es hat sich also wie eine ewigkeit angefühlt
auch wenn es hier schneller geht:
watch it

und ueberhaupt alles was es so erfreuliches gibt - weit weg von der bottttelion madness - im tiefen jungle: raeffelstrasse 30 - 8045 zurich binz. S10 takes you there in 6,5 minutes from HB zuerich.

alle herzlich willkommen.

man muss alles selber mitbringen. wir haben kein konzept. nur einen grill und den schoensten platz in der stadt.

Getting up early. Really early. The apartment at Via Trento 8 offers frugal living - no furniture except for the bed, etoy.TANK8 beats the apartment in comfort, a first! Meditation and writing down whatever came up during those 40 minutes. Bike to the industrial area south of town where TANK8 is located in front of the main entrance to Manifesta7. Start working - whatever I would do in the office in Zurich. Get coffee from the restaurant when it opens at 8. Rejoice, I’m in Italy. Sort of. Watch the automated systems crank up the display, sound, and video systems at 9. Wonder if anyone I know checks out the live webcams. Enjoy the cool morning and watch art visitors behind the glass wall. Get pasta 4 formaggi next door. Turn on the air conditioning unit. Inspect reviews and prepare for discussions with colleagues next week. Revise an article. Email. Discuss a submission project with Zai. The heat is creeping inside the tank. Read research article. Write on a proposal. Switch to more etoy work after five. Meditation and note taking. Discuss new shareholder production process with Zai, design templates for transactions. Bike to iperfamilia for Sanbitter and bread. Snack outside the tank. Admin work for etoy, email for ETH. Book a flight. Complain about the heat. Wonder again if people observe me working. Weird. Plug my music into the tank sound system, Leonard Cohen, Dover, Les Ritas Mitsouko and, of course, Gianna Nannini. Get a Chinotto from the fridge. It’s 21:44, Zai is at the laundromat. Decide to blog a picture from next door. Voilà. Turn up Morcheeba real loud.

For Manifesta7 etoy built its brand-new TANK8 that serves as infrastructure to support the agents in their self-encapsulation for MISSION ETERNITY. As defined by the protocol, each ARCANUM CAPSULE adheres to basic standards for replicability and access and extends beyond the standards adding arcane, individual traces of life, post mortem plans, snapshots and time stamps, and anything that can capture a fraction of a person's life in the form of digital data. The quest for this trace, the memory and the loss, the deadline and the virtuality behind this ultimate boundary drives MISSION ETERNITY.

Join the etoy.AGENTS in Bolzano this fall: open until November 3, 2008
Observe our daily routines and our great new office at Via Volta 11: http://www.etoy.com/cam/2008-bolzano/

Currently in self-encapsulation mode:
agent ZAI: inviting people for personal conversations captured in video and sound: friends, neighborhood kids, local politicians, farmers, former girlfriends and strangers.
agent HAEFLIGER: logging a series of meditations and transcribing their content to capture a snapshot of his life today.


Links for your visit:

Manifesta7

ARCANUM CAPSULE

Crew manual for Bolzano

The central thrust of MISSION ETERNITY at Manifesta7 revolves around the self-encapsulation of etoy.AGENTS. While we always knew that, eventually, we would need to experiment with ourselves when dealing with the ultimate boundary, we focused on others over the last years: Keiser and Leary and others.

Manifesta7, and TANK8 that etoy built in 2008, serves as the ideal infrastructure to support the agents in their individual strategies for implementing their own ARCANUM CAPSULES. As defined by the protocol of MISSION ETERNITY, each capsule adheres to basic standards for replicability and access (formats, rites, and rights) and minimal information requirements (personal data, basic questions) and then extends beyond the standards adding arcane, individual traces of life, post mortem plans, snapshots and time stamps, and anything that can capture a fraction of a person's life in the form of digital data.

However, this post is not a theoretical contribution. In order for the community of the living and the dead to grow and spin content back and forth we, the agents, create content. The immediate content is destined to enter the capsule. However, I feel I should explain my own self-encapsulation strategy to the readers of our internal affairs blog because it's public now and accessible without the ANGEL APPLICATION. Who wants to download my capsule anyway... makes me wonder. Regardless, this is an experiment and a process more than it is a final product. On the way, we through out content and take steps back for every step we actually make simply because the templates need to be built in parallel and every agent's ideas about his or her capsule inspire other agents and other users to adapt their designs in turn. Remember that the basic outline is open content and replicability a fundamental goal of this mission. Hence my attempt at externalizing some of our thoughts.

The name ARCANUM CAPSULE is the program. There is a mystery to every individual's life, a hidden pattern and possibly a direction. Some of the big questions puzzle us for a lifetime and find their mysterious paths through digital communication systems, databases, screen shots, text snippets, and musical expressions. The ARCANUM CAPSULE represents our struggle to capture fragments from this mess: but it's not random. The added value appears in the capsule's structure which is our and the users' approach to understanding some of this mystery: the arcane!

Hence, arcane is both the key to understanding the capsules' content as well as the logic of their creation. My approach mirrors my current interest in spiritual insights and developments. I decided to log a series of meditations that I carry out during one week here in Bolzano. Two daily meditations that follow the same structure (three phases of rather well established meditation techniques that I am far away from mastering, needless to say) may lead to thoughts and ideas that I try to pin down rather exactly in prose. The transcripts add up to a log that I hope will enable me to learn, and, for the capsule, represent a snapshot of my life today. The transcription is itself a translation effort that challenges my sense of interpretation and that violates to some extent the “arcane principle”. It seems to be the best I can do right now. Secretly, I place some hopes into etoy.ALBERTO's and etoy.MAJA's efforts of developing strategies to map bodily signals directly – in their arcane immediacy, so to speak. Alberto, a medical doctor by training, implements tools for MISSION ETERNITY to visualize the electrical signals emanated by our bodies. More to come.

general M7 info: http://www.manifesta7.it/

LOCATION etoy.TANK: EX ALUMIX
VIA VOLTA 11 (voltastrasse 11)
I-39100 BOLZANO/BOZEN SUD (industrial zone)
ITALY


TAXI service in bozen: +39 047 198 1111

etoy.FLAT in bozen (21.7. - 3.11.2008):
Via trento 8
39100 bolzano / italia
Important: only one of the 3 rooms is booked on etoy during the Manifesta!

(5 minutes walk from main station bolzano)


WETTER in bozen

Public transport to manifesta (BOZEN / EX ALUMIX)
BUS 4 from the trainstation to via volta 11 (leaves .05 and .35) ...ask the driver for manifesta
BUS 10B from the trainstation and from our flat (via trento 8... walk 200 meters to the left if you leave the flat to find the bus stop)
get off the bus at "via claudia xy... at the beginning of via volta)
Public transport website: http://www.sasabz.it/index.php?id=7

HOTELS:
for simple men -> regina (***)
for rich men -> parkhotel laurin and Greif



Essen:

- sehr lecker pizza:
toergelhaus;
Via Museo 2, Bolzano, Italy
ist oft voll, vielleicht besser reservieren
Tel. 0471-978109

- südtiroler zeug + eigenes bier:
Hopfen & Co, Obstplatz 17, Bolzano, Italy
BATZEN HAUSL, Via ANDREAS HOFER, 30

- hinter euch auf dem berg; tolle sicht und gutes essen
Haselburg / Restaurant Castel Flavon
Via Castel Flavon 48
I-39100 Bolzano/Bozen (BZ)
Tel +39 0471 402130
www.haselburg.it

Trinken:

- Nadamas
44 Piazza delle Erbe
empfehlenswert

- Hopfen
mei bier halt

- Cafe Boulevard
- Irish Pub
- Disco Ok
Achtung nur wenn du ganz übel abstürzen willst und ganz schlechte musik
ertragen kannst

// allgemein ist freitag/samstag abend definitiv am meisten los in der stadt



MANIFESTA ORGANIZATION:

curators: Raqs Media Collective: Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, Shuddhabrata Sengupta

KOMPETENTE ANSPRECHPARTNER:
Manifesta7 Coordinator Province of Bozen / Bolzano : andreas.hapkemeyer@manifesta7.it
Office Manager ORGANISATION DEPARTMENT BOLZANO lisa.mazza@manifesta7.it
(Marion Lafogler: Assistant)

M7 head of production (one of many): peter kainrath (replacement for denis isaia)

Technical Director Bolzano: Andrea Polato

M7 production assistant: Valentina Malossi (stoped working august) M +39 345 4727034 e-mail: valentina.malossi@manifesta7.it

tabularasa (elisa and denis isaia): tabularasa@manifesta7.it
tabularase guests share the flat with etoy (via trento 8)

COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT

Alessandra Santerini Head of Communication

Press Office

Chiara Costa International and National Press
Danilo Fenner Local Press
Klaus Hartig Local Press

Assistants
Sofia Patat
Francesca Rossi

International Relations, Special Programs and Events

Daniele Maruca
with Chiara del Senno

Assistants
Silvia Scarpa
Tim van Lingen

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Yoeri Meessen Head of Education
Francesca Sossass Coordinator, Trentino
Thea Unteregger Coordinator, South Tyrol
Barbara Mahlknecht Assistant Coordinator
Stefania Schir Assitant

Art Mediators

Romina Abate, Antonia Alampi, Marco Anesi, Dorothea Arbesser, Martina Baroncelli, Oriana Bosco, Barbara Campaner, Silvia Conta, Valentina Curandi, Daria Ghiu, Nathaniel Katz, Riccardo Lami, Linda Jasmin Mayr, Melanine Mölgg, Marion Oberhofer, Martina Oberprantacher, Alexandra Ross, Karin Schmuck, Giovanna Tamassia, Chiara Villani

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falls du an der uni-bozen einen job suchst:

http://www.unibz.it/web4archiv/objects/pdf/design/interest-call_des_012007.pdf

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if you enter the manifesta the tank is situated on your left, right at the entrance - everyone has to pass!

Haevy work to shift the etoy.TANKS.
We did also move the kitchen / toilet module. but no time or fotos
YUP the new etoy.TANK has a toilet :)

the first etoy.AGENTS (zai,pol,tabea) will arrive the manifesta7 in Bolzano/Bozen tomorrow.
daily updates also on twitter.com/etoy_TANKS

Invitation to celebrate the summer with etoy in Zurich!

WHERE: etoy.IMPLANTAT, Raeffelstr 30 in Zurich (Binz)

WHEN: Saturday July 12 starting at 5 p.m.

Bring your drinks and BBQ items: etoy contributes the FIRE.
Just back from Beijing - about off to Bolzano
your etoy.AGENTS