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b.a.n.g. lab researcher Micha Cardenas [ http://transreal.org ] will be presenting a workshop at this year's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (HEMI) Summer Encuentro in Bogota, Colombia. The title of her workshop is "New Hacktivism: From Electronic Civil Disobedience to Mixed Reality Performance”. The outline for the workshop is below. The Encuentro's [ http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/eng/encuentro/colombia_overview.html ] theme is "Staging Citizenship". From the description of the Encuentro: "Our 7th Encuentro invites interested participants to investigate "cultural rights" and their complex relationship to citizenship in both historical and contemporary contexts. We understand cultural rights as a juridical figure, a technology of power and an articulation that brings together multiple political demands, social subjects and modalities of citizenship. They allow us to explore the relationship between performance and politics through diverse expressive forms, analytic categories, disciplines, traditions and movements." Workshop brief outline: Hacktivism: From Electronic Civil Disobedience to Mixed Reality Performance Workshop for the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics Encuentro 2009: Staging Citizenship by Micha Cárdenas “we are the virus of the new world disorder rupturing the symbolic from within saboteurs of big daddy mainframe the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix” - Cyberfeminist Manifesto, VNS Matrix “Those who are against, while escaping from the local and particular constraints of their human condition, must also continually attempt to construct a new body and a new life... These barbaric deployments work on human relations in general, but we can recognize them today first and foremost in corporeal relations and configurations of gender and sexuality. Conventional norms of corporeal and sexual relations between and within genders are increasingly open to challenge and transformation. Bodies themselves transform and mutate to create new posthuman bodies.” Hardt and Negri, Empire The workshop will trace the trajectory from Hacktivism to Mixed Reality Performance, considering the possibilities opened up by networked gestures. Beginning with a discussion of Electronic Civil Disobedience, its motivations and mechanisms, the workshop will introduce participants to a number of strategies which are being used in post-contemporary political struggles including Free/Libre/Open Source, DIY, Hacklabs, Social Media and interventions in online public spaces such as Second Life. Day 1 – Introduction to Hacktivism and Electronic Civil Disobedience Intro to topics: Hacktivism, Networked Performance, Online Public Space Digital Resistance as a response to the changing forms of Capital Society as Assemblage Electronic Civil Disobedience: Electronic Disturbance Theater Virtual Sit-Ins Day 2 – Free/Libre/Open Source, Hacklabs and Science of the Oppressed Autonomy and World Building Free/Libre/Open Source Code as resistance in the Alter-Globalization Movement: Indymedia, the Zapatistas Hacklabs from Western Europe to the borderlands Science of the Oppressed: From ACT-UP to Cyberfeminism to Fadiat to Hackmeets Social Media: Myspace, Youtube, Twitter, Orkut Boredom Patrol, a silly netwar in the borderlands >From Twitter to Identica Day 3 – Interventions in Online Public Space The Changing Nature of Public Space Physical, Online, Mediated Public Spaces Virtual Worlds, World of Warcraft, Second Life, Second Front Becoming Dragon, gender and sexuality Mixed Reality Performance Motion capture, physical computing, new forms of display -- blog: http://transreal.org gpg key: 1024D/7E8B7A2B ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre