Activism

The Influencers 2009: Analog Guerrillas

This year from 5 th to 7 th February The Influencers festival was held at the premises of the CCCB in Barcelona. The minds that are behind this exciting event, at its fifth edition, are: Bani ( lively and curious curator and designer), Eva and Franco Mattes ( 0100101110101101.org), and Marco Deseriis (journalist, researcher at the Department of Media, Culture and Communication of New York University and author of the book 'Net Art, the art of connecting'). The large audience consists of people of all ages, many supporters who go every year to the Catalan capital just for this event not to be missed.... READ MORE...

Police seize UK indymedia server

An Indymedia server was seized by police in Manchester yesterday (22nd). This was probably related to postings about the recent Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) trial.Kent Police had e-mailed imc-uk-contact in the morning requesting that personal information about the judge in the SHAC trial be removed from the site.... READ MORE...

Eduardo Navas: Track Me Not, Please!

Three years ago I had a long interview with Eduardo Navas about his editorial project, 'NewmediaFix', the online platform that republishes and redistributes texts and interviews from the most influential international magazines focused on art and media (between them Digicult) and which I collaborated with as editor for almost one year. I met again by email Eduardo for another interview about his last online project, 'Traceblog, launched on October 2008'... READ MORE...

Pancevo Art Salon 2008

The Pancevo Art Salon returns this year from November 20th to 30th, 2008. This event will include an exhibition of local and international artists works, performances, public workshops, presentations and a mystery urban excursion addressing this year's thematic tensions + breaking points.... READ MORE...

Micro-cinema: La Storia Vera Di Malastrada

Intervista a MALASTRADA sistema produttivo cinematografico basato sul micro-finanziamento in cerca di una sperimentazione comunicativa che sostenga una progettualitˆ filmica autonoma, in una situazione dove l'idea del broadcast e della sala commerciale sono l'ectoplasma per il cinema contemporaneo, basta donare 10 euro per diventare co-produttori di un opera cinematografica 'dal basso'.... READ MORE...

Aha-camper: Le Trappole Del Social Networking

Nel mese di settembre 2008 gli iscritti alla mailing list aha (aha@ecn.org) hanno visto crescere il traffico delle mail quasi a dismisura. Da una media di 2 o 3 mail al giorno, con picchi di poche decine quando si accendeva qualche flame, si  passati quasi improvisamente a una media di 30, 40, poi 50 mail al giorno, arrivando a superare, nei giorni pi caldi, le 80 mail.... READ MORE...

Richard Stallman

Venerdi' 12 settembre 2008 durante il Festival Medievalmedia.org organizzato dall'Associazione Culturale UALUBA.ORG nella citta' di Brescia. Alle ore 16 presso la Libera Accademia di Belle Arti LABA, via Don G. Vender 66 Brescia, si terra' un workshop/conferenza alla presenza di Richard Stallman, Copyright vs Community in the age of computer networks... READ MORE...