Trans-siberian conference 11-20 Sept 2005


***The Connection Between the War Against Terrorism, Economics and
Media-Art***

Researchers, activists and media-artists meet on the Trans-Siberian train
from Moscow to Beijing for the first ephemera conference; September 11th -
20th 2005.

The conference "Capturing the Moving Minds" gathers a pack of people ...
artists, economists, researchers, philosophers, activists ... who are
interested in the new logic of the economy, the new form of war against
terrorism and in the new cooperative modes of creation and resistance,
together in a space moving in time. Spatially moving bodies and bodies
moving in time (through the different time zones) creates an event, a
meeting that not really 'is' but 'is going on'.

Is this project about economics, is it political activity or a work of art?
This "boundlessness" or "indeterminacy", which always characterizes the
creation of new, is where the energy of the project is coming from: The
enterprise expresses and exposes the "knowledge economy" in which it exists.
It is something the orthodox conceptions about work, action, economy and art
are unable to grasp. In this organizational experiment everybody is "alone
together" like a pack of wolves around a fire having neighbours to the left
and to the right but nobody behind their backs exposed to the desert.

There are 50 participants on the train involving well known media-artists,
frontline contemporary thinkers and political activists. The project has
been invited to participate in the International ARS2006 biennial at Kiasma
Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and to arrange an exhibition at the
Villa Croce Museo d'arte contemporanea di Genova during summer 2006.

Mobicasting brings the event directly to all: The Trans-siberian conference
is documented and broadcasted through an audiovisual mobicasting platform to
the internet. The documentarists, photographers, artists and researchers
produce discussions, ideas, interviews, texts and films along the route. The
documentation will be projected in Kiasma during the journey and it will
also be available on several international www-channels. The mobicasting
webpages http://www.kiasma.fi/transsiberia will be opened on September 7th.
There will also be a moving radio station on the train; See
http://trans-siberianradio.org

Further info on the conference and the participants:
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/conference (contact Akseli Virtanen +358
400-302010 akseli.virtanen@... or Steffen Bohm +44 794 111 0998
sgbohm@... directly on the train)

Capturing the Moving Mind Live: http://www.kiasma.fi/transsiberia (Further
info on the mobicasting platform: m-cult, http://www.m-cult.org, Netta Norro
+358 40-5618004)

Trans-siberian Radio station: http://trans-siberianradio.org

The event is organised by ephemera, Tutkijaliitto, Kiasma, Frame, m-cult,
Helsinki School of Economics and the Chydenius Institute