MEDIA ECOLOGIES AND POSTINDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION 3rd November, 2009 IUniversity of Salford, Manchester

[Michel Bauwens]

Via Phoebe Moore:

MEDIA ECOLOGIES AND POSTINDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
3rd November, 2009
Innovation Forum
University of Salford, Greater Manchester


8.30 – 9.00: Coffee & Welcome
Atrium, ground floor
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9.00 – 10.00: Morning Keynote Address
Conference Room 1, 1st Floor
Michel Bauwens
Founder, P2P Foundation
Dhurakij Pundit University International College, Bangkok, Thailand
An infrastructure for Open Everything
The condition for a more free and equal association around common value creation is the existence of distributed infrastructures that are characterized by lower costs of entry. In this talk we will survey the trends towards Open Everything, i.e. the conditions for such an infrastructure to quality as "open," the enablers as expressed in a new type of social charters, the typology of infrastructures being built, as well as the kind of open practices that they enable.

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10.00 --10.15: Coffee (1st Floor outside Conference Room)
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10.15 – 12.00: Morning sessions
PANEL 1 Conference Room 1, 1st Floor
Chair: Michael Goddard
Presenters:
Tav Espian Blog & Mamading Ceesay Blog Espians. Web 4.0: Creating weapons of mass construction through a decentralised socio-economic-technological platform.
Suresh Fernando & Matt Cooperrider; OpenKollab Creating a Collaborative Platform to Connect Organizations with Aligned Missions – possibilities and challenges Radical Inclusion
Gary Copitch Peoples Voice Media and Community Reporting http://peoplesvoicemedia.co.uk/

PANEL 2 Board Room 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Phoebe Moore
Presenters:
Steinn E. Sigurðarson The threshold of confluence: why structural similarities, feeds, and simplicity are they keys to interoperability Profile
Mushin J. Schilling Gaiaspace social/collaboration meshwork for State of the World Forum Profile
Ralf Schlatterbeck Collaborative design: What should collaboration platforms look like? Open Source consulting
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12.00 – 13.00 Discussions: Panels 1 and 2 convene in Conference Room 1, 1st Floor, with discussion facilitator: Sofia Bustamante London Creative Labs
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13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Lunch will be served in Atrium on ground floor
(FP7 registered participants’ lunch served in Board Room 1, 2nd floor, for breakaway meeting with Salford University Research Officer Germaine Loader)
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14.00 – 15.00: Afternoon Keynote Address
Conference Room 1, 1st Floor
Matthew Fuller
Reader, Centre for Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths University, London

transparency, interrogability and experiment

P2P production suggests the possibility of a flat ontology of actors in the development of real techno-cultures. Its visionary aspect is in this quality of levelling but it also brings about questions of design, the politics of knowledge and the capacities of technologies and the materials of technocultures to recognise and work with differentiation. This talk will discuss a number of projects that attempt to do that and a number of theoretical perspectives attempting to make such problematics handlable.

15.00 – 15.15: Coffee (1st Floor outside Conference Room)
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15.15 – 17.00 Afternoon Sessions
PANEL 1 Conference Room 1, 1st Floor
Chair: Ben Light
Presenters:
Smári McCarthy Fab labs, Tangible Bit, Industry 2.0 Profile
Eddie Kirkby & Haydn Insley Manchester Fab Labs: A Transfomational Activity for Advanced Manufacturing in the 21st Century Manchester Manufacturing Institute
Erik de Bruijn blog RepRap and personal fabrication
PANEL 2 Board Room 1, 2nd Floor
Chair: Ben Halligan
Presenters:
Kirsty Boyl (with Catarina Mota) openMaterials
Sam Rose & Paul Hartzog FLOWS
Melissa Sterry Creativity's Role in Creating Collaborative Web 2.0 Platforms & Environmental Digital Messaging Societas
Massimo Menichinelli "Open P2P Design. Metadesign for Open Design projects" http://www.openp2pdesign.org
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17.00 – 18.00 Discussions and Launch of Peer to Peer Research Group
Conference Room 1, 1st Floor
Facilitator: Smari McCarthy

During the wrap-up/discussion hour the floor will be open to discussions for where to go next with the Peer to Peer Research Group.
We will probably also discuss anything that has occurred during the day and makes sense within the context of the conference. The discussion will be guided, in that we will avoid bikesheds and other conversation stoppers. The goal will be to map out what has been done, what needs to be done, and who will do it. People will by this point in time know more or less what is important to the future development of media ecologies, so letting them discuss freely is probably a good strategy.


20.00 After-event Dinner
We have booked Lal Qila 123-127 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M14 5AN. Dinner is not subsidised, but it is not expensive. This restaurant is in Manchester’s famous Curry Mile. We should order bus-style taxi’s from the Innovation Forum on the evening and head over together.
Big thanks to Esther O’Brien and Emily Gilhooley of Innovation Forum; to People’s Voice Media and Channel M for their coverage of the event; to Michael Freeman of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History for organising all travel; Vicky Hayhurst who manages the Annual Disbursement Fund; and to Dr Michael Goddard, Dr Ben Light and Dr Ben Halligan of Media, Music and Performance, University of Salford, who will be chairing sessions.

And huge thanks to all presenters for coming from all over the world to make this event a success.

THE DAY AFTER, all welcome:

Jussi Parikka, Anglia Ruskin University
Screens and Mediations Seminar Series
Wednesday 4th November 17:00 – 18:30
Room AH012 Adelphi House, University of Salford

Media Ecologies of Animal Intensities: Ecosophy and Media Studies

Jussi will be giving a paper focuses on the transpositions of media and nature through recent art projects such as Harwood, Wright and Yokokoji's Eco Media (Cross Talk) and Garnet Hertz's Dead Media lab. The Eco Media project developed new modes of thinking media (ecology) through a tracking of the intensities of nature. However, in this case the medium is understood in a very broad sense to cover the ecosystem as a communication network of atmospheric flows, tides, reproductive hormones, scent markers, migrations or geological distributions. The project(s) do not focus solely on the ecological crisis that has been a topic of media representations for years, but they seem to engage with a more immanent level of media ecology in a manner that resembles Matthew Fuller's call for "Art for Animals." Media is approached from the viewpoint of animal perceptions, motilities and energies (such as wind) that escapes the frameworks of "human media." In this context the rhetorical question of the Ecomed!, project concerning non-human media is intriguing: "Can 'natural media' with its different agencies and sensorium help to rethink human media, revealing opportunities for action or areas of mutual interest?" In other words, media of animals and nature becomes an "ecosophical" (Guattari) probe head for such intensities that escape that of the human being; a machine for experimentation.