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Elke 3 weken in Pakhuis de Zwijger. De volgende is op woensdag 30 mei.
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Vers Geperst is an informal gathering that offers young creatives a chance to present their finest work and inspire the audience. The Dutch term ´Vers Geperst´ roughly translates as fresh juiced. But it also stands for a creative event with a strict presentation format, in which participants have only six minutes each to present their ideas to the audience. So no long-winded, boring speeches, but a series of quick and sharp presentations. This Vers Geperst Night, which will take place in club 11 in Amsterdam (http://www.ilove11.nl), focuses on the youngest generation of creative designers. Young creative professionals as well as graduation students are invited to present their work. After the presentations, there will be plenty of time to mingle with the audience, which will also include a few scouts from creative companies and cultural institutions.

Date & Location: 29th of May, 11. Amsterdam
Time: Doors open at 7:30 PM (19:30). Event starts at 8:00 PM (20:00)
DJ: My Little Soundsystem

Lezing/presentatie donderdag 31 mei, 20:00, Club 11/SMCS, Amsterdam

SKOR-lezing 4 en presentatie Open 12 over intellectueel eigendom en vrije publieke ruimte

McKenzie Wark pleit voor een verschuiving van een handelseconomie naar een gifteconomie, waar sociale relaties centraal staan in plaats van commerciële. In het licht hiervan analyseert hij het avontuur van zijn eigen boekpublicaties. Hoe te schrijven en te publiceren over intellectueel eigendom zonder zelf auteurschap te claimen?

McKenzie Wark (Australië) is Professor of Cultural and Media Studies aan het Eugene Lang College en de New School for Social Research in New York. Hij is auteur van “A Hacker Manifesto” (2004) en “Gamer Theory” (2006).

Na afloop wordt McKenzie Wark geïnterviewd door Stephen Wright (GB), onderzoeker aan het Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Parijs.

Datum: donderdag 31 mei / Adres: Club 11, Post CS-gebouw, 11e verdieping /SMCS, Oosterdokskade 5, Amsterdam

Aanvang: 20:00 uur

I.s.m. Open en Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Reservering: secretariaat@skor.nl of +31 (0)20 672 25 25

Toegang: 7,50 (studenten / students: 5,-)

Meer informatie: SKOR,
T +31 (0)20 672 25 25,
www.skor.nl en www.opencahier.nl

“Goodbye Privacy� is the theme of this year’s Ars Electronica, the festival extraordinaire of art, technology and society in Linz, Austria. September 5–11, 2007, the focus will be on these late-breaking phenomena of a new culture of everyday life being played out between angst-inducing scenarios of seamless surveillance and the zest we bring to staging our public personas via digital media.

In Ars Electronica’s inimitable fashion, elaborations in the form of symposia, exhibits, performances and interventions will proliferate beyond the confines of conference halls and exhibition spaces, and spread across the whole city.

Artists, experienced network nomads, theoreticians, technologists and legal scholars will approach this year’s theme from quite different perspectives:

* What do we have at our disposal to counter the intrusions of control and surveillance technologies?
* How can the new cultural paradigms of Web 2.0 communities be made to generate social dynamics that can also display relevance in the real world?
* How can we prevent the loss of individual control over our digital personas?
* What sorts of new strategies are there to reinvent privacy in the transparent world of digital media?
* How can we shatter the pre-configured virtual public spheres of the entertainment industries and mold new ones ourselves?
* How can we bring the entire cultural diversity of our societies to bear in these newly emerging public, social realms?
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During this event we’ll walk and cycle around Amsterdam with GPS-devices and create and enhance the open and free OpenStreetMap of Amsterdam. Participating is easy, no experience is required and, most of all, it is good fun. Please [join us] for the mapping party! More info at hollandopen.nl.

HollandOpen Conference, June 11 and 12, Amsterdam.

With contributions from Florence Devouard (Wikimedia foundation), Chikai Ohazama (Google Earth), Jim Ayre (European Schoolnet), Guillermo Caudevilla (Vodafone), Antony Satyadas, (IBM), Jason Levitt (Yahoo), Steve Coast (OpenStreetMap) and many many others (incl a poster session of open-search)!

Last May Amnesty International UK in conjunction with The Observer newspaper here in the UK, launched an internet repression campaign and a related website called irrepressible.info.

The campaign has met with great success – the petition for freedom of expression on the internet has been signed by over 66,000 people, while the dynamic campaign logo is currently being viewed by over two million people per month on thousands of blogs. However, attempts to clamp down on freedom of expression on the internet are spreading and intensifying. As the list of ‘cyber-dissidents’ grows, so do innovative means of subverting state attempts at censorship.

On 6 June we will use the internet to link activists from around the world to discuss the struggle against internet repression and to celebrate the unquenchable desire of people for freedom of expression. In addition we will launch an update to irrepressible.info of a news hub, which will enable people to link news stories on ‘internet repression’ to the irrepressible site.

The event will include participation in person, remotely and by pre-record of the following:

Martha Lane-Fox - co-founder of lastminute.com
Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia
Richard Stallman - Free Software Movement
Clark Boyd - BBC Technology Correspondent
Cory Doctorow - boingboing
Yu Ling - wife of imprisoned cyber-dissident Wang Xiaoning
Sami Ben Gharbia - Tunisian dissident
Ron Deibert – Open Net Initiative
Dan Gillmor - Citizen Media
Shava Nerad – TOR Project
Ethan Zuckerman – Global Voices
Morton Sklar – The World OrganIsation for Human Rights USA
Markus Beckedahl - Network New Media
Josh Wolf – US Cyber-dissident
Kevin Anderson – The Guardian
Sina Motalebi - Iranian journalist
.. and YOU

The event will be webcast at www.amnesty.org.uk/webcast. Listen to a trailer for the event by Clark Boyd who will chair the event on 6 June at
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/events_details.asp?ID=405.

The event is ‘invitation only’ but if you’d like to go just send me an email and I’ll put my best leg forward for you (as they say in Dutch). Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend the event myself as I need to correct exams that day

The blog of Cambrian House, a crowdsourcing / crowdfunding project, has a very interesting tidbit.

The figures come from Bill Tancer of Hitwise, who “shared some hard numbers on how much participation is actually occurring at some of the most popular web 2.0 sites.�

* YouTube – 0.16% (visits to upload video)
* Flickr – 0.2% (visits to upload photos)
* Wikipedia – 4.59% (visits to edit pages)

And thinking that Time called YOU (the internaut) person of the year … I suspect they refered to the single sense of ‘you’, instead of the plural one.