edmar writes

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:: Digital Arts Convergence :: March 26-30 2003 :: Chicago :: Technotopia vs Technopacalypse ::::
exploring the multitudes of technology, society, arts, activism and culture ::
Co-presented by Select Media and the Museum of Contemporary Art

For its second annual
festival of digital media arts, the MCA and Select Media
examine two forceful trends, Globalization (the merging
of economies) and Singularity (the adaptation of man to
machine), as seen, created, and debated by programmers,
artists, scientists, activists and critical thinkers.
The five-day festival, Technotopia vs. Technopacalypse,
brings together emerging and leading practitioners employing
or responding to the latest advancements in virtual reality,
robotics, biotech, and other such technology defining
our time. The roster featured in concerts, films, installation
labs, workshops, and panel discussions consists of proponents
as well as critics of the latest developments.

daybrea anarchist collective writes "Write for Daybreak! #4!

Tentative Deadline: Jan 15 2003

Daybreak! is a completely volunteer-run midwestern anarchist newspaper. In order for us to keep publishing we need for you to provide articles and art that people want to look at. We've chosen not to be just another newspaper filled with theoretical gobbley-gook or radical posturing, but one that provides inspiring and useful news and information to people both in and outside radical communities. Send us local and international news, art, information, DIY, Reviews, Letters, art, comics, exciting history, fun stuff etc! Send us SOMETHING, if you don't who will?

This issue is partly focused on the twin evils of work and school (though lots of other things will be included). We're looking particularly for short (paragraph) accounts of ways that people have resisted, sabotaged, or fucked with their work or school for our column, When Wage Slaves Attack.

We prefer the articles be sent to our email with a contact address or number, and only edit for length and with writers approval. On a side note distributors in infoshops or distros in the US should get ahold of us to get copies of the next issue, and we highly suggest individual Midwesterners to get their shit together and hand them out to your friends and neighbors.

Daybreak PO Box 14007 MINNEAPOLIS MN 55404

www.freespeech.org/mn/daybreak

daybreak@tao.ca"

Anonymous Comrade writes:"This important discussion going on at Infoshop.org at the moment. The link at the bottom will take you there.

The Sad Decline of Indymedia

by Chuck0

for Infoshop News

It was a great idea when the Independent Media Center opened up its first website for the Seattle anti-WTO protests in December 1999. The first IMC website came out of years of alternative and grassroots media activism. By a strange quirk of fate, the Seattle IMC also included something called the "open newswire," an experiment that allowed every reader to be a reporter, if they wanted to get involved in DIY, participatory media production. The IMC network recently observed its 3rd anniversary and the 100th IMC went online, but the IMC project is facing some serious problems which, if they aren't addressed by the supporters of the IMC network, will eventually destroy the wonderful idea that is Indymedia.

There are some that would argue that the Indymedia network needs a stronger organization to address its current and persistent problems. This may be somewhat true, but those of us who have pressed for reforms find ourselves at the mercy of a network of people who are afraid to step forward and make tough decisions. It might help if there were some more organized processes, but I see the chief problem with Indymedia these days to be a political one, not an organizational or technical problem.

Read the rest of this article."