Fibreculture presents: "Networks of Excellence"
A National Forum on Information and Communication Technologies
When: Friday, November 22: Screening and Public Forum
Saturday and Sunday, 23rd and 24th: Conference
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Registration: Fibreculture website - http://www.fibreculture.org
Friday, November 22
Public forum features key figures in new media policy, research and the arts.
A Screening of new works in digital filmmaking precedes the forum.
Saturday and Sunday, 23rd and 24th
Two-day conference features panels on new media art, public networks, research interests and other subjects with opportunities for dialogue and discussion with theorists, academics, and IT professionals.
Fibreculture, Australasia's leading network for research and theory, are launching their 2002 conference on November 22nd with a public forum at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. The forum will address the intersections of IT policy, net theory, online activism and new media art in the context of the national establishment of information and communication technology centres of excellence.
Speakers for the forum include:
- Kate Lundy, Federal Shadow Minister for Information,Technology and Sport
- Arun Sharma, Sydney Director of National Information and Communications Technologies Australia (NICTA), the newly established Federal and State funded ICT research centre.
- Julianne Pierce, Director of Australian Network for Art and Technology
- Stuart Cunningham, Director of Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre, Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
Geert Lovink, a co-founder of Fibreculture and author of the book 'Dark Fiber', published by MIT Press, will chair the public forum. A video screening entitled 'protection', featuring new media and time-based works from leading artists curated by Anna Munster, will precede the forum.
The Networks of Excellence conference runs for the weekend of 23-24 November and features leading Australasian researchers who will meet to discuss questions of policy, production, aesthetics, politics and ethics of new media and the Internet, while looking at the relationships between local and distributed modes of innovation in new media fields. The conference builds on the success of last year's inaugural meeting in Melbourne, and provides an opportunity for some of the 600 members of Fibreculture's online community to meet and discuss issues in a face-to-face setting. Fibreculture will also launch a free publication of innovative writing on new media issues at the forum. The publication will be distributed around Australia as part of RealTime magazine.
Registration for both the forum and conference is available from the Fibreculture Website: http://www.fibreculture.org
Fibreculture 2002 is supported by The School of Media and Communications, University of New South Wales; The Department of Media, Macquarie University; The Australian Film Commission Industry and Cultural Development Fund and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. The Fibreculture publication is supported by the Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton (NZ); The Power Institute and RealTime Magazine.
Contact:
Dr Chris Chesher
Lecturer, School of Media and Communications, University of New South Wales
Phone 61 2 9385 6814 or 0404095480
Email: c.chesher@unsw.edu.au
Fibreculture, Australasias leading network for internet culture, research and theory hosts a discussion list and website. The list has over 500 subscribers including academics, new media producers, artists, journalists, activists, and policymakers. To subscribe to the list, or see the archive, please visit the Fibreculture website at: http://www.fibreculture.org
