FADAIAT*// BORDERLINE ACADEMY took place in Tarifa from June 17th to 26th, 2005. The old castle of "Guzman El Bueno" built in the 9th century hosteed a series of workshops, seminars, public events, concerts, parties, screenings, shows, theoretical and practical experiments in arts, media and politics.

Since the weekend May 14th/15th, many internet users had to notice their inboxes were flooded with some rather unusual spam, carrying neofascist propaganda. Most of these spam mails are containing one or several links to web sites of the NPD, Germany's major radical right wing party, even though some mails also link to articles by the mainstream press, such as Der Spiegel, FAZ or Heise Online. The headers of the spam mails are forged, so one should not assume the sender of the spam mail to be related to the email adresses that appears - bounces show that also D-A-S-H addresses have been forged in order to send out neonazi spam.

The project "Hot Russian line" intends to bring information on current problems and questions of social movements in Russia to the international audience, artistically using the concept of tactical television. The project is made in a form of five video-clips dedicated to key social topics which are: leftist movement, illegal immigration, IT development, 1st Russian Social Forum and a look from Russia at Ukraine and its orange revolution. The clips will be released gradually in a period of time from April, 8th until April, 22nd.

Designers, developers and administrators from Spain, Netherlands, Austria and Germany are working on a special distribution of the Drupal Content Management System that makes it a lot easier to set up your own multi-user, multi-language, multi-purpose internet platform. This distribution is strictly based on the latest drupal-release, but will contain several special features...

After series of anti-Semitic incidents in Serbia and Montenegro, eight non-governmental organizations initiated action entitled "Stop the Conspiracy of Silence", appealing on necessity of establishing anti-discrimination laws and politics of tolerance in Serbia. They have started with organizing public actions in cities all over Serbia and started collecting citizens’ signatures that will be pursued until 30.000 signatures are collected and possibility to propose anti-discrimination law to Serbian government is possible.

"a.network" is regional initiative of new media centers, which are involved in production, promotion and critique of new technologies and contemporary new media culture, as well as their influence on the society. Members of this network are: Ljudmila, Ljubljana (Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, www.ljudmila.org); mi2, Zagreb (Multimedia Institute, www.mi2.hr); pro.ba, Sarajevo (www.pro.ba) and kuda.org, Novi Sad (New Media Center, www.kuda.org).

New Media Center_ kuda.org, "Socijala Medija" and "AKO - Alternative Cultural Organization" from Novi Sad, Serbia present open competition for short films, computer animations, web sites and photographs on the theme:

Mapping Rightwing Extremism
Deadline for submission: April 8th 2005

In June 2005 "Transacciones/Fadaiat" will take place for the second time in Tarifa / Tanger. As D-A-S-H is this time a cooperation partner on the event, we want to give you a short impression with this review of "Fadaiat 2004".

The monstrous Sacred Heart of Jesus statue has turned its back to the european continent, as if it wants to pay all attention to the sea. A fresh breeze is coming up, as every evening in Tarifa. A glaring red towboat of the coastguards, flanked by a speedboat of the Guardia Civil, is slowly appearing behind the holy statue, that is enthroning above the water on the very end of the breakwater wall in its sulcated robe. On the tow line of the two boats is a dinghy, that has obviously rousen the border guards. On board are about 50 passengers, whose trip has come to an end for now.

This twenty minutes talk is focusing on the question of free cooperation in the framework of educational settings. The talk took place as a discussion via webcam, with Trebor Scholz and Tony Conrad from and at the Media Department of the State University of New York (Buffalo) and Christoph Spehr, at the Bildungsoffensive office in Berlin. The Video is from the Berlin office, showing Christoph during this talk, whereas Tony and Trebor can only be heard from Buffalo. This talk is the first one in a series of such webcamtalks that deal with the question of new media and education.

2008.POLITICAL SIMULATOR is a computer game that explores possible implications of political changes in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro after the local elections in 2004. The game features three different scenarios, which are based on similar political accidents that already had been seen in Serbia and Voivodina during 1990s, with direct implications to recent political events.