ART ACTIVISM + TECHNOLOGY IN THE AGE OF CORPORATE GLOBALISM is presented by Independent New Media curator & critic CRISTINE WANG whose curatorial work is included in the Whitney Museum's Artport website (organized by Christiane Paul), she is contributing editor of Ny Arts Magazine and a curator of new media at The Alternative Museum.

The schedule is:
5:00-6:30 PM - Refreshments

6:30-8:30 PM - Panel and Discussion
"STRATEGIES FOR ACCESS + MEDIA AUTONOMY IN THE DIGITAL AGE"

EDUARDO KAC (Remote Panelist)
a pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web '80s, he shocked the world with his "transgenic art"--first with a groundbreaking net installation entitled Genesis (1999), which included an "artist's gene" he invented, and then with his fluorescent rabbit called Alba (2000). He is professor at the Art Institute of Chicago; his work is included in the permanent collection of MoMA, NY. He is represented by Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago.

GEERT LOVINK (Remote Panelist)
is an independant media theorist and net critic, based in Sydney, who asks in "Current Media Pragmatism Some Notes on the'Cyber-economy'": "What are 'new media'?Especially what is there beyond the hype inherent to their embryonic state? Where stands media theory now that the age of speculation is behind us? What is interaction beyond the fascination of demo design? Game over, next player? Will the developers of the early media architectures slip back into mainstream-as-usual? Or will they display a modicum of 'civil courage' and reinvent the notion of underground once again?"

JOHN PERRY BARLOW
is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May of 1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society,following a term as a Fellow with the Institute of Politics at Harvard's John F.Kennedy School of Government.

SASKIA SASSEN
is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She is currently completing herforthcoming book "Denationalization : Economy and Polity in a Global Digital Age"(Princeton University Press 2003). Her books have been translated into ten languages. She is co-director of the Economy Section of the Global Chicago Project, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel, a Member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and Chair of the newly formed Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security Committee of the SSRC. (http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/sassen/)

PAUL GARRIN
is a media artist and founder of Name.Space. His works over the past 20 years encompass a full spectrum of analog and digital media from video to the Internet, exploring media and the social impact of technology on society, and issues of media access, free speech, and public/private space. For over 15 years he collaborated w/ video artist Nam June Paik (emerging as one of his most important collaborators). He has received the coveted Prix Ars Electronica, and awarded the Cooper Union's Presidential Alumni Citation for outstanding attainments and contributions to his profession.

9-9:30PM: Theatrical Performances :
FRANK MORALES + SINISTER FORCES
9:30-10PM Sound Performances :
WALTER STEDING
avant-garde violinist, who has played with Robert Fripp, Chris Stein, King Crimson will be doing a sound performance.
DAVID SCHMIDLAPP
Experimental filmmaker
10-10:30PM SOUND PERFORMANCE
YASUNAO TONE
A sound artist whose work is distinguished by conversion of text into music via images with analog(Molecular Music) and digital (Musica Iconologos) means and text generated by music (Lyrictron), also with critique of medium in use(Music for 2CD Players and Solo for Wounded CD ). His work has been seen in: Bitstreams, a digital art show at Whitney Museum of American Art,New York Pulse, a performance at Whitney Museum Midtown, New York Performance with Rassell Haswell and Autechre at Bowery Ball Room Jujikan, Japanese Music, San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art, San Francisco Yokohama Triennale 2001, September- November , Yokohama Mutations, TN Probe, Tokyo Do it, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.

13:30-11PM THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE + VIDEO PROJECTIONS
RICARDO DOMINGUEZ has been on the forefront of artistic internet activism since 1997. With Electronic Disturbance Theater, he has created several original and collaborative digital media works, including eToys vs. Etoy in collaboration with rtMark.com, and bbs.thing.net, Mayan Technologies with Diane Ludin, and Artificial Geographic: Fakeshop Worker. His work has been supported by Franklin Furnace, The ARS Electronica Festival in Austria, and Pseudo.com, among others. From 1998-2000 he was senior editor at The Thing.

DIANE LUDIN obsesses over the shifting representations of biotech and informatic labor by playing with the temporal output of these industries as counter cultural reflections. Collaborative performances and broadcasts with The Electronic Disturbance Theater, Fakeshop, Ricardo Dominguez, Francesca da Rimini and Prema Murthy. Her net_works have been commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Franklin Furnace, Turbulence.org, and was a World Views artist in Residence. ("http://www.thing.net/~diane")

11:30pm-12 midnite: SOUND PERFORMANCE:
o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi)
Sound artist, composer, [electroluxe] schemer, o.blaat (keiko uenishi) is known for creating site specific interactive audio environments. Lately, she has been exploring powerbook's mobility, traveling throughout europe for performing in concerts and festivals. Tonite, you'll experience a compact version.

12 midnite: Video Projections by:
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI + MICHAEL GRIMM
(francesca da rimini, aka Doll Yoko, Gashgirl, a member of the australian art collective "VNS Matrix", who wrote the First Cyberfeminist Manifesto; her works have been shown at Ars Electronica, Museo Nacional, Madrid and is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, The Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldneburg Germany, The Generali Foundation - Vienna Austria. Her writings "Fleshmeat" have been included in Random House publication, Mute.

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