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MONDAY 21 OCTOBER
Propaganda
of the Deed - Cultural Activism
3.30pm,
Monday 21 October: ANZ Pavilion
A new generation of activists
is creating spaces to organise and make public statements. Behind
this activism lies strong communities with national and international
links and passionate cultural engagement with powerful issues.
- Can artists
be activist leaders?
- How are cultural activists
organising and how effective are they?
- How does on-line activism
work?
- Who are the targets for
this activism?
- What's the relationship
between physical communities and on-line activism?
Using specific campaigns
as a focus for discussion, the panel engages the audience in
examining the challenges facing their work.
Moderator - Geoff SHARP, General Editor of Arena Magazine.
Panel
- Nik BEURET, founding member of Space Station
Media Lab and of the Indy Media Collective.
- Marni CORDELL, a founding editor of The
Paper, an independent media tool and ran the national Young Writer's
Festival in Newcastle for 2 years. She has recently completed
Small Voices, a web-based project in East Timor and Indonesia.
- Aizura HANKIN, former editor of Voiceworks and
spoken word performer, writer, activist, and founding member
of Space Station Media Lab.
- Geert LOVINK, an exponent of internet culture
as a space for public debate with new possibilities of dissent,
running news reporting and explorations of cyber culture.
- Kylie PURR (TBC), Festival Manager of the National
Young Writers Festival, part of This Is Not Art.
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