ICOLS April 2003 Update
ICOLS DIRECTORS
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Wed Apr 9 18:50:36 CEST 2003
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April 2003 UPDATE:
***NEWS/EVENTS PAGE***
ICOLS Glasgow event - photos click to view
ICOLS London meeting - photos click to view
New works on the ICOLS site, listed by
department:
International Corporation of Lost Structures
John Ellison Davies (AUS) - Poet Laureate
Office image
Suzanne Treister (UK) - Director
ICOLS CALLING (audio MP3 to download)
Projektgruppe (GERMANY) - Librarians
Aquirement no. 34.
The Local Unit of Missing Links
Julian Walker (UK) - Parallax Observer
Things to do at the British Museum (Essay, Things
to do in Room 49 & Room 50, A Plan To Perform an
Act of Cultural Resolution in Room 64)
The Department of Dislocated Memory
Bronia Iwanczak (AUS) - Voodoo Therapist
ICOLS Beijing Office images
Kentucky Fried Voodoo T shirt
Monica Ross (UK) - Archivist
babylon
The Department of Revolutionary Nostalgia
Bronia Iwanczak (AUS) - Golfing Instructor
Whoever wins
Suzanne Treister (UK) - Director
Sydney and Paris Aeroflot Offices
Marek Kohn (UK) - Strategic Planner
Genes and Nations
Europe old and new: romantic ideas of national
identity in the age of DNA
New Member:
Dr. Jyanni Steffensen (AUS/CHINA) -
Vice-correspondent
Short bio: Dr. Jyanni Steffensen is Professor of
English Language Literature and Film in the
Department of Foreign Languages at Ningbo
University, Zhejiang Province, Peoples Republic
of China. Her recent projects include a
webwork, Her feet covered many cocoons for the
electronic Writing Research ensemble (eWRe). Dr.
Steffensen currently divides her time between
academic research on the construction(s) of
sexuality in new Chinese cinema and writing a
novel, Walking Slowly: Wearing crimson. The later
work takes into account, as part of its
background, the revitalisation of the Hongkou
District in Shanghai by Jewish refugees in the
late 1930s until the mid 40s.
The Department of Global Disenchantment
Andrew Brighton(UK) - Writer
An honours and dishonours system - call for
nominations
The Department of Future Projections
New Member:
Varda Blum (UK) - Guilt Adjuster
Short bio: Varda Blum was born in England on the
first day of the month of March in 1958, 1968 and
1978. Her multiple selves studied and lectured
both synchronically and diachronically at three
universities across the United States (MIT and
Yale) and Canada (Montreal) before returning to
England in early 2003 to take up three separate
posts at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in London.
Blum(s) is/are concurrently working on a
postdoctoral thesis exploring the combined
effects of modernism and religion on indoor
institutionalised plant life in war torn zones.
New Member:
Water Girl (USA) - Car Ad Designer, Waste
Disposal Consultant and Water Pourer
Short bio: A graduate from the UCLA Environmental
Design program in 2001, with a specialisation in
alternative energy resources. She was highly
commended for her research into " the toxic
release residue of deep sea bacteria and it's
potential application as a fossil fuel
replacement in the global automobile industry".
Activist claim to fame, preventing the building
of Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks studio in the
Winona wetlands in Los Angeles. Editor of the
Bi-annual Design and Critical Theory Journal 'The
Green Room' Published articles have included:
Sonar injustice: the plight of Dolphins in
funpark aquariums. A critique of refractive sound
wave patterns in Aquariam pool surfacing. Lives
between Los Angeles and Cape Leveque in Western
Australia.
New Member:
Johannes S. Sistermanns (GERMANY) - soundartist,
composer, producer of multimedia events
Short bio: Johannes S. Sistermanns is a German
composer/musician/ performer/ sound artist, and
former student of Mauricio Kagel. He has
realized Sound-Performances, Sound-
Installations/Sound-Plastic and exhibited
Graphic/Sonic notations throughout Europe
(Donaueschinger Musiktage 1996+1999) United
States (Intermedium Roulette + Knitting Factory,
New York/ Shy Ann Studios, Tacoma) Australia
(CACSA, Telstra Adelaide Festival, ABC Radio The
Listening Room) + Japan (Winds Gallery +
Goethe-Instituts of Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka, Xebec Hall
Kobe, Artist Fellowship The Japan Foundation
Tokyo).
He took vocal lessons in classical music in North
India (B.H.U. Benares/Calcutta) and has been
taught The Tao of Voice method in New York,
invented by Prof. Stephen Cheng. He has lived in
Paris, and had extended stays in South Spain and
New York, India, Australia, Japan. He has been
the recipient of various awards and fellowships +
commissioned works. His RadioSoundProjects are
commissioned by German, Australian, Austrain
Radio Stations. In general he uses taped sounds,
acoustic instruments - basalt-lava stones, indian
and chinese bells, monochord, voice, text, noise,
grand piano, acoustic bowls, computer generated
sounds -and the performance space itself.
Photo/Sound/Text/Video see more:
http://www.sistermanns-art.de
The International Department of Local Aesthetics
no new additions
The Department of Global Nostalgia
no new additions
We hope you will find the new additions to the
ICOLS project of interest.
If you are new to this mailing list we'd like to
take the chance to welcome you to ICOLS.
If you would like further information about ICOLS
and its proposed future activities please contact
us for details.
yours,
Suzanne Treister and Bronia Iwanczak
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Suzanne Treister and Bronia Iwanczak
Directors
ICOLS
International Corporation of Lost Structures
http://www.icols.org
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