{"id":2542,"date":"2014-06-16T09:05:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T09:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openreflections.wordpress.com\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2014-06-16T09:05:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T09:05:22","slug":"creative-hacktivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/?p=2542","title":{"rendered":"Creative Hacktivism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seminar presented at BOM (Birmingham Open Media) in collaboration with the Centre for Disruptive Media, Coventry University<\/h3>\n

Tuesday 24th<\/sup> June, 10.30am \u2013 5.00pm FREE but places strictly limited and must be booked in advance through Eventbrite<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Hacker ethics and cultures have inspired some of the most innovative digital developments, from Apple’s design to the very fabric of the Internet’s infrastructure. In this one-day seminar The Centre for Disruptive Media in collaboration with BOM will critically explore the rise of ‘hacktivism<\/span>‘ and its close relationship with creative<\/span> practice. Hacktivism<\/span>, described as <\/span>“politically motivated hacking”<\/i><\/span> by cultural theorist Tim Jordan, is an approach increasingly used by creative<\/span> practitioners such as artists, software designers and synthetic biologists to probe ethical problems in a digital context. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This seminar fuses debates around creative<\/span> practice and hacktivism<\/span> by exploring artists and digital provocateurs who, through activism and digital interventions, have disturbed artistic, political and ethical boundaries to, among other things, increase public debate and extend critical thinking in these areas. Invited speakers and practitioners will present radical interventions that have highlighted urgent contemporary issues around privacy, surveillance, bio-ethics and the pursuit of ‘free’ information. This seminar will also explore the attempts of ‘bio-hackers’ who have worked with biological materials and who want to disturb and radically re-think, through artistic means, what it is to be human in posthuman times. Finally, this seminar will examine artists who have intervened in the way we produce, disseminate and communicate information through books and data. Book hacks disturb the book in this respect to trigger a re-thinking of its materiality and use as well as the infrastructures and political-economies that currently accompany the book in both print and digital formats.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The seminar will take place in BOM’s new space at 1 Dudley Street, Birmingham B5 4EG prior to the building’s refurbishment and BOM’s launch this autumn. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Speakers:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Janneke Adema <\/b><\/span>\u2013 Research Fellow (Digital Media) Coventry University<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Gina Czarnecki <\/b><\/span>– Artist<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Gary Hall – <\/b><\/span>Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media, Coventry University<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mishka Henner <\/b><\/span>\u2013 Artist<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tim Jordan – <\/b><\/span>Professor of Digital Cultures at King’s College London<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alessandro Ludovico<\/b><\/span> – Artist, media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Marcell Mars<\/b><\/span> – Free software advocate, cultural explorer and social instigator<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Karen Newman <\/b><\/span>\u2013 Research Fellow (Digital Media) Coventry University\u00a0 \/ Director of BOM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Robert M Ochshorn <\/b><\/span>– Artist<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Eleanor Saitta<\/b><\/span> – Hacker, designer, artist, writer, barbarian<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Stephanie de Smale<\/b><\/span> \u2013 Researcher in the Open Wetlab, Amsterdam<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Lily Wales<\/b><\/span> – Artist<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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10.30 \u2013 11.00 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Arrival and coffee<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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11.00 \u2013 11.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Opening Address, Karen Newman<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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11.15 \u2013 11.45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Keynote Presentation: Dr Tim Jordan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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11.45 \u2013 12.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Keynote Presentation: Eleanor Saitta<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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12.15 \u2013 12.45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Keynote Presentation: Dr Alessandro Ludovico<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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12.45 \u2013 13.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Q&A and Discussion<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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13.15 \u2013 14.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Break for lunch (please note lunch will not be provided)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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14.00 \u2013 15.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Media Hackers: Presentations and Discussion <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mishka Henner, Lily Wales (chaired by Karen Newman)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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15.00 \u2013 16.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bio-Hackers: Presentations and Discussion<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Stephanie de Smale, Gina Czarnecki (chaired by Gary Hall)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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16.00 \u2013 17.00\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Book Hackers: Presentations and Discussion<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Robert M Ochshorn, Marcel Mars (chaired by Janneke Adema)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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