The Alternate Net We Need, And How We Can Build It Ourselves
Fokustag in der Urania
Date: THU 29.9.2011
Location: Urania, Vienna
Starting: from 7 pm, Open End, afterwards @ LABfactory –
Vienna Experimental Lounge
Title: Future Fluxus - The Alternate Net We Need, And How We Can Build It Ourselves
Subtitle: An evening about the Crisis of Media Art, The 50th Birthday of Fluxus in 2012 and The New Fight for Anonymity (Freedom Box)
Without anonymity, the human race will not be human any more.
(Eben Moglen, Personal Democracy Forum, US of America, June 2011)
Fluxus means change among other things. The Fluxus of 1992 is not the Fluxus of 1962 and if it pretends to be - then it is a fake. The real Fluxus moves out from its old center into many directions, and the paths are not easy to recognize without lining up new pieces, middle pieces and old pieces together. Dick Higgins, Fluxus artist and co-founder
Keynote Speakers – Christophe Bruno (media artist, curator, Paris); Birgitta Jonsdottier (artist, activist, Member of Icelandic Parliament, tbc), a.o.
Moderation / Concept: Leo Findeisen & Markus Zimmermann (Vienna, Austria)