ZKP

"For many of us 1995 was the Short Summer of the Net. While surfing the hype throughout Europe from the one symposium to the next festival, we knew that the net backlash was just around the corner. (...)

<nettime> was born out of the immediatist 'Medien ZK' gatherings, a series of open, informal, international meetings centered around 'netculture and its discontents' in Spessart, Venice, Budapest and now Amsterdam. Herein, we discussed telecom policies, multiple personalities, the city metaphor, neo-vitalists, Californian Ideologies, Wired critique, tribalism in the net and elsewhere, the tragic end of net.art, the comeback of the Enemy (Telekom, Scientology, Netscape) and rumours about wandering websites.

In between the meetings the <nettime> mailinglist was used to select and distribute the articles which you can find here in print, the 'ZK Proceedings 95'." (Geert Lovink + Pit Schultz, go paper - introduction to ZK Proceedings 1995)

Timeline:

18 - 21 January 1996:
ZK Proceedings 1995, net criticism, Version 1.0, 150 copies, floppy disk. Distributed at Next Five Minutes 2, Rotterdam.
"We had meetings in Frankfurt, Venice, Budapest and Amsterdam and just published a 'book in progress' called ZK Proceedings, which serves as text pool for upcoming publications and was temporary distributed on paper at the Next Five Minutes Conference in Amsterdam, Jan 96." (src)
URL: http://www.n5m.org/n5m2/media/nettime/zkp/

6 - 9 June 1996:
ZKP2 Proceedings 96 (150 copies, floppy disk) are distributed at 5cyberconf, Madrid (Fifth International Conference on Cyberspace)
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/zkp2cover.html

11-13 October 1996: ZKP3 is distributed at Metaforum III Budapest/Hungary (100 copies, 200 pages). "we will now produce a third (edited) compilation of nettime material. This time the editing will be done by Tom Bass, who is based in Budapest."

31 October 1996:
ZKP 3.2.1 is released in ljubljana, edited by vuk cosic and heath bunting.URL (dead):
URL1: http://lois.kud-fp.si/~vuk/zkp321
URL2: medialounge.net

May 1997: ZKP4
Released during the Nettime Conference 'Beauty and the East', 22nd and 23rd of May 1997.
URL1: http://www.ljudmila.org/nettime/zkp4/
URL2: medialounge.net

February 1 1999: ZKP5 - ReadMe! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge. Autonomedia; NYC, 556 pages, ISBN: 1570270899
medialounge.net

"Dazu gibt es die englischsprachigen ZKP Reihe (Zentral Kommitee Proceedings) die als Grundlage gediehnt hat fuer dieses Buch. ZKP1 erschien wahrend den Next Five Minutes II in Amsterdam, die zweite in Madrid zu 5cyberconf, und ZKP3 bei Metaforum III in Budapest. Diese "Prepublishing" Strategie mag an die goldenen Zeiten der Zines erinnern, oder die Preprints der scientific community, kleinen selbstproduzierten und selbstvertriebenen Magazinen die vor allem in den 80er Jahren in den USA, u.a. durch die Verfuegbarkeit von Produktionsmitteln (DTP, Kopierer)." (Geert Lovink/Pit Schultz: Aufruf zur Netzkritik - Ein Zwischenbericht, http://www.thing.desk.nl/bilwet/TXT/NK3.txt )

Resources:
http://www.nettime.org/pub.html

Related:
Nettime
N5M2
V2_East/Syndicate

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