NFF: State of the Art Panel

[tobias v <tobias@xxxxxxxxx>]

taking place August 1st @ the New Forms Festival
in Vancouver, BC ...


Panel Discussion: STATE OF THE ART

Organized by Robert P. Willis - musiceditor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and Chris Daub
- daub@xxxxxxxxxxx

The increasing ubiquity of digital technology and the Internet offer
fresh opportunities for audio and video artists to embrace novel means of
expression. As with all successful technologies, however, this is a
dual-edged sword. State surveillance has increasingly affected not only
our daily expectations of privacy, such as the confidentiality of
telephone conversations, but also our ability to express our passions and
desires in music and art. Likewise, copyright continues to be a topic of
contention in an increasingly digital world that threatens to stifle
contemporary artistic, as well as political, practices.

The links between digital technology, surveillance, copyright, art, and
political expression will be explored in this panel discussion featuring
NYC's social commentator and musician Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky,
Montreal's tobias c. van Veen (McGill) aka DJ tobias, and Vancouver's
Terry O'Brien (SOCAN), Brady Cranfield (SFU), Fred Pradel aka DJ Lace,
Aleksandra Dulic (SFU), as well as Stephanie MacKay and Ed Jordan aka
NomIg. Moderated by Chris Daub (UBC), this free event is split into two
sections: Freedom of Movement and Freedom of Interpretation.

1. Freedom of Movement: UK cameras and surveillance laws; the US Gov't
ruling on webcasting & the RIAA; loss of privacy in UK, Canada, US; FBI
vs. Rhizome.org: Carnivore packet-sniffing.

tobias c. van Veen will speak on the relation between the recent US Gov't
ruling on webcasting rates and the loss of intellectual freedoms.

2. Freedom of Interpretation: Fair Use; ownership/intellectual property
rights; appropriation vs. sampling; cultural / historical appropriation.

Terry O'Brien will introduce these topics by drawing on his twenty years
of experience working and surviving in the "belly of the beast" at BMG
and SOCAN.

Schedule

5 min -- Chris Daub: Introductions

5 min -- tobias c. van Veen on Freedom of Movement
30 min -- Freedom of Movement
10 min -- Audience Questions to Panel

5 min -- Terry O'Brien on Freedom of Interpretation
30 min -- Freedom of Interpretation
10 min -- Audience Questions to Panel

10 min -- Closing comments from panelists

For more information (including biographies of the panelists and
information on the rest of the New Forms Festival) please check out
http://www.newformsfestival.com


tobias c. van Veen -----------
http://www.shrumtribe.com
http://www.targetcircuitry.com
http://www.thisistheonlyart.com
------------- tobias@xxxxxxxxx
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