[SlugBug] Two Events About Openness 27th March

[Jake Harries]

Hi
Apologies if this is an inappropriate post, but some list members may be
interested in these free events at Access Space in a couple of weeks.

Cheers
Jake

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Two Events About Openness

 *Ideas Around Hacking
 *How Does Openness Work?

Lisa Haskel, Patrice Reimens, Toni Prug, Dominic Smith, Sam Vardy,
James Wallbank

An afternoon of conversation and discussion organised and hosted by
Access Space, Unit 1, AVEC Building, 3-7 Sidney St Sheffield. S1 4RG

Sat 27 March 1pm-5pm

These events are part of Lovebytes 2010
http://2010.lovebytes.org.uk/

Facebook event
http://trim.li/nk/1npK

This event is free, but please email jake at access-space.org or call
0114 249 5522  to let us know if you are attending as seating is
limited.

1pm - 2pm
Ideas Around Hacking: A conversation around ideas of openness and
collaboration in society and the "public sphere" with net theorists
Patrice Reimens and Toni Prug (author of forthcoming book, Hacking The
State).

2pm-2-30pm Coffee and biscuits

2.30pm-4pm
How Does Openness Work?
Can ideas of openness from the realm of Free and Open Source Software
apply to wider society, artistic practise, architecture and
organisations?
A panel discussion including Lisa Haskel, Patrice Reimens, Dominic
Smith, Sam Vardy, Toni Prug and James Wallbank .

4pm-5pm Q & A

Panel members:

Lisa Haskel works as a programmer, systems administrator and teacher
with open source softwares and platforms for internet-based
communications. She has been observing and writing about old and new
technologies for more than 20 years, always most interested in
possibilities for access and participation.

Patrice Riemens (1950) is a Social Geographer, advocate of Free and/or
Open Source Software and member of the Dutch Hackers Group Hippies
from Hell.He is also a translator of the contemporary French
philospher Paul Virilio.
http://www.antenna.nl/

Dominic Smith is the co-founder of ptechnic.org and is an artist,
hacker and musician. Dominic develops and manages the open source
media lab, events, residencies and training programmes which have
included Channel 4's Sound Circuit workshop, Newcastle 2004; partners
with Access space and Folly in Grow Your Own Media Lab, a national
programme of ‘ground-up’ computing and the Open Mute tour, 2005.
Dominic's art practice extends to music, sound, installation and live
performance which include works and performances at; The ICA, London,
2004; The CCA, Glasgow, 2004; Feed Festival, Birmingham, 2004,
presented at EyeBeam in New York, 2008 and in 2009 completed a
residency at SCANZ in New Plymouth - New zealand. Currently Dominic is
a researcher with CRUMB at Sunderland University, studying towards
PhD.
http://ptechnic.org

Toni Prug is a PhD student at the School of Business and Management at
Queen Mary College, University of London. With ten years of software
and network engineering and hacking behind him, he is working on
organizational forms, hacking existing practices, ideologies and
state-forms. Along with working with academic journals on implementing
aspects of open process cooperation, he is the author of a forthcoming
book, Hacking The State.
http://hackthestate.org/

Sam Vardy is a PhD student at the School of Architecture at the
University of Sheffield.  His research and practice explores alternate
ways to operate as an architect, and focuses on the notions of
self-organisation and the collective appropriation of space.
http://www.gmproducts.org.uk

James Wallbank is an artist, educator and free software advocate. He
first conceived Access Space in 1998, following huge success in
recycling redundant computers for artistic projects. The arts group
he'd founded, Redundant Technology Initiative, was so overwhelmed with
the potential of the hundreds of computers they'd recovered, he
realised that the public would have to get more involved. In 2000 RTI
opened Access Space, which poses the question “How can you get
creative with all this technology?” He's a frequent presenter at Media
Arts Festivals and ICT Conferences, delivers FLOSS Training for
Business, and does occasional lecturing at Universities & Colleges.
http://www.access-space.org



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Jake Harries
Digital Arts Programme Manager
ACCESS SPACE
Unit 1, AVEC Building
3-7  Sidney St
Sheffield, S1 4RG, UK
t: +44 (0) 114 249 5522
w: www.access-space.org
Reg. Charity 1103837
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Access Space arts programme is supported by the Arts Council of
England Yorkshire.