sonance.art.net minutes

tech stuff

• FTP issues
  • send a mail out that the people need to now log into their actual domain nams instead of ftp.sonance.net.
  • there is another problem where the modes of file were set that prevented the editing
  • which flag is it? sticky bit in the group permissions has to be turned on the directory
• getting into trying out a new maillist server
  • datamail, to replace sympa
  • normal features …
  • direct SMPT support built in so doesn’t pipe the mails to sendmail
  • foo + dreamer
  • complete free one is kind of limited, only 5 lists
  • licensed list version is $50
  • Sympa does not support direct SMTP (slow, unstable, slow),
• another main sever for webmail access to
  • a groupware tool
  • AJAX… PHP…
  • it has everything …
  • do either support client-cert login?
  • play around and let us know when the bribe is ready
• DNS
  • bullshit data in the zone files
  • changed, fixed, works
  • resellers can … do this???
  • do either support client-cert login?
  • play around and let us know when the bribe is ready
• no problems with LDAP ….
• Members
  • one member moved
  • two more to move run.sonance.net
• blog report from Senior Nusster
  • need to do a forward
  • do a move in DNS … OLI WILL DO IT!

Art

• Bello (Member)
  • 6th June
  • Sonance invites a member presentation wants to make a presentation here in G7
  • wants a beamer and speakers
  • artinprocess.com
  • they are in Sydney / Au.
  • if in contact … ask them … to run a BYI in Sydney
  • invite them to also do a BYI, start communication
  • (need to remember to get a membership)
  • Matthias is pursuing them

Art Funding agenda (continued from last week)

• CC contribution page
  • sent in .. and approved
  • is it possible to get a screenshot
• Rhizome
  • not a close match
  • so we should not burn the resources on this one
• announcement of BYI
  • send it to various places
  • lists of lists …
  • need a date for CC ..
  • Vienna AllStars Session .. Garnison7 .. 29th May
  • When philipp gets back, we need to confirm.
  • Nuss to write the announcement.
  • Akadamie class … Simon Kogler …
• BM:UKK
  • write now
  • due end of april
  • ask for support?
  • and then not work any more until my doctorate is finished in next 2 years.
  • less and less
  • will take the entire month!!!
• MA7
  • Matthias + Stefan has to go to SFV to talk about small grants
  • doris comes late to meeting 22:00
  • sends MA7 report (draft) with iang
  • everybody is invited to come to saturday 19:00-23:00 party @ hollergasse

Finance

• Luc does the membership love thing
• bike fund has been paid
• Sonance.net domain
  • nic.at costs 36 euros a year…
  • move it to joker
  • is … webmaster + support
  • ask berniq for the password / or get a reset.
• sonance stickers – gfx
  • unremovable stickers — for device stuff, like security seal
  • 15 euros …
  • picture? write SONANCE
  • sparklers photo
  • nuss volunteers!
  • needs exact formats
  • can do this as a PDF for others to download as well
  • can do buttons, someone has a button machine
• Simon K
  • went through the transactions
  • Simon K was paid last year 9th September 2008
  • he has now been paid twice
  • not a member…
  • we should find him some work to do?
  • no, not happy
  • Doris to send an email, friendly
  • we should ask for the money back
• MA7 finance
  • 3 sections
  • all filled in with bills correlated to the sections
  • need to find the last 320 euros of bills
  • suggestions
  • not paid out as yet: pablo, FF, IG-Kultur, iang
  • money in account is XXXXX
• text
  • draft of report to MA7 is circulated
  • Nuss to volunteer some text
• purchases
  • microphone, 2 cables, 2 microphone stands, == 262
  • 4shrooms something same bill (40 euros)
  • miniDV tapes 100 x 164 euros
  • tomorrow: 2nd hard drive, 2 x Firewire 400 cables, 1.5m.
  • phone bills, etc
  • Microphones. Doris has a 2nd microphone. Doris has Zoom. So that makes two.
  • so do a rental agreement for 20 events, microphone + zoom. 138.
  • Charge a deposit for all loans. In writing.
  • it’s not cool to have two classes of members
  • only renting microphones … is quite senseless … lots do it .. if we are going to do it, then we we have to rent the whole setup .. but that is doris’s.
  • we should not get into renting business.
  • then the stuff should be shared?
  • this microphone is not so expensive… so good to talk about it
  • every place that has equipment to lend has to repair stuff…
  • we don’t have the infrastructure to handle repairs …
  • so we shouldn’t lend it out …
  • sonance should not go into buying the equipment?
  • even if we buy it, it should have a manager who is responsible for it
  • e.g., the harddisks
  • Doris is the responsible person; Sonance owns the microphone
  • No loans arrangment, if there is need, come talk to the group

Any Other Business

• Board meeting called for Monday 19:00 HollerG
  • approve the funding report
  • sign the change of directors
  • Added: Discuss the Famous Transition Process
• FTP
• iang submits permission for vacation next wednesday
• Famous Transition Process — to board meeting

Agenda

Not really followed because there was no net.

Present: foo, jvk, tanya, dreamer, doris, binsh.
Apologies: nuss.
Agenda not followed because no net available to check it….

Treasury

• MA7 expenses BYI
  • got honorarnotens from: simon, tanya, oliver
  • pablo says OK
    • for 1500 euros,
    • 200-250 per clip,
    • past clip is 2 clips X 100 each,
    • can give honorarnote 1500 now in march
    • Doris has to pick up honorarnote
  • Doris + Oli to go to Klangfarbe 14:00 Saturday 21st
• MA7 report text
  • Doris will try to write a draft for next wednesday
  • Tanya can spare 2 hours to do this, but wants to do the report only and do it somewhere else
  • Doris + Oli to go to Tanya’s place after Klangfarbe 16:00 Saturday 21st
• Treasurer: Membership contributions have now been found and allocated
  • first into the minutes (yay)
  • then into my (doris) spreadsheet
  • then to Oli
  • All matched by email, not by account as yet.

Tech

BYI

• BYI press / CC
  • the famous photograph
  • text 1: use sonance text of last week as per board approval
  • text 2: use the kogler edits on garnison7
• Photo session carried out in the studio with sparklers and led lights.
• BasisWien
  • invited to participate in panel discussion
  • 26th May 19:00
  • important Austrian media institution that mediates the database
  • talk in the scope of the Austrian Art Critics Award
  • all the b%^*#y f%^*#@g Art Critics of Austria will be there
  • this could be a big event
  • Johannes G, Alexander N, Alion Rebel ???, Franz from Contaxt net /standard.at
  • Topic is: (writing about) Art in the virtual space:
    When looking for art critics in the virtual space one quickly finds some art – network projects and initiatives … that use that virtual space for representation as well as more or less subversive networking … the boundaries between social and art intervention staging and net art disappear … using art, it is about art, but conventional art critics won’t actually be found, . we present networks and initiatives whose discourse could be seen as art critique as well as art.
  • we agree to the invitation !!! Agreed
  • they would like to have a female speaker but they are going to get a DELETED and nothing else, as we do not agree to DELETED narcisisstic typical DELETED feminine DELETED. So say the chicks, as duly recorded by their faithful and obedient male slaves.
  • Decide next week who. Simon, no. …

Funding

NETZNETZ

• Doris, Stefan was at NetzNetz meeting
  • 10th May is date (guaranteed)
  • amount is not guaranteed, 80k requested, needs confirmation
  • new 80k miniinfrastructure budget …
  • can sonance apply for this or not?
  • word is that SF-V allocates it directly ?
  • details are unpublished / unclear / no deadline ?
  • Matthias + Doris to go visit her, ask Stefan
• what are we going to apply for?
  • resonance ? BYI ?
  • so defer any discussion of that until some meeting
  • is Resonance == BYI or ?
  • to some extent this is a pragmatic / marketing decision
  • resonance is every 2 years
  • resonance 09 is BYI ….
  • Oli: we need more projects
  • definately resonance is latter half
  • funding is for resonance as BYI / book
• evaluation of NetzNetz
  • does sonance take a position?
  • Does Simon take a position? Yes.
  • FAS — interview .
  • or position paper
  • FAS will ask for an online interview of everyone
  • 6 interviews
  • in principle, Simon gets our interview slot

Potentials

• bm:ukk
  • award for interdisciplinary art project 30th April
  • media art project 31st March (this is where simon has applied in the past, as he is trained as a media artist)
  • it is about an award for an already done project
  • so this would be re.sonance.007.
  • the clue: you have to put the right viewpoints on it
  • is it a lot of work????
  • 4 versions (catalogues) and 2 pages of text
  • fitz nix done shotz nix ????
• Rhizome
  • the new museum of New York is putting out a call for commissioned art works
  • fits perfectly with BYI
  • or is it? Oli: looking for actual projects…
  • BYI *is* a project, …
  • not a lot of work … text is already ready …
  • we would at least get on the website of rhizome
  • we are all google sluts now
  • there is a jury award and a public voting award
  • artists in vienna have a lot of experience in manipulating voting systems
• EU mobility of Artists
  • need 3 partners (institutions) from 2 different member states to apply, at least, no upper limit on the numbers.
  • it is applicable to us
  • could be from 50,000 to 200,000; they cover 70% of total costs, the rest is to be found from additional funding.
  • 15th May deadline
  • usually BM:ukk and MA7 will likely join.
  • to search for the partner institutions, look at Universities
  • its a pilot project; not so many applying
  • once we have the sheet from the EU, can get bank or xxx financing
  • Cultural Contact Point Austria will help us / etc
  • the mobility of artists means what?
  • bringing institutes together to feel like Europeans
  • you need business plans … exact definitions …
  • universities like this idea
  • partners don’t want to work …. they just want their name and the money!
  • need a basic schema to divide the WORK and money between the three partners
  • real preference for projects that are NOT IN THE CENTER
  • 2010 cultural capital Tallin.

Misc / Board

• “Transition Process”
  • transition process — mentioned only
  • remarks to the board
  • founded the company sitz …
  • invested about 60k into Sonance
  • the topic is about how
  • Defer this to next week, briefing paper has been distributed.
• Question about whether board approves of the text for submissions:
  • SunTzu: not for art projects.
  • Dreamer: Yes, it is the public face.
  • Yes for funding.
  • OK, so discussion … let’s defer this until next time. Think about it.

Agenda

Not followed because of lack of net.

• Simon: participation with Julia.
• Photo session
  • with sparklers / Leds / laser pens …
  • Long Exposures
  • bring cameras, tripods
• Blogs / progress UP UP AND AWAY
• The Great Transfer / progress
• we should apply with the re.sonance.007 materials http://igkultur.at/igkultur/foerderturm/1236863589

• Burn Your Ideas
  • As our current project is explicitly webbased, we need to get the website working properly. The current theme does not work on WPMU as planned – it does on my local WP-single instance. As I do not have access to to ftp, I cannot (and do not want to) fix this within our installed WPMU. I’ve already discussed this with Matthias G. last week. http://burn.blogs.sonance.net should get transferred to http://burn.sonance.net into a WP-single blog.
    This is ultimately urgent!
    It makes no sense putting content on this website. It is no use inviting people to put new contributions on the website.
    The problem needs to be solved – immediatly.

  - Stefan

• Report to CAcert on the disk destruction / Assurance party
  • the arbitration covers the disk destruction, no need to say much there
  • only need to cover the assurance process
  • oli is standing in / proxy for matthias tonight, will look at text later
• membership bills
  • two bills prepared, being formal invoices
  • what is the text on there?
  • someone has asked for an invoice for “hosting” not membership
  • however sonance is not promoting the idea of hosting, and this is not a good idea
  • membership is a voluntary contribution, it isn’t a payment for hosting
  • the object of the bill/rechnung is the important thing… tax deductibility
• CC text — DONE — mailed to stuff
• garnison7 text translated to english
• finish the funding for BYI
  • We need to collect the remaining invoices for 3000 euros
  • also need more content but that is not the issue right now
  • primary problem is to chase these people for the remaining bills
  • Pablo 1500. Agreed
  • Tanya 200, Oli 200, Doris, 350, etc
  • Microphone C1000 x 1 + cables. 138+10 (windshield) agreed.
  • microphone stands. 50×2 agreed.
  • binsh: artist research, representation/PR, presentation. 250. Agreed.
  • cables XLR, 10m x 2 = 40 x 2 = 80.
  • clip mike: 50
  • stickers for sonance for gear
• if there is money left:
  • radiotransceiver for clipmikes. maybe, good idea, if there is money left.
  • extra drive needed for machine.
• must collect these invoices by next wednesday!!!!
• Done. Meeting closed 22:38.

meeting opened at 20:48
present: simon, matthias, doris, stefan, oli,  tanya petkova

1. we need an explanation how to get in the blog, in order to write minutes (sorry iang, i tryed my best)
2. concerning latest stefan email:
   burn website is ready, but doesn’t work with multy user wordpress
   So is has been transfered to single user wordpress installation.
   burn.sonance.net is the new and only working addresse. Still not online. Coming latest Saturday (says Matthias)!
3. Oliver’s script for the domain in the new system are done and run. Moving in progress. notice mail to clients will be sent when the definitive url is available/reachable online (36 hours).
4. Oliver gets payed 500,- for programming a script transfer for domains to/in/over vHosts.
5. general question: Doris to techies => sonance blog services. She wants a plug in so blogs could be sent per email.
   Stefan suggests she should for this herself. But he doesn’t recommend it. Cause it’s not formatted then. After extended discussion, it is a work in progress.
   Techies say generally not a bad idea to be able to offer this a service to sonance blog and list users.
6. sonance is getting a boy and a space to put things, downstairs at garnisongasse.
   Our mail gets there. Mail box key is also there. It’s labeled.
   Catalogues should be downstairs by the boy by april latest.
   Decision: everyone who goes to the bathroom snaps a catalogue.
7. press issue for coded cultures (simon brings the topic)
   • as in the mail: we have a shared space with garnisongasse. 1000 characters for both. 500 per unit.
   • Must be ready till march 15. In English.
   • How do we wanna present ourselves?
   • Simon is voluntary to write the text in german. Tanya will translate it.
   • Contents: what photo?
   • Suggestion simon:
   • Short general explanation of garnison 7
   • Mention the groups active.
   • Among them sonance with BYI
   • About BYI: eather invitation to participate or just an explanation.
   • Stefan: collaborative aspect of sonance being reflectedt in BYI
   • Text is definitely in catalog.
   • Foto: which? Room garnisong?, us?
   • Abstract foto like eop? Erdbeeren? Fotshooting? Wer fotografiert? Simon volunteers.
   • Zip_it open source
8. Jeder denkt darüber nach… next Wednesday suggestions , or “BRING YOUR IDEAS” for fotos eg: paper burning, computer burning, (terpentine over Harddisk) kaminfeuer, or:  tv with image of fire, or: tania will ask friends in basel (fastnacht burning, haywind…untranslatable)
9. Juan Pablo video discussion postponed

Meeting closed 21:53