sept. 1st - nov . 27th 2000

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barely ten years after the vienna poetry school was founded we find ourselves
standing before a new situation, to re-think and re-develop everything from the
bottom up. back then, we were faced with the question of the "teachability" of
literature, today it is the question of virtual teaching and learning, its structuring and
organizing.

the academic situation described by plato was based on the personal presence of the
all those involved in the teaching process, and this is now being put in question. the
limitation of the participants is being put in question. the criteria of selection and
evaluation is being put in question.

what does monologue mean, what does dialogue mean, once multidirectional forms
of communication have entered the picture? what does student-body mean, when
dispersed and globally scattered, voyeur-like addressees have entered the picture?
can we translate academics using the availability of the internet into the virtual or do
the new networks also generate new forms of teaching that, in the platonic sense,
uproot the act of teaching, leaving the traditional closed up classroom behind and
transporting it elsewhere?
what is that: an internet class?
like when the school was founded, again we are learning by doing an experimental
path and trusting in the power of the invention of the authors. their personalities, their
suggestions, and their practice will be the center of attention.
we will be making the structural results of a three year trial period available, the
didactical basic patterns, the link system, the framework of the organizational
procedure that writers like h.c. artmann, marlene streeruwitz and anne tardos took
part in with their pilot classes.

the 1. development level of the "virtual academy" offers the following:
- classes within digital space (internet) with exercises, advice, secondary material,
_commentaries and forums.
- readings within analog space (wien, alte schmiede) with theoretical and poetological
_insertions relating to the current activities.
- a symposium within analog space (wien, radiokulturhaus) to the theme of
_"virtual teaching and learning".
- a book (wien, passagen verlag) with documentation of the three year trial period.
- continuing discussions in digital as well as analog space
_(conversations, email, letters, fax, jpeg, mp3, wav, party, eremitage, mobile and
_standard telephone
_communication) on the perspectives of a "virtual academy" and its basic,
_vital tension, mouthwork- literaturework- network.

the classes offered are the results of an intense cooperation of many years with the
author, media-theoretician and webmaster orphan kipcak. he and the employees of
his firm adm, i owe my thanks, as well as my team colleague susi ondrusova (editorship),
barbara ruhsmann (scientific care) and lena kaser (production), mag. ulrike ulrich (promotion) und moritz wurnig (hardwaredoctor).

viva la poesia!

christian ide hintze
wien, july 2000