[Nettime-nl] Me, Myself and I //or// How to make your own new identity

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Dear nettimers,

Hereby I would like to invite you to our event next week:


Me, Myself and I //or// How to make your own new identity
With: Heath Bunting

An evening on identity, technology and crossing borders. Heath Bunting 
is presenting his Status Project: an experiment in creating real and new 
identity for yourself or anyone else. We will explore the technological 
challenges and social consequences of this endeavor. Also we will look 
into possible real-world applications if people can have a new or more 
then one identity.

The evening is part of a series on the Digital Alterego. Past 
presentations included bureau Jansen & Janssen on Security Forces and 
Police Control, Bits of Freedom on Company databases and developers of 
technologies for protest movements like N-1, Sukey and Liquid Democracy.

H. Bunting: âBefore the Internet, you knew where your virtual body was 
â it was at the tax office or the police station, or at school. And if a 
revolution did take place you could go and burn those records, but now 
people put all their data on different platforms and different machines 
and think itâs fun. All the hype about Twitter and online identities is 
nothing new, except now itâs on a different platform whereas before it 
would have been on a stone tablet. But what happens if the police knock 
on you door, as they do in Iran or elsewhere and even in the UK, and 
say, âYouâve been on these websites and are involved with certain 
activities so now weâre arresting youâ. So, the virtual is more 
important, because itâs actually becoming more difficult for people to 
see their traces. Their actual true nature gets misrepresented or 
codified or enslaved through the Internet. Things happen in a much more 
sophisticated way, whereas before you could burn a piece of paper or 
tear it up: Goodbye body.â

We are looking forward to your presence and critical questions in this 
very special edition of the Activistic Salon in our Atomic Shelter.

Background info:
The Status Project: http://status.irational.org/
Interview: http://www.skor.nl/nl/site/item/interview-heath-bunting
BorderXing: http://www2.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/borderxing.shtm

Doors open: 20:00 | Start: 20:30
Schijnheilig @ The Vondelbunker
Vondelpark 8 - Amsterdam
https://schijnheilig.org

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