Re: ::fc-announce:: open call netporn seminar

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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Marije Janssen wrote:

> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:54:37 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Marije Janssen <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: ::fc-announce:: open call netporn seminar
>
> Open Call for Contributions
> Internet Pornography Seminar
>
> Dates: June 1 & 2 2007
> Location: Paradiso, Amsterdam
> Organized by: Institute of Network Cultures and Paradiso in collaboration
> with Katrien Jacobs and Matteo Pasquinelli
>
> http://www.networkcultures.org/netporn
>
> The Institute of Network Cultures and Paradiso would like to invite you to
> send in your work for the second international seminar and exhibition on
> internet pornography. This edition will focus on topics as
> (gender)identity, social and ethnic minority groups, politics and
> censorship.
> The seminar will take place in Amsterdam on June 1 & 2 in 2007.
> We are currently looking for people who are working on this subject and
> would like to present their work to an international audience. If you are
> a theorist, artist, researcher, producer or in another way engaged in the
> field of netporn, we encourage you to send in an abstract of your work.
>
> Seminar program
> The event will take place on Friday June 1st and Saturday June 2nd.
> On both days there will be opening lectures by keynote speakers. After the
> keynote lectures, both days will be filled with clusters of presentations
> and lectures concerning one of the four seminar themes.
> In the evening of the second day there will be an extensive artistic
> program with screenings and performances.
>
> Exhibition
> A two-day exhibition will be held at the seminar venue. In this exhibition
> ten artists get the opportunity to show their views on the subject of
> pornography, sexuality, technology and the human body.
> It will include different kinds of media art like installations, net.art
> and video art.
>
hands> Seminar topics
> The seminar has four main themes as focus points for the presentations:
>
> -The revolution of alt pornography: in what way has alternative and
> do-it-yourself pornography democratized porn production? What are the
> reactions of the commercial industry? How does it influence our perception
> of porn?
> -Porn niches and 'trans