or send an email to: info@northeastwestsouth.net

n.e.w.s. foundation: Tiong Ang, Saskia van der Kroef, Renée Ridgway

n.e.w.s. is presently supported by Arts Collaboratory and by the enthusiasm and generosity of invisible people worldwide. Are youinvisible?

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