We are not in London for the Frieze Art Fair as Rhizom suggests, we simply live here toiling away at the coal face of the culture industry. Our screens are colourful and our thoughts are dark. Therefore we would not dream of writing off the manipulated electronics of the Beige programming ensemble or the kinetic graphic work of the group Paper Rad as interesting but merely stylish nostalgia

- It seems now the thing could be, instead of actively write an
interpretation of reality,simply gather and equalize (filtering,
mapping,indexing, spamming) the other speeches.

But usually when working with the Internet I fail to think that I am
seeing an analysis of the WHOLE speech universe. I forget the equalizing.

[equalize information - re-using materials on the internet]

Goodbye Privacy Symposium I

Welcome Gerfried Stocker (just available in German)
mms://stream.aec.at/webcasts/FE_2007_S1_01_GerfriedStocker_D.wmv

Introduction
mms://stream.aec.at/webcasts/FE_2007_S1_02_Moderation_E.wmv

The Value of Privacy (just available in German)
mms://stream.aec.at/webcasts/FE_2007_S1_03_BeateRoessler_D.wmv

Introduction Jordan Crandall and Erich Moechel
mms://stream.aec.at/webcasts/FE_2007_S1_04_Tabletalk_E.wmv

Fear Studies, Jordan Crandall

International Media Coverage of the Ars Electronica Goodbye Privacy Conference 2007

Ars sous surveillance
Par MARIE LECHNER, QUOTIDIEN : lundi 10 septembre 2007
http://www.liberation.fr/culture/277238.FR.php

Civilian counter-measures against surveillance discussed at the Ars Electronica
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/95744

Let me put it this way: generally speaking there are things implicit and things explicit -- and at the hackmeeting the overwhelming majority of things to know and find out were implicit. It is in the nature of the self-organised event with flat, or, rather no hierarchies that those things that matter do usually not come with a large banner in human readable code that explains everything. There is not really a spokesperson, there are few figureheads, even fame is implicit, is something to be known and shared between insiders. What is to be found out is mostly based on direct human relationships. Everything else is largely a question of the 'vibe'.

Art in Hospital was established in 1991 as a charitable and autonomous visual arts in healthcare organization, that worked within Greater Glasgow NHS to ‘bring the visual arts into the mainstream of the health service where it can be part of the service that a hospital can offer; that it is seen not as diversional therapy but as an artistic discipline in its own right.’ Graduate artists do not work as art therapists, but as artists.

This year the annual Italian hackmeeting happens for the 10th time. On September 28, 29 and 30 the various hacker tribes of Italy descend on the historic city if Pisa. Hosted by the social centre Rebeldia 5 minutes walk from the train station the meeting continues the tradition of self-organisation. As opposed to other fairly expensives hacker campings further north financial contributions here are entirely voluntary and in return participants are actually expected to share some of the work.

I’ve always been into submarines and ships, and basically anything that is big, metallic and man-made with an engine. From my grade C in physics and the realisation that ‘I ain’t no Einstein’, I allowed my working life to direct my interests. Two of my early career choices were apprentice mechanic and HGV driver, where I viewed myself as a practical pioneer of women’s rights to work in jobs that were at that time, mainly dominated by men.

According to reports in tech gazettes there is nothing new
regarding the cyberspooks from the NSA: they still want to monitor and control all the information on the net.