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Bangalore
Global Information Landscapes and Urban Transformations Bangalore
November 14 - 20, 2005 |
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 CONFERENCE
 World-Information City Conference
The conference segment of World Information City brings together panels, discursive and research based presentations and conversations on “Information” and the “City” as societal and political realities, with a particular emphasis on their interrelationships. We hope by doing so we are able to speak not only to the broad themes of information, society, politics and history but also to the concrete realities of “World Information Cities” such as Bangalore.
Conference Day 1
Conference Day 2
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EXHIBITION
World-Infostructure Exhibition
World-Infostructure visualizes subject matter linked to various aspects of the information society based on research by World-Information.Org on global communication networks, the global media market, global content channels, global brain ware, global data bodies, global info rights and digital security.
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EXHIBITION
World-Information City Exhibition
The exhibition is a dispersed show across different sites from Russell Market in Shivajinagar through Tasker Town to Cunningham Road. It is designed in such a way as to facilitate site-specific works, but also to allow for interaction with different publics.
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World-Information City Campaign
Billboards Designs, Posters, Stickers in the Public Sphere.
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Workshops
"Writing on the Surface of the City" (Student Broadsheet Workshop by ALF and Sarai), Connected-Programme (Presentation, Waag Society), Economy of the Commons (Felix Stalder), Open Sound Workshops (Chris Kummerer, Ralf Traunsteiner), FOSS (Parag Goel, Dinesh, Abhas and Edward Crompton), Electronic Media Monitoring (Marko Peljhan)
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World-Information City Guided Tours
"Community-Radio Project Number 20" with Ashish Sen and "Cities within Cities: An Intellectual Turbulence within a Global Ideal" with Solly Benjamin
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Closing Event
World-Information City, a week-long transnational programme of events related to issues of the information society, is wound up in this closing event that features various forms of artistic and social engagement with information, including electronic music, open source projects, and the shortfilm showcase "Thought Thieves".
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World-Information City is a one-week programme of events addressing
global issues of intellectual property and technology in conjunction
with changing urban landscapes.
Held at India's IT metropolis Bangalore, World-Information City is a
cooperative project of the Institute of New Culture Technologies/t0
(Vienna), Sarai CSDS (Delhi), Waag Society (Amsterdam), ALF (Bangalore), Mahiti (Bangalore) and local partners.
The programme brings together researchers, artists and activists from
Europe and South Asia. It consists of a conference, workshops, an
exhibition, a public campaign, and a series of musical and art
events based on electronic media, and has been produced with the
financial assistance of the EU's EU-India Cross Cultural Programme |
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"World-Information.Org Bangalore 2005" will be offered as part of the
EU-India-ECCP-Programme "Towards a Culture of Open Networks – a
collaborative initiative on bridging information society in Europe and India
through culture and communication". Sarai CSDS (Delhi), Waag Society
(Amsterdam) and the Alternative Law Forum (Bangalore).
 opencultures.net
Partner organizations include:
Sarai CSDS, Delhi
sarai.net
Waag Society, Amsterdam
waag.org
The Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore
altlawforum.org
Mahiti, Bangalore
mahiti.org
The Srishti School of Arts, Bangalore
srishtiblr.org
t0/Institute for New Culture Technologies, Vienna
netbase.org
Goethe Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore
goethe.de
+ local partners |
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CONFERENCE