1997 – The Piran Nettime Manifesto – Nettime

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29.5.1997, The Piran Nettime Manifesto

A PRESS RELEASE by Nettime (Vienna ad-hoc committee)

PRESS CONFERENCE 29.5.1997 19:00

Public Netbase Media~Space!, Museumsquartier, Museumsplatz 1, Vienna/Austria Thursday, 29.5.1997 19:00

Participants: Pit Schultz (Berlin), Geert Lovink (Amsterdam), Critical Art Ensemble (Chicago), Diana McCarty (Budapest), Marko Peljhan (Ljubljana), Oliver Marchart (Wien), Peter Lamborn Wilson (New York)

"Why do you rob banks?"

"Because that's where the money is." (Willie Sutton, famous bank robber)

Last week Nettimers frolicked in the real space/time continuum on the Slovenian coast in the town of Piran where the following bullets were established:

· Nettime declares Information War. · We denounce pan-capitalism and demand reparations. Cyberspace is where

your bankruptcy takes place.

· Nettime launches crusade against data barbarism in the virtual holy land. · We celebrate the re-mapping of the Ex-East/Ex-West and the return to geography. · We respect the return to "alt.cultures" and pagan software structures ("It's normal!"). · Deprivatize corporate content, liberate the virtual enclosures and storm the content castles! · Refuse the institutionalization of net processes. · We reject pornography on the net unless well made. · We are still, until this day, rejecting make-work schemes and libertarian declarations of independence. · NGOs are the future oppressive post-governments of the world. · We support experimental data transfer technology. · Participate in the Nettime retirement plan, zero work by age 40. · The critique of the image is the defense of the imagination. · Nettime could be Dreamtime.

Questions can be addressed to the participants at the Nettime press conference, Public Netbase, Museumsquartier, Vienna, 29.5.1997, 19:00 hours

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Context

The Piran Nettime Manifesto was published on the Nettime's mailing list in May 26, 1997 (1). In the original message are includes some details about a press conference that was celebrated three days after and included the participation of Pit Schultz, Geert Lovink, el Critical Art Ensemble, Diana McCarty, Marko Peljhan, Oliver Marchart y Peter Lamborn Wilson, who were noted , they could be asked directly about the manifesto (1).

The manifesto was written in the slovenian city coast of Piran by Nettime, Vienna ad-hoc committee at the next day of “Beauty and the east”, meetings held in the city of Ljubljana from May 21 to 23, 1997 which consisted of a series of lectures and events by Netttime that aimed to turn it into a group or movement in order to be more than a mailing list (2) The mixed responses to the Pyran Manifesto The mixed responses to the Pyran Manifesto on the list indicated that Nettime would not be a group or a movement (3) (4) (5).

Authors

Nettime is a mailing list founded by Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz in june 1995 during the second encounter Median Zentral Kommittee as part of the event Club Berlin in the Biennial of Venice (6). Since 1998 Nettime has been moderated by ed Biefiel y Felix Stalde (7). The mailing list is well known for being one of the most important online spaces for the discussion of the arts and cultures of the Internet, its principal aim it's to conjugate different disciplines and practices such as electronic arts, computer sciencies, journalism and media theory (8).

References

(1) http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9705/msg00147.html

(2) Lovink, G. (2009). Dynamics of critical internet culture (pp. 108 - 114). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. Recuperado de: http://networkcultures.org/_uploads/tod/TOD1_dynamicsofcriticalinternetculture.pdf

(3) http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9705/msg00152.html

(4) http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9705/msg00157.html

(5) http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9705/msg00153.html

(6) http://www.nettime.org/info.html

(7) https://monoskop.org/Nettime

(8) Lovink, G. (2009). Dynamics of critical internet culture (pp. 91). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. Recuperado de: http://networkcultures.org/_uploads/tod/TOD1_dynamicsofcriticalinternetculture.pdf

Links

First Edition: http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9705/msg00147.html

Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20180402214323/http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9705/msg00147.html Categoría:Slovenia Categoría:1997 Categoría:Nettime