WE SEIZE polimedia lab in Geneva
the polimedia lab is located at 3 bis Rue du Stand across from the usine. for an up-to-date list of activities and workshops please consult the wiki at geneva03.net
WSIS? WE SEIZE! polimedia lab
07.Dec.03 - The WE SEIZE! Polimedia Lab is a temporary media and communications laboratory, taking place as part of theWSIS? WE SEIZE! events and actions in Geneva. It will serve as a platform to develop and experiment with horizontal communication, to share experiences and knowledge, to create networks of alternative and grassroots communication projects, and present an alternative vision of information society. Like all other open WE SEIZE! events, the Lab welcomes local Genevans, WSIS delegates, NGO members and info-activists alike to use the lab for skill sharing and learning.
The Polimedia Lab is another stage in the ongoing series of experiments in autonomous media, in which the Hub project (Florence, nov 2002), the M?tallos Medialab (Paris, nov 2003) and theEuropean Hacklabs have been important. It's critical that we learn how to develop our own platforms and technologies for communcating, sharing experiences and knowledge outside the restrictive regimes planned by the policymakers at forums like WSIS.
Polimedia Lab will focus on horizontality, emancipation, openness, creativity and freedom, where WSIS will be about hierarchy, exclusion, and control. It will present practical projects by those who actually develop information society on a grassroots level. While WSIS will be busy presenting dry documents by those who use, exploit and repress the work of others, we will engage in an act of communications insurgency.
What will take place at Polimedia Lab?
The Polimedia Lab is in part a continuation of the two days of discussion in the WE SEIZE!Strategic Conference. Taking some of the themes of the S-CONF, it will turn theories and ideas into practice :
? Indymedia Centre with public access terminals ? pirate TV and pirate radio ? video and radio streams : global, multidirectional, and in interaction with streams being produced elsewhere ? skill sharing workshops on technological aspects of communication : GNU/linux and other free Operating Systems, encryption&privacy, WiFi, satellite transmission, hacking, streaming,.. ? permanent workshops on non-technical aspects of communication : horizontal, non-hierarchical ways of communicating- network meetings of groups and individuals involved with free TV, free radio, Indymedia, video, etc. to develop and facilitate cooperations
Check the program (continuously updated with dates, hours, places, contents)
Polimedia Lab presents
Indymedia centre with public access terminal - Wireless and wire network - Open access machines - Chill-out space - Refreshments & Food