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[- vrsn.EXCHANGE @ the Chicago Cultural Center

Author: jonCates

Where: Chicago, IL, USA Central
When: Wed Apr 28, 2004 at 11:00 AM

Topic: vrsn.EXCHANGE @ the Chicago Cultural Center
Keywords: open-loop.org, Jack Bratich, Mary Patten, Art of Cultural Interference, Trevor Paglen, Katherine Dodds, Amy Balkin, Feel Tank Chicago, Ryan Griffis , Josh On, cultural exchange, panel, presentation, panels, presentations, Chicago Cultural Center, Versio

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vrsn.EXCHANGE <-+-> NODE <-+-> Version>04: invisibleNetworks April 28 + April 29, 2004
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the vrsn.EXCHANGE NODE of Version>04: invisibleNetworks convergence @ the Chicago Cultural Center features an amazing array of people representing projects + facilitating conversations that engage the themes of the Version>04 convergence. 10 presentations + panel discussions will occur in the Cassidy Theater on the second floor of the Chicago Cultural Center located @ 78 E. Washington, Chicago IL 60602 USA.
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WEDNESDAY April 28 2004
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Open Loop - open-loop.org
11AM: Chicago Cultural Center - Open-loop - open-loop.org
Open-loop is a collective which has documented the growing number of surveillance cameras that watch the streets of Chicago's loop district. This documentation includes a map marking camera locations, photos of the cameras, and descriptions of camera types. The open-loop project is a continuation of a map that was created by Bill Brown, of the Surveillance Camera Players, during Version>03.

Becoming Imperceptible: Secrecy as Spectacle and as Strategy - Jack Bratich
1PM: Chicago Cultural Center - Becoming imperceptible: Secrecy as spectacle and as strategy - Jack Bratich
This presentation examines the role of secrecy in culture and politics. Jack Bratich will discuss the current "state of secrecy"--the fusion of generalized secrecy with a state of permanent war. Given the current conjuncture of the "New Normal", where State-power attempts to appropriate secrecy for its own strategies, his paper asks can we think of secrecy as productive, and not inherently a tool of domination? In an age where secrecy is virtually everywhere as a strategy of domination, can we begin to experiment with a becoming-secret that could be defined as an insurgent secrecy, a minor secrecy, or a popularsecrecy? Invisible networks, currently depicted as shadowy networks where terrorists lurk and where criminals evade surveillance, can thus be reappropriated as a political weapon.

The Romance of Clandestinity - Mary Patten + guests
2PM: Chicago Cultural Center - The Romance of Clandestinity: or, how to disappear without a trace - Mary Patten + guests
This multimedia presentation will take a critical look at the allure of masks and group uniforms, street theatre and media provocations, tactics hidden and "known," to examine shifting desires across generations of activists for a politics of anonymity, clandestinity, or publicity. The format will include a video-clip and slide lecture that "talks back" to the media images of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, as well as current movements for social justice and against global capital.

Creative Resistance Round Table - Version>04 Art of Cultural Interference participants
4PM: Chicago Cultural Center – Creative Resistance Round Table – Guests TBD from Version>04 Art of Cultural Interference participants.
How do artists make an impact in the time of Bush and War? Can artists present messages that can reach the “right” audiences? This round table presentation and discussion will look at projects presented and unveiled during the convergence. Participants will be selected during the convergence based on the execution and impact of their projects.

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THURSDAY April 29 2004
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Staring into a Void - Trevor Paglen
11AM: Chicago Cultural Center - Staring into a Void - Trevor Paglen
An experimental lecture about the secret nuclear war that has been raging in the American west since the early 1950s.

Where do we go from here? i-Corp: project as strategy - Katherine Dodds
12PM: Chicago Cultural Center - Where do we go from here? i-Corp: project as strategy - Katherine Dodds
"i-Corp" is the "social-marketing" arm of the film THE CORPORATION-- More than anything else -- i-Corp is a multi-media strategy designed to harness the film's momentum and use it to promote the issues within the film, and in so doing build support for those groups working on these issues. In this presentation Katherine will talk briefly about the i-Corp project's evolution, show the beta test of current state of the online component and invite participants to brainstorm about content development, content partnering and strategies for the upcoming US launch of both the film and new website. (June 4th 2004)

Preface: A Handbook for forecasting social spaces - Amy Balkin
1PM: Chicago Cultural Center – Preface: A Handbook for forecasting social spaces - Amy Balkin
Amy Balkin presents projects gleaned form her online project Preface: A Handbook for forecasting social spaces. These architectures arise from a transformative -generative approach to forecasting for social spaces, resulting in a class of structures crafted to respond to the everyday problems of living. When we undertook this project, our goal was to create a compendium of this new architecture; a taxonomic record is also pending. These shelters and places, while unlikely, are probable some are currently in development.

Cultural Interference - Feel Tank Chicago, Ryan Griffis + guests
2PM: Panel: Cultural Interference with: Feel Tank Chicago, Ryan Griffis + guests
Interested in imagining diverse, humorous, and creative ways of disrupting or interfering in the tightly controlled realms of public/private space, in academic discourses and disciplines, and within the notion of affective potential of activism? The state of political and cultural “dissent” in this country is a site of contestation and these practices, employing traditional and more experimental means, help to create critical openings in that site that allow for often unexpected results.

Invisible Networks of Power - Josh On, Jack Bratich, Katherine Dodds
4PM: Panel: Invisible Networks of Power - Josh On, Jack Bratich, Katherine Dodds
An examination of the networks of corporate power and secret societies.

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vrsn.EXCHANGE @ the Chicago Cultural Center exists as a NODE of the Version>04: invisibleNetworks convergence April 16 - May 1, 2004. on April 28 + April 29, 2004
the Version>04: NFO-XPO runs concurrently in GAR Hall.
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for complete listings, further information + other NODES, aspects, projects + participants:
http://www.versionfest.org/
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//jonCates
---> Version>04: invisibleNetworks organizer
NODES: vrsn.NET_WORKS, vrsn.NET_HUBS, vrsn.EXCHANGE,
http://www.versionfest.org

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Submitted by joncates
Posted on Tue Apr 27, 2004 at 7:59 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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