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Upgrade! NY: Improperly Named

Event Type: Conference
Time: May 10, 2010 (7:00-9:00PM)
Venue: Eyebeam
540 West 21st Street
New York, NY 10011
Panelists:
Marco Deseriis (Doctoral candidate, New York University)
Leonidas Martin Saura (Artist and professor, [...]

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Book Launch: Critical Strategies in Art & Media

When: April 15, 6:30-8:30pm
Where: New School University
Vera List Center (Wollman Hall)
65 West 11th Street
New York, NY
Brief introductory remarks by Steve Kurtz (Critical Art Ensemble) Marco Deseriis, (New York University), Beka Economopulous (Not An Alternative), McKenzie Wark (New School), Andy Bichlbaum (The Yes Men), Gabriella Coleman (New York University), Konrad Becker (World-Information Institute).
Moderators: Ted Byfield (New [...]

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Radars & Fences III: Borders, Affect, Space

Event Time
Friday, March 12, 2010
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location
Institute for Public Knowledge
20, Cooper Square – 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003
RSVP at http://www.nyu.edu/media.culture/events/event.html?e_id=2324
Web site: http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/md1445/rf/
Description
A symposium with Ricardo Dominguez & Amy Carroll, Teddy Cruz, Helga Tawil Souri, Laila el Haddad & Mushon Zer-Aviv.
Radars and Fences 2010 explores the production of the Israel/Palestine and Mexico/US borders, examining [...]

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Wu Ming Presents Manituana

This Friday I will be introducing Wu Ming @ BlueStockings!
Date:
Friday, November 20, 2009
7:00pm
Location:
BlueStockings
172 Allen St
New York, NY
Wu Ming is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors, “a band of guerrilla novelists” whom have collaboratively written several novels, including 54 (2002), Manituana (2009), and, under the pseudonym of Luther Blissett, Q (1999).

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FCF’s Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge

The Free Culture Forum which met in Barcelona on Oct 29-Nov 1, 2009 has elaborated a Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge which is worth reading, circulating, and discussing.

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Critical Strategies in Art and Media

Roundtable conference of digital theorists and practitioners on the future
of cultural intelligence and freedoms
With:
Ted Byfield, Steve Kurtz, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Claire
Pentecost, Peter Lamborn Wilson
Moderators:
Konrad Becker/World-Information Institute
Jim Fleming /Autonomedia
Location:
Austrian Cultural Forum (ACF)
11 East 52nd St
New York, NY 10022
http://www.acfny.org
Date & Time:
September 10, 2009
1:30-6:30pm   7:00-9:00pm
Admission is free!

http://world-information.org/wii

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Connective Mutations: Autonomy & Subjectivation in the Coming Century

SEPTEMBER 3-6, 2 0 0 9
A seminar with Franco Berardi “Bifo” organized by 16beaver group, autonomedia, and minor compositions.
http://www.16beavergroup.org/bifo/
We are pleased to invite you to participate in a seminar with Franco Berardi (aka Bifo) this September at 16Beaver. Tentatively titled Connective Mutations: Autonomy & Subjectivation in the Coming Century, Bifo has suggested that we [...]

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Picture the Homeless Tent City

On July 23, 2009 Brooklyn-based art&activism collective Not An Alternative and Picture The Homeless, an organization founded and led by homeless people in New York City, teamed up to occupy a vacant lot in East Harlem owned by JPMorgan Chase.
Here is a New York Times article telling the story of the action, and here is [...]

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Video of Bifo / MacKenzie Wark Event

Two weeks ago I have introduced this brilliant conversation between Italian philosopher Franco Berardi Bifo and Australian-American new media theorist McKenzie Wark (see announcement in the previous post).
Bifo begins with the experience of Radio Alice, to touch on cognitive labor (what he calls the “cognitariat”), the capitalist exploitation and ‘pathologization’ of the human soul (understood [...]

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Of the Danger of Love, Refusal of Work, and the Beauty of Autonomy

-Proliferating and losing oneself. This was the sense of the collective enterprise that the movement was attempting in Italy at the time. –Franco Berardi

Please join The Change You Want To See Gallery for a conversation with renowned philosopher, media activist and cultural agitator Franco Berardi (aka Bifo) and media theorist MacKenzie Wark, author of [...]

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