Via: Eric Kluitenberg

A N N O U N C E M E N T
The Evening of Imaginary Media
The imaginary future of media..

/ Book Launch / DVD presentation / lecture Richard Barbrook / live performance Peter Blegvad /

De Balie, Amsterdam
Monday December 4, 2006
19.30 hrs: Book presentation
20.30 hrs: Evening program


In conjunction with the publication of the Book & DVD of Imaginary Media by De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam, in collaboration with NAi Publishers (Rotterdam), De Balie presents an intimate yet spectacular program around the concept of imaginary media. For centuries mankind has dreamt about the ultimate communication medium, which should once and for all eradicate the ubiquitous human misunderstanding - however, miscommunication still prevails today as a seemingly inextinguishable feature of human experience... The evening will start with the presentation of the "Book of Imaginary Media" after which RICHARD BARBROOK will speak about the imaginary future of artificial intelligence and the extremely real cold war agenda hiding behind these imaginations. Richard Barbrook is a researcher and co-ordinator of the Hypermedia Research Centre at the University of Westminster, London. Barbrook is currently working on a book devoted to this topic, which will appear next spring under the title "Imaginary Futures - From Thinking Machines to the Global Village"

Further information can be found at the Balie website:
http://www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?podiumid=media&articleid=88410