Dirk Vekemans
Since 2005
Works in Kessel-Lo Belgium

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BIO
born in 1962 in Lier, Belgium.
studied filology at Louvain, Belgium.

worked a lot in bars and restaurants before i became obsessivly addicted to producing stuff on computers.

i once won a design contest of cgi-magazine and they let me go to New York for four days, that was nice.

i think in terms of writing mostly (or programming, but those are very similar processes for me)

painting is a very different process and i'm very bad at it but i do it anyway because i like the differences it produces and i like the freshness of amateurism, i guess.

what i produce new media-wise is also very much influenced by my daily practice of webdesign and programming with its concerns of usability and the pragmatic approach it implies.

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a note on Sondheim


http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/kristine/index.jsp#sondheim

(fill out the named anchor manually, it doesn't seem to get through the encoding here)

greetings,
dv

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Fris voor de tijd van het jaar (NKdeE: Nieuwsbrief #6 - 6th NEWSLETTER ) First signs of summer


--------------------NEWSLETTER - NKdeE - NIEUWSBRIEF ------------
Liefste kijkmuiskinderen,

Ziehier ons maandelijks beursadvies.

Hoewel het momenteel zeer fris is voor de tijd van het jaar, worden wij
heden toch al enkele zomerse trekjes gewaar in onze locale configuraties. Zo
zijn zonnecremes al enkele dagen bon ton in artistieke middens en houdt
reclamegigant Jan Fabre het winterse bloot-in-olijfolie al lang voor bekeken
en kijkt reikhalzend uit naar een nieuwe megacampagne rond een beproefde
formule van dynamisch-bederflijke waren. Een vaste waarde, efficient verder
bouwend op het succes in een goed gestructureerde afzetmarkt: houden dus.

Succesvol lijkt ook de stad Leuven, onder het management van Louis Tobback
pijlsnel van familiebedrijfje uitgegroeid tot de pro-actiefheid zelve, erg
vooruitziend alweer in haar manoeuvre om nu al een deel van het hopeloos
verouderde reklamepatrimonium te verkopen ten einde de Put van Martrock 2005
precursief te kunnen vullen. Leuven beseft tijdig dat een toppositie als
kleinhandelsgroep niet vanzelf gehandhaafd blijft en gaat verstandig om met
verliesprognoses, voor de avontuurlijke belegger een stevige aanrader als
aanvulling op het stabiele Koningshuis.

Voor gevorderde beursanalysten is dit misschien interessant (of hoe een
schijnbaar onbeduidend nieuwtje toch van invloed kan zijn op een overspannen
markt): de recente arrestatie van de illegaal in ons land verblijvende
Ljubljanaan Slavoj

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Re: FW: [rep_art] Utopia Reversed - An assault on neurospace [Weimar,May 26-27]


Ah so that's where they all went to. Going back to Weimar, of all places
(sorry, bad joke). Thanks Kevin, for forwarding it, i lost sight of the
wild bunch since 1999 & it seems some have come to similar conclusions on
khaki boots
dv

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Sent: donderdag 26 mei 2005 2:52
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Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: FW: [rep_art] Utopia Reversed - An assault on
neurospace [Weimar,May 26-27]

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From: Matteo Pasquinelli <matml@gmx.it>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 17:23:54 +0200
To: all <republicart-list@t0.or.at>
Subject: [rep_art] Utopia Reversed - An assault on neurospace [Weimar, May
26-27]

UTOPIA REVERSED - An Assault on Neurospace

A two-day meeting in Weimar about new forms of art and activism hitting
the global mind

Weimar, May 26-27, 2005, h20-22.
Schiller Festival, Utopia Baustelle
www.schillerfestival.com/Utopie/10_Reversed.html

What is today's space for political and artistic action? From political
utopia to TV imagery to cyberspace, different kinds of 'space' have
been populated in contemporary culture. A group of Italian and French
activists will gather in Weimar trying to explore and discuss new
spaces and new strategies of activism after the internet. Under the
concept of 'neurospace' Matteo Pasquinelli, media theorist from Bologna
and editor of Rekombinant, will focus on the convergence between
popular imagery and networked environment. Technology-based activism is
turning into biopolitical forms of communication: not simply
counter-information or media activism but the production of new
collective subjectivies and narrations. Just back from the EuroMayDay
005 mobilizations, Alex Foti will tell tales of San Precario, the new
icon of metropolitan resistance from net/temp/flex and precarious
workers in Italy, while Zoe Romano will introduce Serpica Naro, the
open source stylist whose multi-level media hoax caused waves of panic
among Italian fashion designers. Turning to social reactions to
mediascape, Andre Gattolin will look at the activities of the Anti-Pub
Brigades, a French movement that fights against the visual dominance of
commercial ads in the urban public space. Sara Massaccesi from Rome
will illustrate Guerriglia Marketing's modus operandi in the
brandscape. The Milan-based game developer Paolo Pedercini will screen
his Molle Industria project, which has alredy been covered by the BBC
in its treatment of 'political videogames'.

Curators: Jan Hendrik Brueggemeir, Matteo Pasquinelli.

PROGRAM

Thursday, May 26, 20-22h.
Introduction and presentations with:

- Matteo Pasquinelli, Bologna/London (www.rekombinant.org)
An Assault on Neurospace: New forms of art and activism hitting on
the global mind

- Paolo Pedercini, Milan (www.molleindustria.it)
Molle Industria: Gaming as a new radical language

- Andre Gattolin, Paris (www.hns-info.net, www.stopub.tk)
The Antipub movement: From underground to "no ground"

Friday, May 27, 20-22h.
Presentations and final debate with:

- Alex Foti, Milan (www.sanprecario.info, www.euromayday.org)
San Precario: The Italian icon of flexible revolt

- Zoe Romano, Milan (www.serpicanaro.com, www.chainworkers.org)
Serpica Naro: Subvertising the fashion industry

- Alex Foti + Zoe Romano
May Day 005: Euroradicals fighting precarization across Neuropa

- Sara Massaccesi, Rome (www.guerrigliamarketing.it,
www.espropriproletari.com)
Guerriglia Marketing: brand economy encounters social conflict

More material, slides and articles available soon on:
www.schillerfestival.com/Utopie/10_Reversed.html

Some webcams on the Utopia baustelle:
www.thueringer-webcams.de/weimar/theaterplatz/fullsize.jpg
www.corneliaerdmann.de/venezia/Weimar.htm

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DISCUSSION

Re: VIN -Very Important News


A very fine VIN it is! Vintage, really. Looking forward to the review...
Thanx, dv

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org] On Behalf Of
Regina Celia Pinto
Sent: zondag 22 mei 2005 15:06
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Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: VIN -Very Important News

Dear all,

Here are the news:

I )- The new "Electric Green Sheep":

I would like to introduce you the American Artist Millie Niss, who will be
our Museum Newsletter Collaborative Review's June guest and invite you to
browser at:

http://www.sporkworld.og (Millie Niss's URL)

Millie Niss has been making web-based computer art since 2000, when she
discovered Flash and HTML. Her work has been published on wordcircuits.com,
bannerart.org, Rhizomes/hyperrhiz, The Museum of the Essential and Beyond
That, trAce, thirdplacehgallery.org, and others. A list of her publications
on the web is at www.sporkworld.org/webpub.html Since 2001, Millie has
been maintaining her website www.sporkworld.org , which focuses on web art
and poetry (although the poetry on it is old). Themes of work on Sporkworld
include cities (especially New York), mental illness, contemporary poetry,
politics, and more. Millie presented a workshop on Sound Poetry in Flash in
2004 at the trAce Online Writing Centre's Incubation3 Symposium in
Nottingham, England. In 2004, a drawing from one of her animations appeared
in Rachel Greene's Book _Internet Art_ in Thames & Hudson publisher's "World
of Art" series.

Millie Niss also enjoys writing poetry and prose, and her poems and articles
have been published widely online and some in print, including in The
Buffalo News, Artvoice, The New York Times, Friends' Journal, New York City
Voices (print), and futhertxt.org, unlikelystories.org, Beehive, poetz.com,
Big Bridge, sidereality, poetrysz, m.a.g., and others (online). She loves
to read poetry and novels, especially contemporary experimental works and
some classics, and enjoys literature which is postmodern and does not make
sense and/or is written in nonstandard styles. Millie is also very
interested in science, medicine, mathematics, and computer science, and
likes to base her work on scientific and technical ideas and algorithms.

The review will begin on June 10 th.

To join the newsletter browser at: http://arteonline.arq.br

If you not read the first Collaborative Review on the work os isabel Saij
(France), the adress to do it is:

http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_saij.htm

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II )- The new works at the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That:

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1- The sheep by Fred Forest, a pionner of video art and Internet art in
France - http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep, find - page bottom - Fred Forest
Forest received the communication's prize in Sao Paulo's Benal 1973 and he
will do a retrospective exhibition at Paco das Artes de Sao Paulo, next
2006 April.

Browser at http://www.fredforest.org/Ina and type the name "mouton" (sheep)!
Also writes a definition and you will receive a signed work by Fred Forest.

Fred Forest also has a web museum at:

http://www.webnetmuseum.org

Being there do not forget of looking for:

http://www.webnetmuseum.org/html/fr/expo_retr_fredforest/actions_fr.htm#text

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At http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep/

I would like to call your attention to the new Sheep which have
arrived at the museum. http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep/ , specially for the
delicious but seriously political song sent by Louise Desrenards (France)

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2- "Promiscuous Design" by Jason Nelson (USA / Australia) at
Anthropological / Sociological Gallery of the museum:

http://www.arteonline.arq.br/museu/antrosocio.htm

Although Jason is currently swayed by the tropical heat and forest, he
misses the treeless plains of Oklahoma. His work has appeared most
everywhere, but can always be seen at either http://www.heliozoa.com or
http://www.secrettechnology.com his most recent fascination is with mail. If
you e-mail him your snail mail address he will send you an artistically
built postcard from Australia. heliopod (at) gmail.com

"Promiscuous Design"

Technology is a translation engine, it reforms, recreates the texts of our
surroundings into an infinite number of languages. These texts are more than
words or speech and instead include radio static, temperature, the frayed
edge of a sheet, the mumblings of a stranger.

Promiscuous Designs is a translation engine of itself, it takes poetry
derived from speech to text experiments and processes that poetry through
the different interfaces, and overlaying them within the words and
intertwined with the graphics. And rather than have an end, a linear
progression, the user becomes translator, creating their own poetics through
their interactions with the work. Explore and Play.

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It is interesting that both artists - Nelson and Forest - are sending real
feedback for you!

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At: http://www.arteonline.arq.br/museu/antrosocio.htm

Also you will find the works of Giselle Beiguelman - Brazil, Minerva
Cuevas - Mexico, Stehane Malisse - Brazil and my own work "Reload Celeida
Tostes", a tribute for that wonderful Brazilian artist, dead in 1995 -
there you will see digital clay ...

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Warmest regards,

Regina Celia Pinto

http://arteonline.arq.br
http://arteonline.arq.br/library.htm

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