Issue 5.1 of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor is now available
online at workplace

Sections include "Technology, Democracy, and Academic Labor" (edited by
Laura Bartlett and Marc Bousquet in collaboration with Richard Ohmann
and *Radical Teacher*), "Organizing the Family" (edited by Noreen
O'Connor), and "Activist Front" (with features by Bill Vaughn and
Nick Tingle).

The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts has set the
goal for itself of promoting the wide development, application and
distribution of, and reflection on new technologies in the visual arts.

Starting in 2002, the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based
Arts is inviting artists from The Netherlands and other countries to apply
for a three till six months research period to carrying out investigations
in three areas:


Streaming media

Wireless applications

3D applications


In 2002 and 2003 we are focussing on streaming media. One of the current
disadvantages of live and on-demand streaming media on the Internet (video /
audio) is the confined space in which streaming media applications run.
Often this is not more than a linear interpolation of current video and
television formats in existence. This is emphasised by the media player,
which often is no more than a representation of a television only with low
quality imagery and sound. This confinement is a restriction for creating
and investigating new formats for streaming media.

Global Social Disobedience in Solidarity with Argentina's Popular Rebellion, December 20–21, 2002

As Argentina tumbles further into uncharted financial
crisis, an inspiring popular rebellion has been spreading
across the country. An ongoing movement has
developed that has become a living laboratory of
struggle, a space where the popular politics of the
future are being re-invented. The rising rebellion
exploded on December 20th 2001, when over a million
people took to the streets banging their pots and pans
and ousting the government. This year on the 20th of
December people in Argentina and across the globe
are calling for a global day of Action to demonstrate
that those who are building alternatives to the
dictatorship of the markets are not alone.

The IWW Edmonton General Membership Branch is pleased to be participating
in this conference. We are co-sponsoring along with the University of
Alberta Library and the English Department the display of archival
materials from the University of Berekely Emma Goldman Archives. The
conference will be happening during Edmonton's annual May Week Labour
Festival of Art, Culture and Politics.

Culture and the State Conference:

Past, Present, and Future

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 2-5, 2003

conference