netznetz was a social platform for individuals and groups associated with

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and net culture in

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. The platform was dissolved around 2011 because of internal problems and loss of funding from the city authorities of Vienna. In a 3-day convention at the Künstlerhaus in October 2004 netznetz.net activists discussed and gathered opinions on the practices, collaborations and future of digital Vienna. The motto "

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s" was a call beyond the individual scenes to both past and future participants, and offered access to new techniques and strategies in horizontal working situations. ''netznetz.net'' suggested a new approach for the distribution of net culture funding to Vienna's city government.

Funding model

Netznetz (also: Netznetz Mana) was a system for the distribution of municipal

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developed and run by netznetz in which the participants distributed their own funding according to certain democratically agreed rules and aided by custom

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. It was run largely independent of the city government which provides the funds. The system was striving for guaranteed and dispersed distribution of funding in the sector while the parameters of the distribution were meant to remain flexible, providing a dynamic scope. The aim was to encourage project-based collaborations by distributing various smaller grants. Therefore, everybody who was involved in the sector was subject to the principle of permanent reconfiguration of the system and the network. The modular funding structure – developed in a drawn-out process of discourse and with the contribution of more than 30 groups – was boldly presented by the community and accepted by the municipal Commissioner for the Arts. According to the new plan, 50% of the funding (250,000

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, roughly

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300,000) was reserved for

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(''backbone projects''),

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s (''

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s''), and common representation (''annual convention'') and was to be distributed by the administration together with the community during the course of an open space conference. The other half of the funding was to be distributed among the community by the community itself in the form of ''network grants'', facilitating the everyday work of contributors, which is usually not supported at all in conventional arts endowment systems. The process to come up with an ideal system of

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amongst the artists was challenging. Many members of the scene were skeptical. Critics feared that the system would lead to increased competition and hostilities between participants, favor well-marketed projects over substantiated ones or that too much trust is placed in as-yet-unproven software. Proponents of the idea cited its independent, democratic, open and non-bureaucratic tendencies as advantages, and stated that it was designed to reward collaboration. In spring 2009 the City of Vienna started an external evaluation process that decided the future of the self-governed funding model. As a result, parts of the direct community voting mechanisms were replaced by a jury, which is being elected by the community. netznetz was closed in 2011.

Coordinators

*January 2006-July 2006: Stefan Lutschinger *July 2006-September 2006:

Johannes Grenzfurthner Johannes Grenzfurthner (; born 1975 in Vienna) is an Austrian artist, filmmaker, writer, actor, curator, theatre director, performer and lecturer. Grenzfurthner is the founder, conceiver and artistic director of ''monochrom'', an international ar ...

*September 2006-October 2006:

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*November 2006-September 2007:

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*September 2007-December 2007: Valie Göschl and

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*December 2007-December 2008: 4-headed coordination team (among others Andreas Leo Findeisen and Michael Zeltner)

Participating artists and collectives

* 0rf.at * 5uper.net * Esel * MACHFELD *

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Monochrom Monochrom (stylised as monochrom) is an international art-technology-philosophy group, publishing house and film production company. It was founded in 1993, and defines itself as "an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop att ...

* renfah.net *

Quintessenz Quintessenz (German for "quintessence") is a civil liberties advocacy organization based in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1994, Quintessenz works on Internet The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, gl ...

Ubermorgen UBERMORGEN.COM is a Swiss-Austrian-American artist duo founded in 1995 and consisting of lizvlx and Luzius Bernhard. They live and work in Basel, S-chanf near St. Moritz and in Vienna, where both are professors at the University of Applied ...

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References

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External links

NetzNetz Wiki
- Overview over currently discussed issues, decisions and structures in

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History of art in Austria

Funding model

Coordinators

Participating artists and collectives

See also

References

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