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MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
LIMEHOUSE TOWN HALL
14 and 15 November 2003
11AM - 6PM
Admission FREE
In celebration of media arts practice in London's DMZ - the
public spaces, markets,
parks and dives characterised by gift economies, open sources and
free networks advocating self-provision of information and
infrastructure.
WHAT IS THE DMZ?
LONDON.ZIP
Digital Media Art In London mapped and compressed by Armin Medosch
In military terms, a DMZ or 'demilitarized zone' is an area
forming a buffer or boundary where military activity is forbidden.
Some demiltarized zones are kept in place for decades, becoming
reappropriated as wildlife preserves, public parks and markets.
In computer network terms, the DMZ is an area without the Firewalls
which protect more critical systems. Typically, the DMZ is publicly
accessible
and carries our unrestricted internet requests and responses. The
event and activities at Limehouse Town Hall are offered in a DMZ.
It is the public environment we most often inhabit and within which
we operate on a day to day basis when we use the internet, articulate
community,
contest authority, consume and create.
'DMZ articulates the space where communication, exchange and experiment are seeded, grown and harvested in public.
The progress of inspirational ideologies, diverse influences and convergent energies map themselves onto the city terrain,
reshaping the environment, rejuvenating hope and breeding optimism'.
James Stevens, SPC.org
DMZ participants
ambientTV.net, abäke, Bureau of Inverse Technlogy, Amy
Cunningham,Corby and Bailey, Desperate Optimist, Digital Guild,
Furtherfield, Simon Faithful,
Pete Gomes,Hi8us, mervin Jarman,The London Particular, Low-fi,
MAP,Marq Bailey & James Page, Mute Magazine, onedotzero, Pirate TV,
Proboscis, SPC, Talkaoke,
Thomson and Craighead and many more.
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