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I’m presenting at this panel at Columbia’s Studio-X (in Tribeca).

Also, I am giving a paper at 3rd Inclusiva-net meeting: NET.ART (SECOND EPOCH), at CCEBA – Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires. I’m presenting on Plug-ins and API art work remotely at 9AM EST- I won’t be there, but my media aura will. My understanding is they will be streaming here.

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Thursday, 3/5, 6:30 pm: THE COMMONS

Given the massive bailout of the financial sector by the US government and the demise of laissez-faire capitalism, questions of regulation, shared burden and collective action resonate more strongly than ever with the public. Garrett Hardin’s 1968 essay “The Tragedy of the Commons”illustrates the dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently in her or his own self-interest can ultimately destroy a shared resource, even when everyone knows that this depletion is in no one’s long-term interest. Hardin, a biologist, was concerned with population growth, and discusses the moral and ethical issues at stake when “no technical solution” to the problem is available. How might we re-evaluate the Commons as both opportunity and dilemma today?

Taking a cue from Rahm Emanuel’s remark that “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” this discussion will question how the current shift in national sentiment toward shared responsibility and collective action might enable us to re-examine the Commons as a social form. How might the structure of the Commons help shape the way we think about shared natural resources such as fresh water or air, or the physical structure of our cities? How might successful initiatives such as Creative Commons provide useful insights into ways of structuring sharing in other areas? How should we take action to protect our common wealth? Featuring:

NORA LIBERTUN DE DUREN, Director of Planning, New York City Parks and Recreation Department
OLYMPIA KAZI, Executive Director, Institute for Urban Design
MICHAEL MANDIBERG, Artist; Senior Fellow, Eyebeam
MARK SHEPARD, AND; SUNY-Buffalo
BROOKE SINGER, Artist

Moderated by GAVIN BROWNING, Studio-X

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Studio-X
180 Varick Street, Suite 1610
New York City

Between King and Charleton Streets
1 train to Houston Street

I’m chairing a panel at CAA in Los Angeles, with some great participants.

Artist as Startup: Web Application as Cultural Intervention
Friday, February 27, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Michael Mandiberg, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

MyFrienemies.com: Anti-Social Networking
Angie Waller, Parsons the New School for Design

Mechanical Olympics
xtine burrough, California State University, Fullerton

Beyond Friend Collecting and the Gossip Mill: Social Networking for Change
Brooke Singer, Purchase College, State University of New York

Add-Art.org: Why Reinvent the Wheel When One Gear Can Make the Whole System Run Backward
Steve Lambert, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology

On November 7 & 8, 2008, the University of California, Berkeley will hold a symposium on appropriation rights in the digital era entitled:

Takeovers & Makeovers: Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use, and Copyright in the Digital Age.

This event will bring together artists, lawyers, art historians, and representatives from the information technology community to discuss the changing field of appropriation art in the wake of the emergence of new
digital media technologies that have radically altered access to and manipulation of information.

Takeovers & Makeovers:
Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use, and Copyright in the Digital Age
November 7th and 8th, 2008
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley Art Museum
2621 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704

Full program at:
http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/takeovers/

Participants include:
David Evans (Professor of Art History, Arts Institute at Bournemouth)
Fred Von Lohmann (Senior Staff Attorney, The Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Michael Mandiberg (Artist, New York)
Jason Schultz (Associate Director, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic)
MTAA [M. River & T. Whild] (Artists, New York)
Tom McDonough (Professor of Art History, SUNY Binghamton)
Virginia Rutledge (Special Counsel, Creative Commons, Chair, Art Law Committee, New York City Bar Association)
Abigail de Kosnik (Professor of New Media and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley)
Larisa Mann (Jurisprudence Scholar, Boalt School of Law)
Anne M. Wagner (Professor of Art History, UC Berkeley)
Candice Breitz (Artist, Professor of Fine Art, Braunschweig University of Art)
Rick Prelinger (Co-Founder, The Prelinger Library & Board President, The Internet Archive)
Richard Rinehart (Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator, Berkeley Art Museum)
The Billboard Liberation Front (Media Activists, San Francsico)
Peter Krapp, (Professor, Film & Media Studies, School of Humanities UC Irvine)
Marisa Olson, (Artist, Curator at Large, Rhizome; Ph.D. Candidate, Rhetoric/Film Studies, UC Berkeley)