Skip Intro: Upstreams & Downstreams (Piracy, Data Retention, Surveillance)
We would like to cordially invite you to the first meeting of Skip Intro.
Skip Intro is a series of primarily ad hoc-organized meetings in which academics, artists, politicians and working professionals give brief lectures and presentations about current-day issues in which new media play a significant role.
Our first meeting will take place on Wednesday January 20 from 19.30-21.30 in Studio T (Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, 3512 HH Utrecht).
We’ll kick off the series with Upstreams & Downstreams (Piracy, Data Retention & Surveillance) and with the following speakers:
- Jaromil (dyne.org, http://www.rastasoft.org)
- Ilpo Koskinen (University of Arts & Design Helsinki, http://www2.uiah.fi/~ikoskine)
- Joris van Hoboken (Bits of Freedom, https://www.bof.nl)
Central topics of this evening are free & open software, the integration
of mobile media in socio-cultural interaction, and 21-century citizenship. There will be lots of room for discussion, so anyone who is interested in participating in the debate on new media is welcome!
——–What is Skip Intro?——–
The series is foremostly aimed at uncovering and discussing concrete cultural practices in which software, protocols, databases — in short: all manifestations of Digital Material (http://tinyurl.com/y9w6zkg) — have a defining place. Some of the themes that will be covered this year are Open Access (Future of Publishing), TechSkin (Locative Media & Augmented Reality) and Programming Society.exe (Software Delegation).
Skip Intro deals with the most recent issues and invites speakers who sometimes are in the Netherlands for only a very brief period, which can make for some creative announcement schedules. >[It's not a bug, it's a feature]<
—> An initiative by UU (Underground University) <—