Five students from Chelsea College of Art have prepared an ambitious programme of public talks, discussions, workshops and screenings to investigate art and activism

For programme details and times see http://collide-collabo.org/

collide/collabo, a series of events and workshops free and open to the public, 25th- 29th June 2006, 10-20h, Chelsea College of Art, Millbank London SW1P 4RJ, tube: Pimlico

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The Art - Place - Technology International Symposium on Curating New Media Art took place at The School of Art and Design and FACT in Liverpool 30 March - 1 April 2006.  This post on the CRUMB mailing list reviews a selection of the conference presentations and also mentions Mute

Dear crumb list,

I hope that this post about the Art-Place-Technology conference does not interrupt the flow of the current discussion on this list. I should also say that I missed some presentation in the beginning of the event. Here it goes:

A new zone of media theory, netporn, revealed itself at this October’s The Art and Politics of Netporn conference in Amsterdam. Willing voyeur Sebastian Olma remained largely unaroused – except by the Italians, who were quite affecting.

Lutham Blissett on gender, networks and the PGA conference in Serbia

"Strange En counter 2004"

"It is often better to write your account of a conference before you go, then the facts don't get in the way of the truth", Lutham Blissett

Strange En counter 2004

FACT’s recent conference, Situationist Sim City: Critical Video Gaming Conference, June 28, 2004, attempted to analyse how the ‘virtual’ world of games infects and informs ‘real’ life and vice versa.

Elpueblodechina reports on the Freestyle seminar on Free, Libre and Open Source Software at V2 in Rotterdam

> Images created using Graham Harwood's GIMP plugin

Josephine Berry meets the Veterans of landmark exhibition cybernetic serendipity...

Art Servers Unlimited puts Internet dogmas to the test

Art Servers Unlimited. Why ART servers? Because politics and society are too important to be left to politically-correct politicians and self-serving sociologists; and art is the most satisfying and singularly comprehensive way to address all the issues head-on. Why UNLIMITED? Because diversity in all things, especially culture in a corporate age, is essential, and unless someone fights to maintain it, it'll disappear into homogeneity as big business steam-rollers through the Web.

Tom McCarthy on the recent Converging Stories conference at the ICA

With a ludic theme and international roster, Berlin’s Transmediale festival played a global game. As visitor to and participant in the event, artist Bea Gibson found her close-up view of the proceedings left her more enervated than enthused

>> Transmediale Lounge

What now for ‘access’ and ‘autonomy’ after the dot.bomb? Daniel Berchenko reports on current thinking in New York

Gregor Claude reports on the Don’t Blow IT conference, held at Bloomberg’s London HQ, where debate centred on the difference between autistic and autonomous models of privacy