From: Rupert Francis Subject: EVENT: 36MC Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 12:52:35 +0000 Message-ID: <3336790D.2990@mcr1.poptel.org.uk> Organization: IDEA Call for participations, collaborations, permutational mutations, If you have not heard, there will be a lock in on midnight 28th March GMT, and we are looking for speakers, and artists and individuals to contribute to the event,durational pieces, 36 part multiples, work themed on confinement URL Links, copycat lock ins , epic poems, collaborative music, performance, novels the works. Call for Delegates, 36MC - 36 hours in a mystery chair 36 hour event (00.00 hours 29th March - 12.00 30th March) Manchester, England The event: 36 artists, thinkers and activists have been working in the abandoned Blackwells bookshop on Oxford Road, Manchester for several weeks. Their efforts will culminate in a 36 hour lock-in over the dates above, in which they will focus their creative efforts on the theme of confinement. Some will be literally confined to the building for this period, others will interrogate the process from without via a range of media - from cb radio to feeding electronic information into the heavily networked building. You are formally invited to participate in this process. As well as the generation of a number of artworks and incidents, the process hopes to leave a considered legacy of recorded debate and discussion around the theme of confinement. To allow for this we are inviting 'speakers' to contribute papers for discussion at a parallel 36 hour seminar hosted by the occupants of the building and run via their web site . The format of the seminar will take the basis of twelve key note deliveries being posted up in turn at three hour intervals, punctuated hourly by two written responses to these papers. This will be complimented by the ongoing reaction from the occupants of the building and visitors to the web site. The keynote speaker would be asked to retain a physical or virtual presence throughout the three hour span in which their contribution is the focus. There is a potentially fascinating breadth of discussion to be had in relation to confinement, especially given some of the utopian promises of freedom that have accompanied the digital age and the accompanying issues of political, social and economic limits and the way these structures articulate themselves. Consequently we are approaching a broad range of people across a number of disciplines both to frame the event and the subsequent documentation of it. The hope is to allow this short period between announcement and realisation of the seminar to both impose a structure of existing thought on confinement onto 36MC and to allow for'hothousing' the contributions within just such a context of confinement of both time and space. In terms of practicalities, variations on existing work are welcomed, especially given the time scale and the nature of the ongoing debate. Contributors will be largely able to determine the appropriate format for the material they wish to deliver and the event can support IRC, MOO, web chat, mailing lists, CUSeeMe etc (hopefully linked by a single interface). The event is being facilitated by IDEA as part of their ongoing programme of supporting creative electronic work within the Manchester community.(http://www.36MC-IDEA.org.uk) 36MC will be documented initially on a permanently maintained web site. Any subsequent income-generating publications such as cd-roms etc would be released via an appropriate process of consulatation with the individual speakers to deal with fair allocation of fees and a veto on distribution of material. We very much hope that you can find the time to contribute to this event. Regards, Rupert Francis