** Introduction **
In Dessau there was a Syndicate meeting, tenth or so since N5M, and there was talk of practical things...
Actually there were two meetings, and near the end of the first Tapio mentioned a classical ambition - how about a Syndicate web.site (that would give useful info and pointers to further sources regarding euro funding, various art and media houses / meetings / conferen-ces, plus a possible text zone to satisfy the need for theory and debate..., I presume)?
Well, in homage to the immortal Turing test aimed at recognizing a specific kind of intelligence, I have decided to engage in a similar 'Cosic test' of activism. Here follows a short description of the test:
**Cosic Test**
The Cosic Test is aimed at deeper understanding of group motivation, and is structured in a way to enable a singular researcher to perform it alone, although assistance can ensure more accurate and fast measuring. This methodologicaly complex episthemological strategy consists in two main parts: a) I talk, and b) I wait.
a)
In the 'I talk' part the task of the researcher is to offer a profiled colaborative project to a group of declared activists, with the invitation to meet out of the conference hall after the given meeting and talk of direct action. It is important that the offered project contains maxi-mum of usefulness to the goals declared at the meeting.
b)
In the 'I wait'
part, the researcher has to go out after the meeting and stand there
for about fifteen minutes until every meeting participant has left not
only the conference hall but also the lobby.
**Dessau Results**
One person approached me in the hall and about seventy passed by. After analysing the profile of the enlisted collaborator, it became clear that this person is the K.I.E.Z. technician and is not subscribed to the list. Therefore he was not acknowledged as relevant to the analysis.
**Bingo**