WE SEIZE! strategic conference programme
05.Dec.03 - Voila! the programme for the WE SEIZE strategic conference is stabilizing and it is getting more and more detailed...
Dec 7th & 8th
Preparatory days, open to all, to discuss the topics and sub-topics that should be tabled for debate within the following s-conf. Studio, 4th floor, Usine.
Dec 9th
The following debates will be scheduled throughout the day. Check later versions of this document for exact times.
10.00 COFFEE
10.30
• INFORMATION POLITICS 101: What are the major issues in the emerging information politics movement? Catch-up time for those who want to get up to date with the issues with a variety of 'expert' speakers and a good long question and answer session. No controversy: just for people to inform themselves.
• With: Alan Toner (Autonomedia), Benjamin Mako Hill (Debian), Christine Treguier (la FIL and Big Brother Awards France), Stefan Merten (Oekonux) and others.
12.00 COFFEE
12.30
• IP & IP LAW: USE, REFUSE, ABUSE. While developing our understanding of the inequities of IP policymaking and law, should we also develop a strategy and attitude for dealing with it? Are other circuits 'outside' the jurisdiction of the lawmakers developing in, for example, peer to peer and wireless network communities?
• With: James Love (CPTech)
14.00 LUNCH
15.00
• WORKING WITH OPENNESS. How can openness help us in research, organisation and practice? Are there problems associated with open organisation? What are the major benefits? Can truly open practice still be radical? How does open practice work with secret or closed organisation?
• With: bio-informatics.org, SECTOR, Samizdat
• The 'Working With Openness' session begins with a showing of the documentary 'Dying For Drugs'.
16.30 COFFEE
17.00 OPEN DISCUSSIONS
18.30 DINNER
21.00 SCREENING.
• "Les hommes du port", examining self-organization amongst dockers in Genoa. Alain Tanner,CH/F 1995, 64 min. Includes an introduction by the director. At Spoutnik 11, rue de la Coulouvrenière, (just upstairs from the conference location. The screening will be followed by a discussion focussing on self-organization in the past (Genoa) and today (in the context of free software and other networked cooperative projects.)
Dec 10th
The following debates will be scheduled throughout the day. Check later versions of this document for exact times.
10.00 COFFEE
10.30
• INFOWAR: REPORTS FROM THE FRONT Experiences at the recent FTAA Miamiprotests suggest an escalation in brutal military suppression and infowar tactics at anti neoliberalisation protests. This session will include appraisals of the events in Miami and offer an opportunity to discuss responses and tactics; it will also look at the Coup détat in Venezuela where powerful economic groups are still working to depose legitimate President Hugo Chavez with the aid of mass media.bio-informatics.org
• With: Sasha Costanza-Chock (FTAA IMC), Rene Baralt (Aporrea.org), Jesus Rogriguez (Venezuelan Community Media.)
This session will begin with an edited, 20 minute showing ofthe documentary "The Revolution will not be televised, which offers a fascinating inside perspective on President Chavez's popularity and the way that media can bastardize the truth for political gain. There will also be a screening of the entire film at the end of the day.
12.00 COFFEE
12.30
• HACK_IT! Hacklabs & intervening in information/media regimes with tools, technologies and skills. What are hacklabs, and what are their possibilities for redistributing information power?
• With: hackitectura.net, pRiNT!, Reload, Cielito Lindo (sindominio.net), European Counterinformation Network.
• more info here
14.00 LUNCH
15.00
• IN/OUT? What approach should we take to confronting issues like media concentration, patent and copyright inequities and the role of labour? Should we be working autonomously or within existing 'policy' structures?
• With: Communications Rights In Information Society (CRIS)
16.30 COFFEE
17.00
• AUTONOMOUS MEDIA What is the state of the art in autonomous media infrastructures? What are our successes and failures? What form should independent or autonomous media take? Should we 'become the media'?
• With: DeeDee Halleck (DeepDish TV), James Stevens (Consume), European Indymedia activists
18:00 CONCLUDING DISCUSSIONS & INTERVENTIONS