From: rammeke.pic (rammeke.pic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: CULTURAL RESISTANCE ! 2000-05-19

C U L T U R A L   R E S I S T A N C E !
an event by VP.be
May 19 2000
Vanderborght building - Bxl 2000 HQ
Schildknaapstr. 50, 1000 Brussels
http://www.dbonanzah.org/cure/eventMay19/

An unstable night full of digital disobedience, alternative culture, and
media art.

Internet, computer, CD-Rom.  The new culture machines allow you to enjoy
and manipulate text, visuals and music at your will. So you mail your
music across the globe, and your pictures and illustrations adorn your
website. However, all of a sudden these things become impossible.
Copyright! Before you know it, you have been classified as a minor
criminal. Is this justified? What have you done wrong? Aren't you
putting into practice what a number of artists and alternative groups
have been advocating so strongly for, namely the open and free use of
cultural artefacts? In this scenario internet does not feature as a
digital copy machine, playing a nasty trick on the commercial world. On
the contrary, it is a free zone, where collective creation and
experimentation with new forms of cultural participation become focal.
It aspires to escape the deadlock of cultural policy, and the stagnation
of the cultural institutions. Ideas abound: open source, free access to
resources, global collaboration, virtual performances,... Yet the
industry, politics, legislators and copyright associations are on their
guard. They refuse to give up their monopoly and forcefully try to
retain control. That's why lately, they have been very prominently
present on the net. However: the virus of resistance is spreading!

Participants:

leonardo journal (FR+USA)
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/

etoy (EU+USA)
http://www.etoy.com/

rtmark (USA)
http://www.rtmark.com/

detritus.net (USA)
http://www.detritus.net/

earlabs (NL)
http://www.earlabs.org/

distorted media (BE)
http://soli.inav.net/~psrf/home/links.html

logos (BE)
http://ping4.ping.be/logos/copyrigh.html

dbonanzah! (BE)
http://www.dbonanzah.org/

With confirmed unexpected guests.

http://www.dbonanzah.org/cure/eventMay19/
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/
http://www.etoy.com/
http://www.rtmark.com/
http://www.detritus.net/
http://www.earlabs.org/
http://soli.inav.net/~psrf/home/links.html
http://ping4.ping.be/logos/copyrigh.html
http://www.dbonanzah.org/ 
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