[spectre] REGISTER NOW for the Economies of the Commons Conference, Amsterdam April 11 12 2008
Conference Economies of the Commons 11 12 april 2008 – REGISTER NOW! Conference Economies of the Commons - Strategies for Sustainable Access and Creative Reuse of Images and Sounds Online - De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam, April 11 12, 2008 De Balie in Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, in collaboration with Knowledgeland, Images for the Future, and Virtual Platform, organise a two-day international public working conference on the economies, sustainability, and opportunities for creative reuse of these public audiovisual resources and archives. www.ecommons.eu REGISTRATION AND TICKETS: Passepartout for April 11 12 (including evening programs): 25 euro Conference Day-ticket: 15 euro Public evening programs: 5 euro To reserve a place for the Economies of the Commons conference, please order your ticket on-line: www.debalie.nl/dossierartikel.jsp?dossierid=208416articleid=215589 Friday April 11 – Working conference day 1 and public events Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam Time: 10 - 17.30 hrs 10.00: Opening / Welcome 10.30: Conference Keynote: Peter Kaufman: The Economics of Film and Video Distribution in the Digital Age 11.30: Panel 1: Audiovisual Archives 13.00: Lunch break 14.00: Panel 2: Commons-based Peer Production 15.30: Coffee break 15.45: Panel 3: European Digital Library 17.15: Wrap up first conference day Evening Program: Economies of the Commons Public Keynotes Responses Presented in collaboration with Images for the Future Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam Date: Friday April 11, 2008 Time: 20.30 - 22.30 hrs Public Keynote 1: Rick Prelinger Public Keynote 2: David Bollier Panel discussion with Prelinger, Bollier and Representatives of Images of the Future consortium Continuous: Screening block: Steal This Film / Good Copy, Bad Copy / Panorama Ephemera Saturday April 12 - Working conference day 2 and public events Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam Time: 11 - 18.00 hrs 11.00: Panel 4: Uncommon Business Models 12.30: Lunch Break 13.30: Panel 5: Intangible Cultural Heritage 15.00: Coffee Break 15.15: Panel 6: Professional Cultural Producers 16.45: Coffee Break 17.00: Report from the Legal Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights 17.30: Closing Session / Conference wrap up Evening Program: Public screening, live cinema performance program Presented in collaboration with Cinema De Balie Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam Date: Saturday April 12, 2008 Time: 21.00 - 23.30 With: 2 short films by Peter Tscherkassky Narrated screening program by Rick Prelinger ‘Films on the mass media’ Commons based remix music / sound performances Nicholas Proost - Gravity Other short films tba Continuous: Screening block: Steal This Film / Good Copy, Bad Copy / Panorama Ephemera About Economies of the Commons De Balie in Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, in collaboration with Knowledgeland, Images for the Future, and Virtual Platform, organise a two-day international public working conference on the economies, sustainability, and opportunities for creative reuse of these public audiovisual resources and archives. The Economies of the Commons conference will focus on three core issues: strategies for sustainability, new modes of value creation, and the potentials for creative reuse around the digital commons. Our main questions are: - What kinds of strategies are available to facilitate the growth of these emerging public knowledge resources, and guarantee their longer- term sustainability? - How is value created around the emerging digital commons, and how can this value be capitalised on for the public good? - How can these resources be activated as a creative productive force for contemporary culture, and how can the reuse of these enormously rich resources be facilitated and stimulated? The conference brings together a highly international group of specialists, including Peter Kaufman (Intelligent Television), Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives), Roei Amit (INA), Kenneth Goldsmith (UbuWeb), Anthony McCann (Hallam University), Hubert Best (Best Soames / FOCAL), Lucie Guibault (University of Amsterdam), Florian Schneider (Kein.tv) David Bollier (On The Commons), and many others. The Economies of the Commons conference addresses a range of target groups that do not regularly meet each other. These include: (broadcast) media professionals, representatives
[spectre] Announcing Vague Terrain 09: Rise of the VJ
Vague Terrain is excited to announce the launch of our new issue, Vague Terrain 09: Rise of the VJ. Guest curated by Saskatoon-based VJ and artist Carrie Gates, this installment of our digital arts quarterly brings together a wide variety of work exploring emerging VJ culture. featuring work from: ana carvalho kelley bolen and jake hardy defasten francis theberge jackson 2bears jaygo bloom (interviewed by michelle kasprzak) lara houston leeane berger michael betancourt mo selle neubau / kero ryan stec solu (interviewed by peter kirn) tim jaeger VJ pillow / VJ mademoiselle VJzoo / chrism fenris xárene eskandar ziv lazar view the issue: via http://www.vagueterrain.net/content/archives/journal09/journal09.html Thanks for your continued support! Greg J. Smith Neil Wiernik http://vagueterrain.net __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Futuresonic 2008 - Futuresonic Conference: Speakers Announced
Futuresonic 2008 click here to view this online: http://www.futuresonic.com/updates/080304.html Futuresonic Conference: Speakers Announced Futuresonic Conference: The Social Technologies Summit Contact Theatre, Manchester 1ndash; 2 May (supporting events 30 April amp; 3 May) Delegate Passes Now On Sale Contributors - Gerd Leonhard, Richard Stallman, Dopplr, Sarai, Matt Fuller, Last.fm, Aleks Krotosk, Matt Locke, Geraldine Juarez, Felipe Fonseca ... The Futuresonic Conference brings opinion formers, futurologists, artists, researchers, technologists and scientists from the digital culture, art and music communities together around shared issues to do with technology, society, art and the city. The theme Social Futures - Online, Mobile and Unplugged is explored by leading figures developing the next generation of social media alongside Richard Stallman founder of the Free Software movement and Gerd Leonhard speaking on the future of music. Reflecting the 'social' theme, the conference will combine keynotes, critical debates, workshops, demos and experiences with open and participatory sessions, promising a fun and engaging number of days. Themes include: mobile social software, freeing space in the augmented city, how game design can revolutionise social software, OpenID and who is keeping an eye on the kids. Further Conference Information This year's conference contributors include: Gerd Leonhard, Media Futurist, Author, CEO Richard Stallman, Founder, Free Software Foundation Matt Jones, Founder, Dopplr Aleks Krotoski, TV Presenter, Gaming Academic and cool Girl Gamer Jonas Woost, Head Of Music, Last.fm Felipe Fonseca, Bricolabs, Brazil Scott Cohen, Founder, The Orchard Matt Fuller, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor, Channel 4 Geraldine Juarez, Senior Fellow, Eyebeam, NY Ruth Catlow amp; Marc Garrett, Furtherfield Ravikant Shama, Sarai, India Adrian Woolard, Head of Innovation Culture, BBC Research amp; Innovation Justin Hall, CEO, PMOG Beryl Graham amp; Sarah Cook, CRUMB, University of Sunderland Chris Heathcote, anti-mega.com James Wallbank, CEO, Access Space Katie Lips, Director, Kisky Netmedia Patrick Fox, Manager, tenantspin / FACT Paul Coulton, Lancaster University amp; Nokia Innovation Network Gabe Sawhney, Founder, Wireless Toronto Platoniq (Olivier Schulbaum, Susana Noguero) Charlton Barreto, Senior Computer Scientist, Adobe Monika Buscher, ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University Mark Shepard, Artist / Architect / Researcher, TSG Toolkit Ronald Lenz, Locative Media Research Programme, Waag Christine Hanson, Visual Communications, California State University Johanne Ejbye-Ernst, University of Aarhus, Denmark Steve Daniels, New Media, Ryerson University, Toronto Verena Kuni, Visual Culture, University of Frankfurt am Main Yasser Rashid, BBC Audio Music Interactive Gauti Sigthorsson, Media amp; Communications, University of Greenwich Geoff Cox, University of Plymouth / Associate Curator, Arnolfini Florian Hollerweger, SARC, Queens University Belfast Torsten Reimer, AHRC ICT Methods Network, King's College London Andi Studer, Producer and researcher Jennie Savage, STAR Radio Mat Dalgleish, University of Wolverhampton Beverly Geesin, Sociology, University of York Jon Wetherall amp; Maria Stukoff, ONTECA Will Edmondes, Artist Ele Carpenter, Artist, Researcher amp; Curator Tapio Makela, Researcher amp; Media Artist Drew Hemment, FutureEverything amp; ImaginationLancaster Many more speakers to be announced. For more information on Futuresonic Conference and to buy a Delegate Pass please visit www.futuresonic.com Online A series of online debates will take place every Thursday during April exploring the themes of the conference. See website from the end of March for details. Exhibition Futuresonic's Art strand presents Social Networking Unplugged, a major exhibition of newly commissioned artworks from an array of international artists across the city that take a sideways glance at social networking. A part of the first comprehensive and creative look at social networking by an art festival.Presented in association with Institute of Advanced Studies and ImaginationLancaster at Lancaster University. Part of a series of activities by Lancaster University on Social Arts and Technologies.Supported by FutureEverything, Arts Council England, Manchester City Council, Lancaster University, ImaginationLancaster, Institute of Advanced Studies, Piccadilly Partnership, Contact, Art Attack, Cube. Booking Information Advance Delegate Pass: pound;100 *
