jim submits:

Globalica: Conceptual and Artistic Tensions in the New Global Disorder

A Symposium Organised by WRO Media Art Centre & Institute of Digital Arts and
Technology [i-DAT]
as part of Globalica, WRO 03, 10th International Media
Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland, 1 May 2003

http://wro03.wrocenter.pl>

http://www.i-dat.org>

Against a backdrop of Poland's impending entry into the European Union (and
neo-liberal capitalism), the symposium aims to investigate the local
tensions around the ways in which artists and commentators respond to global
processes, and the language and strategies they employ to do so. How does
contemporary artistic practice respond to these tensions, especially when
using or reflecting the use of network technologies? Do artists simply
respond using the same fashionable rhetoric as the system they seek to
question? What chance does networked resistance have of being resistant in
such a scenario? What models are there left to aspire to?
The symposium aims to excavate these conceptual tensions and paradoxes
surrounding artists' critical use of technologies and their use of the
predominant metaphors of networked global communications. All speakers will
address these ideas in terms of the viability of 'local' resistant networks.
The proposed symposium is divided into two sessions addressing conceptual
tensions and artistic/curatorial strategies.

Speakers:

* Adam Chmielewski (University of Wroclaw), Globalism and Particularism: On
the Particularity of Global Forces and Globality of Particularisms

* Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London), Two Worlds of Fortune:
Culture and Dying in the Global Zone

* Andreas Broeckmann (transmediale, Berlin), On the Heuristics of Artistic
Action

* Monica Narula (Raqs Media Collective, Delhi), Stubborn Structures and
Insistent Seepage: Art in a Networked World

* Zoran Pantelic (kuda.org, Novi Sad), From Software to Hardware: From an
Artistic Act to Social Activism

* James Stevens (deckspace, London), Trip the Loop, Make your Switch,
Consume the Net

* Piotr Wyrzykowski aka Peter Style (CUKT, Gdansk/Kiev), Politicians are
Redundant

Forthcoming: ARTIST AS ENGINEER

symposium organised by Institute of Digital Arts and Technology [i-DAT] in
partnership with Arts Council England as part of INTERRUPT: artists in
socially engaged practice, 2/3 June 2003

http://www.interrupt-symposia.org>

http://www.i-dat.org>

Symposia curated and introduced by Geoff Cox & Joasia Krysa (i-DAT,
University of Plymouth)