-       preliminary program

 

 

 

Geert Lovink
(University of Amsterdam) and

Trebor Scholz
(Department of Media Study, The State University of New York at Buffalo)

invite you to:

 

 

 

 

networks, art, & collaboration

a two-day Brechtian play

 

at the Department of Media Study,

The State University of New York at Buffalo

 

http://freecooperation.org

 

April 24 - 25, 2004

In a high-energy context this conference will bring together artists, designers, musicians, activists, art historians and engineers in formats such as workshops, open mic, parties, performances, interviews, and brain storming sessions all aiming at ongoing collaborations, genuine dialogue, and the exchange of knowledge. The aim of the conference is to get a deeper understanding of the dynamics of collaboration, models of critical web-based art, and the role media technologies play in the making of social networks. Laugh, learn, argue, dance, discuss, eat, celebrate dissent, make new friends, and meet future collaborators.

 

A FreeCooperation theory paper will be launched during the conference.

 

Prologue: Ignite the Flames of Collaboration

 

THURSDAY April 22
8pm

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center

2495 Main Street, Suite 425 Buffalo

 

event with Jenny Perlin (Sarah Lawrence College),

Laura McGough (Washington, DC),

Trebor Scholz, and Christoph Spehr (Bremen)

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FRIDAY APRIL 23
7pm

LOCATION: DMS 286 and CFA balcony

 

House Warming with

Launch of FreeCooperation Publication

This will be an opportunity to introduce yourself.

 

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SATURDAY  APRIL 24

 

<Warning: Sessions could end later, or earlier, than announced in the

program depending on the debate.>

 

10- 10:15 am

LOCATION: NSC 205

 

HELLO WORLD

Uday P. Sukhatme, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,
Geert Lovink & Trebor Scholz

 

Try1

10:20 am - 11:30am

LOCATION: NSC 205

 

The role of the network in the collaboration of women media practitioners.

Collaborating as a heterogeneous without goal?

The exclusivity of the women only approach.

 

FACES (Vali Djordjevic; Berlin, Germany)

 

Genderchangers (Kristina Clair; Philadelphia, Amsterdam)

 

GuerillaGirlsBroadband

 

J3 (Jane Crayton, Jessica Leber, Jennifer Peterson

University of Colorado at Bolder)

 

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Try 2

10:20- 11:30am

LOCATION: NSC 216

 

Open Content Initiatives, Reusability, Archives, & Shared Authority

By making our creative works available for reuse, we open our works to improvement, elaboration, and re-articulation by others. What role does attribution play in the creation of such reusable projects?

 

Benjamin Mako Hill (Free/Open Source Software developer, Seattle)

 

Blips Team (blips.tk)

blips.tk is a collaborative online open history project that seeks to archive and reflect critically on "creative dark matter."
(blips is Brian Holmes, Tom Leonardt, Trebor Scholz, Gregory Sholette, Orkan Telhan)

 

Alan Moore (art historian, creator of collectivities site, NYC)

working on the history of art collectives in NYC since the 1970s

 

Laura McGough (Washington, DC)

Collaborative archives: state of archives in the Us based on her work as a

program specialist at the National Endowment Arts Council, examination and

re-examination of structuring and distributing data

 

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Try 3

10:20am - 11:30am

LOCATION: NSC 218

 

Tactical Media from the Masses

Can tactical media be used as an instrument of education?

How can a means of media empowerment for minorities (or silent majorities), for those who cannot express their own voice, become a form of practical and critical pedagogy?

 

Ricardo Rosas (Brazilian Tactical Media Lab)

 

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Break 11:30 - 11:45am

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Try 4

11:45am - 1:30pm

Location: Art 144

 

Self-Organized Educational Attempts, Free Universities, "Anti-Universities"

 

Moderator: Trebor Scholz

Dr. Alan OConnor, Free Anarchist University Toronto

 

Stefan Roemer (New Media Department, Akademie der Bildenden Knste, Munich)

 

Katherine Carl, Srdjan Normal (School of Missing Studies, NYC)
The knowledge that slips through traditional and singular disciplines seems to flow freely in an unbound space and networks, however it takes a collaborative and experimental practice to excavate it, sort of scout for it, rather than wait for it.

 

Saul Albert, janitorial duties, University of Openess: No tuition fees! No objectivity! No success!

 

Martin Lucas (Hunter College, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Paper Tiger TV)

 

Ricardo Rosas (Brazilian Tactical Media Lab)

 

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Try 5

11:45am - 1:30pm

LOCATION: NSC 222

 

Streaming Game

Play the conference-wide, conference-long Streaming Game in the gaps

between sessions; seek out the Streaming Game and make it your weekend

obsession; then gather to hear the outcome of collaborative artistic play

in this culminating discussion group.

McKenzie Wark (The New School)

Susan Laxton (Columbia University)

Rachel Stevens (Brown University)

 

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Try 6

1:00pm - 5pm

LOCATION: DMS 238

 

THE ART OF COOPERATION

How do collaborations survive? How can collaborations manage the

egos of their constituent parts? What models of group interaction did you

find most successful? Are we moving towards a social model that is more collective/distributed or merely nodal? Would you consider the Borg from Star Trek, a collective or a hive mind? What sort of art would they create? How is this analogous to exquisite corpse groups online such as Sito.org?

4 hour Talkathron between Patrick Lichty (Intelligent Agent, Rtmark, YesMen) & Nathan Martin (Carnegie Mellon University, Carbon Defense League): 1 Room, 2 speakers, 8 spectators at a time

 

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Try 7

11:45am - 1:30pm

LOCATION: NSC 218

 

Geert Lovink in dialogue with Christoph Spehr

 

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Try 8

11:45am - 1:30pm (continues during break)

LOCATION: DMS 232

 

Rachel Stevens Workshop

 

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Lunch Break

1:30- 2:30pm

LOCATION: DMS 286

 

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Try 9

2:30pm - 3:30pm

LOCATION: NSC 205

 

GROOVE LISTENING
A monologue by Kurt Weibers (www.globalpointstrategies.com)

Nicolas Bourriauds relational aesthetics filtered through Kurt Weiber's

career as an organizational behaviorist, brand designer and

motivational speaker. Weibers interviewed hundreds of

workers, at corporations around the world, and finding, in the gaps of

what they are saying, a collaborative identity, a pattern of

transmission, a temporal formalism, a relational aesthetic.

 

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Try 10

2:30pm - 5:00pm

LOCATION: DMS 232

 

Models for collaboration
How can trans-local student collaborations serve as wider model?

Jon Rubin (SUNY Purchase) http://rachel.ns.purchase.edu/~jrubin/

Stephanie Rothenberg (SUNY Buffalo)

Andrea Polli (Hunter College)

 

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Try 11

2:30pm - 3:30pm

LOCATION: NSC 218

The Bonnie Parker Junior Show

Host: Stephanie Rothenberg as Bonnie Parker Junior

 

Guests:

Brian Holmes as utopian

Christoph Spehr as the sci-fi filmmaker


Critical Art Ensemble as scientists

 

Tony Conrad as Paul Shafer on the phonarmonica 


Call-ins from :

Sara Diamond (The Banff Centre)
Los Cybrids

Page Sarlin (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

Trevor Paglen (UC Berkley)

Lucia Sommer (University of Rochester)


Also starring:


Jrg Windszus aka Windy (Bremen)

Uche Nduka (poet and activist, Nigeria/ Germany)

Suse Lang (DASH, co-organizers of NEURO conference, Munich)

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Break 3:30pm - 3:40 pm

 

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Try 12

3:40pm - 5:30pm

LOCATION: NSC 216

 

Groups and Spaces

 

Access Community Space Buffalo (Loren Sonnenberg)

 

16BeaverGroup (Ayreen, Rene Gabri; NYC)

 

FACES

 

Gregory Sholette (PAD/D, REPOhistory)

 

Wolfgang Staehle (The Thing, NYC)

 

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Try 13

3:40pm - 5:30pm

LOCATION: DMS 235

 

Social Network Architectures

What kinds of tools can we design or use to facilitate collaboration?

How does the creative process mirror the network? How can tools generate knowledge? What is missing in these tools? How we design these tools go beyond shatter?

 

Eric Goldhagen (Open Flows, Interactivist, ABC NoRio)

Amanda Hickman (www.lincproject.org)

Box of Tools for online Collaboration: from mailing lists, web servers,
blogs, voice over ip, SILC, wikis

 

J3

Jane Crayton, Jessica Leber, Jennifer Peterson (University of Colorado at Bolder)

 

John Duda (Johns Hopkins University)

syndicating content across the indymedia network, a look at using RSS to automate collaborative content sharing for activist media

 

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Try 14

3:40pm - 5:30pm

 

Distributed Cocktail Focus Group

by Sarah Lewison (UCSD)

 

The down side of collaborating: subjectivities

and psychology, institutional memory, disappearance,

provenance. Is there an afterlife? What happens to

acknowledgement when bad art becomes good social

practice?

This experimentally structured session on economic support systems for collaborations, including plans for a network of aging artists retirement homes will be discussed while enjoying gin rickeys.

 

Try 15

LOCATION: DMS 232

Film Screening

8:00pm 11:00pm

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DANCE

 

-->2 PICKUP TIMES

7:15pm and 8:15pm

Yellow School Bus to SOUNDLAB:

in front of College of Arts

7.15pm to Soundlab

8.15pm to Soundlab

 

TURNTABILIST COLLABORATION @ SOUNDLAB:

Tim Jaeger & Jorge Nava (University of California San Diego)

7:45pm

 

This piece, as database cinema focuses on digital ethnography of San Diego to border regions around the world. Using custom patches max msp jitter this performance revolves around narratives of politically charged footage

with sound introduced into the dance floor environment of Soundlab.

 

Los Nukiis

9:00pm - 11:30pm

New York-based electronica duo Los Nukiis will explore

the sonic trans-border landscape with their own blend

of downtempo electro-cumbia.

 

RETURN:

to hotel

11:00pm

last pickup-- 12:00pm

 

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<Disclaimer: conference activities may include,

but are not limited to nudity>

 

SUNDAY APRIL 25th

Swimming, Sauna, Steam Room

(bring swim suit and cape)

9:00am 10:30am

Alumni Arena

 

Probe 1

11:00am 1:30pm

LOCATION: NSC 205

Collaborative Authorship, Collective Writing, E.Poetics
Digital writing is wide-open in just about any way you want. Writing

transforms digital media, and is transformed by them. Everythings up

for grabs, including reader, writer, code, text, reception, author,

and authority. Anyone can play.

 

Sandy Baldwin (West Virginia University)

Simon Biggs (Sheffield Hallam University/ University of Cambridge, UK)

Maria Damon (University of Minnesota)

Loss Pequeo Glazier (SUNY at Buffalo)

Alan Sondheim (Brooklyn)

 

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Probe 2

11:00am 1:30pm

LOCATION: NSC 216

 

Open Source / Free Software Sampling

for Situations of Learning

 

Demo session of open source software for PC and MAC for situations of learning moderatored by Paul Vanouse. The goal of this session is to demo open source/ free software and create an open access archive of ready to use software (Cygwin, GNU software for Windows, Blender, Gimp, Open office, bit torrent)

with Patrick Lichty, Shawn Rider, Nathan Martin, Chris Coleman, Tom Leonhardt, Saul Albert, Benjamin Macko Hill, Mike Bouquard, Don Jacobs (CATE), Sher Doruff, Arjen Keesmaat (DeWaag, Amsterdam), Alan Sondheim (Brooklyn)

 

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Probe 3

11:00am - 1:30pm

LOCATION: NSC 218

 

Critical collaborative artistic practices in the networks

 

Horit Herman Peled (Oranim College; Tel Aviv, Israel)

collaboration - a problematic concept
(The Checkpoint Watch case)

 

Anna Harding (Chair, Creative curating program at Goldsmiths College; London, UK)

 

Marie-Christiane Mathieu (Montreal)

 

web stream: Jon Ippolito (Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim Museum / Joline Blais (Professor of New Media at the University of Maine) demo:

Pool

A project of the University of Maine's Still Water program, The Pool is a collaborative online environment for creating art, code, and texts. In place of the single-artist, single-artwork paradigm favored by the overwhelming majority of documentation systems, The Pool stimulates and documents collaboration in a variety of forms, including multi-author, asynchronous, and cross-medium projects. We are training revolutionaries--not by indoctrinating them with dogma but by exposing them to a process in which sharing is the norm rather than hoarding.

 

Barbara Lattanzi (www.wildernesspuppets.net)

The interrupting annotator: Demo of New Genre Software work-in-progress

Streaming video online

 

Michael Frisch (SUNY at Buffalo)

Activating the database: "Telling Lives"

public self-activated oral history recording

 

Sher Doruff, Arjen Keesmaat (DeWaag, Amsterdam)

global network streaming practices at DeWaag

 

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Probe 4:

11:00am - 12:00pm
Art 144

PDPal Walkabouts
PdPAL encourage collaborative storytelling. We provide a tool and set of inspirations that groups of map maker/storytellers deploy. Each group member is assigned to lead a task for the group - guide, observer, recorder. The collaboration of guiding, seeing, and recording challenge in the most basic way our assumptions about how we navigate, perceive, and name the world around us. The goal of this workshop is to develop graphic as well as technical strategies for creating effective maps for the next iteration of PDPal which will utilize cell phones.

 

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Probe 5

11:00am - 2:30pm

LOCATION: DMS 235

Experiments in Radio Topographies

by Neurotransmitter & Ricardo Miranda Zuniga

 

In 1932, Bertolt Brecht claimed that the "radio is one-sided when it should be

two-.  It is purely an apparatus for distribution, for mere sharing out.  So here is a positive suggestion: Change the apparatus over from distribution to

communication.  The radio would be the finest possible communication

apparatus in public life, a vast network of pipes."  Unfortunately, over the

seventy-four years since Brecht's treatise little has changed in radio usage,

quite the opposite, the radio waves have been hijacked by corporate entities,

largely with the aid of the Federal Communications Council (FCC), a

governmental group once intended to protect independent radio programming.

 

However, the history of radio is global, diverse and contentious.  Radio presents a history of corporate power, civil intervention, revolutionary resistance, community advocacy.  It is these various histories that will be addressed by the participants of "Experiments in Radio Topographies," in which participants will be asked to investigate and then discuss these histories in a dispersed format, rather than a centralized panel and audience discussion.  The panel action will be transmitted live on the free103point9 net radio station: http://www.screwmusicforever.com/free103/freemenu.html

 

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Break 12:00pm - 12:10pm

 

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Probe 6

12:10pm - 1:30pm

Art 144

Dreaming in the Hammock of Resistance

The Imaginaries of Free Cooperation

Dialogue: a collaborative Presentation by Brian Holmes and Trebor Scholz

 

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Probe 7

12:10pm - 1:30pm

Art 136

 

Technical Run Through: Data-Programming for Community

with Holly Johnson & Paul Visco

 

Do you know how to write html but now want learn how to use open source tools for databases (php, mysql) for your collaborative projects? Holly Johnson will address the creation of data models in the use of data-base driven tools for collaboration. How do you streamline data for collaboration?

Paul Visco will demonstrate the use of these tools in his online local

community initiative elmwoodstrip.com

This introduction will be followed by a basic two-hour workshop:

creating forms that speak to databases. Holly and Paul will answer

particularly technical questions about structuring databases in this context.

 

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Probe 8

12:10pm 1:00pm

LOCATION: NSC 222

VENDETTA THE ACADEMIC SUPERMODEL PART II

Performance by Katrien Jacobs (Emerson College), Eugene Tan (Emerson

College) and Maurice Methot (Emerson College)

Vendetta will collect audio clips and reflect upon your live conference presentations.

 

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Probe 9

12:10pm - 1:30pm

LOCATION: DMS 244

 

Expression of Women Through Pixels

J3 Jane Crayton, Jessica Leber, Jennifer Peterson (University of Colorado at Bolder)

 

*Keyworkx Jam

Keyworkx jam as a virtual collaborative web-based art presentation.

 

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Probe 10

12:10pm 1:30pm

Location: DMS 232

The Elastic Test Project (workshop)

Rozalinda Borcila (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

 

The Elastic Test Project is an on-going series of performances developed collaboratively as interventions into the normative cultural definitions of "citizen" and "foreigner", by critically re-interpreting immigration and naturalization in various locations.

 

This workshop outlines, and set into practice, some of the methods employed, considering the process of developing the intervention, as well as the ways in which each individual participant negotiated their roles in the game structure.

 

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Lunch Break

1:30pm - 2:30pm
LOCATION: DMS 286
 

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Probe 11

2:30pm - 3:50pm

LOCATION: NSC 205

 

Collaborations between Artists and Scientists

Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration

What does it mean to successfully collaborate in an

art/sci context (ie. experimental bio-info-edu-tainment)?

 

Critical Art Ensemble

Paul Vanouse (SUNY At Buffalo)

 

 

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Probe 12

2:30pm - 3:50pm

LOCATION: DMS 235

 

Who says artists can't organize?

Simon Sheikh (Nordic Institute For Contemporary Art; Helsinki, Finland)

Who is afraid of artists?

ARTIST UNIONS.

 

Georg Schoelhammer (editor, Springerin Magazine for Contemporary Art,

Vienna (Austria)/ magnet magazine network)

 

Janis Demkiw (Fuse Magazine, Toronto)

 

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Probe 13

2:30pm - 3:50pm

LOCATION: NSC 216

 

DreamYourCooperation
The ABC's of Collaboration. Collaborate or Die?

Robinson Crusoe, the Lonely Island, the beauty of consensus,

new emergent identities, mutual benefit, peer pleasure, variable durations, scale. What about individual gain?


Setting:

a room full of people are given questions-

What are flexible if/else statements or flow charts of collaboration?

What are key points of collaboration? Focus versus specificity in the

creation of collaboration, how to involve people, scale in

collaboration, working conditions, division of labor, credit economy

 

Within two hours a 15 minute video piece is created by all participants in the workshop. Alternatively groups could create drawings, flow charts or puppet plays. These results are given to the conference organizers for addition to DVD or archive.

 

Mike Steventon (Mike Steventon (former chairman of the board; Interaccess, Toronto/ and DespiteTV (London, UK), SENSBUS collaborative installation using micro processors, coordinator/ co-creator of Art Interface Device (AID), an open source collaborative tool for artists.

 

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Probe 14

2:30pm - 3:50pm

LOCATION: DMS 232

 

Collaborative Story-Telling Workshop

by Jessica Hammer (game developer, NYC) and Elizabeth Knipe:

 

Creation and reflection about the writing of a story guided by several

different sets of rules of distribution of authority.

 

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Probe 15

2:30pm - 3:50pm

LOCATION: DMS 244

 

Collaborative project under construction

Carbon Defense League (Pittsburgh)

 

END THE BOREDOM! DEVIANCE IN ART.

MapHub

 

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Break 3:50pm - 4:00pm

 

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4:15pm 5:00pm

 

Forum

moderatored: Geert Lovink / Trebor Scholz

All participants attend, sessions report, summary

 

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SQUEAKY WHEEL

7pm

175 Elmwood Avenue

Buffalo, NY

(716) 884-7172

 

Screening followed by discussion of works by Termite TV at Squeaky Wheel collective working philosophy, self- and group promotion, sustainability, consensus and aesthetic integrity

 

The five members/directors Termite TV Collective (www.termite.org) was founded in 1991. How is the working styles and evolving collaborative philosophy reflected in the changing aesthetic of the collective's video work?

 

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MONDAY APRIL 26

7pm

 

EPILOGUE-- Post-conference Event

 

THE THING

601 West 26th Street

New York, New York 10001

Tel: 212-937 0443

Email: info@thing.net

 

 


CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Friday night, and all day Saturday and Sunday:

$40 (for food - paid by participants in cash)

Tee Shirts et more at central office desk of the provisional organizing committee

 

 

 

Performance Caroline Koebel

Baby Hours:

LOCATION: DMS 248

 

Saturday 1:30pm 2:30pm, 5-6pm

Sunday    10am - 11am, 1:30pm 2:30pm
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Josephine Anstey/ Dave Pape Lab
LOCATION: DMS 266
VR, Networking and Collaboration

Saturday and Sunday

 

Info and sign up:

http://www.ccr.buffalo.edu/anstey/VSTUDIO/nac

 

April 24 & 25

 

11:00 - 12:00 Experiments in VR

Whose Streets - Chris Outlaw, Richard Wetzel (UB)

The Trail The Trail - Josephine Anstey, Dave Pape, Stuart Shapiro, Vikranth Rao, Orkan Telhan, Trupti Devdas Nayak, Paul Visco (UB)

        

1:00 - 3:30

MetaSpace - Chris Galbraith, Ivan Itchkawich, Adrian Levesque(UB)

Aural Map - Dan Neveu (UB)

 

4:00 - 5:30 Networked VR

(VR networked between Buffalo, Indiana and Chicago)

PAAPAB - Josephine Anstey, Dave Pape, Dan Neveu (UB)

Beat Box - Margaret Dolinsky, Edward J. Dambik, Mitja Hmeljak, Nicolas Bradley (Indiana University)        

Looking for Water - Dan Sandin, Laurie Spiegel (EVL)

Rutopia - Daria Tsoupikova,  Alex Hill, Julieta Aguilera,

Helen-Nicole Kostis, Tina Shah (EVL)

Julieta Aguilera, Seung Kang, Helen-Nicole Kostis, Tina Shah, Geoffrey Allan Baum, Damin Keenan, Alex Hill (EVL)

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CEED - Exhibition exploring the process of exchange between designers and community.
Location: DMS lounge area

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Video Screening Loop: Studio on The Street
by Tony Conrad
Location: DMS 239a

 

 

 

This research initiative was made possible by the support of:


Center for Applied Technologies in Education,

The Office Of The Vice President For Research (UB),

Springerin (Hefte fr Gegenwartskunst), c magazine, Edward H. Butler Chair in the Department of English and Neural Magazine (Italy), The Department of Media Study, the College of Fine Arts and Sciences.

 

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image report  and FC_logs will follow

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contact:

geert@xs4all.nl

treborscholz@earthlink.net

 

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Description of Groups / Biographies of Participants

(as received at time of printing)

16 Beaver Group

www.16beavergroup.org

16 Beaver Group is located in downtown Manhattan

and has established itself as a place for artists, activists, curators,

critics and others who are interested in initiating and maintaining an

ongoing space and time for the practice and discussion of contemporary

art, theory, and politics. The topics discussed come directly out of

the interests or projects of the participants.

 

Josephine Anstey
jranstey@buffalo.edu
Josephine Anstey is a Virtual Reality artist, with a background in video

art and prose fiction. Her main research focus is creating interactive VR

drama. Her VR work includes PAAPAB, The Thing Growing, and The Multi Mega Book in the CAVE. These works have shown at festivals and museums in the US, Europe and Japan. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo.


Sandy Baldwin

charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu

Sandy Baldwin directs the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University. Some topics of his recent publications includes: digital literature, code poetics, the nemotechnics of user interfaces, nanotechnology, crash test dummies, Paul Virilio, Arakawa and Gins. He creates and performs his own work, and with the improvisational collaborative Purkinge (aka 9 Way Mind) and the Atlanta Poets Group.

 

Joline Blais

jblais@maine.edu

Fiction writer Joline Blais is Asst. Prof. of New Media at UMaine and co-founder of Still Water for network art and culture. She previously directed Digital Media Studies at NY Polytechnic University and launched media studies in SCPS at NYU. Blais' research and creative work explores new narrative forms, and includes forthcoming _The Edge of Art_, and _Sorties_,  a recently completed novel.

 

Blips.tk

info@blips.tk

Blips are temporary departures from familiar experience. Based on the concept that the majority of cultural activity in our post-industrial society remains invisible to the institutions and discourses -critics, art historians, collectors, dealers, museums, curators and arts administrators- who manage and interpret contemporary culture, blips.tk is a collaborative online project that seeks to archive and reflect critically on this "creative dark matter." This open history project contains a database of multimedia submissions, selected essays that reflect on issues raised by this content, as well as a web log for critical debate. We encourage individuals and organizations to submit artwork, ideas, documents, and information of a wide variety that belongs to this shadow realm of creativity. The domain is registered on the island of Tokelau, 480 km north of Western Samoa. (blips is Brian Holmes, Tom Leonhardt, Trebor Scholz, Gregory Sholette, Orkan Telhan)

 

Tony Conrad

conrad@buffalo.edu

Tony Conrad teaches video at UB. He was associated with the founding of both "minimal" music and "underground" cinema. His film "The Flicker" is a key "structural" film. He performs his music, primarily for amplified violin, in the US and internationally. His video work has been shown internationally. In the early 1990s he worked with several collectives in Buffalo producing work for public access cable television.

 

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Wendy_Hui_Kyong_Chun@brown.edu

Wendy Chun teaches digital media theory at Brown University. She is currently completing _Control and Freedom_ (forthcoming MIT 2005), co-editing _New Media, Old Media_ (forthcoming Routledge 2004), and starting a new project on the history of code.  She has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and currently holds a Wriston Fellowship from Brown.

 

Critical Art Ensemble
CriticalArt@cs.com

Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) is a collective of four tactical media practitioners of various specializations including computer graphics and web design, wetware, film/video, photography, text art, book art, and performance. Formed in 1987, CAEs focus has been on the exploration of the intersections between art, critical theory, technology, and political activism.

 

Valie Djordjevic

valid@faces-l.net

Valie Djordjevic lives in Berlin where she is active on the fringes of art and media. She is a member of mikro e.V. <www.mikro.org>, a Berlin based association examining the facets of media culture and list coordinator for the FACES mailing list <faces-l.net>. She works in different contexts 02 writing, lectures, organizing events - on the topics of gender, networking, information and art.

 

Michael Frisch

mfrisch@buffalo.edu

Professor, History & American Studies, UB; Principal, Randforce Associates--developing digital indexing for audio/video oral history documentation, and related applications; Author: A Shared Authority, Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History; and Portraits in Steel (with photographer Milton Rogovin)--hoto portraits/oral histories of Buffalo steelworkers, before and after deindustrialization(Oral History Association Book Prize, 1993-95) ; President, American Studies Association (2000-2001).

 

Sher Doruff

sher@waag.org

Sher Doruff is currently creative director of the Sensing Presence department of the Waag Society/for old and new media in Amsterdam, and a core member of the development team of KeyWorx. She is also a digital artist and doctoral student with the London Institute/CSM researching collaborative performance methods. She also heads the Augmented Performance Practice module of the Dance Unlimited MA program in the Netherlands.

 

John Duda

john@manifestor.org

Besides his current position as a PhD candidate in the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University (where he is researching the historical and epistemological issues posed by the problematic intersections of the scientific and the political), John Duda has collaborated actively on the electronic underpinnings of the global social revolution.  During a three year stint in Amsterdam, he was a part of the ASCII(http://scii.nl) computer collective and helped run its squatted free-internet/free-software cafe.  He has been a contributor to various indymedia technical efforts since 2000, most recently helping to develop the open source Mir software (mir.indymedia.org) and implementing the FTAA IMC web site(ftaaimc.org).  He is the maintainer of the techcoop.info project, which offers a database of noncapitalist technology initiatives. 

 

Rene Gabri

renegabri@16beavergroup.org

Rene Gabri, Iranian-Armenian, born in Tehran, moved to Athens, then Los Angeles, now based in New York.  His solo projects, are largely based around the mediums of film, video, audio and text.  He has been exploring a broad range of topics including cities, memory, confession, popular culture, television, music and issues related to in-between-ness and drifting in general.  In addition, to his solo projects, he has been involved with and initiated a broad range of collaborative situations and frameworks.

At the conclusion of the Whitney Museum08s Independent Study Program in 1999, Rene co-initiated 16Beaver (16beavergroup.org).  Since that time he has been active in maintaining an ongoing platform and space for independent critical, cultural, political inquiry and friendship.  His projects with Ayreen Anastas have evolved a great deal through their work at 16Beaver.

Their Radioactive Discussion series was a physical counterpart to their fictional Homeland Security Cultural Bureau (hscb.org) project.  Together with Erin McGonigle and Heimo Lattner, he also works with the name e-Xplo (e-Xplo.org).  Creating projects which often involve mapping, exploring, and developing a vocabulary for particular sites.

Most recently he has taught at University of Architecture in Venice and the City University of New York in Staten Island.

 

Gender Changer Academy (GCA)

teachers@genderchangers.org

GCA is a free ICT platform for and by women worldwide. We organize non-profit courses, workshops and carnivals in DIY computer hardware and free software, and cooperate with organizations like ASCII, ChicasLinux, MAMA, Zene na Delu, SARAI,and N5M. Further GCA productions are t-shirts, bags, jewelry, stickers, posters, blankets and other haptic perceptions of female computing environments.

URL: http://genderchangers.org/

Eric Goldhagen

eric@openflows.org

Eric Goldhagen is a technology worker with a background in journalism and print production. He is a Senior Partner at Openflows Networks Ltd.; founder of the InterActivist Network project of ABC No Rio; member of the Autonomedia publishing collective; coordinator of a free public access computer center at ABC No Rio and occasionally does production work for the radical comic World War 3 Illustrated.

 

Anna Harding

anna@modrex.com

Harding is a curator and writer living in London, Programme Director of the MA Creative Curating at Goldsmiths College 1995-2003, and edited the book Curating: The Contemporary Art Museum and Beyond (1997). Recent projects include Interference:Public Sound (http://www.interference.org.uk) in 2003 and Potential: Angoing Archive 2002. I am currently working on a book about collaborations between artists and young people.

 

Jon Ippolito

jippolito@maine.edu

One of many footsoldiers in the battle between network and hierarchic culture, Jon Ippolito is an artist, Guggenheim curator, and co-founder of the Still Water program for network art and culture at the University of Maine. His current projects--including the Variable Media Network, the Open Art Network, and a forthcoming book entitled _The Edge of Art_--aim to expand the art world beyond its traditional preoccupations.

 

Katrien Jacobs
 Katrien_Jacobs@emerson.edu

Katrien Jacobs is assistant professor in new media at Emerson College. She wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on dismemberment mythologies in 60s/70s body art and theory. She has published several articles on sexuality, pornography and new media art in journals such as Wide Angle and Cultural Studies. She has lectured widely on pornography in Europe, Australia, Asia and the USA. An Emerson College Faculty Advancement Grant and residency at arts center KC nOna (Belgium) have enabled her in recent years to develop work as web-based entity libidot. (http://www.libidot.org). Libidot and dr.Jacobs will soon become the main characters in her fortcoming book 'Banned From Apple Paradise.'

 

 

Timothy Jaeger

timjaeger@thing.net

Timothy Jaeger produces live media events, video installations, and social networks. His work has been shown in venues such as the Electronic Orphanage (L.A.), The Thing (NYC), Open Air Radio (Barcelona), Galerie Hubert Winter (Vienna), and WKCR (NYC). Currently he is an MFA candidate / Graduate Researcher at CRCA / UCSD, where he studies and works with Jordan Crandall, Lev Manovich, and Barbara Kruger.

 

Holly Johnson

haj2@buffalo.edu

Holly Johnson is a graduate student and adjunct instructor at UB, as well as

an online journalist and web designer. She was active with the Philadelphia

Independent Media Center during the Republican National Convention and

beyond. She conducts research on the portrayal of Afghan women by Western

media.

 

Caroline Koebel

cgkoebel@acsu.buffalo.edu

Caroline Koebel's interdisciplinary practice often confronts the problematics of female being-in-the-world and the expression of subjectivities at odds with commercial culture.  She has a serious commitment to DIY ethos, a fruit in part of her teenage days as a punk in Columbus, Ohio. Her works have been shown across the USA, as well as in Brazil, Ireland, Cuba, Thailand, and elsewhere. Her writings on art and contemporary culture have appeared in Art Papers, Brooklyn Rail, Dialogue, and Wide Angle. She teaches in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo.

 

Barbara Lattanzi

threads@wildernesspuppets.net

Barbara Lattanzi produces screen-based media including software for video improvisation. Lattanzi knows Buffalo (locale of Free Cooperation events) to have a complex history as site of lively and admirably contentious cultures of cooperation, through her involvement (1980s and 90s) with Buffalo art organizations and activist media groups. Now teaching at Smith College, Massachusetts, Lattanzi's URL is www.wildernesspuppets.net.

 

Martin Lucas

mlucas@igc.org

Martin Lucas is a media activist and videomaker with a 20-year background in documentary and media art. An early member of the Paper Tiger Television Collective, Martin has worked and taught in many alternative media contexts.  Martin currently teaches in the Film and Media Studies Dept. at Hunter College, CUNY, and is Director of Technology at Manhattan Neighborhood Network.

 

Susan Laxton

sjl16@columbia.edu

Susan Laxton is a doctoral candidate in Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archaeology, happy to be defending her dissertation - Paris as Gameboard: Ludic Strategies in Surrealism - in two weeks. Most recently she has published in the journals _Postmodern Culture_ and _Papers of Surrealism_, and has curated an exhibition on Man Ray's Atget collection at the Wallach Gallery in New York.

 

Sarah Lewison

socialsculpture@yahoo.com

Sarah Lewison: Since the 70s heyday of food coops, I08ve been interested in sharing as form.  How hokey.  Research areas: Property as privacy. Sustainability pedagogy: as material life, time, invention, economics, politics. Vernacular technologies and distributive research. Amateur sociology, new agey and media therapies. The respective scales of socially exchanged substances: land, water, bacteria, neurosis, towels, money, viruses and food.

 

Patrick Lichty

voyd@voyd.com

Patrick Lichty is an artist, editor, curator and activist of over 15 years. He is Editor-In-Chief of Intelligent Agent Magazine, and part of the Yes Men.

 

Geert Lovink 

geert@xs4all.nl

Geert Lovink is a media theorist and Internet critic, based in Amsterdam.

He is the founder of numerous Internet projects such as the Nettime 

and Fibreculture mailing lists. He is the co-organizer of conferences like Next 

Five Minutes and TulipomaniaDotcom (Amsterdam), Dark Markets (Vienna) and Crisis Media (Delhi). The MIT Press recently published his writing on critical Internet culture 'Dark Fiber' and 'Uncanny Networks,' a collection of his interviews. In October 2003 V2_Publishing brought out his latest study on Internet culture  My First Recession. laudanum.net/geert 

Nathan Martin

nathan@hactivist.com

Nathan Martin is a new media artist, collective experimenter,

technologist, designer, writer, and programmer currently living in

Pittsburgh, PA as a Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon Universitys

STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. Nathan is a founding member of the media

arts collective Carbon Defense League (CDL). Nathan is currently

working on the CDL project MapHub and writing a book called Parasites,

Splinters, and Thieves as part of a residency he was awarded for the year 2004 at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.

 

Marie-Christiane Mathieu

creature@videotron.ca

Marie-Christiane Mathieu, new medias artist, has completed a PhD on a network collaborative project entitle "Monument du vide" for which she has developed a creative process based on theatrical approaches. Mathieu has analyzed, during this project, multiple communication layers from which she is now proposing the concept of the "atre." She is currently working on the development of virtual alcoves.

 

Maurice Methot

maurice_methot@emerson.edu

Assistant Professor in Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College.
Sound artist.

 

Jorge Nava

genava@ucsd.edu

Born in the midst of the cultural crossroads that is the Mexican-U.S. border, Jorge Nava uses digital media to explore and participate in the linguistic, aesthetic, social, and other collisions of art and culture in the shifting context of the New World. He is an MFA candidate at UCSD where he works with Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Natalie Jeremijenko, and Barbara Kruger.

 

Alan O'Connor

asloconnor@sympatico.ca

Alan O'Connor was one of the founders of the Toronto Infoshop Whos Emma in the 1990s and also one of the founding members of the Toronto Free School.

In 2003 he was involved in setting up the very successful Anarchist Free

University in Toronto. The Free University offers ten-week academic

courses on subjects from Radical Theories of Sexuality, Collaborative Art,

the Situationist International, and the history of 1968. The Anarchist

University believes that "We are all students, we are all teachers".

All courses are free. For more details see:

http://www.AnarchistU.org

 

Dave Pape

dave.pape@acm.org

Dave Pape is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Study of the University at Buffalo, working in digital media - computer graphics and virtual reality. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory.

 

Scott Paterson (PdPal)

somebody@sgp-7.net

Scott Paterson is an architect, artist and interaction designer in New York City. He studied architecture at the University of Minnesota CALA and Columbia University GSAP. He is on the faculty of Parsons School of Design where he teaches Interface Design, Multimedia and Thesis Studios in the MFA in Design and Technology Program.

 

PdPal

somebody@sgp-7.net

PDPal, a public art project currently for PDA's and the web, is a

storytelling mapping application that transforms your everyday activities

and urban experiences into a dynamic city that you write. PDPal Walkabout is

a workshop to develop psychogeographic-inspired mapping missions, conduct a walkabout, record it using a pictogrammic shorthand and ultimately to help

us determine best methods for making our upcoming PDA to cell phone

transition.

 

Horit Herman Peled

horithp@yahoo.com

http://www.horit.com/machsomwatch.htm is a collaborative personal

piece, between a human/political engagement and an artistic pursuit.

This project, like other projects in my work, seeks to interrogate the

meaning of art production, distribution and consumption. Through a

concrete, local intervention it endeavors to undermine the artistic

domain of producing exclusive exchange value and venture into the

domain of inclusive use value art production.

 

Loss Pequeo Glazier

glazier@buffalo.edu

Loss Pequeo Glazier is a digital poet, professor of Media Study, a Poetics Program Core Faculty member, and director of the Electronic Poetry Center (http://epc.buffalo.edu) at SUNY Buffalo. His books include Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm (Salt Publishing, 2003) and Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries (Univ. of Alabama Press, 2002). He director of the E-Poetry digital poetry festivals and his work has been shown at the Kulturforum, Berlin, the Guggenheim, New York, and elsewhere. His work is available at his EPC author page (http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier).

 

Thomas Owen

towen@tomowenmusic.com

Thomas Owen is currently finishing graduate work at Brown University in the Computer Music and Multimedia Department. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music Synthesis from Berklee College of Music. His installation/performance work using interactive music and video has been shown in conferences at Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, Berkley and the New School. (Here at SUNY Buffalo he'll present an installation in collaboration with Rachel Stevens)

 

Jenny Perlin

nilrep@access4less.net

Jenny Perlin studied film and cultural studies at Brown University, completed her MFA in Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and postgraduate studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York City.

Perlin's films and drawings work with and against the documentary tradition, incorporating innovative stylistic techniques to emphasize issues of truth, misunderstanding, and personal history. She has recently completed View from Elsewhere, a look at conditions of political asylum seekers in Switzerland, and Perseverance & How to Develop It, a film about the cultural and social histories of self-help in the United States. Her films have won awards at numerous festivals, and have been exhibited in galleries and museums both in the US and abroad. 

 

Andrea Polli

apolli@hunter.cuny.edu

Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in New York City.  She is currently an Associate Professor of Film and Media at Hunter College.  Polli's work addresses issues related to science and technology in contemporary society. Her projects often bring together artists and scientists from various disciplines. She has exhibited, performed, and lectured nationally and internationally.

 

Shawn Rider

shawnr@wdog.com

Shawn Rider is a writer and media artist with specialties in interactive literature, cyberculture, net.art, and videogames. He is currently pursuing an MFA in the Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo. He most often works collaboratively with photographer and critic, Sarah Wichlacz. His website can be found at http://www.wdog.com/rider

 

Stefan Rmer

stefanroe@web.de

Living in Cologne and Munich he is working as an artist and author in

the fields of Conceptual Art, Critique of the Public Sphere, Image- and

Textrelations, New Media and Interculturaltheory; publications in

newspapers, magazines and books. Received the Price for Art Critics from

the Arbeitskreis deutscher Kunstvereine in 2000.

Assistant at the Academy for Arts and New Media in Cologne (1999-2002);

now Professor for New Media at the Academy of Arts in Munich (since 2003).

 

Stephanie Rothenberg

info@pan-o-matic.com

Stephanie Rothenberg uses performance, installation and digital media to create solicitous interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. Her work has been exhibited in media festivals and galleries in the US and abroad including the New York Digital Salon, StudioXX in Montreal, Thealit in Bremen and the Knitting Factory in NYC. She is Assistant Professor of Art at SUNY Buffalo.

 

Jon Rubin

floater@rcn.com

Jon Rubin is an Associate Professor of Film and New Media at SUNY/Purchase, where for the past two years he has taught the Cross-Cultural Video Project - collaboratively linking his American students with students in Minsk, Belarus. He is also the Director of The Floating Cinema, a choreographic waterfront projection work, which is tentatively scheduled to appear in Holland, Berlin and NYC in 2004.


Georg Schllhammer

office@springerin.at

Georg Schllhammer is editor in chief of springerin Hefte fr Gegenwartskunst and currently works on a publication program for documenta 12.

Trebor Scholz

treborscholz@earthlink.net

Trebor Scholz is an East Berlin-born media artist and critic who divides his time between Buffalo and Brooklyn. He links his political investments and artistic sensitivities with his commitment to emerging networked media. Occasionally he focuses on an event-oriented practice. Scholz exhibits and lectures widely nationally and internationally. He is assistant professor in the Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo.

http://molodiez.org/bio.php

 

School of Missing Studies (SMS)

kat@igc.org

School of Missing Studies (SMS) provides a flexible educational platform and

a network for international study and exchange on cultural issues related to

the urban environment in cities marked by or currently undergoing political,

social, and cultural transition. SMS will provide productive research and

project opportunities for young professionals in architecture and art who

are dealing with what is "missing" in their studies with regard to processes

of local urban change. Participants in SMS will explore the smooth area

among established disciplines such as architecture, art, sociology and

cultural studies to bring to light the missing phenomena of urban transition

in Belgrade, Munich, Rotterdam and Zurich.

 

Eva Sjuve

eva@moomonkey.com

Eva Sjuve, media artist, has been exhibiting in Europe, Asia, USA, South America and Australia. She started out building a local radio network in the early 80's and then moved on to Cable TV in 1985 to make interactive shows. She is now curating exhibits and developing work for public space integrating wifi, mobile phone, Internet.

 

Gregory Sholette
gsholette@artic.edu
Gregory Sholette is a NYC based artist, writer, activist and founding member of Political Art Documentation and Distribution and REPOhistory. He is currently editing the book Collectivism After Modernism with UC Davis art historian Blake Stimson for University of Minnesota Press.

 

Alan Sondheim

sondheim@panix.com

I was ripped out of the world. Inverse: I made a mess with the 'results.' http://www.asondheim.org/. I can't add to the texts there. What does anguish 'mean' in the face of Empire? I will not be a collaborator. Sometimes the we works in unison. I kept an image of Bikini Atoll in the midst of an explosion. I bear witness to nothing.

Rachel Stevens

Rachel_Stevens@brown.edu

Rachel Stevens is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City.

Her projects explore the intersection of art, technology, media and

materiality. Currently she is Visiting Assistant Professor in the

Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and has also

taught at RISD and the New School. In 2001-2002 she was Associate

Curator at Creative Time in NYC.

Termite TV Collective

info@termite.org

Dorothea Braemer, Meg Knowles, Mike Kuetemeyer, Carl Lee, Anula Shetty. Founded in 1992, Termite TV is a not-for-profit video collective with members based in Philadelphia, PA and Buffalo, NY. Termite TV produces alternative programming for television, the web and screening, performance and installation venues. The mission of Termite TV is to create multi-faceted and multi-voiced works which address issues of cultural, political, and aesthetic concern." A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it moves always forward, eating its own boundaries, and likely as not, leaves nothing in its path but evidence of eager, industrious, unkempt activities" manny farber

www.termite.org

 

Paul Visco

paul@elmwoodstrip.com

Paul Visco is a UB MFA student, data artist, and adjunct instructor at

Canisius College.  Paul's most recent work, elmwoodstrip.com, focuses on

the de-globalization of the web and is an initiative using open source

languages and databases to enhance local community by allowing local people with little or no computer background to express themselves using a

click-publish format.

Kurt Weibers.
kurt@globalpointstrategies.com
Kurts experience includes working directly with top CEOs in fortune 500 companies as well as hundreds of entrepreneurs in the biotech, defense, IT, global manufacturing and sports industries; Kurts speeches and seminars are grounded in 10 years of traveling the world, interviewing workers and collaborating with managers.

 

Ricardo Miranda Zuiga

ricardo@ambriente.com

Ricardo Miranda Zuiga grew up between Nicaragua and San Francisco. Tied to a multi-disciplinary education, his bicultural background has led to work based on a twofold principle: approach communication as a creative process; and investigate how economic realities formulate not only the world we live in, but more importantly, the lives we lead.  Ricardos portfolio is available at: http://www.ambriente.com/