13.00 - 14.00 Paradiso, small hall 14.00 - 15.30 De Balie, kleine zaal 14.00 - 17.30 Paradiso, main hall 16.30-18.00 De Balie, salon 17.00 - 19.00 De Balie, grote zaal 19.00 - 21.00 Balie, salon 22.00 - 22.30 Paradiso, upper room 21.00 Paradiso, main hall 20.30 21,00 22.45 media literacy; Michael Eisenmenger, Paper Tiger TV (New York); ReneƩ KooV/Stefan Kunzmann (Amsterdam/Vienna): Visual artist, theater maker and graphic designer enable children to encounter culture in the primary and secondary schools of the province Friesland, Moderation: David Garcia and Eric Kluitenberg. STREAMING MEDIA: WORKSHOP Tetsuo Kogawa, (Tokyo); Rasa Smite, founder of e-lab (Riga); MauzZ and Nina Meilof, Digital City (Amsterdam); Adam Hyde, Radio Qualia (Adelaide); Josephine Bosma (Amsterdam); Convex TV (Berlin). SATELLITE WORKSHOP Ups and downs of communication satellites and tactical media (veritas & fantasy). With: Raul Marroquin, MauzZ and Zoe D'Amaro (Amsterdam); DeeDee Halleck, Paper Tiger/Deep Dish TV, (New York); Diederik Bangert, editor in Chief of Europe by Satellite; Alan Fountain; Dr. Dish, German satellite specialistjourna- list; Vicki Gray, A2000 (Amsterdam); Michiel Hegener freelance journalist (The Hague), Marko Peljhan (Ljudmila/insular technologies); Jed Rosenzweig (New York), artist and media activist working with satellite feeds; Robert van Boeschoten, Dutch McLuhan program (Amsterdam); Rens Maas, director of TSS-Telecom, operator of an Europe-wide amateur satellite TV channel from Heerhugowaard (the Netherlands); Danny Puchen, satellite & tv dealer (Amsterdam): The use of satellite dishes among members of ethnic minorities as a main competitor of cable tv; Tetsuo Kogawa, radio activist (Tokyo). POST GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION PGO DEBATE Steve Cisler/Association For Community Networking (US): U.S. Community, Network groups as PGOs; Kevin Dowling (UK): relationships between NGOs, mercenary armies and corporations; Adrienne van Heteren/Open Society Institute (Budapest): The role of NGOs in the transformation processes in Eastern Europe; Thomas Keenan (New York): The politics of the NGO-movement; Saskia Sassen (New York): Migration, global fi- nance systems, governance and the transformations of economic and social networks in the age of elec- tronic network technologies PGO PROJECT PRESENTATIONS Richard Barbrook (London): Digital Workers Union; Luchezar Boyadjiev (Sofia): Culture Board; Daniel Garcia Andujar (Valencia): Art Power Database; RTMark (Los Angeles): Y2K Industries; Rasa Smite (Riga) and Manu Luksch (London): The Interfund; Association of Autonomous Astronauts. Moderation: Marcia Luyten and Andreas Broeckmann RADICAL SOFTWARE: CRITIQUE AND PRACTICE An open workshop with: Volker Grassmuck, mikro.org (Berlin), co-organiser of the upcoming Wizards of OS conference (Berlin, july 1999), members of Mongrel (London), Micz Flor (Vienna): The Threadder, a web tool; organizers of the second international Browserday (Amsterdam, May 20), and others. Moderation: Ted Byfield (New York) SOUTH ASIA With: Shahidul Alam, photographer & director of Drik Picture Library (Dhaka, Bangladesh); Kunda Dixit: Panos South Asia/Himal (Kathmandu, Nepal); Afdhel Aziz: freelance journalist (Sri Lanka/London); Shudhabrata Sengupta, independent filmmaker (New Delhi, India); Gijs Hillenius: Burma Centre (the Netherlands). Moderation: Eric Kluitenberg V2_EAST/SYNDICATE MEETING Meeting of the Syndicate Network, the mailing list on electronic and media art in Central and Eastern Europe (http:/www.v2.nVeast). FAKESHOP PERFORMANCE Artificial Geography, an Internet performance and TV-broadcast by Fakeshop (BrooklyrVNY), live from the media studio: on-line, on the air, and on TV. TACTICAL EDUCATION: POETRY & MOTION Doors open; DJ Soundwich Film Slam - Let the Words Fly (Marc Levin, 1998), presented by Emerald Beryl Mike Ladd (30 min) performing Poet