jim submits:

Wireless Art Competition in ResFest Korea 2003

Co-organized by Art Center Nabi

Art Center Nabi is looking for artworks and creative ideas for Wireless Art
Competition in conjunction with Resfest Korea 2003. We hope to explore the
potentials of mobile and wireless as a new communication and expressive medium
for art practice. Works can be described as mobile art, wireless art or
multimedia experiments that open up the possibilities of newly-emerged
technology of wireless. Korea, known for its nation-wide broadband network,
is also a leading country of wireless technologies and services. On this
ground, Art Center Nabi aims to support the production of wireless art. Our
ongoing efforts in the research and production of wireless art are
exemplified by the commission of Maurice Benayoun's Watch Out! in 2002.

jim submits:

"Powerful Collaborations:

Building a Movement for Social Change"

October 16-19, 2003

The Audubon Center of the North Woods

Sandstone, Minnesota

Register now for this year's Community Research Network (CRN)
Conference, sponsored by the Loka Institute. The CRN works for
social change through Community Based Research by acknowledging,
honoring, accepting and following the voices of all stakeholders,
including those historically oppressed.

Anonymous Comrade submits "Invitation of Via Campesina for Cancun, Mexico September 10-14,
2003.

WTO out of agriculture! Take Food out of the WTO! No Patents on
life forms!

Organizations of peasants, indigenous peoples, family farmers,
fishers, farm
workers, migrants, landless workers, and rural women from
various countries
believes that:

The "liberalization" of agricultural trade - the principle
objective of the
WTO - has exacerbated a crisis in rural societies and has
worsened the
living conditions. Hunger, unemployment, poverty, inequality
and the
degradation of natural resources are increasing in rural areas
around the
world.

Anonymous Comrade submits:

5th International Social Theory Consortium

Toronto, York University, June 6th to June 9th 2004

Call for Papers and Panel Discussions

The purpose of the International Social Theory Consortium and its annual
conference is to organize the International Social Theory community and to
provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange on problems in
contemporary social theory broadly conceived. The conference will be several
days long, and papers are welcomed from scholars, faculty, and graduate
students who work in any of the many areas of social theory. In addition, the
2004 conference will host a day long workshop on the theme of discord. Possible
areas of exploration for the workshop are: discord as a disenchantment of
conflict, discord as a deepening of disagreement, and discord as a promise of
dissonance. We are particularly interested in discord in social thought as well
as in a critical examination of the artifacts of discord. Conference organizers
invite submission of 150 word abstracts for papers intended for the discord
workshop. We also invite submission of abstracts for papers and proposals for
panels for the general conference.

The 2003 Visible Evidence Conference is the eleventh in a series of
major international and interdisciplinary conferences on the role of
film and video as witness and voice of social reality.

The conference
encompasses a wide range of cultural, political, social, historical,
ethnographic and pedagogical questions and welcomes perspectives from
such fields (in addition to film studies) as anthropology,
architecture, art history, ethnic studies, ethnography, gay and lesbian
studies, history, journalism, law, medicine, political science,
psycho-social studies, sociology, urban studies and women's studies.

Anonymous Comrade submits:

End the Occupation * Investigate the Lies * Bring the Troops Home NOW *

August 6–10 United for Peace and Justice Days of Action

TAKE ACTION ON AUGUST 6-10, 2003, 100 DAYS AFTER BUSH DECLARED THE WAR
ON IRAQ OFFICIALLY OVER

FOLLOW UP: AUGUST 27 GRASSROOTS CONGRESSIONAL ACTION DAY

On May 1, 2003 President Bush, in a televised speech from an aircraft
carrier, announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq. More
than two months later, Iraqi civilians and U.S. G.I.’s are being
killed every single day as our military tries to force an unpopular
occupation on the Iraqi people -– most likely, 6,000 to 8,000 Iraqi
civilians have been killed, as well as over 230 American soldiers.

Anonymous Comrade submits:

"Polymedia Lab at World Summit on the
Information Society

December 8-13, 2003, Geneva, Switzerland

Information increasingly represents the ground on which authority is based
and on which struggles are being fought out. Intellectual Property is
becoming a major means of control, and the media-led battles for the
thoughts and the consent of people are playing a central role in global
politics -- once again proven by the tales on weapons of mass destruction
before the Iraq war.

As an intervention into the reorganisation of power, communication and
information, we propose a media lab during the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS).

Vanessa writes:

CodePink Women’s Activist Training Camp

San Francisco Bay Area, August 15–17, 2003

Join women of all ages and backgrounds for a weekend of activist training sessions and outdoor fun brought to you by CodePink: Women for Peace.

CodePink began as a movement to stop the war on Iraq, and in a short time has become a vibrant presence in the peace and social justice community. It continues to organize actions in creative -- and sometimes outrageous ways -- addressing a multitude of issues from the missing weapons of mass destruction to the corporate takeover of our airwaves, all the while bringing into play the sensibilities of respect, compassion and interconnectedness.

World Forum on Communication Rights

Geneva, December 11, 2003

This introduces a proposal to hold a one-day World Forum on Communication
Rights alongside the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on
December 11 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland. The CRIS campaign (Communication
Rights in the Information Society) is launching the
initiative as a collaborative event, and is actively building a broader
partnership.

Negation Collective writes

"Please join us for an informal discussion with Sylvere Lotringer titled “ A class which is not one” at Flor Y Canto Centro Comunitario in Los Angeles. We will be discussing the reissue of Autonomia: Post-Political Politics (1980) and Paolo Virno’s Grammar of Multitude.

Thursday July 31 at 8pm

http://www.florycanto.org/

A Negation Collective project, for further information or to set up an event in the Los Angeles area please contact

thenegativeheldcourt@hotmail.com