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Forthcoming Cybersalon Events Nov/Dec 2002 1. Cybersalon Discussion 9.11 Netzwerke London - networked event ICA, London and the Mousonturm, Frankfurt Sat 9 Nov, 1-8pm + Laptops Live 9 in Theatre and Cybersalon club night in bar from 8pm onwards 2. Cybersalon Discussion with Lev Manovich -'Meaningful Beauty: Data Visualisation in New Media Culture' Tue 19 Nov, 8.30pm 3. Cybersalon/NMK Annual Xmas Lecture & Party Key note speech by Bill Thompson -'Is Big Business Destroying the Internet?' Monday, 9 Dec, 7.30pm 4. INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH IT? The Second Annual Digital Festival 5 November - 28 November 2002 Talks on copyright, intellectual property and the public domain: All happening @ The ICA The Mall London SW1 5AH http://www.ica.org.uk Tickets: call 0207 930 3647 or [email protected] ++ Cybersalon Discussion - 9.11 Netzwerke London Sat 9 Nov, 1-8pm ICA, Nash & Brandon Rooms �5, �4 Concs. �3 ICA Members part of whatdoyouwanttodowithit? - the ICA Digital Festival 9.11 Netzwerke is a networked event linking the ICA with the Mousonturm in Frankfurt. Panel discussions will be streamed to and from both venues. Speakers and panelists, including Malcom McClaren, John Coate, Dr Richard Barbrook and Benoit Faucon will talk on topics ranging from 'Networking - the New Underground' to 'Networking and Pop' and discuss utopian and dystopian visions of a networked future. The event will also feature a 'playful' networked environment in the ICA Bar to link the audiences in London and Frankfurt through Internet video phones, web cams and net.art pieces. ++ whatdoyouwanttodowithit? Sat 9 Nov, 8pm � 1am �10, �9 Concs. �8 ICA Members Theatre (Standing), Bar Laptops Live 9 Siobhan Fahey The Droyds DAT Politics DAT Politics: 'hyperactive ping-pong melodies and splenetic beat riot' NME lektroLAB: presents the first music event of the digital festival. The Droyds represent the cheekier side of electropop, with their homage to Duran Duran's Girls on Pills. They will be joined by label mate and very Shakespear's Sister). French four-piece DAT Politics record for the super cool Chicks on Speed label, mixing click-beats with glitch-melodies, with a joyful, humorous touch. Ex-Playboy model and electropop princess Pippa Brooks will be on the decks alongside lektrogirl (Rephlex, Micromusic) and DJ Slippers, with Copenhagen Brains providing visuals. In the bar will be Cybersalon DJs and VJs as well as live laptop acts serving up uptempo funk, electro, breakbeat, reggae and hiphop vibes. The line up includes live sets from the Kansas City Prophets (Control Tower Records) and The iRiealists with DJ sets from The Bowling Green & Rusty Warren with VJs - Sapo (Vectors) plus Sancho Plan. ++ Cybersalon Discussion - Lev Manovich Tue 19 Nov, 8.30pm �8, �7, Concs. �6 ICA Members Theatre part of whatdoyouwanttodowithit? - the ICA Digital Festival Lev Manovich, digital artist, author and Associate Professor at the Visual Arts Department, University of California, will give a talk on 'Meaningful Beauty: Data Visualisation in New Media Culture'. Lev's keynote address examines the aesthetics and practice of new media culture and launches Cybersalon Process, Cybersalon's forthcoming digital practioners forum. To be followed by a panel discussion with experienced digital arts practioners who explore the implications of Lev's keynote address. Cybersalon will also present two of its recently completed projects: iSideshow - a site specific digital circus developed for and performed at the Big Chill festival in Eastnor Castle this August; and the Cyber Theatre Laboratory - an experimental theatre project bringing together writers, directors and actors from the Y Touring theatre company with Cybersalon digital artists to explore the potential and impact of new technologies on writing and performing youth oriented theatre. ++ Cybersalon/NMK Annual Xmas Lecture & Party Monday, 9th December, 7.30pm-12.00am ICA Theatre, Bar �6, �5 concs, �4 ICA Members "Is Big Business destroying the Internet?" Key note speech by Bill Thompson Chaired by Dr Richard Barbrook Bill Thompson is a new media pioneer whose main interests lie in the crossover between technology and culture. He has worked in IT as a programmer, consultant, trainer and now as a writer and journalist. Bill has been involved with the Internet since 1986 - "when you could read all of USENET each day and having an email address on your business card was radical." He was formerly head of new media at Guardian Newspapers, formerly technical manager of Nexus and formerly Campaigns Editor at Internet Magazine. He writes a weekly column for BBC Online and is tame geek on Go Digital on the World Service. DR Richard Barbrook is a writer and lecturer on issues of digital culture, society and politics. He was a co-founder of Cybersalon and co-founder of The Hypermedia Research Centre at Westminster University where he currently teaches. Cybersalon DJs and VJs party in the Bar 'till 12.00. Join us for some seasonal cheer. ++ INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH IT? The Second Annual Digital Festival 5 November - 28 November 2002 Talks on copyright, intellectual property and the public domain: Wed 6 Nov, 7.30pm, ICA Cinema JOHN PERRY BARLOW Who Owns the Garden of the Mind? Once called the OEThomas Jefferson of cyberspace� John Perry Barlow has beena Wyoming rancher, co-writer of songs with The Grateful Dead, and a key figure in debates about cyberliberties, copyright in a digital age, and the digital divide. He has been on Wired�s masthead since its inception and his manifesto A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace has been widely distributed on the net. On an increasingly surveillanced planet, and in a world where intellectual property is owned by major corporations such as AOL/Time Warner, John Perry Barlow talks about politics and ownership. http://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=9621 �10, �9 Concs. �8 ICA Members Thur 14 Nov, 7.30pm, ICA Theatre IS COPYRIGHT A GOOD THING? What�s OEfair� about OEfair use�? What happens to intellectual property when it is in the public domain? Who should determine the relative rights and responsibilities in relation to artists and their works? Does technology make a difference? As a follow up to last years CODE conference in Cambridge, we present a panel debate on the rights and wrongs of private property vs public domain. Speakers include: John Howkins, author of The Creative Economy, Penguin 2002; Jennifer Jenkins, the director of the Centre For The Study of the Public Domain, Duke University; Vicki Bennett, artist (aka People Like Us), novelist Stewart Home; sound artist Joe Banks and Karsten Schubert, editor of the recently published book on copyright Dear Images: Art Copyright And Culture. http://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=9623 �8, �7 Concs. �6 ICA Members Includes a free copy of CODE Report The Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH Information: 020 7930 3647 / www.ica.org.uk _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold