H2K2 Hacking, Art + Technology panel this Sunday 2pm

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please join us this:

Sunday, July 14 (2pm)

H2K2 (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference
Hotel Pennsylvania (18fl)
34 Street / 7Avenue
New York City

panel: "Hacking, Art + Technology"

Douglas Davis: "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction Undressed
and Sex Changed in Front of Your Eyes"
http://douglasdavis.net/
Renowned artist, writer + theorist Douglas Davis will discuss notions of
copyright & censorship as related to art on the world wide web.

Tina LaPorta: "Voyeur_web: Cellular Scanning"
http://www.whitney.org/artport
http://www.whitney.org/artport/commissions/voyeurweb/statement.html

In "Voyeur_web" the artist Tina LaPorta samples from real-time flows of
media, from webcams to scanning local radio + wireless (sound-hacking)
network frequencies for source material, as a way to call attention to the
interplay between the public and private spheres.

Voyeur_web is currently onview at:
Universal Concepts Unlimited, 507 West 24th Street New York, NY

Cristine Wang: "excerpts from 'Defining Lines' exhibition"
currently included in Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art,
Frankfurt Germany
http://cristine.org/borders

more info below:---->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>From the computer DESKTOP, to DOWNLOADABLE COMPUTER VIRUSES, OPEN SOURCE AND
CODE CRACKING SOFTWARE, and E-BOOKS, to ALTERNATIVE NETWORK BROWSERS,
OPERATING SYSTEMS and SHAREWARE/FREEWARE, DOMAIN NAME SERVERS, to GAMING
PATCHES, LISTSERVS, ONLINE THEATER (in the form of activism, or ELECTRONIC
PROTEST)--what constitutes "ART" is being re-defined as EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
and mediums are giving artists the "TOOLS" and a new means of expression.

In addition, our notions or definitions of the tangible, physical "BORDER"
"TERRITORY"  or "OWNERSHIP/PROPERTY" is being transformed in the virtual
realm of cyberspace.  The idea of territory becomes one of "INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY" and "COPYRIGHT/LEFT". Geopolitical, and topographical territories
are being replaced with domain of the Corporations and Governmental Agencies
(ICANN) who control the "space" of the World Wide Web. Borders existing on
the network, tracing the idea of "open" borders vs. "closed" borders,
similarly we look at "firewalls", "encryption", "carnivore"; in contrast to
"open source", "General Public License" (and therefore the ideas of
"authorship") "sharing of files", "data transfer". The "SERVER" or "HARD
DRIVE" as the new territory where "HACKING" and "ART" exchange fertile ground
in the realm of the digital NETWORK we know as the Internet.

Artists and Activists have their say in the wide open territory of the WWW,
creating a hybrid art form called "PRACTIVISM" (--Paul Garrin). Hackers and
Activists merge and become "HACKTIVISTS" (--Electronic Disturbance Theater).
A new form of electronic theater or digital performance art is developing,
that of the Online Protest, or "VIRTUAL SIT-IN".

the exhibition online:>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
http://cristine.org/borders

Sunday, July 14 (2pm)

panel: "Hacking, Art + Technology"

H2K2 (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference
Hotel Pennsylvania (18fl)
34 Street / 7Avenue
New York City

hope to see you there!
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