Venue Change: Surveillance Series (Rebooted) #3: 'Free the Network', 7:30pm, Wednesday 23 Oct

[Danyl Strype]

Kia ora koutou

Please note there is a change of venue for this last screening of the
Surveillance Series, 'Free the Network' (about 30 mins, see
http://archive.org/details/FreeTheNetwork/) presented at 7:30pm, this
Wednesday (23 October) by Disintermedia and OGNA. The venue will be
the Burns 5 Seminar Room, in the arts building, next to the university
library on Albany St, next to the uni library, opposite the OUSA
Recreation Centre. See the blue sections of this campus map:
http://www.otago.ac.nz/its/services/teaching/otago028555.html

There is no charge, but koha will be gladly accepted.

At the first two screenings we had some lively and thought-provoking
discussions about our visions for life after surveillance, the
problems of the surveillance and accompanying loss of civil liberties
around the world, and in Aotearoa, and some of their underlying
causes. Wednesday's screening will be followed by a discussion about
tools and tactics for resisting the normalization of surveillance, and
due to the film being only half an hour long, there will be plenty of
time to cover a range of these, and talk about where we go from here.

Again, because all three of our films illustrate the intimate
relationship between surveillance and digital technology, contact
details will be collected from anyone interested in helping form an
Otago branch of the international 'Students for Free Culture' network:
http://freeculture.org/

Please forward on this invite to anyone who may be interested in
attending any of these screenings.

Nau mai, haere mai,

--
Danyl Strype
Community Developer
Disintermedia.net.nz/strype

"Geeks are those who partake in our culture."
- .ISOcrates

"Voting... is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The
last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will
get a version of it through a dessicated question, and then will
submerge it in a Niagra of similar opinions, and convert them into -
what else? - another piece of news. Thus, we have here a great loop of
impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which
you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you
can do nothing."
- Neil Postman, 'Amusing Ourselves To Death'