Fwd: AREA Infrastructure Talk#2 (6.12.06): S.European HackLabs, Intellectual Property + Internet Activism

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> INFRASTRUCTURE SERIES :
> "Hackmeeting and Hacklabs: technopolitics and reality hacking in
> south-european autonomous networks"
>
> Presenter: Xabier Barandiaran - Series Talk #2
> Monday June 12, 7-9pm
> Polvo - 1458 W. 18th St. 1R | Chicago IL | www.polvo.org
> Co-Sponsored by AREA Chicago Art/Education/Activism and
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> Details Below:
> Title and Abstract of the talk
> Short Bio of Xabier Barandiaran
> About the INFRASTRUCTURE SERIES
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> Title and Abstract of the talk:
> "Hackmeeting and Hacklabs: technopolitics and reality hacking in
> south-european autonomous networks"
>
> For the last 6 years a number of autonomous collectives called
> HackLabs (hacker or hacktivist laboratories) have been created at
> different squat social centers and other self-managed spaces around
> europe. The network of hacklabs has now more than 40 nodes (most of
> them located in Spain and Italy) dedicated to build-up community
> based free-software and open access spaces for skill sharing and
> collective intelligence, technopolitic experimentation and direct
> action on several digital struggles (cybercontrol, digital rights,
> intelectual property, etc.). HackLabs were born as a result of
> Hackmeetings: underground self-organized hacktivist meetings where
> grassroot activist and geek culture meet to discuss, exchange and
> coordinate different knowledge, resources and initiatives around
> technologies and politics. The talk will focus on a set of
> trajectories within the hacklabs and hackmeeting networks: the
> experience of Metabolik (one of the first hacklabs in europe), the
> distributed and self-managed organization of spanish and european
> hackmeetings and the recent direct action campaing against
> intellectual property (CompartirEsBueno.Net). Emphasys will be made
> on philosophical background, discussion on technopolitical tactics
> and opportunities for coordination.
>
>
> Some references:
> http://hacklabs.org
> http://metabolik.hacklabs.org
> http://sindominio.net/hackmeeting
>
>
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> Presenter Bio
>
> Xabier Barandiaran is a PhD student and researcher on Cybernetics,
> Neurophilosophy and Artificial Life at the University of the Basque
> Country (Europe), member of the autonomous server SinDominio.Net, the
> hacktivist laboratory Metabolik BioHacklab (located at the social
> squat center Undondo Gaztetxea), the spanish and european
> HackLabs.Org network and the recent copyleft activist campaing
> "CompartirEsBueno.Net" (SharingIsGood: a spanish network of
> hacktivists and media-activists against intelectual property regimes
> and the media-culture industry). He has also been involved on other
> grassroots movement such as alternative education, social
> desobedience, anti-war movements and squatting. Xabier has also co-
> organized and activelly participated on a number of HackMeetings
> (self-managed technopolitical meetings that take place in squatted
> social centers in europe), Copyleft Conferences and other parallel
> events, workshops and seminars. His work has been devoted to
> development and promotion of free-software tools for social
> movements, direct action and coordination of autonomous
> technopolitical networks as research on free technologies & culture,
> community based digital self-management and hacktivism.
>
> ———
> About the INFRASTRUCTURE SERIES:
>
> AREA's ongoing and irregular "Infrastructure" series, which will
> continue with meetings, screenings, shows, dinners, writings, readings
> over the next few years. The framework of the series will focus on the
> questions of longevity, sustainability, institution building, and
> mutual aid relationships involved in the process of creating
> self-organized infrastructure. To imagine an existence beyond the rent
> gap speculation, beyond the non-profit (NGO) industrial-complex and
> beyond the academy - we must imagine another Infrastructure!
>
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> of Art/Education/Activism in the city of Chicago. The website is
> currently having technical difficulties but is generally available at
> www.areachicago.com
>
>
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