Listen to or Download University for Strategic Optimism & Genetic Moo Radio interview...

[p]At last we have the Furtherfield podcast/mp3 (download), for the interview with University for Strategic Optimism & Genetic Moo, which originally took place on Resonance FM Wednesday, Dec 8th 2010.[/p]
[p]http://www.furtherfield.org/radio/8122010-university-strategic-optimism-and-genetic-moo[/p]
[p]Tess Quixote and Etienne Lantier from University for Strategic Optimism (USO).
Nicola Schauerman and Tim Pickup from Genetic Moo.[/p]
[p]University for Strategic Optimism (USO) have formed a university based on the principal of free and open education, a return of politics to the public, and the politicisation of public space. "As university buildings are boarded up their flexible and critical group physically inhabit banks and shopping outlets as public spaces for open debate; using these public areas as places for introductory lectures to their "course entitled 'Higher Education, Neo-Liberalism and the State'."[/p]
[p]Schauerman and Pickup from Genetic Moo, have worked on a series of interactive video installations which have been presented at a number of UK venues, including the De La Warr Pavilion. One of the works, Becoming Starfish, received a John Lansdown Award for Interactive Digital Art at Eurographics 2007.[/p]
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