<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: small;">Economies of Art and Technology Collaboration</span></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">Symposium, Performance and Workshop</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">Waag Society, Amsterdam, 28 & 29 March 2014</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">Are you interested in what happens at the intersection of art and information technology? The arts are now being asked to look beyond traditional forms of public funding and make a case for their ‘value’. This event will critically interrogate this assumption and look at ways in which artists and technologists can develop successful collaborations. </font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">Discuss, experience and co-create with leading artists, technologists and thought leaders during our ICT and Art Connect event: Economies of Art and Technology Collaboration: Politics, Ethics, Power and Propaganda. </font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">Symposium program</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">With Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica), Matt Adams (Blast Theory), Mitch Altman (co-founder of the first Makerfaire), Harlan Levey (HBL projects) and more. </font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">Performance</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">With Luciana Haill (Augmented consciousness) and Ivan Henriques & Raoul Frese (Symbiotic Machine). </font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">Workshop</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">Networking, advice and the workshops "Soldering is Easy" and Bio Strike.</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2"><div>When: </div><div>Friday, 28 March, 2014 - 15:00 to Saturday, 29 March, 2014 - 17:00</div><div>Where: </div><div>Waag Society, Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam</div><div><br></div><div>http://waag.org/en/event/ict-and-art-connect-economies-art-and-technology-collaboration</div></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">ICT & Art Connect sets out to bring together artists and technologists to explore new ways of working. Collaborative acts of co-creation, together with an open and multidisciplinary discussion, will foster the bringing together of art and technology. The initiative stems from the EU FP7 funded support action FET-Art, addressing the FET (Future Emerging Technologies) objective of the FP7 ICT Theme.</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><br></div><span></span><br></div></div></div><br><style>p { margin: 0; }</style></div></body></html>