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War / Art / New Technologies: KOSOV@

Kosovo /Kosova has been referred to here as Kosov@ in the attempt to retain both the "o" and "a" characters used in both (Serbian and Albanian) spellings


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Who has access to the internet?


Timeline

PETITION FOR THE RELEASE OF ALBANIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS HELD IN SERBIA
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net.art on Kosovo

http://www.net.yu/~stopwar
Aleksander Antic of Yugoslavia presents a gallery of war photographs from Serbia.

http://members.tripod.com/~aaart/american.htm
"American Toys": fictitious toys combine US pop culture with weaponry.

http://members.tripod.com/~aaart/products.htm
Andrej Tisma of Yugoslavia presents "Famous US Products," which connect US-based multinational corporations such as McDonald’s and Coca-Cola with US military adverturism.

http://members.tripod.com/~aaart/usaquest.htm
Andrej Tisma of Yugoslavia presents "USA Questionnaire," which
puts US military action in historical context, referencing Iraq and Vietnam, and repression of Native Americans. Questionnaire places blame on Madeleine Albright and porposes that she be exterminated.

http://www.geocities.com:80/SoHo/Gallery/9855/glorious.htm
In "Glorious Victory," Andrej Tisma of Yugoslavia juxtaposes soft pornography with missiles and bombs.


http://www.thing.de/blinkface/vh2/index.face/vh2/index.htm


http://www.ljudmila.org/~woelle/lajka/war/
"Nearly ramdom screenshots" from Yugoslavian TV on the night of March 24, 1999 shows how different networks (CNN, BBC World, and local stations) portray the bombing.

http://SOLAIR.EUnet.yu/~twiddle/


http://www.telepath.com/skipsil/dovehawk.html
Word and image exploration of the suggested inevitability of war.


http://www.lot.at/politics/frameset.htm
"Is it possible to escape prefromated homogenizing structures by addressing the politics of art within the historical institutionalized term political art?" This site asks this and other jargon-filled questions, accompanied by black-and-white images.

http://www.teo-spiller.org/wargames/
Uses concept of "cyber-war" to make death into a self-consciously unreal game.

http://www.thing.de/blinkface/vh2/index_b.htm
Klaus-Dieter Michel's collection of "anti-war art", featuring Duncan Long, Andrej Tisma, Mathew Archive, POW29011954, Manuela Corti, and uw2 group.

http://www.imaginet.fr/nomemory
Valery Grancher's website shows sketches of installations

http://www.calarts.edu/~jcaffrey/kosovo.html
Juxtaposes photos of fighter planes and missiles with photos of their "human costs."

Slobodan
website taking on Slobodan Milosovic

http://www.artcontext.com/remote
Andy Deck and Joe Dellinger's description of "Commission Control," about media representations of the conflict in Kosovo.

Human Rights Project

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http://www.freespeech.org/art_in_action/transitions
unite the world!
Boriana Dragoeva and Ventstslav Zankov of Bulgaria use split screen to emphasize the difficulty of "uniting the world." Criticism of US imperialism and militarism, with references to popular culture.

http://www.freespeech.org/art_in_action/M_F
NATO in Kosovo - fairy-tales
Boriana Dragoeva and Ventstslav Zankov of Bulgaria combine student testimonial of the bombing with amusing and ironic "NATO user’s manual," which critiques the aims and tactics of NATO and the UN.

Human Rights Program at Bard College

http://www.dds.nl/pressnow

http://www.anem.opennet.org/

http://www.medienhilfe.ch/

http://www.v2.nl/syndicate

http://www.freeb92.net/
page of the Free B92 website

http://www.radio21.net
Website of Radio 21, an internet news service operating out of Prisztina.

http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au
Website of the Radioqualia "information zone," an internet radio service. They say that "While exploring intersections between contemporary and historic communications art movements is also intrinsic to r a d i o q u a l i a's politic, the eye of the loop is in a convergence of format and aesthetic."

http://www.oneworld.org
Website of OneWorld, an international internet news service focusing on issues of globalization and imperialism.

http://www.oneworld.org/dispatches/kosovo/index.html
One World’s (see above) page devoted to Kosovo.

http://www.iwpr.net
Website of Institute for War & Peace Reporting, analysis and information from journalists. Specializing in the Balkans.

http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr
Website of Le Monde Diplomatique, the French newspaper.

http://www.dds.nl/openchannels
Website of Open Channels for Kosovo, "Voices from the Region." Daily news reports from 4/5/99-5/21/99.

http://www.refugees.org/news/crisis/kosovo_pa.htm
U.S. Committee on Refugees’ special report on Kosovo.

http://www.contrast.org/borders/
Website of "Cross the Border", a group with interesting ideas of the political and artistic implications of internet technology: "Conceptually and practically, networks became battlefields for a regime in which life and its components are objects and targets, or, alternatively, as vehicles for autonomy, singularity, and the free flow of ideas, activities, and, most of all, for people as such. This latter vision involves new and unknown fields and possibilities, and with that, political, ethical, and esthetic challenges."

http://www.bok.net/pajol/

Website of PAJOL, a French group providing international news in many languages, including Esperanto

http://www.proasyl.de/
Website of PRO ASYL, the German "Human Rights Organization for Refugees."

http://www.humanrights.de/
Website of Human Rights Server, a German source for international human rights violation information.

http://www.iacenter.org/
Website of International Action Center, US-based group for "Information, Activism, and Resistance to U.S. Militarism and War, Linking with Struggles Against Racism and Oppression within the United States." IAC does work on informing the American public about NATO/US action in the former Yugoslavia.

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