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HACK THE KNOWLEDGE LAB: Technology, Creativity, Social Organisation
A WEEKEND GATHERING FOR COLLABORATIVE AND CREATIVE REFLECTION
February 3/4/5, 2006. Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster
University, North West England.
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HACK THE KNOWLEDGE LAB: Technology, Creativity, Social Organisation
A WEEKEND GATHERING FOR COLLABORATIVE AND CREATIVE REFLECTION
February 3/4/5, 2006. Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster
University, North West England.
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Continuing the experimental Knowledge Lab project, this weekend will be
a conference without presentations or key note speeches. The aim is to
bring together a variety of people - waged and unwaged thinkers,
students, activists, hackers - from all over the world for intense
discussion sessions rather than serial monologues, on such topics as
* Democratisation of nanotech/biotech/infotech
* Privacy & Surveillance
* Commodification & Art
* Psychedelics and biological "enhancements"
* Military/Defence involvement in technological development
* Feminism & Technology
* Enclosures & Commons
* Indymedia
* Publishing Politics
and more!
There will also be a HACKLAB running hands-on workshops on a variety of
Free Software applications (from web browsers, email and encryption
programs to VJing tools, video editing, and writing code).
