[spectre] mst at ars: Invitation

[emonk at eliot.priv.at]

INVITATION

The Medienstammtisch* Linz invites interested Ars Electronica Festival 
guests and visitors to come by during the festival. The MST includes 
individuals – artists, activists, cultural workers and others – from 
the Freie Szene (the independent art scene of Linz) and various 
organizations and institutions, whose special interests include tools 
& skills for independent artists and others working in cultural 
contexts, electronic and social networks, possibilities for accessing 
and using various types of media ...

We would be happy to talk about some of the things going on in Linz 
and hear about similar and related interests and experiences 
elsewhere, including:

- infrastructures (e.g. public hotspots) that can be meaningfully used 
  for artistic and social-critical projects;

- working and production conditions needed for independent media art 
  and how these can be secured;

- various (online and offline) communication structures and platforms 
  that can promote cooperation and collaboration; how cooperation, 
  collaboration, solidarity are even possible when everyone is 
  competing (has to compete) for limited resources;

- the use of free software for independent media work; how tools and 
  software need to be designed so that they can be used effectively.


When: Friday, September 1, starting at 10.00 p.m.
Where: extreme couching, Goethestraße 30 (map: 
http://www.kunstraum.at)

Those who can't make it then will also find us at the Unofficial 
Time's Up "simply a party" on Saturday, September 2 
(http://www.timesup.org/images/way/way.jpg)

Additional information: http://www.servus.at/xchange

(*A "Stammtisch" is a table at a pub or restaurant where regulars 
gather to discuss certain shared interests, in our case "media". 
Whether the discussions lead to actions or just more talk depends on 
the people at the table.)





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