CORNERHOUSE - MANCHESTER
28_29 OCTOBER 2005
Conference on art, activism, technology and the future of independent media
You are invited to join artists, activists, theorists,
experienced media practitioners and pioneers for two
days of presentations, discussions, screenings and
public debates on potential futures for the developing
independent and alternative media movement.
Speakers include Agnese Trocchi (Candida TV;
Telestreet, Rome), Pit Schultz (Bootlab, Berlin), Ali
Tonak (San Francisco Independent Media Center), Seda
Guerses (De-Center Berlin), Simon Sheikh (TV-TV,
Copenhagen), Emma Hedditch (andiwilldo.net), Mick Fuzz
(BeyondTV, Undercurrents, Manchester IMC), Micz Flor
(Center for Advanced Media Prague; radio networking in
Indonesia and Nepal), Saul Albert (University of
Openess, London), Bjoernstjerne Christiansen
(Superchannel; Superflex, Copenhagen). See below for
bios of participants.
The conference will be streamed and archived online via
Conference Programme:
Friday 28th
11.00 - Current models and future
possibilities for independent media production and
distribution
How well do the existing models work,
technologically,artistically, economically,
politically? How can or should they develop or change?
The panel will present projects, set themes and ask
questions that will be returned to throughout the
weekend.
14.30
Open session
15.00 - Camcorder aesthetics and the articulation of protest:
debating issues of representation and ideology in art& activism.
Whom do we speak for? Whose interests does our action
ultimately serve? This panel will present and discuss
different approaches to issues of art and propaganda,
activism and representation.
Saturday 29th
11.00 -
Virtual spaces, real networks: what can or should
differentiate new, independent media systems from the
mass media we already have?
Do you serve a community or build an audience? Who are
these networks for? Do they really constitute a new
space for action?
14.30
Open session
15.00 -
What is independence? Exploring the political economy
of knowledge production and distribution
In this final session the panel will ask what
independence might be in theory and make suggestions
on how to work towards it in practice, basing the
discussion in their own varied experiences.
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