ART ACTIVISM + TECHNOLOGY IN THE AGE OF CORPORATE GLOBALISM

Afternoon Seminar
Tuesday, April 9 at 1 PM

Location:
Name.Space Lab
11 East 4th Street 2nd Floor (2F)
New York, NY 10003
between broadway/lafayette sts.
R train to 8th and Broadway, 6 train to Astor Place or Bleecker Street

Presented by:
Jim Costanzo of Repo History
instructor at Parsons School of Design

Deconstructing Media:
Art, Perception and Society

Works by Paul Garrin:
Video Revolution to Internet Liberation, 1985-2002

Artist, Activist and Media Pioneer Paul Garrin will screen his video works and art installation documentation, and discuss his explorations of the politics and practices of media technology, art, surveillance, public and private space, ownership and access to media and the liberation of the infosphere through art, activism and practice.

Admission is free to Parsons students with ID
all others admission is $3

RSVP: events@freethemedia.org
seating limited! so reserve!

More info on Free.The.Media!:
http://FreeTheMedia.org

More info on Paul Garrin:
http://pg.mediafilter.org

More info on Repo History:
http://repohistory.org

HELP STOP ICANN's plan to disenfranchise the Public from self determination on the internet.

JOIN FREE.THE.MEDIA! and support our campaign to build virtual communities and restore democracy and public space to the internet!

Listen to the archive from the radio broadcast from 02.27.02:
WBAI 99.5 FM NYC, Bill Weinberg host,with John Perry Barlow, Paul Garrin, Cristine Wang
discuss the issues of Media Democracy vs. Corporate Fascism

How can we bring an end to corporate and government domination of media and access? What can we do to create a democratic and sustainable space in a privately owned media infrastructure?

Who are the corporations and state agencies that own, control, surveil, the media infrastructure and set the rules that govern it? What are the barriers to entry for creating a publicly managed media space? How can these barriers be overcome to create a fair and democratic digital commons?

Who is ICANN? Are they the 'WTO of the Internet'? How do they threaten individual freedoms in cyberspace? Who has the real authority over the Internet and how did they get it? How can we define public space in a privately owned physical world?

Listen to a dialogue about these issues and more with cyberspace pioneer John Perry Barlow, founder of Name.Space and Free.The.Media! Paul Garrin, co-founder of FREE.THE.MEDIA!, Cristine Wang, and Warcry of the Information Liberation Front on WBAI 99.5 FM NY.

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