[spectre] livestream 28th of september Mark Pesce in conversation with Jan Simons

[Floor van Spaendonck]

Cyberspace Salvations
28 September 2005: Mark Pesce in conversation with Jan Simons 
(MediaStudies University of Amsterdam)
livestream; http://connect.waag.org

Waag Society is organising a series of discussions about the internet 
and spirituality in co-operation with the Universities of Leiden and 
Rotterdam that have jointly initiated a large-scale research project on 
this subject. As a medium, the internet has an unprecedented 
imaginative appeal and has generated the wildest fantasies amongst 
philosophers, media theoreticians and science fiction writers even 
before it had become a household name. For the first time here was the 
possibility to roam an endless matrix without the restrictions of the 
physical body and with the sum total of the world?s knowledge at your 
fingertips. Hence, it is hardly surprising that divine powers have been 
attributed to the internet, which is both all knowing and omnipresent.

This initial series focuses on Stephen Levy?s 'Hackers'. Heroes of the 
Computer Revolution, in which these pioneering computer heroes first 
used the term 'hacker' in the present sense of the word. The book 
reveals the influence that hackers have had on the development of 
computer culture. These evening events will be largely given over to 
public discussion where participation is open not only to those present 
but also to viewers who can ?hack? the proceedings by means of the 
internet.

Lee Felsenstein, who is quoted in Levy's book, opened the series on 14 
September and is interviewed by second generation hacker Rop Gonggrijp. 
Richard Bartle, who was involved with the first internet community, 
talked to game expert Marinka Copier on the 21st of  September. This 
first series will be concluded today on 28 September with a 
conversation between New media professor Jan Simons and Mark Pesce, who 
wrote the classic The Playful World. How Technology Is Changing Our 
Imagination.

Where: Theatrum Anatomicum, Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam

When:  28 September 2005 at 8 p.m.

All broadcasts are streamed and archived on http://connect.waag.org/
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