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We are designing surface. Surface multiplies, beyond any measure of necessity, beyond the laws of demand and supply, beyond reason. The multiplication of surface, formerly called information overload, is the new reality of design. Its unit of measurement is virtual.

During the last 15 years the contemporary art world has grown extensively. The term globalisation is often used to describe this process, especially when the explosion of mega events such as biennales and art fairs are discussed. But globalisation is also about competition between regions, nations and continents.

On a higher educational level, this is very well reflected in the so-called Bologna process: a political attempt to make Europe and its surroundings a more attractive milieu and competitive force, economically speaking.

JoDI and Jaromil+DYNE.org collective produced interesting utility and potentialy initiated a new discourse within their respective work...

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen examines the political film post 9/11 in a big thematic programme.

No issue has been as hotly debated here as that of the political film: the East-West conflict, political activism, German film subsidies – Oberhausen is the place where all the relevant films have been shown and the scandals have erupted. Today political films are experiencing something of a revival, due to various states of emergency, the war in Iraq, increasing globalisation and new/old class conflicts.

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"Economies of the Commons - Strategies for Sustainable Access and Creative Reuse of Images and Sounds Online" is an International Working Conference in Amsterdam & Hilversum 10, 11 & 12 April 2008. De Balie in Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, in collaboration with Knowledgeland, Images for the Future, and Virtual Platform, organise a two-day international public working conference on the economies, sustainability, and opportunities for creative reuse of these public audiovisual resources and archives.

As the first website of KEIN CMS farms we have upgraded the KEIN.ORG start site to Drupal 6.0 which has been released a few hours ago after one year of development. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle. These changes are evident in Drupal 6's major usability improvements, security and maintainability advancements, friendlier installer, and expanded development framework.

<nettime> Art of Rent Seminar Series Spring 2008 London -The Art of Rent Spring 2008 University of London, Queen Mary http://www.generation-online.org/other/artofrent.htm As part of an ongoing collective project, the organisers of this seminar series seek to promote a discussion on the rise of rent as a form of capitalist appropriation and the way that new levels of association in the arts and culture, in information and communication, in public taste and ambience have made this rise possible, and from the p

MOVING FOREST of the PEOPLE'S FRONT in conspiring  with KEIN.ORG and INURA (International Network for Urban Research and Action) call for an INSURGENCY act. The Russians took Moltke bridge. The prisoners took JVA Moabit. We take the prisoners. We are all 129a. The walls are blasted. The data are mined.  The phones are tapped. The lives of others. We listen through walls. The cities of others. We walk through walls. On 19:00  1st February 2008 ***Assemble  JVA Moabit  (Alt Moabit -+- Paul-Str 10559 Berlin)*** proceed to ***Moltke Bridge*** proceed to*** Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)***