edmar writes:

Hello all. We are trying to reshape the climate in Chi town and conduct some urban landscaping to boot. Won't you please come to Chicago this spring? Regime change for US,
edmar

The Version>04: Invisible Networks Convergence
April 16-May 1, 2004, Chicago

http://www.versionfest.org

Deadline Feb 15, 2004 for online submissions

The Version>04: invisibleNetworks convergence is an opportunity for creating connections between programmers, artists, scientists, musicians, filmmakers, activists, tactical media provocateurs, designers, architects, critical thinkers and culture workers of all kinds. The Version>04: invisibleNetworks convergence brings diverse groups together to share, communicate and organize while also asking participants to discuss these processes. Creating a tangible network of associations between participants, Version>04: invisibleNetworks fosters conversations, creative resistance and cultural action.Version>04: invisibleNetworks seeks to make our tactics transparent, discuss our shared resources and divergent approaches.The convergence is an examination and exploration of our practices and will focus on the networks we form, deconstruct and utilize.

The Version>04: invisibleNetworks convergence encourages discussions of the methods and approaches we use to move into and out of the social, economic, artistic, political and technical networks we connect to and/or disconnect from. The Version>04: invisibleNetworks convergence mobilizes a diagram of these interconnections, entry and exit points and the transmissions that occur within them. Version>04: invisibleNetworks invites your interventions, activities, comments and participation in building these networks of resistance cultures.

Version>04: invisibleNetworks is also Announcing: PROJECT THREADS
http://submissions.versionfest.org/projects.php

PROJECT THREADS
Version>04 will feature several project and filtering threads that center on
revealing practices of intervention, exposure and connectivity. The projects
are also efforts in creating and expanding collaborative networks of
resistance cultures and activities. Many of these projects allow participants to
share their ideas and work without being physically present at the
convergence.

1. Invisible College
DEADLINE for project submission March 15, 2004

2. Invisible Network Repository
No DEADLINE for project submission. A subsite will be created soon.

3. TLVSN
DEADLINE for submissions March 1, 2004.

4. WPBR
DEADLINE for submissions March 31, 2004

5. The art of Cultural Interference
DEADLINE for submissions March 31, 2004.

6. ZROX / b.w/ magazine project
DEADLINE for submissions March 31, 2004