NYC GRASSROOTS MEDIA CONFERENCE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
Join
us for the 4th Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference, where we will
strategize how media can be used as a tool to achieve social justice
across boundaries and beyond borders.
Fourth Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference:
Media and Movements Beyond Borders
Saturday February 24th, 2007, 10am-7pm
Where: New School University
65 Fifth Avenue (at 13th Street)
Sponsored by New School Department of Media Studies
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Register, network. submit your film, put in an ad or just join us in
strategizing on the use of social justice media as a tool to cut across
borders and boundaries.
Opening Reception/Networking Event:
Friday, February 23, 2007, 6pm–8pm
New School University
Wollman Hall
66 W. 12th, 5th Floor
*Refreshments provided*
Registration includes general admission to the Conference, access to
all workshops, networking sessions and panels.
Registration Fees:
$20 - Pre-Registration
$30 - Registration Day of Event
$15 - Student registration with valid ID
$25 - Student registration with valid ID Day of Event
$5 - Youth (21 and Under) Registration
Please contact info@nycgrassrootsmedia.org
if you'd like to apply for a scholarship, for more info or to see if
you qualify.
You can register online right now online using your credit card.
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at:
+ Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street (between Stanton and Rivington),
212.777.6028
+ VOX POP CAFE, 1022
Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11218,
718.940.2084
+ Labyrinth Books, 536
West 112th Street, New York, NY 10025,
212.865.1588
You will also be able to register at the conference itself.
See rates above for day-of entrance.
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We’re now accepting artwork and films, advertisements, table exhibition
reservations and more.
To submit your artwork
or film (Deadline Feb 2):
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(Deadline Feb 2):
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Join us for the 4th annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference as we
explore: What are the common threads inherent in our global struggles
for social change and how does media contribute to our understanding of
the root causes of injustice faced by world communities?
Participate in one of the most exciting, local, grassroots media and
activism events in New York City!
More than 200 local organizations and over 3,000 people have already
participated in NYC Grassroots Media Coalition events. The conference
offers an ideal opportunity for presenting organizations and activists
to reach out and gain visibility among the many conference attendees.
Network with participating organizations, make connections and form
the basis for future partnerships.
Information about how to submit proposals, art and film, purchase
ads, reserve tables and register for the conference is available at nycgrassrootsmedia.org
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Posted on January 17, 2007 in Event /
Call to action by Anayansi
Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour
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An E-Mail-Art project on the NetBehaviour email list culminating in an
exhibition at the HTTP Gallery in London.
Open Call for contributions from 31st January to 28th February 2007
via NetBehaviour email list: Subscribe here
http://www.netbehaviour.org/DIWO.htm
Exhibition at HTTP Gallery, London : http://www.http.uk.net
Initiated by Furtherfield.org : http://www.furtherfield.org
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The Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art exhibition aims to highlight the
already thriving imaginations of those who use social networks and
digital networks on the Internet as a form of distribution. Just like
Mail Art, E-Mail-Art bridges the divide between artists and non artists
to share a freely accessible form of distribution.
The Mail Art projects of the 60s, 70s and 80s demonstrated Fluxus
artists’ common disregard for the distinctions of ‘high’ and ‘low’ art
and a disdain for what they saw as the elitist gate-keeping of the
‘high’ art world. They often took the form of themed, ‘open calls’, in
which all submissions were exhibited and catalogued. Mail Art has always
been a useful way to bypass curatorial restrictions for those who wish
to create active and imaginative exchange on their own terms; this form
of activity usually flourishes outside of the gallery system.
This E-Mail-Art exhibition, intends to follow the spirit of past Mail
Art endeavours by asking those submitting their works to open themselves
to a shared dialogue as part of the process and medium on the
NetBehaviour mail list, as a playful platform for experimentation
together at the same time.
The theme of this E-Mail-Art project is Do It With Others (DIWO).
This project suggests that we extend the DIY ethos of some early net art
and tactical media (said to be motivated by curiosity, activism and
precision) towards a more collaborative DIWO approach. Peers connect,
communicate and collaborate, creating controversies, structures and
culture using both digital networks and shared physical environments.
You are invited to contribute and curate text, images, sound, net
movies, physical objects, installation plans etc. on the theme of DIWO,
only via the NetBehaviour email list, towards an open exhibition at the
HTTP Gallery in London that opens in March '07.
To participate in Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour
please join the NetBehaviour email list:
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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What Will Happen?
All posts to the NetBehaviour email list between 31st January and 1st
April 2007 will be considered part of the artistic and curatorial
project. In the spirit of early Mail Art Do It With Others (DIWO):
E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour is completely open. For the HTTP Gallery
contributors are be invited to propose works for networks, computers,
screens, projection, sound, print...
31st January: Contributions to Netbehaviour email list begin.
List members are invited to devise their own ordering and selection
strategies for the exhibition.
25th February 2 - 5pm GMT: Collaborative Curation Event
Open review of contributions and discussion about the exhibition. The
event will be webcast from the HTTP gallery. List contributions thus far
will take physical form as an exhibition. Discussions using IM (chat)
between Furtherfielders and other active contributors. Documented and
posted to the list.
1st March: Gallery Opening of Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at
NetBehaviour
1st March- 1st April: Continue to shape the exhibition via the email
list by contributing more work, suggesting things be taken down, put
back up, rearranged, anything!
1st May: All contributions documented in a catalogue available as a pdf
download.
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The project will also be documented in:-