Issue 2/2002
Middle East
It is not only since the events of the last few months that the Middle East has become a point of convergence for political configurations both on the local and the global level. For decades, the region has been a geographical focus that is not only a test case for international relations and globally strategic coexistence within a restricted space, but also has a strong determining influence on the relationships and clashes between different cultures. The springerin »Middle East« issue is devoted to this cultural level or, to put it better, to the variety of cultural spin-offs and facets of a conflict that seems increasingly hopeless. Its main emphases include media analyses, such as Ariella Azoulay's examination of reporting methods in Israeli newspapers, and personal accounts, like the one Ainatte Inbal has written about her daily li... » read more
Net section
Mobile Convergences
Between Big Brother and multitasking: The cordless communications interface as an interface to urban space
Krystian Woznicki/Gerrit Gohlke
The Scattered Keyboard
How much do mobile communications devices contribute to current changes in language?
Olaf Arndt
Giving SMS a voice
»TextFm,« an art and research project combining SMS, internet and radio
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
Co-ordinated Tactics
Resistance web sites in connection with the Israeli-Palestinian crisis
Vera Tollmann
VideoVisions
The latest in experimental Austrian music video productions
Petra Erdmann
Somewhere In-Between
The media-art festival »intermedium« took place this year for the second time
Friedrich Tietjen
Middle East
The Silver Tray
Strategies of »symmetry production« in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Ariella Azoulay
Hovering over a Piece of Onion
A personal account of life in Tel Aviv in April 2002
Ainatte Inbal
Exposed, Exhibited Villages
A report from an artistic perspective on the region at the Lebanese border to Israel
Paola Yacoub/Michel Lasserre
Out of Breath
Statements from a round-table discussion between four Lebanese artists and intellectuals
Walid Sadek/Karl Sharro/Tony Chakar/Bilal Khbeiz
»Civilizationally, we do not dig Holes to bury ourselves«
Excerpts from an interview with Souheil Bachar
The Atlas Group/Walid Ra’ad
Arriving in America
Reflections on migrants' hair and loss of memory
Ella Shohat
The Right to Return?
Observations on American attitudes to the Israeli-American conflict
Noah Chasin
Pictures of war, inscriptions of the life-world
A brief survey of the 48th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Christian Höller
Strategies of Intervention
An interview with the Palestinian film director Elia Suleimann about his new film »Yadon Ilaheyya« (Divine Intervention)
Christophe Wavelet
»Survival, not comprehension«
An interview with the Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi in April 2002
Fareed Armaly
Rediscovered Time
The exhibition »Contemporary Arab Representations« in the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Georg Schöllhammer
Out of Form
Andreas Siekmann's exhibition in the Salzburg Kunstverein
Roger M. Buergel
Beyond the Civitas
In the run-up to »documenta«: the conference »Plattform4« in Lagos
Jochen Becker
Tourists on the Move
The 25th Biennial in São Paulo
Patricia Grzonka
Artscribe
Unterbrochene Karrieren - Partnerschaften
Nana Lüth und Carmen Mörsch
Florian Zeyfang: A Portrait A Design
Axel John Wieder
Dak\'Art 2002: 5ème Biennale de l\'Art Africain Contemporain
Friedrich Tietjen
Uncertain Signs - True Stories
Gislind Nabakowski
Morgan Fisher
Hans-Christian Dany
Hélio Oiticica, Neville D’Almeida: Quasi-Cinema
Hans-Christian Dany
James Coleman
Michael Hauffen
Zone [2] the force of sovereignity
Robin Celikates
Andreas Fogarasi: Culture Park
Sønke Gau
Kapital & Karma: Aktuelle Positionen Indischer Kunst
Stefan Römer
Mathilde ter Heinje: Tragedy
Melanie Ohnemus
Ökonomien der Zeit
Gregor Jansen
Books
Holger Kube Ventura:
Politische Kunst Begriffe in den 1990er Jahren im deutschsprachigen Raum
Matthias Dusini
Sarai Media Lab (Hg.):
Sarai Reader 02
Justin Hoffmann
Tamara Horáková, Ewald Maurer, Johanna Hofleitner, Ruth Maurer-Horak (Hg.):
Image: images
Gregor Jansen
Christa Blümlinger, Karl Sierek (Hg.):
Das Gesicht im Zeitalter des bewegten Bildes
Martin Reiterer
Ileana Pintilie:
Actionism in Romania During the Communist Era
Georg Schöllhammer