Syndicate: <nettime> TEXPO DESTRUCTO: post-media pressure, London

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

Date:  Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:08:42 +0000
From: Matthew Fuller <matt@axia.demon.co.uk>
Subject: TEXPO DESTRUCTO: post-media pressure


EXPO DESTRUCTO: post-media pressure

venue       Open, 144 Charing Cross Road, London
date         Saturday, 20th March 1999
time         noon-seven
door         GBP 3.00 / GBP 1.50

A two part event:
1         a post-media flea-market of webzines; media activists; net
artists; video hackers; showing their warez
2         the UK launch for 'README! ascii culture and the revenge of
knowledge'. a landmark anthology of radical net-culture filtered by the
Nettime mailing list. (publisher: Autonomedia, ISBN 1-57027-089-9)


POST_MEDIA FLEA_MARKET

Participants: Backspace, Biotech Hobbyist Magazine, Break/Flow, B_Studios,
Bureau of Inverse Technology, Carbon Defence League, Crash Media,
Cybernetic Culture Research Unit,  Datacide, Everything, Exploding Cinema,
=46urtherfield, GashGirl, Pete Gomes, Hayvend, IanImedia, Infocentre,
Institute of Applied Autonomy, I/O/D, Irational.org, McSpotlight.org,
Migrant Media, Mongrel, Mute magazine, 0(rphan)d(rift>, Jane Prophet,
Reclaim The Streets - the film, Strike, Euan Sutherland, Spectacle TV,
Technologies to the Poeple, Telepolis, Test, Text, Jon Thomson and Alison
Craighead, Urban75, Variant, Carole Wright, and more to be confirmed


BOOK_LAUNCH
Authors from README! ascii culture and the revenge of knowledge and others
will be speaking throughout the day:

CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE (Pittsburgh) politics of the Biotech and Infotech merg=
er
VOLKER GRASSMUCK (Berlin) Mikro, Sociology of Operating Systems
TETSUO KOGAWA (Tokyo) pirate media performance (bring an FM receiver!)
GEERT LOVINK (Amsterdam) ADILKNO: Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal
Knowledge
EVELINE LUBBERS(Amsterdam) Jansen & Jansen, anti-corporate research
MARKO PELJHAN (Ljubljana) Insular Technologies
FLORIAN SCHNEIDER (Munich) Cross the Border, direct action against
immigration controls
JOSEPHINE STARRS (Sydney) the thousand pixel stare



FOR MORE INFORMATION:  http://www.backspace.org/iod/destructo

AN AUDIO FEED WILL BE MADE FROM EXPO-DESTRUCTO TO: http://bak.spc.org/radio