Due to a technical problem at the site of the internet provider some of the KEIN servers are not available since a few hours. Unfortunately we have no possibility to influence the exchange of the malfunctioning components, but apologize for any inconvenience.

Due to upgrading works the webmail services at KEIN.ORG may become temporarily unavailable these days. Apologies for any inconvenience.

.imp // intervention #2 -

Sat, 04/18/2009 14:00 - 19:00

Imaginary property // Intervention #2 will be delivered by filmmaker Eyal Sivan. He is going to present "Towards a common archives: Manipulating the enemies images". Eyal Sivan is a London based filmmaker, producer, essayist and research professor in media production at the school of social sciences, media and cultural studies at the University of East London (UEL).
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New York based media theorist Ted Byfield will be the first guest in Interventions, a new series of events hosted by the imaginary property (.imp) research group at Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht. Ted Byfield is a professor at Parsons the New School for Design and visiting fellow at Yale Law School (Information Society project). In his intervention he will be reflecting on methods and practices that make up (im)material architectures.

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M2M Radio, Migrant to Migrant, calls on activists and artists for international collaboration in solidarity

On the 18th of February the inmates of Block L demanded clear information on their fate. “How long can they keep us here? Is asking for asylum a crime in this country? Why are we here?” In Block L migrants are detained who are supposed to be deported back home. They did not fulfill the tough requirements to be accepted as a refugee. But it can take a long time, even more than a year, for the Ministry of Justice to find out how to deport a single person, especially when s/he is from a country like Sudan, Somalia or Palestine, where the civil registers are not quite up to date. According to Dutch law the simple fact of not having the proper documents is not a violation. The reason for detaining thousands of migrants is administrative: to facilitate a smooth exit when opportunity knocks.

After a major upgrade last night the KEIN mail server is availaible again. It took a littler longer to rboot the system, apologies for the inconvenience! In case you have questions please contact us: http://kein.org/contact

In order to filter spam on server side KEIN MAIL is using DNS based blacklists (DNSBL). These lists are usually automatically generated and consist of the IP addresses where spam reportedly originated during the last few hours. KEIN MAIL servers do not exchange messages with these servers. At KEIN MAIL we are currently using the following blacklists:

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As the first website of KEIN CMS farms we have upgraded the KEIN.ORG start site to Drupal 6.0 which has been released a few hours ago after one year of development. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle. These changes are evident in Drupal 6's major usability improvements, security and maintainability advancements, friendlier installer, and expanded development framework.

<nettime> Art of Rent Seminar Series Spring 2008 London -The Art of Rent Spring 2008 University of London, Queen Mary http://www.generation-online.org/other/artofrent.htm As part of an ongoing collective project, the organisers of this seminar series seek to promote a discussion on the rise of rent as a form of capitalist appropriation and the way that new levels of association in the arts and culture, in information and communication, in public taste and ambience have made this rise possible, and from the p