>>lhe-newsletter>> Lost Highway Expedition - NEWS and next steps!

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Dear all,

Some new and interesting things following the Lost Highway Expedition  
are coming up and we would like to share this information with you so  
to start getting together again, at first virtually if not  
immediately for real.

More news and practical information is to follow by e-mail and also  
on http://europelostandfound.net/.

All the best and stay in touch,
Ana Dzokic


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TANGENT_BROTHERHOOD
Friday March 09, 2007 (20.00 - 23.00 CET)
at V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam

TANGENT_BROTHERHOOD presents the Lost Highway Expedition as a model  
of open source and do-it-yourself collaboration in the form of a  
mobile, cultural and artistically charged, and collectively authored  
project.

Featuring (in order of appearance): Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen  
(Rotterdam/Belgrade), Alenka Gregoric (Ljubljana, video stream), Yane  
Calovski (Skopje), Kristian Lukic (Novi Sad). In the space some of  
the Lost Highway Expedition works by Rotterdam and Amsterdam based  
participants will be on show: Arnoud Schuurman, Hugo Lammernik, Auke  
Towuslager, Artgineering, Stealth.unlimited.

As most of you will not be able to make it to Rotterdam you can  
follow the event over livesteream (REAL MEDIA) and also join  
moderated IRC chat (server: irc.v2.nl / channel#:tangent).

For more information visit: http://www.v2.nl/

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Auke Touwslager (http://http://www.informationlab.org/) made a map of  
the Lost Highway Extended Event Network that will be on show at the  
V2 event.

Who was there? Who should have been there? This map shows the  
extended network of organizations around the Lost Highway  
expeditioners by pulling out their URL co-links. By clicking on a  
node you can see to/from how many sites are they connected and also  
visit the corresponding URLs.

The software used is the Issue Crawler and locates and visualizes  
networks on the Web. It is used by NGOs and other researchers to  
answer questions about specific networks and effective networking  
more generally.

The map is now available at: http://www.informationlab.org/lhe/ -  
follow the instructions on the site.


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BUILDING LOST HIGHWAY
the first source book works session
17-19 March 2007 in Rotterdam

After the Lost Highway Expedition (LHE) in August 2006, the next  
phase of the project called ‘Building Lost Highway’ is to start in  
March 2007. It is envisioned as a process that would last about half  
a year, with an idea to interlink and build upon expedition generated  
projects, art works, networks, architecture and politics based on the  
found knowledge.

A series of three work sessions is to spark this process towards a  
‘source book’ from which a variety of interpretations and  
representations can be drawn for different occasions (a book, a  
symposium, an exhibition...) by those interested in the issues  
incited by LHE - not necessarily only by the participants of the  
process. The source book will be Internet based, collectively  
authored and later made into a printed draft.

The initial idea is that the source book is built around three lines  
of thought: Expedition as an experimental Society, Lexicon of the  
future (extracting concepts and notions that relate to the future or  
European territory that come from a positive interpretation of the  
notion Balkanisation) and individual Projects. It is likely that  
these three strands will start to intertwine along the process and  
that actual result would be a kind of combination of a lexicon and  
atlas. The idea for a source book resulted from discussions among  
expedition participants that took place in Tirana, Podgorica and  
Sarajevo.

In September 2006 - right after the expedition - Ana Dzokic, Marc  
Neelen and Kyong Park applied on behalf of Centrala Foundation at the  
European Cultural Foundation for funding to get the source book  
process running and make a draft print out of the product. We are  
glad to say that our proposal will be granted with 25.000 euro. This  
will be seed money to let some of the participants of the Expedition  
meet again at different locations - not only in the Western Balkans.

It is obvious that not all of the LHE participating organisations and  
individuals can participate in all of the meetings but the idea is to  
open the process to those interested to join in and contribute with  
content. Therefore the work sessions will be taking place in three  
different cities to allow for those local or near by interested to  
take part.

The first source book session will take place in Rotterdam from 17-19  
March. This session is to set a direction towards the final result  
and also think how to (technically/online) involve a large LHE  
community. The idea is that the second and third session would take  
place in the region. Initial contacts have been made with Kuda.org  
(Novi Sad) and Press to Exit project space (Skopje).

The first session will be joined by Azra Aksamija (Boston/Sarajevo),  
Ivan Kucina (Belgrade), Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss (Basel/New York),  
Katherine Carl (Basel/New York), Ana Dzokic (Rotterdam/Belgrade) and  
Marc Neelen (Rotterdam) from the initial group, Yane Calovski  
(Skopje), Barbara Galassi (Belgrade/Rome), Vahida Ramujkic (Barcelona/ 
Belgrade), Jaume Nualart (Barcelona/Vienna), and a group of LHE  
participants residing in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, Arnoud Schuurman,  
Hugo Lammernik, Wietske Maas, Auke Touwslager, Ursula Lavrencic and  
Emiliano Gandolfi, curator at The Netherlands Architecture Institute,  
Rotterdam. The session will take place in the Harbour #1350,  
Maashaven in Rotterdam, studio space of Stealth.unlimited.

After the first session is over we will inform you of the next steps  
and we hope to start building the content collectively and that some  
of you will be able to join at the next source book sessions.

More about Building Lost Highway initial idea from the time of the  
application to European Cultural Foundation is to find at: http:// 
europelostandfound.net/node/890. Some things have changed, like the  
dates but the general idea is there.


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LOST HIGHWAY PHOTOBOOK

After the Lost Highway presentation in New York in October Srdjan  
Jovanovic Weiss came up with an idea to make a LHE Photo book that  
would feature images by the participants. And we started looking for  
possibilities to make it happen. The Slovenian Ministry of Foreign  
Affairs decided to support the project (thanks Helena!) and Marjetica  
Potrc contacted Revolver publishers who are interested to be  
publisher and distributor. During the workshop in Rotterdam the group  
present will discuss the content of the Photo book after which we can  
start creating it (based on a Creative Commons license). Ajdin Basic,  
who designed the LHE reader, will design this book as well. The aim  
is to have the book ready for the opening of the LHE exhibition at  
Skuc in Ljubljana this September.

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EXHIBITION at SKUC, LJUBLJANA

Alenka Gregoric, artistic director of SKUC gallery in Ljubljana is  
starting to work on the exhibition (containing works coming from the  
Lost Highway Expedition) which will take place in September. More on  
the draft idea will be posted soon.

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