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[ Round Table Version text::] Symposium Information
The round table version is a three day symposium about the digital commons. The panels and categories intersect with the dialogue, ideas, and issues facing the digital commons. The panels will kick off each day's series of programs and events.
The panels/categories and participants listed below reflect information received as of 2.2.02. Schedule will be posted in April.
Alt.Media
An overview of the media structure in major media distribution outlets . Participants will discuss their strategies for confronting or designing alternatives to the monopoly of media organizations. Participants: Stephen Marshall (http://www.Guerrillanews.com , SF) Sander Hicks (http://www.softskullpress.com ) Indy Newsreel, Chicago
Display>Version
The ability to present, through works, a vast personal/cultural dialogue in a few brush/mouse strokes, a series of plotted pixels, or manipulated sine waves is reviewed to examine how we craft the language of culture, self, finality and the infinite. Participants: Eduardo Kac John White Cerasulo,
Who's the Tool?
Power dynamics within the contemporary human/computer interaction Participants: Paul B Davis (http://www.beigerecords.com/) Cory Arcangel
Version>Control
This panel looks at the ever delicate balance between security and freedom on the digital commons with the architects, the cause champions and monkey-wrenchers from both sides of the digital divide. Participants" Doug Powers, Civic net, ACLU.
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Instances of cultural monkey wrenching, tactical media disruptions and culture jamming. Participants: Institute of Applied Autonomy (http://www.appliedautonomy.com), Mark Hossler, Negativeland (http://www.negativland.com)
Naked Apprehensions of Technology
This panel seeks to interrogate the politics and phenomenology inherent in the way in which the idea of "newness" is deployed in respect to creative technology. Participants: Steve Dietz (adaweb.walkerart.org) Critical Art Ensemble Dan Sandin (www.vdb.org, www.evl.uic.edu) Sandy Stone (www.sandystone.com) Jon Cates (www.artic.edu/~jcates) Erik Davis(www.techgnosis.com Ana Voog (www.anacam.com Mez (www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker)
Creative Technology as Weaponry
This panel examines the social and institutional systems by which we transmit knowledge of media and the positioning of the new media artist/curator as tactical interventionist affecting how cultural representations are informed by power structures Participants: Video Machete (www.videomachete.org) Critical Art Ensemble(www.criticalart.net) Erika Muhommed (www.cms.mit.edu/race/exhibition.html) Katie Salen(www.utexas.edu/cofa/a_ah/faculty/salekat.html) Beth Coleman(www.soundlabrecords.com) Jackie Soohen(www.bignoise.com) Art Jones (www.vdb.org, www.twn.org)s:
Version>02 will also feature panels and symposia by Nomads and Homesteaders Nomads & Homesteaders: Songs of 1000 Controllers is a SAIC graduate student-organized, new media collaborative project comprised of several interdependent programs.
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