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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:07:58 +0100
From: V2_Organisation <v2@v2.nl>
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Subject: V2_: Infotopia_the infogolem

Infotopia_the infogolem
Friday, 22 March 2002
doors open at 8.30 P.M.
admission: =80 4,50
location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam

In our information society the (electronic) media define and play with our
everyday reality at all levels. How can we as individuals act and intervene
in these constructed media realities? =91Infotopia_the infogolem=92 will
present a number of almost utopian (art)projects that apply different
browsers for communication technology in order to enable individual users
to scan their =91information environment=92 and act in it. =91Infotopia_the
infogolem=92, a both utopian and critical view of the great expectations th=
at
are held regarding the information and knowledge society.

Speakers:

Aram Bartholl (Germany), =91Daten am Ort=92
(student of architecture at the Universit=E4t der K=FCnste, Berlin)
In =91Daten am Ort=92, via the application of mobile communication technolo=
gy,
new social and cultural properties are added to the public space by
offering information that is limited to specific locations. For instance,
public space as gaming environment for skaters. =91Hand-held=92 or cell pho=
nes
allow the skaters to =91browse=92 the information that is available in the
public space (e.g. skating routes that contain special assignments).
www.datenamort.de

Dirk van Oosterbosch (NL), =91Friend=92
(student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam)
A project taken to its extremes; a mobile computer system  =91Friend=92  ta=
kes
you through the information jungle of the public space, while sending
=91agents=92 to available public networks to select specific information fo=
r
you. The results are then transmitted through an earphone. The downside:
the system containing all your personal data may mutate when it is hacked
into by unwanted =91friends=92.

Jaanis Garancs (LV/D), =91Big Brotherhood Browser=92
(former E-Lab from Riga, student at the Kunsthochschule f=FCr Medien in Col=
ogne)
An almost utopian view of the information society where almost everybody
has an implant (or a cell phone) by which behavior as well as processes
within the body are being monitored. All of the information thus obtained
is of social, cultural and political value. Trade it! Get paid for it while
you play, play while you work.
www.khm.de/~jg

Konrad Becker (A), =91World-Information.Org=92
(director of Public Netbase, Institute for New Culture Technologies, Vienna=
)
A presentation about the history of deliberate misinformation. A sobering
audiovisual bombardment of facts, quotations and events, detailing how we
are being misled/misguided every day by the media.
www.world-information.org


For more information: www.v2.nl/2002
The presentation can also be viewed on line: www.v2.nl/live

Concept and production: V2_Organisation, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotte=
rdam

=91Infotopia_the infogolem=92 is supported by: Cultural Affairs, City of
Rotterdam, Ministry of Culture, Luna Internet.