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CHAPTER I:
A one week conference on Armed Confrontations.
CHAPTER I: Armed Confrontations,
the first in series of events dealing with current issues of global concern.
CHAPTER I: Armed Confrontations
will integrate the gallery space into the ongoing global dialogue concerning Armed
Confrontations. This will occur in the same way debates take place in areas of society
that participate in the decision making process of their communities.
Since 1971, Raul Marroquin has been living in the Netherlands and working as a
media artist. His work includes: live events, radio, television, teleconferencingand
"many to many" communications. During the past ten years R. Marroquin has used consumer
and office technology to produce and program radio and television. His television
program De Hoeksteen Live! (cablecasted live for the Amsterdam metropolitan area,
every third Saturday of the month, twelve to fourteen consecutive hours) features
interviews, debates and discussions on current affairs, culture, politics, economics
and social issues with local, national and international artists, politicians,
journalists, academics, activists, captains of industry, etc. Some of the items
cablecasted during De Hoeksteen Live! Television are live in the studio, some others
are conducted via the telephone, BBS (Bulleting Board System) IRC (Internet Relay
Chat)
moderated news groups and ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) teleconferencing.
In CHAPTER I: Armed Confrontations,
Marroquin uses some of the same technology and formulas developed in De Hoeksteen
Live! Television. Now, this new approach will be inplemented outside the live,
television framework of Marroquin's cable program.
CHAPTER I: Armed Confrontations. During this period Armed Confrontations all over the
world are monitored, discussed and evaluated by experts from governments and NGO's
(non-governmental organizations) representatives from different corners of the private
sector, autonomous organizations, special intrest groups, activists, academics,
journalists and concerned citizens on a 24 hour basis.
's main target with Armed Confrontations
is to open a dialogue outside the conventional environment where such issues are normally
ventilated. The intimate atmosphere of the gallery will encourage casual exchanges.
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER I is a one week event designed to
debate matters regarding Armed Confrontations.
CHAPTER I looks at elements that are
part of the complex configuration of Armed Confrontations and asks for a serious attempt to
promptly deal with the issue. CHAPTER I deals with subjects regarding
Armed Confrantations in an extensive way, making a first priority the participants direct
and inmediate contact.
CHAPTER I is the first in a series of
conceptual exercises, that allows those involved to operate under simillar circumstances
to those of a news desk, or a war room. The location is equiped with the necessarymeans for
immediate access to up-to-the-minute information.
CHAPTER I will enable participants to
exchange ideas on a one-to-one basis as well as in groups: round tables, lectures,
workshops, presentations, etc. CHAPTER I can be considered as a
communications laboratory at the disposal of participants, visitors and observers. It is
also a pilot for a formula that can be used in the future on a more permanent basis.'s archives. Information is also
available via s own on-line services,
in house audio & video channels, as well as radio & television produced for Salto
(Amsterdam local radio and cable television.)
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