[spectre] 'Hacking the Borders' workshop @Goldsmiths

[marc garrett]

Sorry for any cross overs...

'Hacking the Borders' workshop @Goldsmiths

The 'Hacking the Borders' workshop will be Tuesday 14th 14.30 – 16.30
in RHB 221.

/ 2.30pm-4.30pm / Hacking the Borders: We'll discuss different ways that 
digital technology can support freedom of movement and the struggles 
against detention & deportation. By exploring the untapped potential of 
tech and sharing inspiring examples, we aim to generate innovative ideas 
that can be prototyped after the Convergence. The workshop is inspired 
by hacking, which is 'creatively overcoming or circumventing 
limitations' and 'the reassembling of technology for unintended 
purposes'. This is not a workshop aimed at programmers but at anyone 
interested in the issues being tackled at the Convergence, and who has a 
feeling that social media & technology can help break through some 
barriers. [RHB 221]

Marc Garrett of internet arts collective http://www.furtherfield.org 
will kick the session off with a few examples of 'Border Hacktivist 
Art'. Where technologically aware artists are exploring not only beyond 
traditional, established art contexts and their frameworks. But, also 
creating new and imaginative engagements in hacking transcending methods 
in activism.

Marc Garrett is an activist, artist, writer and co-director/founder 
(with artist Ruth Catlow) of internet arts collective 
http://www.furtherfield.org (since 96) and the Furtherfield Gallery & 
social space in London. Through these platforms various contemporary 
media arts exhibitions and projects are presented nationally and 
internationally. Marc also hosts a weekly media arts radio programme on 
Resonance FM, co-edited the publication "Artists Re: thinking games" and 
is editing a new publication "Conversations As We Leave The 21st 
Century". He is currently undertaking a PhD at Birkbeck University, London.

all welcome...

Seminars and workshops at the NoBorders Convergence

During the first three days of the Convergence there will be a series of 
workshops and seminars taking place at Goldsmiths College in New Cross, 
south east London. All workshops are happening in the Richard Hoggart 
Building (RHB) of Goldsmiths unless otherwise stated. There will be a 
welcome area in the Stretch in the Student Union building next door to 
the Richard Hoggart Building, with tea, coffee, and information about 
the Convergence. (See directions to Goldsmiths and more practical info 
here). http://london.noborders.org.uk/convergence2012/workshopsandseminars

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Other Info:

Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network
http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997

Also - Furtherfield Gallery&  Social Space:
http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery

About Furtherfield:
http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield