| 11.00 - 13.30 | De Balie, grote zaal | net.activism With: tao.ca, a collective/political content provider (Toronto) Zenon Panoussis (Amsterdam) Autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-Gruppe, communication guerilla syndicate: integration of the CDU Rop Gonggrijp (Amsterdam) Paul Garrin: name.space Matteo Pasquinelli/Luther Blissett (Italy): The XYZ of net activism Steven Kurtz/Critical Art Ensemble (Pittsburgh) Franny Armstrong (London): director of 'McLibel' documentary, on McSpotlight, McLibel and undermining multinationals
Moderation: Jo van der Spek | | | 11.00 - 13.30 | Paradiso, main hall | Tactical Education: Media Competence Shahidul Alam and Partha Sarker: director and multimedia trainer at Drik / Learn Foundation (Bangladesh), Mervin Jarman / Mongrel "National Heritage" (London): develop radical software products that scramble the assumptions of the new media industry, Ann Whitehurst (UK), campaigning artist and activist using the net, focusing on social stereotyping of disabled people., Thomas Poole (New York): Poetry Slams, using competitive street poetry developed by African Americans to raise media literacy, Olia Lialina (Moscow) web based stories, Michael Eisenmenger: Paper Tiger TV (New York) , Renee Kool (visual artist - Amsterdam) and Stefan Kunzmann (scenographer / graphic designer - Vienna) enable children to encounter culture in the primary and secondary schools of the province of Friesland, John Hopkins (non-located) Tech-no-mad artist and educator: neo-scenes occupation
Moderation: David Garcia and Eric Kluitenberg | | | 13.00 - 14.00 | Paradiso, small hall | Streaming media: workshop | Tetsuo Kogawa, (Tokyo), Rasa Smite, founder of e-lab (Riga), MauzZ and Nina Meilof (Amsterdam), Adam Hyde, Radio Qualia (Adelaide), Josephine Bosma (Amsterdam), Convex TV (Berlin) | | | 14.00 - 15.30 | De Balie, kleine zaal | Satellite workshop Ups and Downs Communication Satellites and Tactical Media (Veritas & Fantasy)
With: Raul Marroquin, MauzZ and Zoe D'Amaro (Amsterdam), DeeDee Halleck (Paper Tiger, San Diego), Deep Dish TV (New York), Diederik Bangert, Editor in Chief Europe by Satellite, Alan Fountain, Dr. Dish German satellite specialist/journalist, Vicki Gray (A2000, Amsterdam) Michiel Hegener (freelance journalist), Robert van Boeschoten (McLuhan program), Marko Peljhan (Ljudmila/insular technologies), Jed Rosenzweig (New York) artist and media activist working with satellite feeds, Rens Maas, Director of TSS-Telecom, Satellite equipment importer and operator of an European-wide amateur Satellite TV channel from Heerhugowaard (the Netherlands), Danny Puchen, satellite & tv dealer in Amsterdam with a presentation on the use of satellite dishes among members of ethnic minorities and as the main competitor of cable tv. | | | 14.00 - 16.30 | De Balie, grote zaal
(free entry) | Tactical Media Screenings
-MUMIA ABU JAMAL: JUSTICE DENIED by THOMAS FILMYER
USA 1998, 25 min.
-MICKEY MOUSE GOES TO HAITI: Walt Disney and the science of exploitation by CROWING ROOSTER
USA / Haiti 1997, 24 min.
-ZONED FOR SLAVERY: The child behind the label by CROWING ROOSTER . USA/ Honduras 1996, 24 min
-MC LIBEL: TWO WORLDS COLLIDE by FRANNY ARMSTRONG
UK 1997, 58 min | | 14.00 - 17.30 | Paradiso, main hall | Post Governmental Organisation PGO Debate
Steve Cisler/Association For Community Networking (US): U.S. Community Network groups as PGOs Kevin Dowling (UK): relationships between NGOs, mercenary armies and corporations. Adrienne van Heteren/Open Society Institute (HU): The role of NGOs in the transformation processes in Eastern Europe. Thomas Keenan (US): the politics of the NGO-movement Saskia Sassen (US): migration, global finance systems, governance and the transformations of economic and social networks in the age of electronic network technologies.
PGO Project Presentations
Richard Barbrook (London): Digital Workers Union Luchezar Boyadjiev (Sofia): Culture Board Daniel Garcia Andujar (Valencia): Art Power Database RTMark (Los Angeles): Y2K Industries Rasa Smite (Riga) and Manu Luksch (London): The Interfund Lola Chanel, Konrad Becker (Vienna), Andi Freeman (Oceania): Association of Autonomous Astronauts
Moderation: Marcia Luyten and Andreas Broeckmann | | | 16.30-18.00 | De Balie, salon | Radical Software: Critique and Practice | An open workshop with: Volker Grassmuck, mikro.org (Berlin) co-organiser of the upcoming Wizards of OS conference (Berlin, july 1999), members of Mongrel (London) and I/O/D, makers of the Webstalker browser (London), organizers of the second international Browserday (Amsterdam, May 20), and others. Moderation: Ted Byfield (New York) | | | 17.00 - 19.00 | De Balie, grote zaal | South Asia With: Shahidul Alam: photographer & director of Drik Picture Library (Dhaka, Bangladesh) Kunda Dixit: Panos South Asia / Himal (Kathmandu, Nepal) Afdhel Aziz: Freelance Journalist (Sri Lanka / London) Shudhabrata Sengupta: Independent filmmaker (New Delhi, India) Gijs Hillenius: Burma Centre the Netherlands
Moderation: Eric Kluitenberg | | | 19.00 - 21.00 | Balie, salon | V2_East/Syndicate Meeting Meeting of the Syndicate Network, the mailing list on electronic and media
art in Central and Eastern Europe | | | 21.00 | Paradiso, main hall | Tactical Education: Poetry & Motion 20.30: zaal open: DJ Soundwich
21.00: Film "Slam", presented by Emerald Beryl
22.45: Mike Ladd (30 min) performing Poet
23.10: Baby Kain Band (30 min.) Gylan Kain, original member of the Last Poets
23.40: Technopoetry: Serge van Duijnhoven, VJ Daniël Kousbroek & DJ Fat
01.00: Noodlanding: alternative dance night | | | 21.00 - 23.00 | De Balie, grote zaal
(free entry) | Tactical Media Screenings
-LA PITIE DANGEREUSE by RONY BRAUMAN and FRANCOIS
MARGOLLIN.
France 1996, 58 min.
-A PIG'S TALE by LEAH GORDON and ANNE PARISIO
UK, 1998, 52 min. | | 21.00 - 23.00 | Paradiso | Tactical Media Screenings
-SLAM: LET THE WORDS FLY by MARC LEVIN
USA, 1997/98, 98 min. | | 23.00 - 01.00 | De Balie, grote zaal | Tactical Media Screenings
-CORAJE (COURAGE) by ALBERTO CHICO DURANT
110 min , Peru, 35 mm
| | 01.00 | Paradiso, small hall | Tactical Education: Poetry & Motion
Cyberslam for Mumia: live on http://www.dds.nl/live from New York, Los Angeles, and a taco shop in San Diego. Hosted by Marty Lucas and Thomas Poole (in Amsterdam) and Papoleto Melendez (USA). | |