[H-ANNOUNCE] Fw: Get on your digital soapbox! ANAT Media Release

[David Seikel]

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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:00:38 +0900
From: ANAT Communications
To: Exec <exec at humbug.org.au>
Subject: Get on your digital soapbox! ANAT Media Release




**MEDIA RELEASE - For Immediate Release: I August 2007**

Get on your digital soapbox!

Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) are holding a series
of FREE public forums as part of still/open Program during September in
Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane as part of their emerging technology
labs. The forums are running;

Melbourne   6pm, 5th September 2007 @ Digital Harbour
Perth           6pm, 10th September 2007 @ The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex
Brisbane     6pm, 14th September @ The Judith Wright Centre

The forums will explore recent projects by internationally renown guest
thinkers: Alessandro Ludovico (Italy) a publisher, media artist and
editor in chief of Neural (http://www.neural.it/), Andy Nicholson
(Australia) a free software hacker, new media activist and part of the
Engage Media collective (http://engagemedia.org/) and Beatriz da Costa
(USA) an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who works with open
science (http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/). Creative Commons Australia
will open the floor for discussion of Open Source Culture.

Open Source Culture is the growing global phenomenon of creative
practices of sharing content for others to rework, reuse and
redistribute. It has created a digital collective media culture and
cult like following where everyone from teenagers to grannies are
getting involved. It has moved from the programming sphere into the
general and business communities; the purchase of YouTube for $1.65
billion and MySpace for $580 million by News Corp. and Google highlight
just how much value they can have.

Open Source Culture aims to empower the user and challenge the power of
the media giants. Currently a conflict is occurring between the owners
of online "user generated" infrastructures and those who use them. User
submitted and generated content often is moderated by the site or
organization it is uploaded to, giving absolute control to the powers
that be to do as they wish with the content submitted. By its nature
Open Source Culture brings up many opinions and questions including;
how open is Open Source Culture? Is it user friendly or financially
beneficial to the big players? How might artists make use this cultural
movement? And [insert your own question here] will be part of the
discussion in the still/open forum.

The forums are presented as part of ANAT's emerging technology labs,
which are responsible for the hugely successful reSkin program.

For media information and availability of the facilitators for
interviews please contact Amanda Matulick on 8231 9037 or
communicate at anat.org.au or for more information on the forums and
still/open please visit www.anat.org.au/stillopen/blog/forums/.

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ANAT is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia
Council for the Arts http://www.ozco.gov.au its arts funding and
advisory body, by the South Australian Government through Arts SA
http://www.arts.sa.gov.au and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an
initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

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