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CONTRIBUTIONS FOR: WE WANT BANDWIDTH !
@ HYBRID WORKSPACE DOCUMENTA X, KASSEL, GERMANY
FROM 8 TO 17 JULY 1997

In the coming ten days the Society for Old and New Media will put the
issue of Bandwidth up for a close examination. During this public
research you can visit us, both on site and on-line. Please send us all
your Bandwidth reports. We will broadcast your reports and comments in
the Hybrid Workspace at the Documenta. Come and join our discussion in
the news groups at the Workspace sites. (WWW.DOCUMENTA.DE/WORKSPACE &
WWW.WAAG.ORG/BANDWIDTH). You can also participate in the regularly
organised debates, off-line in Kassel.

We are interested in all your comments:
+ Personal Statements
+ The price and quality of your bandwidth
+ Research on the ownership of bandwidth
+ Manifesto's
+ URL's
+ Mapping of power
+ Conspiracy Theories

THE PUSH FOR BANDWIDTH ?!@

In the networked society the kind of bandwidth of your connection will
determine whether you're in the game or out. It's not just about being
flushed by the data-pipes, it's about setting your own trash against the
data-stream. It's about the vision of wired citizens as passive
consumers of virtual corporate waste, versus the active prosumer, the
critical consumer and producer of digitised content.

There are still a lot of questions to be resolved. First of all, who
will own the backbones of the digital freeways of the mind, and will we
have enough space to cast our own content on its tracks? What effect
will the virtual monopolies have on the equal share in the data drive
for everyone who cares enough to bother about it.

On the other hand we might be just a reactionary phantom from a
technologically outdated past, and soon we might be flooded by bit
bearing media. So what are we going to do with unlimited bandwidth? Is
the fetish phantasy of full feed, full speed communication just another
screen on which to project the utopia of an universal understanding
between people? If everybody is a broadcaster, who will shut up and
listen?

HOW TO CONTACT US

DE WAAG / SOCIETY FOR OLD AND NEW MEDIA @
DOCUMENTA X, ORANGERIE WORKSPACE

Marleen(@waag.org) Stikker / Mieke(@vpro.nl) Gerritzen
Eric(@media-gn.nl) Kluitenberg / Micha