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Introduction
The Zapnet Collective is a critical art ensemble performing the electronic disturbance. Its rhisomes are interwoven between activist, academic, and alternative media domains. Formed of media and academic specialists interested in the free and lively transformation of information to knowledge, it transverses the striated arena of cyberspace, mediaspace, community space, and academic space.
Zapnet History
The Zapnet Collective was born as a small project in the ACTlab (Advanced Communication Technologies Lab) at the University of Texas at Austin, rising up as a Temporary Autonomous Zone on Feb 9, 1995. The purpose of the Collective is to create interactive digital media in solidarity with the Zapatista Demands of Liberty, Justice, and Democracy! The Zapnet Collective hosts a world wide web site and is currently in production of a multimedia CD-ROM, "The Revolution Will Be Digitized", with funding from a Rockefeller Intercultural Fellowship. A demo of this CD-ROM received a "Noteworthy" award from the 1995 New Visions New Voices Competition. We are currently making arrangements for the distribution of the CD-ROM, slated to be finished in July 1996. Call for Submissions The CD-ROM is a non-profit project. Proceeds after costs will be sent to humanitarian aid for areas of low-intensity warfare in Chiapas. We are asking artists and media specialists to collaborate with us in this effort.* This is an opportunity to become a part of an innovative and timely solidarity and artistic project. Those wishing to contribute materials to this CD-ROM can do so by sending submissions.
Items open for submission include (but are not limited to) the following:
*Original articles discussing political, economic, social, or cultural aspects of the Chiapas uprising *Original narratives/poems *Sound or videoclips to which you or your contact own the rights *Original music to which you or your contact own the rights *Interactive media pieces *Photographs or other images
Send submissions/queries to: zapnet@actlab.utexas.edu (or trust the US mail at: 3511 Tom Green #405, Austin, TX, 78701). If you don't have a computer or a stamp but have a phone, give us a call at (512) 708-1952.
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