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Wiretap 7.11 : i-Body: motion - ctrl - space
Nat Muller <Nathalie.Muller@skynet.be>
browserday
"transmediale" <info@transmediale.de>
OPEN SOURCE ARCHITECTURE SYMPOSIUM, Dec 1
sgp <somebody@sgp-7.net>
4 announcer / events
matthew fuller <matt@axia.demon.co.uk>
nomusic
"Radio Londres" <radiolondres@altern.org>
[BAM New Media] Three New Media Installations for BAM's Next Wave Festival
Wayne Ashley <washley@BAM.ORG>
the lev manovich down australia tour
"geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
Privacy Lecture Series - Barry Sookman, Nov. 26, 2001
Ana Viseu <ana.viseu@utoronto.ca>
First Upstarts Awards, for social entrepreneurs, winners announc ed in London.
James Cully <james@newstatesman.co.uk>
Robert Ashley live netcast
Sandra Wintner <sandra@super.tacheles.de>
Vanilla Bean tribute, WFMU-FM, Sunday, 25 November
David Mandl <dmandl@panix.com>
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:17:22 +0100
From: Nat Muller <Nathalie.Muller@skynet.be>
Subject: Wiretap 7.11 : i-Body: motion - ctrl - space
Wiretap 7.11 : i-Body: motion - ctrl - space
Sunday 25th November 2001 14.00 hours, admission: fl. 10,-
location: V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
Wiretap 7.11 'i-Body: motion - ctrl - space' focuses on how the body can
play a pivotal role within technological settings.
Navigation systems in virtual environments are increasingly becoming based
on 'motion tracking' (the registration of movement). There is quite some
experimentation with interfaces which feel more natural or direct to the
user than the traditional mouse/keyboard interface (the so-called command
interface). The quotidian activities of the body, such as walking,
breathing or the blinking of the eye, lie at the base of the research and
development of bodily-controlled interfaces.
The topic will be examined from various angles, including perception,
manipulation, control and participation.
Guests:
Andrea Polli (USA)
Is an interactive media installation and performance artist and member of
the faculty of Hunter College's Film and Media Department. She has exhibited
and lectured nationally and internationally. Her performance work with eye
and motion tracking devices has recently been shown at SIGGRAPH 2001,
Invenção in Sao Paolo Brazil, ISEA 2000 in Paris. In 2000, Polli produced
'pause', a large scale web-based public art project as an
Artist-in-Residence of the nation-wide Millennium Community Arts program.
She also produced the webcast performance project, Rapid Fire with Franklin
Furnace in New York City as part of The Future of the Present residency
program..
Yves Bernard (B)
Has an academic background in design and computer science and is a media,
producer activist, and software engineer. For the past decade he has
collaborated with artists and is very much interested in the topic of
collaborative processes between artists, engineers and art institutions. His
latest project is the installation AVATAR, in collaboration with artist
Frank Theys, which incorporates motion tracking techniques.
Tim Boykett (A/AUS)
Holds a PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science, and is founding member of
Time's Up: a Linz-based (A) laboratory for the construction of experimental
situations. . Using haptic, human scale interfaces, Time's Up's projects
such as the Hyperfitness Studio (V2, Sept 1998), Sonic Pong and SPIN immerse
the public individual in body-relevant spaces. This loop of control and
perception through the bio-mechanics of the body is one of the main arms of
research.
Bookmarks
Andrea Polli
http://www.andreapolli.com
Yves Bernard
http://www.magic.be/
http://www.imal.org/
http://www.continent-imaw.net/
Tim Boykett
http://www.timesup.org
http://www.timesup.org/Spin/index.html
Live streaming: www.v2.nl/live
More info www.v2.nl/wiretap
Concept and Producer: V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL
Rotterdam.
The Wiretap 7 series is supported by Cultural Affairs, City of Rotterdam,
Ministery of OC&W, Luna Internet, Thuiskopie fonds, Rotterdamse
Kunststichting, and American Embassy Public Affairs Office, The Hague.
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:56:41 +0100
From: "transmediale" <info@transmediale.de>
Subject: browserday
For English info, please, check: http://www.browserday.com
transmediale kooperiert mit:
Mobile Minded - Mobilgesinnt
"5. Internationaler Browserday Berlin 2001" - ein Designwettbewerb für
alternative Konzepte der mobilen Kommunikation
Um die Gestaltung alternativer Konzepte für die Nutzung des Internets und
der drahtlosen Kommunikation im 21. Jahrhundert wird es beim "5.
Internationalen Browserday Berlin 2001" am 4. Dezember ab 14.00 Uhr in der
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin gehen. Der 5. Internationale
Browserday ist eine Veranstaltung der Bundeszentrale für politische
Bildung
(http://www.bpb.de) und der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
(http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de). Sie wird realisiert von NL.Design
Amsterdam (http://www.nl-design.net) in Zusammenarbeit mit Transmediale
(http://www.transmediale.de) und De:Bug (http://www.de-bug.de) mit
Unterstützung der Niederländischen Botschaft.
>Auf Initiative der BpB findet diese Veranstaltung jetzt zum erstenmal in
Deutschland statt.
"Beim Interface-Design der Browser werden die User vergessen", konstatiert
Mieke Gerritzen, Gründerin von NL.Design, und fordert zugleich eine
Demokratisierung des gesamten drahtlosen Raumes. Sie initiierte 1998 den
ersten Browserday in Amsterdam, der vierte Wettbewerb fand im März 2001
in
New York statt.
"Diese Veranstaltung ermöglicht es, radikale Konzepte von jungen
Designern
und Künstlern einer breiten Öffentlichkeit vorzustellen und damit die
marktbeherrschenden Standards kritisch zu hinterfragen. Wir sind sehr froh,
dass wir die holländische Initiatorin dazu gewinnen konnten, den
Browserday
zum erstenmal in Deutschland zu realisieren." betont Thomas Krüger,
Präsident der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, der den 5.
Browserday
eröffnen wird.
Der Browserday bietet jungen Programmierern, Designer/innen und
Studierenden
der Bildenden Künste eine Plattform, um bestehende Standards zu
unterlaufen
und ihre Visionen einer mobilen Kommunikation für die nächste
Generation im
"Three4All-Format" vorzustellen: Jeder der 30 Finalisten hat exakt drei
Minuten Zeit, um Jury und Publikum seinen Browser-Entwurf im Format von
High
bis Low Tech zu präsentieren. Die Jury bestimmt dann den bzw. die
Gewinner/in. Die BpB wird einen Publikumspreis ausloben.
Moderator der Veranstaltung ist Prof. Willem Velthoven, HdK Berlin,
Fachbereich Experimentelle Mediengestaltung. Zur Jury gehören: Prof.
Oilia
Lialina, Merz Akademie; Prof. Claudius Lazzeroni, GH Essen; Prof. Tanja
Diezmann, Dessau, Department of Design, Hochschule Anhalt/ pReview; Prof.
Joachim Sauter, HdK Berlin; Dr. Claudia Gerdes, PAGE-Redaktion; Janine
Huizenga, De Waag-Society, Amsterdam; Alex Adriaansse, Director
V2_Orgaisation, Rotterdam.
Im Programm: 30 x 3 Minuten Wettbewerbsbeiträge der Finalisten;
Präsentationen der Browser-Wettbewerb-Gewinner der letzten Jahre; Joes
Koppers aus Amsterdam und Jonah Brucker-Cohen aus New York * "Robocup, Team
FU-Fighters": Prof. Rojas und sein Team von der FU-Berlin, Institut für
Informatik, präsentieren fussballspielende Roboter * T-Shirts by
Transmediale: "How do you go public?" * Browserparty mit DE:BUG: Music vs.
Visual (special guests from electronica - house - hiphop, u.a. mit DJ Koze
im Roten Salon)
Informationen unter: http://www.browserday.com
Kontakt:
Swantje Schütz (BpB) T 01888 - 515 519 E schuetz@bpb.bund.de
Barbara Schindler (Volksbühne) T 030 - 240 65 611 E
barbara.schindler@volksbuehne-berlin.de
nl design: browserday@nl-design.net
transmediale.02
[ go public! ]
5 - 10 february 2002
international media art festival berlin
klosterstr. 68-70
10179 berlin
germany
fon +49 30 2472 1907
fax +49 30 2472 1909
http://www.transmediale.de
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Member of the European Coordination of Film Festivals E.E.I.G.
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:24:27 -0500
From: sgp <somebody@sgp-7.net>
Subject: OPEN SOURCE ARCHITECTURE SYMPOSIUM, Dec 1
Eyebeam with The Center for New Design at Parsons School of Design
presents OPEN SOURCE ARCHITECTURE: BUILDING EYEBEAM
A Free One Day Symposium
Saturday, December 1, 2001, 9:00 am-5:00 p.m.
At New School University Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12 Street,
between 5th and 6th Avenues
As part of its architectural design competition process, Eyebeam,
www.eyebeam.org, presents this day-long symposium engaging members of
the community and practitioners from the fields of art, architecture,
museology, sociology, and philosophy in a dialogue around the themes of
new media art and architecture. To view the online forum, Open Source
Architecture: The Future Art Space, log onto
www.eyebeam.org/opensourcearchitecture.
Panelists Include:
David Alm - Critic
Andreas Angelidakis - Architect and Artist
Suzanne Anker - Artist, School of Visual Arts
Peter Awn - Professor of Comparative Religious and Islamic Studies,
Columbia University
Florent Aziosmanoff - Multimedia Author and Editor
Dan Cameron - Curator, The New Museum of Contemporary Art
George Fifield - Curator of New Media, Decordova Museum
Jean-Marc Gauthier - Artist
Frank Gillette - Artist
Pablo Helguera - Artist, Educator, Guggenheim Museum
David Hotson - Principal, David Hotson Architect
Ron Jones - Art Center College of Design
Patrick Lichty - Curator
Greg Niemeyer - Artist, Professor, University of California-Berkeley
Craig Newick - Principal, Newick Architects
Marisa Olson - Curator
Saul Ostrow - Critic
Scott Paterson - Architect, net.artist, Faculty, Parsons School of
Design
Fred Ritchin - Associate Professor of Photography and Communications,
Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Cynthia Beth Rubin - Artist
Michael Rush - Director, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art
Elizabeth Streb - Choreographer
Tucker Viemeister - Industrial Designer
Panels discussion topics include:
Redefining the Relationship between Curators & Artists
The Marriage of Real and Virtual Space
The Wired Museum in the Post-Religious Age
Building Eyebeam: A Look at 13 Designs
Eyebeam is a not-for-profit organization established to provide access,
education, and support for artists, students and the general public in
the field of art and technology. It was founded in 1996 by John S.
Johnson with the purpose of introducing broad and diverse audiences to
new technologies and media arts while simultaneously establishing new
media art as a significant genre.
The Center for New Design at Parsons School of Design's is an advanced
research lab who's mission is to shape the design agenda for the 21st
century by bringing together design, technology and business to
collaborate on innovations in technology, materials, process and
teamwork. In the past few years, the Center has worked with dozens of
industry partners on projects that combined the use of new technology
and materials in cutting-edge design applications. Projects ranged from
a nationwide advertising campaign using state-of-the-art digital
technology, to a 60 foot, outdoor sculpture in the town of Ghent,
Belgium, to children's furniture made with sustainable materials from
the rainforests of Guyana. The Center also hosts a lecture series that
fosters relationships between the design community and design students
by focusing on current issues and topics in art and design. This Fall
2001, the Center began research initiatives in four focus areas, Design
for Social Change, Entrepreneurism, Online Interaction, and Wearable
Technology. Find out more information by visiting our website at
www.parsons.edu/centernewdesign.
For more information about this event please visit
http://www2.parsons.edu/centernewdesign/events/partnerevents.htm
For more information about Eyebeam please contact: info@eyebeam.org
Eyebeam
540-548 W. 21st Street
212-937-6581
www.eyebeam.org
(Administrative Offices)
45 Main Street, 12th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-222-3982
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:15:26 +0100
From: matthew fuller <matt@axia.demon.co.uk>
Subject: 4 announcer / events
Santarchy in the UK!!!
Over the hills with the beards of a hundred Santas....
LONDON: Saturday 15th December sees the first Santacon UK and you are
invited to attend. Santacon is an event invented in the US by the
Cacophony Society and imported to these shores by Iain Aitch [Santa Two
Eyes] and Ian Lowey [Santa One Eye].
Santacon involves 100 Santas on a drunken [if you like] spree through
London. Starting in the north and working its way through the shopping
centres, bars and plazas of our city. Santacon is a celebration of being
Santa and the spirit of Xmas. It is also a social experiment, exploring
how people react to 100 Santas moving en-masse. Dirty carols will be
sung, Santas will carouse with each other and authorities will be
perplexed. Mimes will be mooned, jugglers jiggled and fire eaters fucked
with. Ho, ho, ho. Ho, ho, ho.
The evening will end with some kind of event somewhere, probably.
His/her name is Santa and he dances on the Strand
YOU are invited to be one of the 100. Santas can be of all ages, sexes
and sizes [padding optional]. The only requirement is that you dress as
Santa. Details will be forthcoming on where to score the cheapest Santa
outfit, or you can make your own. Sexy Santas, hotpant Santas and
wrestling masked Santas are all welcome. Please pass this mail on to
anyone else who you feel may want to be Santa too.
Santa has his own views on globalisation, the war and the like, but he
will not be exhibiting those during Santacon. Santacon is not a protest
or a demo, it is a works outing for the hardworking wannabe Santas
amongst us. Ho, ho, ho. Ho, ho, ho.
The Elves will not be attending, as they have overtime to do if they
want to be able to feed their families. Sorry about that.
All you need is a Santa outfit, a travelcard and a hip flask [optional].
Reply to this email to confirm your interest and sign up for details of
the when and the where.
The Santa hotline is now operational and will be available throughout
Santacon UK. Call 07949 753487. The email is santacon@hotmail.com
This number/email address can also be used by members of the press.
Please note that ALL those wishing to join Santa's happy band must wear
Santa outfits, even if you do own a Microcassette recorder.
For historic materials see:
http://www.santarchy.com
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:51:05 +0100
From: "Radio Londres" <radiolondres@altern.org>
Subject: nomusic
NOMUSIC Radio
Tue 20/11/2001
23h00 (11:00pm) > 00h00 (00:00pm)
Carl.Y & laboiteblanche
Real Time / Dual Live via Network
Fly# : http://www.noweb.org/fly/carly_laboiteblanche_nomusic.gif
connection : www.nomusic.org
GMT+1 french time
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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:19:54 -0500
From: Wayne Ashley <washley@BAM.ORG>
Subject: [BAM New Media] Three New Media Installations for BAM's Next Wave Festival
To extend its long-standing interest in breaking down the boundaries
separating disciplinary genres, BAM created a unique artist-in-residence
program last year in conjunction with Lucent Technologies, which paired
three artists working in new media and communications technology with
scientists at Bell Labs. BAM is proud to share with you and your guest the
result of this synergy of art and science. These projects have been
generously supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and the New York State
Council on the Arts.
We would love to have you and your guest join us as we discuss these
exciting projects with their creators on the dates listed below. Following
each discussion we will serve light refreshments, and you will have the
opportunity to view the installations.
Trace
Wednesday, November 28 at 8pm
Discussion with Paul Kaiser and Nicolas Tsingos
In a specially designed and sonically controlled room, audio scientist
Nicolas Tsingos and digital artist Paul Kaiser explore the disembodied
"traces" we leave within ourselves and in others, ranging across time and
distance. Discussion moderated by ABC News special correspondent Robert
Krulwich. The installation can be viewed from 6pm to 10pm.
Please RSVP to BAM Patron Services 718.636.4182 by Friday, November 23, to
reserve your seats.
Virtual Actor
Wednesday, December 5 at 8pm
Discussion with John Jesurun and Kit August
Theater director John Jesurun and Bell Labs researchers Kit August discuss
their collaborative efforts in producing Jesurun's multimedia performance
Snow. The piece deployed multi-screen video projections, four actors, and a
"Virtual Actor" robotic camera to investigate received assumptions about
point-of-view, narrative structure, privacy, and surveillance. Moderated by
Norman Frisch, Director of Performing Arts at Snug Harbor Cultural Center.
Please RSVP to BAM Patron Services 718.636.4182 by Friday, November 30, to
reserve your seats.
Listening Post
Wednesday, December 12 at 8pm
Discussion with Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen
What does the collective voice of the internet sound like? Listening Post
gives voice to this vast, silent world, transforming collective online
activity and communication into a multi-layered sound installation.
Moderated by John Chambers of Bell Laboratories. The installation can be
viewed from 6pm to 10pm.
Please RSVP to BAM Patron Services 718.636.4182 by Friday, December 7, to
reserve your seats.
We look forward to greeting you at BAM as we move forward with another
exciting realm of art presentation.
Wayne Ashley
________________________
Wayne Ashley, Ph.D.
Manager of New Media
BAM
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11217
http://www.bam.org
Tel: 718-636-4107
Fax: 718-789-6160
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 19:18:02 +1100
From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
Subject: the lev manovich down australia tour
MORPHOLOGIES: a Symposium on Shape-Shifting and Media Arts
With Lev Manovich, Jeffrey Shaw, Michele Barker, Ross Gibson and Kate
Richards
When Michael Jackson first 'morphed' into an animal using digital software
he seemed to signal that the instability of physical form and shape had
been incorporated into the popular visual imaginary. But shape shifting
has become a regular feature of the contemporary mutating mediascape, as
forms multiply and transmogrify at an exponential rate. Yet the
morphogenic development of new media, from cinema to virtual and immersive
space, CD-ROM to DVDROM, interactive art to net art, has not moved in a
clear direction, erasing older media in its wake. Instead we have a new
ecology of the media arts in which forms overlap, contribute to and mutate
into each other. This symposium focusses on this altered mediascape and
focusses our attention on its aesthetic, physical and biological
implications.
Morphologies is convened by the College of Fine Arts, Artspace and Ivan
Dougherty Gallery with the assistance of the Goethe Institute.
When: 2-5pm, Friday November 23, 2001
Where: Main Lecture Theatre, EG02
College of Fine Arts,
Selwyn st
Paddington
Cost: $25 or $17 concession (GST Inclusive)
Registration inquiries:
Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Hours: 10am-5pm, Monday-Friday, 1pm-5pm, Saturday
Phone: 9385 0726
Fax: 9385 0603
Email: idg@unsw.edu.au
- ---
The Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at College of Fine Arts,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, in conjunction with Cinemedia /
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, Australia, and ZKM
Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany present
(dis)LOCATIONS
a two-day symposium, with keynote speakers Lev Manovich (at Cinemedia at
Treasury Theatre, East Melbourne) and Peter Weibel (at ZKM, Karlsruhe, in
discussion via video conference).
The effects of the rapid uptake and convergence of new media technologies
are felt and experienced by populations and individuals at the level of
virtual and actual senses of dislocation. Fragmentation of 'community',
urbanisation and the collapse of locale, the erosion of the private spaces
of the sexual and the familial, all have emerged as themes attributable to
the restructuring and divergent flows of new information mediascapes.
(dis)LOCATIONS will address the relation of new media technologies to
emerging and established aesthetics, media forms and their cultural milieus,
over an exciting two day conference.
A limited edition DVD-ROM + book, (dis)LOCATIONS - with work by Dennis Del
Favero, Agnes Hegedues, Ian
Howard, Susan Norrie, Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel - will be launched by
Jeffrey Shaw at the symposium, and also will be on sale for the special
price of $80 (incl gst; RRP $110 incl gst).
Friday 30 November and Saturday 1 December 2001
Cinemedia at Treasury Theatre, Lower Plaza
1 Macarthur Street, East Melbourne,
Australia
cost register by Wed 21 Nov: full $80, concession $25
register after Wed 21 Nov: full $90, concession $35
please note: id required for concession rates
registration enquiries
Megan Cook, College of Fine Arts UNSW
tel (02) 9385 0674 ... fax (02) 9385 0852
email megan.cook@cofa.unsw.edu.au
registration form available online at
www.icinema.unsw.edu.au/exhibitions/dis-locations/dL-conference/registration
.html
symposium enquiries
Charlotte Crichton, Cinemedia
tel (03) 9651 0600 ... fax (03) 9651 1488
email ccrichton@cinemedia.net
PROGRAM
Friday 30 November
5.00 - 5.30pm registration
5.30 - 6.00pm launch of the new DVD-ROM + book (dis)LOCATIONS
in the foyer of Treasury Theatre, introduced
by Jeffrey Shaw,
Director of Visual Media Institute, ZKM,
Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
6.15 - 6.30pm welcome + introduction
Ross Gibson, Creative Director, Australian
Centre for the Moving Image
6:30 - 7.15pm Post-Media Aesthetics
Assistant Professor Lev Manovich, Visual
Arts Department,
University of California, San Diego, USA
7.15 - 8.00pm The Future of Cinema
Peter Weibel, Chairman and CEO of ZKM,
Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
8.00 - 8.30pm discussion
Saturday 1 December
10.00 - 10.30am registration
10.30 - 11.30am Opaque Melodies that Would Bug Most People: A Short
History of Dislocation in Six Tracks
Darren Tofts, Chair, Media and Communications, Swinburne University of
Technology
11.30am - 12.30pm Notes on Memory, Narrative and New Media
Jill Bennett, Senior Lecturer, School of Art History and Theory, College of
Fine Arts UNSW
12.30 - 1.30pm lunch not included in registration fee
1.30 - 2.30pm Net Affects: Dislocating Shock in Networked Culture
Anna Munster, Lecturer in Digital Media Theory, School of Art History and
Theory, College of Fine Arts UNSW
2.30 - 3.30pm The Art of Friction
Charles Green, Senior Lecturer, School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and
Archaeology, University of Melbourne
3.30 - 4.00pm tea / coffee break
4.00 - 5.00pm The World Turned Upside Down
James Donald, Professor of Media, Curtin University of Technology
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Cinemedia gratefully acknowledges the Goethe-Institut Inter
Nationes, Melbourne, for its support of (dis)LOCATIONS. Cinemedia, COFA UNSW
and ZKM thank the participating speakers and artists. Thanks also to Open
Channel.
Cinemedia's Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Federation
Square, Melbourne, is scheduled to open mid 2002. ACMI will be the premier
national exhibition and discussion center for the screen-based arts.
Cinemedia <www.cinemedia.net >, Centre for Interactive Cinema Research <
www.icinema.unsw.edu.au >, ZKM Centre for Art and Media < www.zkm.de >.
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 22:49:58 -0500
From: Ana Viseu <ana.viseu@utoronto.ca>
Subject: Privacy Lecture Series - Barry Sookman, Nov. 26, 2001
[David Lyon's paper is now online and can be found here:
<http://privacy.openflows.org/lyon_paper.html>. Best. ana]
PRIVACY LECTURE SERIES
<http://privacy.openflows.org>
BARRY SOOKMAN
PERSONAL INFORMATION : WHAT IS IT REALLY?
Monday, November 26, 2001
6:00-7:30PM
140 St. George, Room 728
Faculty of Information Studies (building adjacent to Robarts Library)
University of Toronto
The lectures are free of charge and you do NOT have to register.
Abstract:
Privacy is often described as the right to control to whom, how, where and
when one's personal information is disclosed. What this personal
information is and how it should be defined, however, is often at odds. Is
an opinion or a work product personal information? Should employee
monitoring be considered as a trespass of personal information? Under what
situations is one's identity public? How do we equate the right to security
with that of control of one's personal information? In this talk, Barry
Sookman will tackle these issues from a legal framework, offering a
critical perspective on the issue of personal information, its limitations
and affordances.
Bio:
Barry B. Sookman is a partner with McCarthy Tétrault and head of its
Internet and Electronic Commerce Group in Toronto. He is one of Canada's
foremost authorities in the area of Information Technology Law and is the
author of the three volume text entitled Sookman: Computer Law: Acquiring
and Protecting Information Technology (1989-1999) and the four volume text
Sookman: Computer, Internet and Electronic Commerce Law. He also lectures
and writes extensively on legal issues related to computer, electronic
commerce and Internet law.
Mr. Sookman is a member of the Joint Copyright Committee of the Canadian
Bar Association and Patent Trademark Institute of Canada (PTIC). Mr.
Sookman is a past chairman of the Canadian Bar Association - Computer and
Computer-Related Technology section. He is a member of the Association
Litteraire et Artistique Internationale and the Computer Law Association.
Mr. Sookman is a Director of the Canadian IT Law Association. He is also a
member of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Centre for Innovation's
Advisory Board.
To register for the Privacy Lecture Series announcement email list please
go to <http://privacy.openflows.org>
The Privacy Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Knowledge Media Design
Institute (KMDI) <http://www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/> and the Information Policy
Research Program (IPRP) <http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/>
The Privacy Lecture Series is organized by:
Ana Viseu, a researcher currently working at the University of Toronto on
her Ph.D. dissertation which focuses on the development and implementation
of wearable computers. Her research interests include questions of privacy,
social dimensions of technology, and the mutual adaptation processes
between individuals and technology. Ana holds a Master's Degree in
Interactive Communication from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona,
Spain. <http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~aviseu>
Robert Guerra who is currently establishing a new NGO whose mission will be
to offer technological education and supopprt in privacy and security
technology to Human Rights Organizations. He is also one of the Directors
of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR).
For more info contact:
Ana Viseu <ana.viseu@utoronto.ca>
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:53:39 -0000
From: James Cully <james@newstatesman.co.uk>
Subject: First Upstarts Awards, for social entrepreneurs, winners announc ed in London.
15 November, 2001
Upstarts Awards www.upstarts.org.uk winners take £50,000 for their social
businesses.
The first New Statesman-Centrica Upstarts Awards for UK Social Entrepreneurs
winners were announced in London today by Douglas Alexander MP, Minister of
State at the DTI. The Minister presented three winners with cheques worth
£15,000 and the fourth with £5,000 towards research and development. The
winners come from Ellesmere Port, West Mersea, Essex, London and Haverford
West, West Wales.
In the opinion of the Judges, the winners clearly demonstrated creative
solutions to challenges in their communities, in very different but
innovative ways but with the similar attitude, sense of purpose, energy and
self-belief. The Judges also believe that all the winning ideas could and
should be rolled out regionally and nationally.
The four Upstarts Awards winners are:
1. Hywel Davies, the Asylum Project, Haverfordwest, West Wales.
Hywel Davies is the key person in the ambitious development called the
Asylum Project in Haverfordwest, West Wales. The site is a former Victorian
mental hospital, hence the name.
The project aims to redevelop the site into a major social enterprise hub
for the area and region. Within the physical structure, plans are advanced
to develop a Cyber Café and Asylum Gallery which will house the art of
cartoonist and political satirist, Ralph Steadman.
Voluntary organisations from the region will move into the building to
create a fertile base allowing them to focus their expertise and energies to
create entirely new initiatives.
Hywel Davies receives £15,000.
01437 769266 or 01558 824012 (Office) 0787 089 0642 (Mobile)
2. Paul Harrod and Mark Richardson of Aspire, London
Aspire is an expanding social business that creates full time employment for
homeless and other excluded people. Aspire seeks innovative solutions to
ingrained social problems.
The business delivers Fair Trade catalogues to over 1 million UK homes.
Employees deliver and collect orders for which they are paid over £150 per
week. Started in 1998 by Paul and Mark, within its first trading year Aspire
had achieved sales worth over £100,000 and had created jobs for 16 people.
In the longer term, Aspire aims to become a fully self supporting business
through the establishment of new 'branches' in other major UK cities. Other
projects being planned are the development of an e-commerce website to sell
goods from UK community groups.
Paul Harrod and Mark Richardson receive £15,000.
Office (020 7261 9797) Mobile (0771 3231414)
3. Merlin Matthews of Re~Cycle, West Mersea, Essex
Merlin, aka Dr Bike, plans to develop Re~Cycle, his bicycle recycling
business. He takes bikes from organisations such as the Post Office,
services them and then ships them to countries where they are in short
supply and where large sections of the population have no option but to walk
long distances. Re~Cycle also trains local people to service their own
bikes.
The aim is to develop a small existing business into a medium sized one
over the next 18 months. A Board of Trustees has been appointed recently to
see this plan through.
Merlin is currently studying at the School for Social Entrepreneurs.
01206 382207 (Home) 0797 0731530 (Mobile)
Merlin Matthews receives £15,000.
4. Suzanne Iuppa of Roots 'n Boots Local Food Initiative Ltd, Ellesmere
Port.
Based in the Ellesmere Port area, Suzanne has developed a local food
initiative through into a thriving social enterprise with plans for a retail
café outlet.
The project grows and sells food locally on allotments using volunteers and
horticultural students. NVQ training is provided to volunteers.
Aimed at local youth, the cafe will retail the locally produced food.
Research has been conducted into what type of healthy foods will appeal to
this age group.
Suzanne Iuppa receives £5,000 toward further research and development.
0151 3734333 or 07944 530285 (Office)
The four winners are outstanding examples of innovative, dedicated social
entrepreneurship selected from the nearly 200 detailed entries read by the
Upstarts Judges who included Andrew Mawson OBE, Director of CAN; Paul
Boateng MP, David Willetts MP; Vincent Cable MP and Charlie Leadbeater.
The Upstarts Awards are sponsored by Centrica and hosted by New Statesman.
More background including Judges details, rules and judging criteria
available here: www.upstarts.org.uk
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Notes to editors:
Winners available for interview noon on the 15th.
Jpegs available at the same time.
Launched last November by Lord Falconer, the Upstarts Awards are the first
national awards to focus exclusively on social entrepreneurs and social
enterprise.
Almost 200 entries were received through the website from all parts of the
UK. Ideas ranged from credit unions; emergency childcare services; street
signposting for the blind; translation and consultancy services for ethnic
minorities; wood recycling businesses and community TV services.
The Upstarts Awards illustrate that the UK is rich in creative approaches to
solving engrained social exclusion challenges.
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Contact:
James Cully
New Statesman
020 7592 3605
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:24:00 +0100 (CET)
From: Sandra Wintner <sandra@super.tacheles.de>
Subject: Robert Ashley live netcast
On Friday, November 16, 2001, 8 PM PST Western Front Music presents:
Empire and Au pair
by Robert Ashley
live netcast at www.front.bc.ca
Singers: Jacqueline Humbert and Robert Ashley
Live mixing and sound processing: Tom Hamilton
Robert Ashley is known for his work in new forms of opera and
interdisciplinary projects. Ashley wrote and
produced Perfect Lives, an opera for television widely
considered to be the precursor of music-telvision.
Staged versions of Perfect Lives and Atalanta (Acts of
God) and the monumental tetrology Now Eleanors
Idea have toured throughout Europe, Asia, and the United
States.
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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 13:15:15 -0500 (EST)
From: David Mandl <dmandl@panix.com>
Subject: Vanilla Bean tribute, WFMU-FM, Sunday, 25 November
On Sunday, November 25, WFMU will air a tribute to Frank Balesteri,
aka "the Vanilla Bean," who sadly passed away on November 3.
The Bean, who was a fixture at the station from 1981 to 1998, was one
of the most talented personalities ever to grace WFMU's airwaves. He
had an encyclopedic knowledge of music, and was side-splittingly
funny. His insane on-air antics inspired literally dozens of people
to do radio at FMU. He was also suspended on numerous occasions by at
least three different program directors for a wide variety of
infractions, including calling a phone-sex line live on the air.
Sunday's broadcast will be a collection of the best moments from "The
Price Is Beans," a weekly show Frank collaborated on with Jim Price in
the mid-'90s. Tune in and hear freeform radio at its absolute finest.
When: Sunday, November 25, 10 p.m.-midnight (Eastern time)
Where: WFMU-FM, 91.1 in the NYC area; live on the web at www.wfmu.org
--Dave.
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Dave Mandl
dmandl@panix.com
davem@wfmu.org
http://www.wfmu.org/~davem
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