17.30 - 19.00 De Balie, grote zaal 17.30 - 18.30 Balie, salon DeeDee Halleck (San Diego), founding member of Paper Tiger: Prison Campaigns in the US; Rachel Baker (London): The Clubcard Project; Agustin de Quijano (London): Reclaim the Streets! (free cities/llegal street parties); Sam de Silva (Australia): Stop Jabiluka (uranium mining) and other campaigns; Alex Karschnia (Frankfurt): Vote Yourself! The Art & Politix-Mix of Christoph Schlingensief's "Chance 2000" (a German anti- party), Moderation; Geert Lovink THE AMSTERDAM MEDIA DEBATE Due to commercialization and regulation, tactical media are on the defensive. What are the strategies that can be devised to counter the current situation, and claim as much space as possible, on all available channels. INTERFUND LAUNCH MEETING With: Manu Luksch, co-organiser of Art Servers Unlimited (London); Armin Medosch, telepolis (London); Inke Arns, curator and critic (Berlin); Diana McCarty, organiser (Budapest); Pit Schultz, net critic (Berlin); Lisa Haskel, curator (London), and others. Moderation: Rasa Smite, e-lab (Riga) and Eric Kluitenberg 20.30 De Balie, grote zaal 21.00 Paradiso, main hall ———— —<—=—— = NIGHT OF THE VIDEO ACTIVISTS With: Yutaka Tsuchiya, video act (Tokyo), Undercurrents (London); Michael Eisenmenger, Paper Tiger TV (Next Generation); Sonja Radenkovic, B92 video production (Belgrade); Free Speech TV (New York); Tony Doument, Hi8us (UK), and others. Moderation: David Garcia a ae ———= ———— HOW LOW CAN YOU GO SHOW With: Tjebbe van Tijen, artist and archivist (Amsterdam): Shadow Play; James Wallbank/Redundant Technology Initiative (UK): Low Tech Manifesto; Alexei Shulgin (Moscow): 386DX Cyberpunk Rockband: Katarina Soukup (Montreal): Radio Bicyclette; Marko Peljhan (Ljudmila): Insular Technologies; Gustav Metzger (London): From Low-Tech to No-Tech; Vuk Cosic (Ljubljana) and Walter van der Cruijssen (Amsterdam): Ascii Art Ensemble; Eine kleine Wassermusik (Amsterdam): Aquartet; Tetsuo Kogawa (Tokyo): mini fm lecture/performance; Convex TV (Berlin): a/bbs, the audio bulletin broadcast system; Institute for Affordable Lunacy (IBW, Eindhoven): Let's Go; Emer Beamer and Fred Abels (Amsterdam): Beeldbuizen en Huilbuizen. VIP-CLUB DANCE NIGHT Low-tech solutions to high-tech problems, VJ's, DJ's & live acts go back to basics! live performance Project Dark live performance Streamer DJ Alec Smart DJ Angelo(w) With VJ's Boris Le Bouffe, Vision Impossible & Leptomania Art Movement SATURDAY MARCH 13TH 11,00 - 13.00 De Balie, grote zaal 11.00 - 13.30 Paradiso, main hall NET.ACTIVISM With: PJ, tao communication, a collective/political content provider (Toronto); Zenon Panoussis (Amsterdam); Autonome a.(.ri.k.a.-Gruppe, communication guerilla syndicate (Germany); Rop Gonggrijp (Amsterdam); Steve Kurtz/Critical Art Ensemble (Pittsburgh); Paul Garrin (New York); Franny Armstrong, McSpotlight, McLibel and undermining multinationals (London); and others. Moderation: Jo van der Spek. TACTICAL EDUCATION: MEDIA COMPETENCE Shahidul Alam and Partha Sarker, director and multimedia trainer at Drik/Learn Foundation (Bangladesh); Jinx (aka Szabo Sandor): Roma Youth Music Project in the Internet, C3, Centre for Culture and Communication (Budapest); Ann Whitehurst (UK), "My work and that of Center Consultants is to challenge the very existence of the norm, challenge the conforming non-disabled and their limited/imiting under- standing of life, politics, culture"; John Hopkins (non-located), Tech-no-mad artist and educator, neo scenes occupation; Olia Lialina (Moscow): Web Stories; Mervin Jarman/Mongrel (London), National Heritage: radical software products that scramble the assumptions of the new media industry; Thomas Poole (New York): Poetry Slams, using competitive street poetry developed by African Americans to raise ee ee