-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Agre
To: Red Rock Eater News Service
Sent: 24/05/00 15:31
Subject: [RRE]Tulipomania DotCom
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
=
This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service
(RRE).
You are welcome to send the message along to others but please do not
use
the "redirect" option. For information about RRE, including
instructions
for (un)subscribing, see
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
=
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:14:41 -0400
From: Felix Stalder <[log in to unmask]>
[...]
A N N O U N C E M E N T
Tulipomania DotCom
A Critique of the New Economy
An International Conference @ De Balie, Amsterdam, June 2 & 3, 2000
& @ Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, June 4, 2000
http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania
P R E L I M I N A R Y P R O G R A M
-------------------------------
Aim of the Conference
-------------------------------
The conference Tulipomnania DotCom intends to develop an informed
critique of the politics of electronic finance and internet economics.
The aim of the conference is to raise the level of economic competence
of the cultural and social sector, and simultaneously inject economic
analysis with a sensitivity to on- and offline cultures, as well as a
hands-on understanding of the new communication spaces.
The conference aims to set an agenda for possible models of
intervention in this new domain of networked communication, and
to reclaim vital public functions of the new information and
communication environments.
To achieve this a dialogue has to be started between critical economic
analysis, critical net discourses, and the premises of policy making,
as well as the various social movements that operate in this domain.
To facilitate this exchange of knowledge is a prime aim of the
conference.
By bringing together critical discourse in these different domains we
intend to find alternatives to deadly adapt-or-die rhetorics, as well
as to dire structural inevitability (aka "There Is No Alternative") or
simplifying activism.
--------------------------------------------
Main Topics of the Conference:
--------------------------------------------
* The New Economy: Premises and Pitfalls
* Silicon Valley as a Global Business Model
* Financial Markets and Regulation
* Convergence, Mergers and Monopolies
* Inclusion and Exclusion in the New Economy
* Consumer Rights in the New Economy
* A Critical Assessment of Alternative Strategies
* Nettocracy: A Class Analysis of the Information Society
* Gift Economies and Free Services
* The Public Sector and the Network Society
* In Defence of Internet Culture
-----------------
Registration:
-----------------
Day-tickets: DFL 35,-
Entire Conference: DFL 60,-
Contact:
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: +31.20.553 51 55
Tel: +31.20.553 51 00
De Balie
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10
1017 RR Amsterdam
http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania
General enquiries:
+31.20.553 51 51
or: [log in to unmask]
----------------------------
Preliminary Program:
----------------------------
* FRIDAY JUNE 2:
10.00 - Opening
Welcome by Andree van Es (Director of De Balie)
10.30 - Plenary Debate I
The New Economy - Premises and Pitfalls
Moderator:
David Hudson
Key-note Speakers:
Luc Soete (Inst. of Infonomics, University of Maatsricht)
Doug Henwood (Financial Journalist, Left Business Observer, New York)
12.30 - 13.30 - Lunch Break
13.30 - Afternoon Session I
Debate:
Silicon Valley as a Global Busines Model
Moderator:
Ted Byfield
Speakers:
Clay Shirky (Hunter College, New York)
Steve Cisler (Writer / Analist, San Jose)
Corinna Snyder (Razorfish, New York)
Reinhold Grehter (etoy.com)
Nils de Witte (NEBIB, Netherlands)
Andrew Ross (New York University)
15.30 - 16.00 - Coffee Break
16.00 - Afternoon Session II
Debate:
Alternative Strategies
Moderator:
Felix Stalder
Speakers:
Jesse Hirsh (TAO Communications, Toronto)
Nina Ascoly (Clean Clothes Campaign)
Greenpeace Representative - tbc
Olivier Hoedeman (CEO, Amsterdam)
Hans van Heijningen (ATTAC NL)
Gerd Junne (University of Amsterdam)
18.00 - Dinner
20.30 - Plenary Session
Public Debate:
Inclusion and Exclusion in the New Economy
Moderator:
Geert Lovink
Speakers:
Andrew Leyshon (University of Nottingham)
Age Bakker (Ex-director Netherlands National Bank)
Roberto Bissio (Economist, Chili)
Cees Vendrik (MP Netherlands Green Party)
* SATURDAY JUNE 3:
11.00 - Conference Resumes / Morning Session:
Debate:
Consumer Rights
Moderator:
Eric Kluitenberg
Speakers:
James Love (Consumer Project on Technology, Washington)
Wibo Koole (Netherlands National Consumer Organisation)
David Mandl (Autonomedia, New York)
Maurice Wessling (Bits of Freedom, Amsterdam)
12.30 - 13.00 - Coffee Break
13.00 - Afternoon Session I
Debate:
Nettocracy: A Sociological Analysis of the Virtual Class
Moderator:
Geert Lovink
Speakers:
Michael Gurstein (Technical University of British Columbia)
Alexander Bard, (Business Analyst, Stockholm)
Richard Barbrook (University of Westminster, London)
14.30 - 15.00 - Lunch Break
15.00 - Afternoon Session II
Debate:
Convergence, Mergers and Monopolies
Moderator:
Guikje Roethof (Prezz.com, Paris)
Speakers:
Richard Kramer (Arete Research, London)
Korinna Patelis (Goldsmiths College, London
Kenneth Neil Cukier (Redherring.com, London)
Michael Latzer (ICE, Vienna)
Heath Row (Fast Company, Boston)
17.00 - 17.15 - Coffee Break
17.15 - 19.00 - Closing Plenary Session
(Moderated discussion)
19.00 - Close of the Conference
22.00 - Cinema De Balie goes Wall Street
--------------------------------
Workshops & Seminars:
--------------------------------
The program will include a series of workshops and impromptu smaller
scale meetings on the following topics:
1 - Development Finance and the Global Market Network
2 - Financial Cryptography
3 - International Venture Capital
4 - ATTAC
Further details will be announced at the conference
------------------------
Program Updates:
------------------------
The updated and final program will be available at the conference web
site, at:
http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania
--------------------------------------
Preliminary List of Speakers:
--------------------------------------
Nina Ascoly - Clean Clothes Campaign, Amsterdam
Age Bakker - Ex-Director National Bank of The Netherlands
Richard Barbrook - Professor at Westminster's Hypermedia Research
Centre in London
Alexander Bard - Commentator, majored in Economic Geography, works as
a composer and record producer in Stockholm.
Roberto Bissio - Economist, Executive Director of IteM - The Third
World Institute in Montevideo, Chili
Ted Byfield - Co-moderator of nettime, international mailing list for
net criticism & free-lance book editor
Steve Cisler - Writer, Analyst, based in San Jose
Kenneth Neil Cukier - Senior Editor at Red Herring Communications,
London.
Reinhold Grehter Member of the artist collective Etoy
Michael Gurstein Sociologist, Associate Professor Management and
Technology,Technical University of British Columbia
Douglas Henwood - Investigative Journalist, Author of "Wall Street" &
Editor of Left Bussiness Observer
Hans van Heijningen - ATTAC NL
Jesse Hirsh - TAO Communications, Toronto
Olivier Hoedeman - TNI - Trans National Institute of Ideas, Amsterdam
David Hudson - Journalist and Editor of Rewired, Journal of a Strained
Net
Gerd Junne - Economist, University of Amsterdam
Eric Kluitenberg - Media Theorist and New Media Program Co-ordinator,
De Balie (Amsterdam)
Richard Kramer - Consultant at Arete Research (London), and former
technology analyst with Goldman Sachs
Michael Latzer - Deputy Director ICE - Research Unit for Institutional
Change and European Integration, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Andrew Leyshon - Researcher and Professor at the School of Geography,
Research Group Economy and Society, University of Nottingham & Editor
of Geoforum
James Love - Director Consumer Project on Technology (Washington D.C.)
Geert Lovink - Media Theorist and Activst, co-founder of nettime &
Initiator of Tulipomania DotCom
David Mandl - Journalist, writer, radio programmer, editor at
Autonomomedia publishers, New York
Korinna Patelis - Media Researcher, Department of Media and
Communications, Goldsmiths College, London
Guikje Roethof - Journalist, Former MP, CEO of Prezz.Com - European
News Services, Paris
Andrew Ross - professor and director of the American Studies Program
at New York University
Clay Shirky - Professor of New media at Hunter College New York
Luc Soete - Professor of International Economics at the Faculty
of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University
& Research Fellow at the International Institute of Infonomics
Corinna Snyder - Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she works on
topics relating to Lithuanian cultural production and as a general
manager at Razorfish NY
Felix Stalder - Researcher, University of Toronto & co-moderator of
nettime international mailing list for net criticism
Cees Vendrik - MP for the Netherlands Green Party
Maurice Wessling -Bits of Freedom - a Dutch privacy and civil rights
organization for the information society
Nils de Witte - Netherlands Exchange for Angel Investments (NeBIB)
[Note: this list may still be subject to minor changes]
Conference web site: http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|
