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The Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 was founded by Konrad Becker and Francisco de Sousa Webber in 1993 as an arts and culture related international competence platform for the critical use of information and communication technologies. == History == When the founders of the Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 set up a web server (in an unofficially tolerated act of ‘misuse’ of the underemployed Internet server of Vienna’s general hospital AKH) in 1993,〔Francisco de Sousa Webber: "Building a Netbase from Scratch", in: Branka Ćurčić / Zoran Pantelić / New Media Center_kuda.org (Eds.): ‘’Public Netbase: Non Stop Future - New Practices in Art and Media’’, Frankfurt a. M. (Revolver), 2008, online: http://nonstop-future.org/txt?tid=195606bfd5f57eb46cbc3100ef62ff0c, retrieved: 18-07-2013〕 they created one of the first arts and culture-related sites on the emerging World Wide Web. The institute has been conceptualised as a platform from which independent initiatives and organizations could emerge. The first of these initiatives was Public Netbase – now an ‘historical example’ of an early new media organization in Europe.〔Cf. Clemens Apprich / Felix Stalder (Hrsg.): ''Vergessene Zukunft. Radikale Netzkulturen in Europa.'' transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1906-5 (in German).〕 Founded in 1994, it was located in Messepalast, the predecessor of Vienna’s Museumsquartier. It combined various functions and activities: It was a non-profit Internet service provider that facilitated internet access mainly for the independent arts and cultural sector. This was accompanied by an extensive program of workshops and courses to develop media competence. Public Netbase became a social space for this emerging scene of artists, techheads, activists etc., and ran an almost daily evening program of discussions, presentations, screenings and music events. In addition to these grassroots activities major international exhibitions and conferences were conducted.〔For the period 1995-1999 press coverage - mainly in Austria, but also in international newspapers and magazines, e.g. Frankfurter Rundschau, Kunstforum International, The Daily Telegraph, Mute, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Telepolis, The New York Times and Artbyte.The Magazine of Digital Arts - has been documented by t0: http://www.t0.or.at/1995.htm, http://www.t0.or.at/1996.htm, http://www.t0.or.at/1997.htm, http://www.t0.or.at/1998.htm, http://www.t0.or.at/1999.htm, retrieved: 04-12-2013, mostly in German〕 Public Netbase used to be t0’s main initiative until it had to be discontinued due to lack of funding (which was a result of repression by the Austrian right-wing government 〔Subsidies by the federal government had made up a main part of Public Netbase’s funds before, cf. Robert Harauer / MEDIACULT (ed.): ''Digital Culture in Europe. A selective inventory of centres of innovation in the arts and new technologies'', Strasbourg (Council of Europe), 1999, pp. 14-17 ((in Google books )))〕 in 2006. But already in 1999 the next major initiative had been founded: World-Information.Org (WIO). It was presented – under the patronage of UNESCO 〔Cf. "The Exhibition 'World-Information.Org', Public Netbase t0", new media center_kuda.org, 28.07.2013, online: http://www.kuda.org/en/exhibition-world-informationorg-public-netbase-t0, retrieved: 16-09-2013, and F.E.Rakuschan, “Weltinformationsordnung 2.0”, Telepolis 28.11.2000 (in German), http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/4/4350/1.html, retrieved 16-09-2013)〕 – as the lead project of the New-Media-program of the Brussels 2000 European Capital of Culture.〔http://www.tacticalmediafiles.net/event.jsp?objectnumber=46514, retrieved 16-09-2013〕 WIO resembles an intelligence agency, that collects and analyses information, but not in the interest of a state or as a think tank for corporate businesses, but for the independent cultural sector. Starting from the major Brussels project, a series of international exhibitions and conferences has been developed. World-Information Institute (WII) is WIO’s research department. It has become t0’s main initiative after the closure of Public Netbase. In addition to conducting research, it continues the program of international conferences and the activities to further develop culture and media policies. In addition, on the Austrian national level, wahlkabine.at has become an important project. Founded in 2002, it is Austria’s most prominent online “polling booth”.〔Cf. coverage by Austrian media documented at http://wahlkabine.at/presse, retrieved: 16-09-2013, Cf. e.g. „Wenig Übereinstimmung zwischen SPÖ und ÖVP“ (derStandard.at, 19.08.2013, http://derstandard.at/1376533958426/wahlkabineat-Wenig-Uebereinstimmung-zwischen-SPOe-und-OeVP, retrieved: 04-12-2013, in German), „Wahlkabine.at bietet Entscheidungshilfe“ (ORF Zeit im Bild 1, 17.08.2013; ZiB1 is the main evening TV-newscast of the Austrian public broadcasting corporation ORF. Due to the Austrian legal situation, ORF has only a short-term online archive; the video-file can be downloaded at: http://wahlkabine.at/presse/orf170813/attachment_download/filedownload, retrieved: 04-12-2013, in German), „Wahljahr 2013: Orientierungshilfe im Internet“ (Die Presse, 04.12.2012, http://diepresse.com/home/politik/innenpolitik/1319807/Wahljahr-2013_Orientierungshilfe-im-Internet?from=suche.intern.portal, retrieved: 04-12-2013, in German), „Eine Stimme für die Vernunft“ (Medianet, 29.10.2012; the article is not in the newspaper's online archive any more, download scan: http://wahlkabine.at/presse/medianet291012, retrieved: 04-12-2013, in German), „Wer die Wahl hat ...“ (Information Professional, 02/2010, download scan: http://wahlkabine.at/presse/informationprofessional_0110, retrieved: 04-12-2013, in German), „Rekordwerte für Wahlkabine.at“ (Computerwelt, 30.09.2008, http://www.computerwelt.at/news/hardware/detail/artikel/rekordwerte-fuer-wahlkabineat/, retrieved: 04-12-2013, in German), "Wahlkabine hilft Unentschlossenen" (Salzburger Nachrichten, 26 September 2013, http://www.salzburg.com/nachrichten/spezial/nationalratswahl-2013/sn/artikel/wahlkabine-hilft-unentschlossenen-75666/, retrieved: 04-12-2013, in German)〕 Since 2010, Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 has developed the ‘living archive’ Future Non Stop,〔http://future-nonstop.org/, retrieved: 04-12-2013〕 in which all its activities are documented, which makes it a valuable resource covering twenty years of activities in new media art, net culture and participatory use and critical analyses of new technologies, digital networks and the World Wide Web. Across all these activities, t0 has closely collaborated with groups and organizations such as Critical Art Ensemble, RTMark, The Yes Men, De Balie, Kuda.org, De Waag, Adbusters, Institute for Applied Autonomy, Sarai (Media Lab), Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, V2 Institute for the Unstable Media, 0100101110101101.ORG and Nettime. Hundreds of artists and researchers have been involved in t0’s program, including〔For details cf. http://future-nonstop.org〕 Saskia Sassen, Bruno Latour, Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey, Franco Bifo Berardi, Chantal Mouffe, Brian Holmes, Marko Peljhan, Arundhati Roy, monochrom, Manuel De Landa,〔There are several early texts by Manuel De Landa still available at: http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/, retrieved 19-07-2013〕 Michel Bauwens, Inke Arns, R. Trebor Scholz and many others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Institute for New Culture Technologies-t0」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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