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Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media Conference and Celebration October 19th and 20th of 2006
We don't know enough about digital media as something other than a means to an end, as “instrumental culture”, where culture itself —mainstream, alternative, underground, or otherwise— is degraded to the status of tools (some hard, some soft, all ware).
We know too much about media discourses as, on the one hand, “popular culture”: alienated and commodified cultural forms; and on the other, “cultural theory”: paranoid cosmologies of hyper-rhetoric, and the ubiquitous inevitability of evil...
Hyperpolis: Really Useful Media will provide a forum for the discussion and presentation of some positive contributions to the field, in light of these chronic imbalances.
Atopia (David Turnbull and Jane Harrison) Katherine Carl Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Jodi Dean Karen Hall Tom Keenan Michael Liegl Geert Lovink Rev. Luke Murphy Eric Redlinger Richard Rogers Ruth Ron Michael Schumacher Steven Shaviro Juha Uitto Greg Van Alstyne McKenzie Wark
Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th, 11am to 6pm Dibner Auditorium, Polytechnic University, 6 MetroTech, Brooklyn, 11201.
Contact Carl Skelton at 718-260-4018 or cskelton@poly.edu.
Check out~ http://idmi.poly.edu/drupal/?q=hyper and come join us!
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I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. - Martin Luther King, Jr.