Come to Melbourne, Australia on Thursday 12th July for the Launch. The
Media Circus 2001 will happen on the Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th on
July 2001.
Media Circus is a gathering of people who create, consume, critique
and distribute media content that challenges, questions, expresses and
celebrates our culture, our society and the way we live.
The event features a variety of participants including DJ Toupee, Geert
Lovink, Jason Gibson, Lachlan Musicman, Leanne Minshull, MC Heroine,
Naomi Klein, Nicole Biftek, PhucItUp, Scott Mcquire and many others...
But the most important participant is YOU, so we'd love to see you here
in Melbourne.
The program guide (which is still morphing) is available from www.antimedia.net/mediacircus/
- check it out for full details.
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Here's the full about text below:
Media Circus is a gathering of people who create, consume, critique
and distribute media content that challenges, questions, expresses and
celebrates our culture, our society and the way we live.
The media is everywhere. Deals, ideas, ideology, websites, porn, breaking
news, films, ideas, positions vacant, knowledge, technologies. It's all
around us. Just as we tend not to think about where milk comes from, we
can forget to interrogate the processes through which media is made.
Homogenised and pasterised or non-genetically-modified? It's all
mediated.
There is little doubt that the large media corporations with their
diverse interests exert an overwhelming amount of influence and control
over the way our world works. This is reflected upon and critiqued by
academics and others in privileged ghettos, but this detail is often
contained inside their sanctioned structures.
We know from our direct experience that the media manipulates and
distorts reality, that it misrepresents and influences priorities and
that it disempowers and attempts to confuse us with choices we do not ask
for. And we know that the media should belong to us, the public, and not
to a handful of transnational corporations.
The Media Circus will include a broad group of people to develop networks
and share and exchange information, knowledge, skills and tactics. We
need to reclaim the media space and continue fostering a bottom-up media
culture which will break us free from the illusions which attack and
prototype us every day.
We need to tell our own stories and what better place to empower
ourselves than at the Circus. For the event to be a success, it is
essential that the audience-presenter boundaries are broken. Everyone is
a participant.
The Media Circus was first held in Melbourne in September 1999. See the
webbed archive.
Media Circus 2001 will be happening in Melbourne on the 12th, 14th and
15th July. 2001, and will be comprised of screenings, discussions, forums
and exchanges. The days will be packed, but there will be spaces for
autonomous gatherings and networking.
It is hoped that this event will help create an origin from where more
Media Circus events can be held to continue the development of a media
culture in Melbourne and other networked locations.
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The criteria are fairly clear: a "rogue state" is
not simply a criminal state, but one that
defies the orders of the powerful who are,
of course, exempt. (Chomsky)