Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media
Submitted by carlold on Mon, 03/13/2006 - 1:59pm.
Conference and Celebration
October 19th and 20th of 2006
We know too much
about media communications technologies as instruments of social control.We don't know enough
about media technologies as instruments of civil society and cultural development.We know too much
about media discourses as, on the one hand, “popular cultureâ€Â: alienated and commodified cultural forms; and on the other, “cultural theoryâ€Â: paranoid cosmologies of hyper-rhetoric, and the ubiquitous inevitability of evil...We don't know enough
about digital media as something other than a means to an end, as “instrumental cultureâ€Â, where culture itself â€â€mainstream, alternative, underground, or otherwise is degraded to the status of tools (some hard, some soft, all ware).Hyperpolis: Really Useful Media
will provide a forum for the discussion and presentation of some positive contributions to the field, in light of these chronic imbalances. 1 Media practices whose product is an improvement in the integrity and vitality of the culture and society in which they are embedded. 2 Media practices whose processes are in and of themselves desirable.The Production of Politics Thursday October 19th 11am to 2pm
Richard Rogers Director, govcom.org, University of Amsterdam Tom Keenan Director, the Human Rights Project, Bard College Karen J. Hall Humanities postdoctoral fellow, Syracuse University Atopia (Jane Harrison and David Turnbull) Urban research and design office, New YorkThe Art of Work in the Age of Post-production Thursday October 19th 3pm to 6pm
Rev. Luke Murphy Artist, VP of Technology, MTV Networks Greg Van Alstyne Senior research associate, Beal Centre for Strategic Creativity, Ontario College of Art & Design Ruth Ron Architect and new media artist, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of FloridaBlogging: around the table Friday October 20th 11am to 2pm
Jodi Dean Teaches political theory at Hobart-William Smith colleges and maintains jdeanicite.typepad.com Geert Lovink Media theorist and activist, University of Amsterdam McKenzie Wark Author of the Hacker Manifesto and teaches media studies at Lang College, the New School Steven Shaviro DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State UniversityThe Politics of Production Friday October 20th 3pm to 6pm
Michael Liegl Ethnographer, University of Munich Eric Redlinger Musician, network administrator, member of Share collective, New York-Montreal-San Diego-Wiesbaden Michael J. Schumacher Composer, performer, director of Diapason sound gallery, New York Katherine Carl Co-director, the School of Missing Studies, New York-Sarajevo