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LIMEHOUSE TOWN HALL
14 and 15 November 2003
11AM - 6PM

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.

DMZ essay
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 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.