Times Up calls for proposals for the event in Linz in June 2002, as part of the 2002 Linz Fest, "Ost-West" (East-West). The event will consist of an evening of performances / public experiments followed by an evening of presentations and discussions. Groups with innovative uses and misuses of network collaboration, streaming and manipulation tools are invited to propose projects. It is envisaged that performances will take place entirely online or with groups split between Linz and one or more remote locations. It is envisaged that performances will be more along the line of public experiments, which may be short and repeated throughout the evening.

Parallel to and intermingled with the event evening, we will be running a Net.Loop along the lines of those undertaken for Transient and other events (http://www.timesup.org/closing). Individuals or groups willing and able to partake in this structure are invited to get in contact.

It is envisaged that the groups and individuals will make some kind of presentation on the following night outlining the nature of their work / experiment, along the "peer-review" ideas used at dorkbot.org, a meeting series for "people doing strange things with electricity." It is not necessary that all experiments are "successful," whatever that means, please see http://www.timesup.org/CTL/pseudo.html for our thoughts on the matter, in an earlier version.

Please contact us on mailto:tce@timesup.org as soon as possible with proposals, plans and possibilities.