Any attempt to understand the rapid transformation of territories in the 21st century reveals shifting landscapes and moving boundaries, thus a continuous struggle for their redefinition through conflicts and exclusions. Different conditions of mobility and migration encouraged by the so-called 'globalised world' inscribe in material environments social and psychological borders.

It was my last day  at ISEA 2008 in Singapore and we were supposed to have a dinner with noborder/no one is illegal activists and the panelists of the bordercrossing theme, when jaromil came down the street smiling all over the face: "I have great news" he screamed. "Firefox 3.1 wil support OGG Theora!"

In other words: This is most likely the breakthrough for open video on the web! OGG THEORA is the only open source video erncoding suite. It is available for general use after the bitstream format for Theora was frozen Thursday, 2004 July 1.

»I am really unable to talk about my life—I don’t know my life. I’ve traveled a lot and this is the life that I have lived, but that doesn’t mean that I know myself.« Ousmane Sembene, so called grandfather of African Cinema, talks to the writer Bonnie Greer. It's 2005, he has finished his last oeuvre »Mooladé«. The volume »Ousmane Sembene Interviews« is about talking and questioning. Questioning african film, colonial and postcolonial history, somehow an oral history. Interviews from 1965 until 2005, from Senegal periodicals and french, american or german Ciné-Magazines. The book project took quite some time and efforts but now it's out in the world thanks to University Press Mississippi and we are very happy about it. Find the preface and the contents list at the missing image site.

Today the passage from "intellectual" to "imaginary" property is challenging traditional notions of ownership and personhood. It is the theft of the soul which in both, analog and digital modes, turns images into property or vice versa: property into imageness.

The Museum of the Stealing of Souls has opened on July 19th 2008, hosted by manifesta7 in Trento, Italy. It is devoted to histories of the invention, appropriation and reconfiguration of the subject by photography.

The museum holds a fast growing collection organized in seven departments. The exhibits on show are reflecting alleged histories of soul-theft and surveillance, soullessness and alienation, immaterial production and precariousness -- loosely based on the question: Where can a soul live its life instead of saving it?

White Night
Surface
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We are designing surface. Surface multiplies, beyond any measure of necessity, beyond the laws of demand and supply, beyond reason. The multiplication of surface, formerly called information overload, is the new reality of design. Its unit of measurement is virtual.

Imaginary Property, a new research project of the Design department of Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, initiated by Florian Schneider, aspires to explore new potentials for design practices across various registers. The project is set up as a realm of experimentation at the intersections of design-theory and image-production. It is a laboratory where emerging concepts and terminologies are set to a series of tests.

What challenges emerge from the paradoxes that research into ‘imaginary property’ has given rise to? How could these potentially generate new rules of production, bearing in mind that property relations are constantly exchanging meanings? Against this background: do we have to rethink and re-evaluate the notion of ‘design’ as such?

The research project Imaginary Property consists of three parts that are inextricably linked up with each other and are to be addressed simultaneously rather than consecutively.

During the last 15 years the contemporary art world has grown extensively. The term globalisation is often used to describe this process, especially when the explosion of mega events such as biennales and art fairs are discussed. But globalisation is also about competition between regions, nations and continents.

On a higher educational level, this is very well reflected in the so-called Bologna process: a political attempt to make Europe and its surroundings a more attractive milieu and competitive force, economically speaking.

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen examines the political film post 9/11 in a big thematic programme.

No issue has been as hotly debated here as that of the political film: the East-West conflict, political activism, German film subsidies – Oberhausen is the place where all the relevant films have been shown and the scandals have erupted. Today political films are experiencing something of a revival, due to various states of emergency, the war in Iraq, increasing globalisation and new/old class conflicts.

"Economies of the Commons - Strategies for Sustainable Access and Creative Reuse of Images and Sounds Online" is an International Working Conference in Amsterdam & Hilversum 10, 11 & 12 April 2008. De Balie in Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, in collaboration with Knowledgeland, Images for the Future, and Virtual Platform, organise a two-day international public working conference on the economies, sustainability, and opportunities for creative reuse of these public audiovisual resources and archives.

As the first website of KEIN CMS farms we have upgraded the KEIN.ORG start site to Drupal 6.0 which has been released a few hours ago after one year of development. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle. These changes are evident in Drupal 6's major usability improvements, security and maintainability advancements, friendlier installer, and expanded development framework.