PANEL A: 14:00 - 16:00, "New digital standards, changes in copyright and their impact on freedom of information"
Panel on the consequences of current developments for free flow of information and the interplay of technological, economic and political factors in the context of increasing restrictions in the world of the Infosphere.
Cindy Cohn (USA), Electronic Frontier Foundation; Christiane Asschenfeldt (USA), Creative Commons; Juliane Alton (A), IG Freie Theater; Mark Terkessidis (D), Institute for Studies in Visual Culture
Host: Erich Möchel (A), Quintessenz, ORF Futurezone
PANEL B: 16:00 - 18:00, "Digital standards and the public domain: consequences and current strategies for an independent public sphere"
Current strategies, forms of resistance and restrictions, questions of privacy, copyright and censorship. The Panel will also make a focus on the independent media scene in Eastern European countries.
Konrad Becker (A), Public Netbase; Kernel Panic (A), Indymedia; Alan Toner (IRL), Autonomedia; Milos Vojtechovsky (CZ), Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague; Zeljko Blace (H), Multimedia Institute - Zagreb; Eugen Babau-Iladi (CZ), Transitions Online
Host: Honor Harger (NZ), radioqualia
Juliane Alton (A), IG Freie Theater
www.freietheater.at
Dramatics scientist, cultural manager and court expert for theatre and copyrights. At present general manager at the “IG Freie Theaterarbeit”. Author of the book “ Handbuch für Filmschaffende” (Verlag Buchkultur Wie, 1995)
Christiane Asschenfeldt (USA),European Coordinator Creative Commons
www.creativecommons.org
Asschenfeldt studied law at Heidelberg University. In May of 2002, she was part of a team that helped the Ministry of Justice implement the European InfoSoc Directive into German Law. Christiane has held various teaching assignments and has published widely on copyright law.
Eugen Babau-Iladi (CZ), Transitions Online
www.tol.cz
Babau-Iladi spent several years with the media programs of the Soros Foundation working on supporting and improving independent media organizations in Central and Eastern Europe. Joined TOL in 2002 as deputy director. TOL is an independent, non-profit media development organization dedicated to using Internet technologies to help strengthen the professionalism, independence, and impact of the media in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union.
Konrad Becker (A), Public Netbase
www.t0.or.at
Is a hypermedia researcher and develloper, interdisciplinary event and content designer. He is chairman of the Institute for New Culture Technologies, Director of Public Netbase/ t0, a Culture and Youth oriented Center for New Communication Technologies and founder of World-Information.Org, a cultural intelligence provider.
Zeljko Blace (H), Multimedia Institute - Zagreb
www.mi2.hr
Active in Croatia's new media culture scene since 1996, originally as web designer, artist and journalist -- and now moved into the roles of organizer, researcher and curatoror. Works(/ed) in several NGOs: LABinary, radioActive and Multimedia Institute. Promotes non-profit net projects and is working on strengthening the impact of NGO sector on Croatian netspace.
Cindy Cohn (USA), Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
www.eff.org
She is responsible for overseeing the EFF's overall legal strategy. EFF has been actively involved in nearly all areas where civil liberties are impacted online. Ms. Cohn also serves on the Board of Directors of the nonprofit Human Rights Advocates.
Human Rights Advocates
Honor Harger (NZ), radioqualia
www.radioqualia.net
www.tate.org.uk
She is an artistic practitioner working with design, curation and art, and has a particular interest in artistic uses of new technologies. She is one of the co-founders of Radioqualia.
Erich Möchel (A). Chief editor of the online – magazine ORF FUTUREZONE and very engaged in counter intelligence in the field of European surveillance systems, which are nowadays hid behind institutions like the European Telecom Standards Institute (former: Enfopol) and enclosed by technical discussions.
Kernel Panic, Indymedia
at.indymedia.org
Panic is an indymedia activist and concerned with legal issues.
Mark Terkessidis, (D) Institute for Studies in Visual Culture« (ISVC)
Born 1966, diploma in psychology, from 1992 to 1994 he worked the magazine “Spex”. Contributions for “Spex”, “tageszeitung”, “Texte zur Kunst”, “Freibeuter”. Current publication: „Entsichert: Krieg als Massenkultur im 21. Jahrhundert“ (2002) At present he is working on a study about “Das Wissen über Rassismus on der zweiten Migrantengeneration”.
Alan Toner (IRL), Information Law Institute New York
slash.autonomedia.org
www.nyu.edu
Born in Dublin. Studied law in Trinity College Dublin and NYU Law School where he is now a fellow in the Information Law Institute, with a special interest in the countervailing impact of peer processes and information enclosure on cultural production and social life. Member of the Autonomedia editorial collective.
Milos Vojtechovsky (CZ), Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague
www.fcca.cz
radiojeleni.cz
Born in Prague. Studied Art History and Aesthetics at Charles University in Prague. Initiator of the Center for Metamedia - Hermetical Shelter. Curator at the Center for Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery in Prague.Teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts Technical University Brno, working on production of an international project TROIA which deals with the subject "Technologies of Political Control":
www.bbm-ww.de/troia/troia.html
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