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Please Post
"sarah muir" <cootermuir@hotmail.com>
Jerry Brown to Deliver Third Annual Fordham U. McLuhan Lecture
STRATE@FORDHAM.EDU
Interference @ Lux 15th Feb 2001 [ko]
Hemanth Rao <training@lux.org.uk>
schedule: symposion on art & censorship in vienna
"f," <ft@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at>
Announcement: Netsong - The Voice of the Web
Amy Alexander <plagiari@plagiarist.org>
CALL FOR ENTRIES - LITE SHOW - APRIL IN BOSTON
"Diane Greco" <dgreco@eastgate.com>
office/gallery (exhibit) 2/12 to 4/13
officegallery <office_gallery@yahoo.com>
Sarai Opening Program
"geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
Analyzing the Human Genome
orit <ohalpern@fas.harvard.edu>
The INDEPENDENT ART SCHOOL / MODELS OF PRACTICE
matthew fuller <matt@axia.demon.co.uk>
new member intro
"Moira Lanzona" <garbo@bisaya.ph>
Internet Governance - UPDATE
Jay Fenello <Jay@Fenello.com>
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:31:20 -0500
From: "sarah muir" <cootermuir@hotmail.com>
Subject: Please Post
Please post the announcement below on nettime. If you have any questions,
please contact me.
Thank you,
Sarah Muir
cootermuir@hotmail.com
_____________________________________-
culture.jamming@nyu
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2001
New York University
Jurow Hall, Main Building
100 Washington Square East
This one day conference explores a set of critical and activist practices
that come under the rubric of "culture jamming"– culturally subversive
anti-corporate activism oriented toward reclaiming public and virtual spaces
from the encroachments of commercial messages and sponsorship.
10:00 AM
Welcome and opening remarks
Meg McLagan
Dept. of Anthropology
10:15 AM - 12:30 PM
critical cultures, commercialized commons: detournement in the digital age
Panelists:
Carrie Moyer and Sue Schaffner (DykeActionMachine.com)
Andrew Boyd (BillionairesforBushorGore.com)
Carrie McLaren (Stayfreemagazine.com)
Moderators:
Chris Straayer (Prof., Dept. of Cinema Studies, NYU),
Paul Chan (Nationalphilistine.com, NYC-Indymedia Center)
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
rhetorics of coincidence and the art of counter-narration
Panelists:
Wendy Brawer (Greenmap.com)
William Etundi (Complacent.org)
Bill Talen (Revbilly.com)
Moderators: Anna McCarthy (Asst. Professor, Dept. of Cinema Studies, NYU),
Stephen Duncombe (Professor, Gallatin, NYU)
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Reception and performance:
Postmasters Gallery, 459 West 19th Street (at 10th Ave.), Chelsea
Introduction: Toby Miller (Professor, Dept. of Cinema Studies, NYU)
Performance: A report from the Bureau of Inverse Technology
Natalie Jeremijenko, an engineer
This conference is supported by the Center for Media, Culture, and History,
Anthropology, Center for Advanced Technology, American Studies, Cinema
Studies, Performance Studies, Technologies of Perception Faculty Colloquium,
and Center for the Study of Advanced Social Science. Organized by Meg
McLagan. For more information, 212-998-3759 or see
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/media/html/cultjamfr.html
_________________________________________________________________
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:36:13 -0500
From: STRATE@FORDHAM.EDU
Subject: Jerry Brown to Deliver Third Annual Fordham U. McLuhan Lecture
The Third Annual Marshall McLuhan Fordham University
Lecture on Understanding Media
will be given by
Mayor Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown
on Thursday, March 1st, 2001
at 6:30 PM
at the Pope Auditorium, Fordham University at Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street, at Columbus Avenue
New York, New York
The lecture is sponsored by the Canadian Consulate and
Fordham University, and is free of charge.
RSVP to (212) 596-1660. Seating will be limited, so get there early.
(Those of you who have attended the first and/or second McLuhan lectures,
please note that this one will be held in a different auditorium than the
first two.)
Lance Strate, Chair
Department of Communication and Media Studies
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
(718) 817-4864
(718) 817-4868 (fax)
strate@fordham.edu
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Date: 13 Feb 01 17:52:05 +0000
From: Hemanth Rao <training@lux.org.uk>
Subject: Interference @ Lux 15th Feb 2001 [ko]
Apologies for the subject heading of my last e mail. The event starts at 8pm, and is not happening on the 8th of February. Which means you can still make it!
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I N T E R F E R E N C E
s o u n d . n o i s e
m u s i c . a r t
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Thursday 15 February 8.00 PM Cinema At The Lux Centre
The Wire and The Lux presents INTERFERENCE A Night Of Plunderphonia. Interference looks at the art of cut ups, collage and illegal sampling and presents a rare opportunity to see Craig Baldwin's pivotal film SONIC OUTLAWS, an informal presentation on copyright issues by VICKI BENNETT, and a live performance by PEOPLE LIKE US
A Night of Plunderphonia will be presented in The Lux Centre cinema on Thursday 15 February 2001, 8pm. Tickets cost: full 6 pounds / concessions 4 pounds (Lux members 5 pounds / Lux concessions 3 pounds). You can book by phoning The Lux Centre box office on 020 7684 0201. The Lux Centre is located at 2-4 Hoxton Square, London N1 (Old Street tube: exit 2 ; 5 mins walk east).
lux . lux . lux . lux . lux . lux . lux . lux . lux . lux
Hemanth Rao . Education The Lux Centre
lux . lux . lux . lux . lux . lux . lux . lux . lux . lux
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:10:38 +0100 (CET)
From: "f," <ft@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at>
Subject: schedule: symposion on art & censorship in vienna
sorry for cross postings!
SYMPOSIUM: Der Preis der Freiheit/The Price of Liberty
Freitag, 23. Februar 2001, 18 bis 22 Uhr / Friday, 23 February 2001, 6
p.m. to 10 p.m.
Mark Terkessides (Köln)
Moderator: Helmut Draxler
Die Freiheit der Kunst und der rechte Kulturkampf / The Freedom of Art
and Right-Wing "Kulturkampf"
Matthias Herrmann (Wien)
Werner Würtinger (Wien)
Hannes Tretter (Wien)
David Casacuberta (Barcelona)
Moderatorin: Hedwig Saxenhuber
Performance
Viktor Rogy (Klagenfurt)
Samstag, 24. Februar 2001, 13 bis 16 Uhr / Saturday, 24 February 2001, 1
p.m. to 4 p.m.
Zur politischen Ökonomie von Zensur / On the Political Economy of
Censorship
Tom Holert (Köln)
Boris Buden (Wien/Zagreb)
Zarana Papic (Beograd)
Moderator: Georg Schöllhammer
17 Uhr / 5 p.m.
Georg Seeßlen (Berlin)
19 bis 21 Uhr / 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Kulturnation und antinationale Perspektiven / Cultural Nation and
International Perspectives
Silke Wenk (Oldenburg)
Oliver Marchart (Wien)
Tatiana Zhurzhenko (Kharkiv)
Antje Schuhmann (München)
Moderatorin: Johanna Schaffer
Sonntag, 25. Februar 2001, 11 Uhr / Sunday, 25 February 2001, 11 a.m.
Wie kollaborieren? / How to collaborate?
Wolf Wetzel (Frankfurt)
Stephan Geene (Berlin)
Augustine Leisch (Wien)
Ljubomir Bratic (Wien)
Moderator: Helmut Draxler
Brunch
Offene Abschlussdikussion mit Statements von KünstlerInnen und
Kulturschaffenden / Open final discussion with statements from artists
and culture workers
Moderatorin: Ruth Noack
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:27:49 -0800
From: Amy Alexander <plagiari@plagiarist.org>
Subject: Announcement: Netsong - The Voice of the Web
Netsong
http://netsong.org
Netsong is the song of the web, as performed by a web search engine
robot - the latest in self-replicating net technology. Tune in live
to the Voice of the Web!
When provided a searchterm, the netsong bot will search for this term
in a search engine, then choose a page from the search results and begin
following links from that page. It will continue to follow links from the
resulting pages indefinitely, backing up and rerouting if it hits a dead end.
Happily gathering text from each page it visits, the netsong bot
savors the unique lyricality and poignant narrative of the web and begins to
sing it. Not content to merely surf the information
superhighway, the netsong bot makes it music.
Netsong: Pure Net.radio - 100% Native-net programming.
Netsong is by Amy Alexander (plagiarist.org, Multi-Cultural Recycler)
and Peter Traub (fictive.org, Bits & Pieces)
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:11:03 -0500
From: "Diane Greco" <dgreco@eastgate.com>
Subject: CALL FOR ENTRIES - LITE SHOW - APRIL IN BOSTON
- - apologies for cross-postings -
- - please forward if you know anyone who might want to contribute work -
CALL FOR ENTRIES -- LITE SHOW, a project of Boston CyberArts
LOW-BAND IS THE WAY!
Still using a dialup modem? You're not the only one getting older while
that fat file loads. In a world where everyone needs bigger pipe, bandwidth
is at once an important political issue and a significant creative
constraint.
In recognition of bandwidth's centrality in a networked society web,
artists and developers are invited to submit their best low-band
productions to the Lite Show, an international festival of cutting-edge
low-bandwidth animation and interactive web-based art planned for Boston
Cyberarts Festival 2001.
http://www.liteshow.org
Work by LITE SHOW artists will be featured on the web, at Cyberarts
Central, and at a live interactive screening. An educational workshop is
also planned.
ABOUT THE LITE SHOW
The LITE SHOW is a project of Boston Cyberarts. The Boston Cyberarts
Festival (April 21 to May 6, 2001) is an international
biennial festival of art and technology in all media. The Festival involves
over 75 events organized by over 50
cultural and education institutions.
http://www.bostoncyberarts.org
http://www.liteshow.org
ENTRY CATEGORIES
Entries may be animation, interactive web-based art, or other media
viewable in a browser.
Entries will be divided by file size into five catagories: gossamer (5k
max), flyweight (100k max), bantamweight (300k), featherweight (500k),
lightweight (1mb max). The deadline for entries is 28 Febuary 2001. While
entries may be in flash or other web animation technology, they must be
web-based and viewable in a browser. The exhibition will be juried. Judges
TBA.
Deadline and formats the deadline for entries is 28 FEBUARY 2001.
Although URL submissions are preferred, .swf or other files may be uploaded
when you submit your entry form.
http://www.liteshow.org
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
Diane Greco dgreco@eastgate.com
Eastgate Systems, Inc. voice: +1(617) 924-9044
134 Main St Watertown MA 02472 USA fax: +1(617) 924-9051
WORLD WIDE WEB: http://www.eastgate.com/
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:39:34 -0800 (PST)
From: officegallery <office_gallery@yahoo.com>
Subject: office/gallery (exhibit) 2/12 to 4/13
For immediate release:
“… the Measure of All Things.”
by appointment only showings!
February 12th to April 13th
“…the Measure of All Things.” encompasses the work of
five artists dealing with society’s relationship to
statistics and taxonomies. The office/gallery is
located in the corporate offices on the 17th floor of
a downtown San Francisco location. “…the Measure of
All Things.” will be on display at the office/gallery
from February 12th through April 13th. Artists
contributing to the show are: bay area artists, Renee
Shearer, Gail Wight, and Allison Shields, along with
Portland based Peter McCleery, and Philadelphia based
Stephen Cartwright.
“We religiously watch the Dow and the Nasdaq rise and
fall as indicators of our economy, our retirement
schedules, and moreover our competitive relationship
to one another,” explains Sean A. Fletcher, the
current resident of the office/gallery and curator of
…the Measure of All Things . “The last decade,
wrapped in the paper of progressive idealism,
witnessed a strange new ideology dubbed by Thomas
Frank as ‘day-trading liberalism’ where the
conversation in bohemian coffee houses took the form
of speculative stock tips and comparative performance
figures. Instead of smoking cigarettes and denouncing
the bourgeois, this new breed of hipsters asked if
Phillip Morris was a part of the other’s stock
portfolio, and if they were able to ‘get into Cisco
Systems before it went up.’ But more than tracking
stocks as an indicator of our contemporary prowess, we
spent our time constantly weighing ourselves. We
counted our calories, we tracked our mileage, and we
logged our appointments. We jotted things down in our
palm-held devices and tried like hell to get the most
out of our days.”
…the Measure of All Things. takes a break to assess
the maddening Scylla of statistical responsibility in
our epic adventure of The Daily Routine. Allison
Shields tracks her every residence from birth to Today
complete with address and zip-code and presents them
mailing-label-ready in a subtle framed work that
craftily blends into its office surroundings. In
another piece she catalogues all of her belongings by
color-coding them according to her relationship to
them “as of May 14, 1999.” These figures are then
presented in tabular format and charted in a columnar
graph. By careful analysis of her “dishes, old
photos, and extra vitamins” she presents, by volume,
the commodities she owns anywhere from being a
“precious treasure”, or “hypothetically useful”, to
finally a “burden.”
In Self-criticizing Artwork, Peter McCleery has
assembled various barometers to measure such obtuse
notions as our complexity, our beauty, our poignancy,
and our profundity. Like some ultra-truth-seeking
love tester, to stand before these various dials is to
bear narcissistic wonder as to whether the moisture
produced by our bodies can actually be used to measure
“physicality” (for example) – then, immediately
presses the envelope of statistical usefulness as the
psyche begins to process this data.
The office/gallery is a *by appointment only* location
operated covertly in the local downtown offices of a
national Life Insurance and Financial Services
corporation. The office/gallery is currently in its
second year of operations.
The office/gallery also sponsors bi-monthly events in
its recently renovated 18th floor “training room”.
Patrons to the office/gallery are encouraged to
inquire about the upcoming lecture event in March
corresponding with … the Measure of All Things art
exhibit.
Please call (415) 733-6574 for more information and
availability before visiting the office/gallery at 111
Sutter Street on the 17th floor. Email the
office/gallery at resident@officegallery.org or visit
the website at www.officegallery.org.
NOTE: Because of the covert nature of the space,
please do not arrive unexpected, and please direct all
written correspondence to: administrative
office/gallery, care of: Sean A. Fletcher, 2934 Ford
Street, Unit 19, Oakland, CA 94601. Thank you for
your cooperation.
__________________________________________________
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:53:18 +1100
From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Sarai Opening Program
From: "Sarai Media Programme" <dak@sarai.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 3:14 AM
The formal public opening of Sarai is scheduled for February 23rd 2001. This
event will mark a decisive
moment in the first phase of the activities of the Sarai New Media
Initiative at the Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies, Delhi.
While the inauguration will be the first major interface between the Sarai
project and a wider public, it will
also embody and present the work that has been initiated and in process at
Sarai, since the project's inception in
August 2000.
The festive three-day programme will include presentations, informal
workshops, screenings, lectures and
panel discussions on old & new media and urban culture. The event will
feature encounters and dialogue
between media practitioners, scholars and activists, from India and abroad,
around the theme of "The Public
Domain". The Sarai Website and Interface will be launched and a Sarai Reader
on the Public Domain will be
released.
This thematic focus on the Public Domain has been chosen to highlight
Sarai's engagement with the foundation
of a vibrant and democratic public culture in India at the interstices and
intersections of old and new media
practices. We choose to characterize the 'Public Domain' as that arena of
public activity, interaction and
cultural practice that is, or aspires to be, autonomous of the regulation of
the state and the pressures of the
marketplace, and that is conducive towards collaborative & hybrid practices,
and the free expression and
exchange of ideas across cultural & professional boundaries.
The thematic focus on the ?Public Domain? will be translated into a cluster
of activities that taken together
with the above presentations will constitute the inauguration of Sarai.
These will be:
A Round Table on the Public Domain
A Seminar/Presentation on City Spaces and the Cinema
A Panel Discussion on City & Social Justice
Presentations of International Contemporary Multimedia Practice and Digital
Art
A Focus Group Discussion on Media & Communication Rights
Panel Discussions on the Cultures of the Public Domain in the New Media
Presentation/Workshop on Free Software Resources for Media Practice
The City in Contemporary Hindi Writing: Recitations by Writers and Poets
Discussion on Globalisation & New Cultural Realities (Hindi Panel)
Art and Video Installations
Panelists/Speakers Include :
Abhijit Ray (Calcutta), Aditya Nigam (Delhi), Alok Rai (Delhi), Arun Mehta
(Delhi) Awadhendra Sharan
(Delhi), Amanda Macdonald Crawley (Adelaide), Dunu Roy (Delhi), D.L. Sheth
(Delhi), Eric Kluitenberg
(Amsterdam), Geert Lovink (Amsterdam/Canberrra), Geeta Kapoor (Delhi)
Graham Harwood (London), Irina
Aristarkhova (Moscow), Jeebesh Bagchi (Delhi), Marleen Strikker
(Amsterdam), Monica Narula (Delhi), Nina
Czegledy (Toronto/Budapest), Prabhu Mahapatra (Delhi), Rajeev Bhargava,
(Delhi) Ranjani Mazumdar (Delhi),
Ravikant (Delhi) Ravi Sundaram (Delhi) Rehan Ansari (Lahore), Samara
Mitchell (Adelaide), Shahid Amin
(Delhi) Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Delhi), Siddharth Varadarajan (Delhi),
Sudhish Pachauri (Delhi), Tanika
Sarkar (Delhi), Veronique Dupont (Paris), Yogendra Yadav (Delhi), Zunaira
Durrani (Karachi)
Plenary Speakers: Narayani Gupta (Delhi), Ravi Vasudevan (Delhi) and Saskia
Sassen (Chicago)
We invite you to join us in February!
For pre-registration and other details contact Saumya Gupta, dak@sarai.net
Or write to Sarai/CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054. Phone 39511 90
Sarai: The New Media Initiative
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29,Rajpur Road, Delhi - 54
Phone: 91-11-3951190
Fax: 91-11-2943450
www.sarai.net
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:43:38 -0500
From: orit <ohalpern@fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Analyzing the Human Genome
Chromosome 22--Alternative Analysis of the Human Genome
http://www.mindspring.com/~biography/introresults.html
What does the genome mean? Rival groups‹corporate and academic‹will offer
the first interpretations of the human genome this Thursday, February 15,
2001. Not, however, without dispute; neither can agree about the best
strategy for decoding. In anticipation of this event, we wish to offer
another version.
As nature and culture, technology and biology, are integrated in the
methods, practices, and metaphors of modern molecular biology, we need new
tools to engage in other interpretations. Other maps to ourselves. This
project will provide users with numerous other ways to organize and
understand how genes result from a set of social relations, personal
practices, and technical practices. This project re/produces these
interactions in a manner that the user can negotiate, to create a
multiplicity of mappings of biological knowledge.
We will also offer news updates, and full coverage of this event. This
material will be available for immediate commentary and response as part of
our own ecological feedback project.
Please participate. Welcome to Chromosome 22 :
http://www.mindspring.com/~biography/introresults.html .
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANYONE.
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:50:57 +0100
From: matthew fuller <matt@axia.demon.co.uk>
Subject: The INDEPENDENT ART SCHOOL / MODELS OF PRACTICE
<bold>The INDEPENDENT ART SCHOOL<italic>=20
MODELS OF PRACTICE </italic><bigger>
2pm 25th Feb - 1st March 2001 </bigger></bold>
<bold>Dilston Grove, London. </bold>You are invited to present your
current ideas and work at the Independent Art School's next event at
Dilston Grove in London. <bold><bigger>
<italic>What are you working on now? What are your Motivations?
</italic></bigger></bold>
=85within your own (art) practice or involvement with art and educational
groups/organisations=85 Presentations can take the form of a talk,
discussion, workshop, experiment, interventions, practical
demonstration, performance, or the exhibiting of archive material and
so forth. The event will be an opportunity for sharing and exchanging
thoughts and knowledge. A platform for the ideas driving your work. For
the continuation of discussions surrounding what individuals and groups
are learning through their own practice and personal experiences.
Everyone will at once be artist/student/tutor. A programme of
events will begin to take shape at http://website.lineone.net/~nschool/
from the 7th Feb and complete details will be available from 20th Feb.
Events will start happening from 2pm onwards on Sunday the 25th Feb.To
discuss your ideas, or if you have any enquiries please contact Pippa
Koszerek on (01482) 212 478 or at nschool@hotmail.com
<<mailto:nschool@hotmail.com> The Independent Art School is about
questioning art education, (art) 'school=92, art practice...through
actions, interventions, art works, events, publications, websites and
much much more. MODELS OF PRACTICE is part of it=92s ongoing process.
Currently it is concerned with dialogue and the sharing of information
gained from art practice. Previous events/actions include a two-week
school at the Red Gallery, Hull, November 1999 and a Conferencerunning
alongside Hull Time Based Arts ROOT festival, October 2000. The
Independent Art School is a self-generating un-funded project. Dilston
Grove is a huge empty cast concrete church with a small heatable back
meeting room. It is very evocative because of its raw concrete interior
and its unusually high roof. <bold>TRAVEL: </bold>Venue telephone no.
020 7232 2399 Dilston Grove, Former Clare College Mission Church,
Southwest corner of Southwark Park, London SE16. Dilston Grove is sign
posted from Surrey Quays and near Bermondsey and Canada Water tube
stations on the Jubilee Line. Bus routes that serve the area are
1,47,188,199,381,395 and P13. The nearest rail station is South
Bermondsey. Parking is available in the park from Hawkestone Road.=20
Dilston Grove is a Caf=E9 Gallery Projects venue administered by the
Bermondsey Artists Group. Membership of the group is open to all visual
artists who live, work or study in the London Borough of Southwark. For
more infomation on Cafe gallery projects live art events contact Em on
emcoevents@hotmail.com <<mailto:emcoevents@hotmail.com> . The
Bermondsey Artists Group is located at 92 Webster Road, London SE16
4DF. Tel. 020 7237 1230. Fax. 020 7231 1386. E: bag.office@virgin.net.
The Bermondsey Artists=92 Group actively promotes Equality of
Opportunity.=20
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:13:47 +0800
From: "Moira Lanzona" <garbo@bisaya.ph>
Subject: new member intro
hello listers!
i am a new subscriber and i'm writing first of all to greet everyone on the list a very happy valentine's day and, secondly, to announce my presence on the list. i decided to join after browsing the december archives because i have recently developed a keen interest in the (some would say hopelessly lost) cause of new media literacy, in particular, internet literacy. i think this is a critical thinking skill that the younger generation desperately needs to hone but is sadly underrated. this new project of mine came about after much reflection and (way too much) time spent in bed (incapacitated) recuperating from ankle surgery. anyway, enough about me...
if anyone on the list knows of links to reputable sites devoted to new media literacy, please don't hesitate to post them.
thank you!
moira lanzona
__________________________________
www.edsamail.com
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 00:37:52 -0500
From: Jay Fenello <Jay@Fenello.com>
Subject: Internet Governance - UPDATE
FYI:
>To: awpd@yahoogroups.com
>From: Jay Fenello <jay@fenello.com>
>Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 00:09:41 -0500
>Subject: [awpd] Internet Governance - UPDATE
>
>
>Hello,
>
>For everyone who is interested in what's wrong with our
>country, our society, our government, and our world ...
>
>... Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT), Chairman of the Communications
>Subcommittee of the Senate's Commerce, Science, and Transportation
>Committee, will be holding hearings on ICANN tomorrow at 9:30 a.m.
>in room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building.
>
>ICANN is the secretive new Internet Governance body formed
>under the Clinton administration back in 1998. Critics charge
>that it is a front for multinational corporations who seek to
>control the world-wide Internet, much like the WTO currently
>controls world-wide Trade. In fact, they are both based on
>the same model.
>
>The witnesses at tomorrow's hearing include Mike Roberts,
>ICANN president and one of the insiders who has controlled
>the organization since its inception.
>
>Opposite Mike is Karl Auerbach, the North American At-Large
>Director recently elected in the world's first global election.
>Karl is a strong critic of the ICANN takeover, especially the
>recent changes in decision making within the ICANN Board.
>Since the election, almost all decisions are now being made by
>an "executive committee," a subset of the ICANN board designed
>to keep the new Directors out of the process.
>
>Expect *fireworks* at tomorrow's sessions!!!
>
>Last week, the House held similar hearings.
>http://www.house.gov/commerce/hearings/telecom02082001.htm
>
>Here are some memorable quotes from that one:
>
>"[ICANN] appears to be accountable to no one except
>perhaps God Almighty." -- Dingell
>
>"Events at the Vatican are shrouded in less mystery
>than the process by which ICANN chooses TLDs" -- Markey
>
>"ICANN has the authority to set public policy for the
>Internet, and it's got a history of perhaps trying to
>overstep that power." -- Sheffield
>
>
>To learn more about last week's hearings, see also:
>
>ICANN Under Attack (Network World Fusion)
>http://tm0.com/thestandard/sbct.cgi?s=64386407&i=301965&d=1009354
>
>U.S. Lawyers Criticize ICANN (Reuters)
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41699,00.html
>
>ICANN Chairman Responds To House Charges
>http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article/1,2171,8_583731,00.html
>
>Cerf's Up! Congress Grills ICANN Chair on Domain Names
>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2683840,00.html
>
>Domain Name Selection Process Under Fire
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/528384.asp
>
>
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>
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Aligning with Purpose(sm) ... for a Better World
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"All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of
advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due
to be believed" -- Montaigne
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