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World InfoCon Amsterdam (2002): Conference Report:
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While the World-Information Exhibition in Amsterdam’s “Oude Kerk” – on show from 15 November to 15 December, 2002 - displayed state-of-the-art technologies, a survey of the politics of information and some of the most advanced examples of digital art, the two-day World-InfoCon conference “The Network Society of Control“ concluded World-Information.Org’s program in Amsterdam. [Read] |
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World Information Forum Vienna (2000): Conference Report
by World-Information.Org
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The World Information Forum, held in connection with the World Information Exhibition at Vienna's Technical Museum, brought together a number of distinguished speakers who all addressed, each from a different perspective, the political and artistic dilemmas as well as the opportunities contained in the transition to a digital world. Reflecting the many of the topics and concerns around which the work of World-Information.Org revolves, the speakers and panellists discussed issues of democratisation, surveillance, digital grassroots activism, as well as artistic practice in digital networks, with Pauline van Mourik Broekman from Mute Magazine, London as chairperson. [Read] |
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World InfoCon Brussels (2000): An Annotated Report:
by Steve Kurtz
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In a series of cogent lectures by a roster of distinguished speakers including
Phillipe Quèau, Saskia Sassen, Philip Hammond, Duncan Campbell, Steve Wright, Shahidul Alam, Simon Davies, Cees Hamelink, and a variety of other contributors, many significant themes emerged-in fact, too many to be reported in this brief document. However, in the interest of promoting further discussion among a wider audience interested in imagining alternatives to global capital and developing forms of tactical resistance, World-Information.Org offers the following abbreviated list of threads.
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The World-Information.Org Reports section provides conference reports and other documents that refer to World-Information.Org's events and support activities. [Read] |
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