PUBLIC NETBASE t0 
A Culture and Youth Oriented Center for New Communication Technologies

MediaSpace!

 

       

Museumsquartier
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna/Austria 
fon: ++43-1-522 18 34
fax: ++43-1-522 50 58
email: office@t0.or.at
http://www.t0.or.at

Institute for New Culture Technologies t0 

Public Netbase t0 is a not-for-profit Internet service provider. Along with being an internationally acclaimed content developer, the organization also runs an comprehensive event and information program in the Viennese Museumsquartier. 

Public Access and Event Location 
in the Viennese Museumsquartier

Public Netbase Internet Services since 1995

Public Netbase provides its 1000 users with the technical assistance and knowledge needed for active and creative participation in Internet communication and the World Wide Web. Its existence has fostered the growth of an interesting and lively Internet scene and has increased awareness of the implications of new communication and information technologies in Austria. 

Public Netbase is committed to the exploration of the relations between culture and technology, art and society, science and politics. Its World Wide Web Server was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica 95. 

Public Netbase <media in the message mess-age> is a forum for free media communication and an information society  "without regrets".

Public Netbase was founded March 1995 by Konrad Becker and Francisco de Sousa Webber as part of the Institute for New Culture Technologies t0. 

35 Million virtual hits on the Public Netbase WWW Server since March 1995.

11 000  hours of  Internet usage logged on our public-access terminals.

4500 calls to our information helpline and 900 emails on technical and content questions answered. 

1000 users with Public Netbase Internet access, 35% of which are women. (monthly rate 90 ATS / 45 ATS)

250 users take advantage of our Internet dial-up accounts every day. 

150 free introductory courses offered about the Internet, with a total of 900 people attending. 

60 multimedia and network projects make their virtual home on the t0 Server.

Theory & Practice
Space for the Discussion of New Communication Technologies 

Public Netbase has been running a comprehensive information and training program related to the field of new media, art, theory and politics since 1995. 
The following experts, artists and theoreticians have been invited to speak at Public Netbase:  

Events 1997:

—  Preview Fall 1997: 
"(Info)body meets Big Brother" (working title):
October 1997:
Simon G. Davies, Privacy International, London/UK
Andy Müller-Maguhn, Chaos Computer Club, Berlin/D
cyber.rights 3.0 Discussion on new Austrian Privacy-related legislations 
November 1997: 
Critical Art Ensemble, Chicago/USA
minimal club/Renate Lorenz, Berlin/D

— Intergalactic Conference  of the  Association of Autonomous Astronauts, 21.-
      22.June 1997 Hall D Museumsquartier 
Fiorella Terenzi (University of San Diego/USA) ”Space Travel In the Invisible Universe” 
Jason Skeet (Inner City AAA/UK) 
John Eden (Raido AAA/UK) 
Patric O'Brien (East London AAA/UK) 
Prof. Werner W. Weiss  (Astronomical Institute University of Vienna/A)
Institute for Long-distance Flights  (Vienna/A)

— Mark Dery (USA) "Watch Your Language!" "Metaphor as Illness" 6.June 1997

— nettime pressconference "Beauty and the East" with Geert Lovink, Pit Schultz, 
     Critical Art Ensemble, Diana McCarty, Peter Lamborn Wilson, 29.May 1997

— Thomas Bass (USA/H) and Oliver Marchart (Ö) ,  "Watch Your Language" 
     Propaganda 2  "Join or Die" and "Propaganda of Noise" , 15.May 1997

— monochrom (A) Discourse- and Gameshow "Gehirnaquaplaning", 9.May 1997

— cyber.rights 2.0 "Netz und Gesetz" Paneldiscussion with 
     Telecommunication- Experts of Austrian political parties, in cooperation with 
     Black*Box Vienna, 6. May  1997

— Anne Balsamo  (USA), 28.April 1997, "Cyberflesh" "World Wide White Wash. 
     The Politics of the Infobody"

— Krystian Woznicki (PL/D/JP), 18.April 1997,  "TokyoBabylon" "New Japan 
     Technoculture" 

— Erik Davis (USA), 10.April 1997,  "Watch Your Language" "Spiritual Telegraphs 
     and the Technology of Communication: Tuning Into The Electromagnetic 
     Imagination." 

— cyber.rights 1.0 Discussion  "Ein Land geht offline" in cooperation with  
     Black*Box Vienna, 2.April 1997

— Andrew Garton (AUS), "Sensorium theatre as suspended space", 20.March 97

— Peter Lamborn Wilson (USA) for the opening event of Public Netbase 
     Media~Space!, 28.February 1997 

Theory & Practice
(continued)

e~scape lounge 
Meeting Point of an independent youth culture

 

Public Netbase a
"Showcase" for new  
Technoart

Events 1995-1996: 
(in cooperation with Depot. Art & Discussion)

— Manuel de Landa (MEX/USA), 11.October 1996, "Economics, Computers And 
     The War Machine
— Konrad Becker talking to Geert Lovink (NL), 14.May 1996, as part of the series     
     "Auskunft" of the Depot
— Arthur and Marielouise Kroker (CAN), 6. March 1996, on "Digital Bodies and 
     Cyborgs"
— Sadie Plant (UK) 5. March 1996, "Binary Sexes, Binary Codes"
— Critical Art Ensemble (USA), 12.December 1995,  "The Mythology of Terrorism 
     on the Net" and Presentation of their work
— Stelarc (AUS), 11.November 1995, Participation in Interactive Performance 
     "Fractal Flesh"  via Picture Tel – ISDN Live Hook-up
— Doro Franck (D/NL), 2.June 1995,  talking to Georg Franck on "The Economy 
     of Attention"
— Georg Franck (D), 2.June 1995,  talking to Doro Franck on "The Economy of 
      Attention"
— Ulrike Gabriel (D,  talking to  Markus Wailand; Presentation of her work
— Derrick De Kerckhove (CAN), 28. March  1995,  on  "Observers of Changing 
     Culture and Technology"  
— Mitsuhiro Takemura (JP) 28. March 1995 on  "Godzilla, Exformation and 
    Electric Sensual Perception"
— Peter Lamborn Wilson (USA) for the opening event of Public Netbase, 
     18.March 1995 on  "The Information War", 19.March 1995 Workshop and 
     Discussion

As part of our weekly thursday night event the following musicians and DJs were invited: 
Miss Eye (JP), Pulsinger & Tunakan/cheap Ent (A), Pure (A), Klangstreicher (D), somatic response (UK), DGV (D), lo-res (A), Konstruktivst (UK), Farmers Manual (A), Christian Wöginger (A), Ono (A), Pita/Mego (A), Haswell (UK), Zoff (A), Möser (A), Tonico (A), Anthony Manning (UK), Swamp_Swallow (A), Mushroom (A), Christopher Fringelli (UK), Krystian Woznicki (D/JP), Rehberg und Bauer (A), Potuznik (A), Stock, Hausen & Walkman (UK), atac (A), tuca (A), and others.
All channels open: free Internet Access, Installations, experimental electronic Lounge Livemusic Internet Live Broadcast and beverages. 

The following artists presented their works at Media~Space!:
Ingo Günther (USA/D/JP), Erwin Redl (A/USA), Brigitte Kowanz (A), Eva Wohlgemuth (A), Franz Xaver (A), Lucia Mare (EC), Ligeia of the Limbic Systems (USA), Max Moswitzer/Konsum (A), Christoph Hinterhuber (A) and others. 

t0 World Wide Web Server  http://www.t0.or.at

Zer0 News

 

escape hypermedia

Zer0 Zone

Prix Ars Electronica 1995

Over 1 Million virtual Visitors per month

Support of and Cooperation with Cultural Institutions and Initiatives
(technical and content-related support concerning new media)

The t0 World Wide Web Server commits its activities mainly to the transformation and interconnectedness of culture and technology, art and society, science and politics.
  Zer0 News, the t0 Online Publication features critical texts and material by Hakim Bey (USA), Derrick de Kerckhove (Director McLuhan Institute, Toronto), Critical Art Ensemble (USA), Doro Franck (NL), Keisuke Oki (JP), Pierre Levy (F), Sadie Plant (UK), Manuel de Landa (USA/Mex), Arthur and Marie-Louise Kroker (CAN) and many more. 
  Public Netbase commits itself to the development and usage of state-of-the-art Hypermedia applications presented as part of the project e~scape Hypermedia. These involve various interfaces and software applications developed by t0: virtual 3D Worlds (VRML) in the Internet, Live Video Feed, RealAudio/Internet Wave Server and interactive applications.
  ZeroZone is a virtual area where Public Netbase users have the possibility to contribute to the Net and present their own projects. A broad spectrum of national and international artists, communal initiatives and music oriented youth culture information have found their home on the t0 server. 60 multimedia and network projects make their virtual home on the t0 Server.

In 1995 Public Netbase t0 was awarded a second prize at the Prix Ars Electronica 1995 in the category of "WorldWideWeb. Public Netbase was nominated for the finals of Prix MultimediaArt '97.
The t0 Web Server has been accessed more than 
35 000 000 times "virtual visitors" from all over the world with high percentages from the US, Austria, Japan and Germany. 

—   Depot. Kunst und Diskussion 
—   KUNSTHALLE wien 
—   Museumsquartier Errichtungs- und Betriebs GmbH
—   Architekturzentrum Wien
—   Wiener Kindermuseum ZOOM
—   Museum für Angewandte Kunst MAK 
—   Wiener Secession 
—   Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus WUK
—   Sigmund-Freud Museum Wien
—   Passagenverlag 
—   T Junction 
—   Austria Film COOP 
—   Diagonale 95
—   Österreichisches Kultur Service ÖKS
—  GLOBAL 2000 Online
—   Tanz*Hotel
—   AUF - Eine Frauenzeitschrift
—   frauenhetz 
—   Diagonale 95
—   Theater des Augenblicks
—   WochenKlausur
—    Arte Sella - Symposium, Naturhistorisches Museum 
        Wien, November 1995
—    80 Tage Wien, Architektur Festival, Wien, Oktober 95
—    Kunstraum Wien
—   Digitale  Stadt wien.at

Participation in Exhibitions and Organization of Events:

International Conferences

—  ISEA 97, Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Art 
     Chicago/USA, 22-27. September 1997 
—  Arthouse Multimedia Centre for the Arts, 
     D a t a P a n i c Hypermedia and Network Realities,     
     Dublin/IR, 11. - 18.January 1997
—  Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum: 
      Jenseits von Kunst, Graz/A, 24. January  - 
      2. March 1997
—  Museum for Applied Arts  MAK, Vienna/A:
     Public Netbase Internet Access, July - September 1996
—  Ludwig Museum Budapest and Center for Culture 
     and Communication C3: 
      Jenseits von Kunst, Budapest/H, 17.October - 
      14.November 1996
—  Wiener Secession: Junge Szene, Vienna/A, 19.July - 
      15.September 1996
—  KUNSTHALLE wien: Wunschmaschine Welterfindung, 
      Vienna/A, 5.June - 4.August 1996 
—  M.A.K Museum for Applied Arts  MAK, Vienna/A: 
      escape museum, Vienna/A, 14.- 30.June 1996
—  Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media Conference: escape 
      event, Amsterdam/NL, 20.January 1996
—  Diagonale 95, Salzburg/A, 1.-8.December 1995
—  Digitale Stadt wien.at, Opening, 6. December 1996

The Institute for New Culture Technologies has been invited to a number of international conferences and symposia:

—  Sex & Space II, as part of Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, 2. -
       26.October 1997      
—   ISEA 97, Eighth International Symposium on Electronic
       Art, Chicago/USA, 22-27. September 1997
—  UNESCO Conference  "INFORIGHTS - Committee Of European Experts 
      On Communication And Copyright In The Information Society", Monaco, 
      15. – 19. Sept 1997 (Participation as official Austrian representative)
—  Ars Electronica 97 "Fleshfactor", Linz/A, 8.-13.September 
       1997
—  TON - BILD, Kunstmuseum Bern/CH, 13.-14. June 1997 
—  Nettime "The Beauty and the East" Ljubljana/SLO, 21.- 23. May 97
—  Ars Electronica 1996, Linz/A, 2.- 4. September 1996
—  University of Valencia/Spain, 7.May 1996
—  Virtual Futures "Datableed", 3. -5. May 96, University of Warwick/UK
—  Videofest Berlin, 15. -25. February 1996, Berlin/D 
—  Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media, 18.-21. January 1996, 
       Amsterdam/NL
—  Diagonale 95, 1. - 8. December 1995, Salzburg/A
—  Telepolis 95, 4.-12. November 1995, Luxembourg 
—  Ciberria ‘95, 14. - 21. October 1995, Bilbao/E
—  Meta-Forum II, 7. - 9. October 1995,  Budapest/H 
—  Netnight 95, 28. September 1995, Vienna/A
—  Ars Electronica 95 Welcome to the Wired World,
     20. June - 23. June 1995, Linz/A
—  Prix Ars Electronica 1995, 20. June - 23. June 1995, Linz/A
—  Institute for Medical Cybernetics and Artificial 
     Intelligence, University of Vienna, 6. April 1995, Vienna/A
—  Kunst und soziales Handeln, 18. Mai 1995, Museum of Modern Art 
       Vienna, Vienna/A
—  Art & Access, 25. April 1995, Cafe Stein, Vienna/A 
Press Voices

Radio and Television

International Printmedia

 

The Public Access model of t0 has attracted wide national and international attention from the press. Numerous Radio and TV features have focused on Public Netbase: 

—  NDR Berg und Talk (26.9.95, Nord Deutscher Rundfunk NDR) 
—  DRS2 Kulturkanal (15.8.97, Swiss Radio, two features)
—  ORF Blue Danube Radio (19.6.97, Austrian State TV/Radio)
—  ORF Confetti TV/Artefix (20.6.97)
—  ORF FM4 Digital Wonderland  (10.4.96, 22.5.96, 11.6.97, 25.6.97)
—  ORF FM4 Homebase (27.2.97, 18.6.97) 
—  ORF FM4 Im Sumpf (22.6.97)
—  ORF FM4 La Boum Deluxe frequent features
—  ORF Kulturjournal Ö1 (16.4.1997) 
—  ORF MiniZIB (19.6 97)
—  ORF Modern Times (21.4.95, 23.6. 1995) 
—  ORF Ö1 Aktuell frequent features 
—  ORF Ö1 Diagonal frequent features
—  ORF Ö1 Dimensionen (6.9.96)
—  ORF Ö1 Kontext (July 97)
—  ORF Ö1 Kultur (28.2.97)
—  ORF Ö1 Matrix (September 96)
—  ORF Ö1 Morgenjournal (5.9.97)
—  ORF Ö1 Nova (June 95) 
—  ORF Ö1 Radiodrome 
—  ORF Ö1 Radiokolleg (June 95)
—  ORF Ö1 Wissenschaftsjournal (27.2.97) 
—  ORF Ö1 Die Sendung mit der Maus (96)
—  ORF Ö1 Kulturjournal 
—  ORF Ö1 Kunstradio 
—  ORF Radio Niederösterreich (June 97)
—  ORF Radio Wien frequent features (June 97)
—  ORF Treffpunkt Kultur (6.1.97, 8.9.97)
—  ORF Wien heute (26.2.97) 
—  w1 Wiener Kabelsender  (16.5.97)
—  WBAI Radio Pacifica Network (26.11.96, NY/USA) 
—  and others

The project has been covered extensively by the national and international press: 
InterCommunicationCenter - Quarterly (JP), springer - Magazin (A), Page (BRD), Frankfurter Rundschau (BRD), neue bildende kunst (CH), Die Welt (BRD), Die Welt (D), Intelligent Agent (USA), Der Standard (A), Die Presse (BRD), City (A), Salzburger Nachrichten (A), c`t magazin für computer technik (BRD), APA (A), Der Falter (A) and many more. (see presskit)

The Team

Konrad Becker
Chairman

Francisco de Sousa Webber
Webmaster

Marie Ringler
Informationdesign, PR

Herbert Gnauer
Systemadministrator

Regina Leibetseder
Administration 

Christina Göstl
Cybrarian, Workshops

Boris Kopeinig
Cybrarian, Production 

Clemens Sturm
Cybrarian, Production

Irene Laviña 
Cybrarian

Christoph Kummerer
Cybrarian

Katja  Mayer
Cybrarian

The Public Netbase Team consists of around ten people working in the following areas:

—  User support, training and information
—  Conceptual design of content and general layout 
—  System-administration and technical support
—	Coordination and organization of events, presentations and 
workshops
—	artistic production and projectoriented work 
—	Editorial work, information management, translations and 
transcriptions
—	Programming of hypermedia interfaces and other 
software, graphical interface design (HTML, 2D, 3D)
—	Production of "tourist" guides through the Net
—  Office administration
—  Sponsoring and Public Relations 

The t0 Netbase Team consists of a group of highly committed people working in diverse areas, covering artistic, social- and natural sciences as well as technical, computer oriented aspects.

Public Netbase is supported by:

Bundeskanzleramt - KUNST
Bundeskurator Wolfgang Zinggl
Verein "Wiener Jugendkreis" 
Verein Stadtimpuls
niederösterreich kultur
BM:wv
Wien Kultur

Public Netbase is sponsored by: 

Depot. Design&Möbel
Ericsson Österreich
IDEAL communications
Lexmark Österreich
Silicon Graphics Österreich
TU Multi Media

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