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<nettime-ann> [event] Independent media conference in Manchester, Oct 28th-29th |
From Tomorrow On: A conference on art, activism, technology and the future of independent media Friday 28th & Saturday 29th October 11.00-17.30 Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH. You are invited to join artists, activists, theorists, experienced media practitioners and pioneers for two days of presentations, discussions, screenings and public debates on potential futures for the developing independent and alternative media movement. Successful current models will be presented and discussed, while other sessions will focus on communities and networks, aesthetics and ideology, and the politics of independence. Speakers include Agnese Trocchi (Candida TV; Telestreet, Rome), Pit Schultz (Bootlab, Berlin), Ali Tonak (San Francisco Independent Media Center), Seda Guerses (De-Center Berlin), Simon Sheikh (TV-TV, Copenhagen), Emma Hedditch (andiwilldo.net), Mick Fuzz (BeyondTV, Undercurrents, Manchester IMC), Micz Flor (Center for Advanced Media Prague; radio networking in Indonesia and Nepal), Saul Albert (University of Openess, London), Bjoernstjerne Christiansen (Superchannel; Superflex, Copenhagen). See below for bios of participants. Open sessions 14.30-15.00 - introduce yourself and your organisation/research/activities. The conference will be streamed and archived online via www.cornerhouse.org For more information and bookings contact lesley.young@cornerhouse.org, 0161 200 1525. Tickets include a copy of the From Tomorrow On reader with texts selected by conference participants, and admission to Thursday 27th 7.30pm screening of The Battle of Orgreave (Jeremy Deller/Mike Figgis) at Cornerhouse Cinema. ---- Conference Programme: Friday 28th 11.00 From tomorrow on: current models and future possibilities for independent media production and distribution How well do the existing models work, technologically,artistically, economically, politically? How can or should they develop or change? The panel will present projects, set themes and ask questions that will be returned to throughout the weekend. 14.30 Open session 15.00 Camcorder aesthetics and the articulation of protest: debating issues of representation and ideology in art & activism. Whom do we speak for? Whose interests does our action ultimately serve? This panel will present and discuss different approaches to issues of art and propaganda, activism and representation. Saturday 29th 11.00 Virtual spaces, real networks: what can or should differentiate new, independent media systems from the mass media we already have? Do you serve a community or build an audience? Who are these networks for? Do they really constitute a new space for action? 14.30 Open session 15.00 What is independence? Exploring the political economy of knowledge production and distribution In this final session the panel will ask what independence might be in theory and make suggestions on how to work towards it in practice, basing the discussion in their own varied experiences. ---- Participants: Saul Albert works with the University of Openness, The People Speak, Twenteenth Century and Dorkbot London. More info and links may be found here. Bjoernstjerne Christiansen is a member of the Copenhagen-based artists' group Superflex, www.superflex.dk Micz Flor is a media developer and training consultant at the Center for Advanced Media - Prague, where he initialised Campware. Over the past few years he has been working with independent media institutions in the south-east of Europe as well as Asia. Besides his work in consultancy, training and development, Flor has been organising a series of cultural events and symposia, including the exhibition One Bit Louder in Liverpool, Moneynations2 in Vienna and flashlights at the Pandaemonium biennial of moving images, London. In early 1999 Flor worked as content developer for Public Netbase Vienna, where he also co-edited the web/print publication 'period after' concerned with independent media development. In 1998, while living in the uk he founded and co-edited the online/t _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann