[spectre] NODE.London presents: Open Season, London, October 2005

black black at open.x-i.net
Thu Sep 22 13:51:13 CEST 2005


This October the UK government, as part of its presidency of the EU, is
holding a pan-European conference on how to consolidate regulation and
control of intellectual property, copyright and technology.

Looking for creative alternatives, NODE.London is declaring this October
an 'Open Season' on technology, media, culture, politics and art with a
diverse and challenging series of events:

October--------Sat-1st--Sun-2nd--------->

_WSFII_

(The World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures)

- Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October 2005, 11am - 6pm.
- Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London E14 7HA
- http://wsfii.org

This event brings together practitioners and projects from the front
lines of information infrastructure development to map out connections
between Free Networks, Open Hardware, Free Media and Culture, Open
Maps/Geodata, Open Civic Information and Community Currencies.

October--------Tues-4th--------------->

_Future Wireless_

(practical.discourse.creative / Cybersalon & Open Spectrum UK)

- Tuesday 4th October, 12noon-10pm.
- The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington,
   London SW7 5HE
- http://www.cybersalon.org

A day of presentations, demonstrations, practical workshops, artistic
interventions and debates to illustrate and probe the nature, impact and
potential of wireless Internet, mobile telecommunications and other
radio-based technologies.

October------Sat-7th--Sun-8th---------->

_Open Congress_

(Creativity and the public domain)

- Friday 7th Saturday 8th October 2005, 11am - 5pm.
- Tate Britain, Millbank London SW1P 4RG
- http://opencongress.omweb.org/

Open Congress explores how methods derived from Free / Libre and Open
Source Software (FLOSS) production can be deployed by those working in
the area of art, visual culture and cultural production in general.

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++ many other exciting related events: check
http://nodel.org/october.html for more details



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