I'm So Totally, Digitally Close To You

1st October, 2009

13:00:00 – 14:30:00

Are status updates ruining our privacy or enriching us with a new social awareness and social capital? What are politics of identity in this new social space?  What are the consequences of everyone knowing your name, your personality type and what you had for breakfast? Addressing the value and shortcomings social media technologies. Facilitator: Narinda Reeders Featuring: Larissa Hjorth, Clem Bastow, Pip Shea, Virginia Murdoch

Staying Alive

3rd October, 2009

14:00:00 – 15:30:00

A discussion addressing various strategies for surviving as a practicing artist in 2009 and beyond. Encompassing rights management, alternative distribution models, international touring, community projects and basically every strategy for paying the rent and making art while keeping it real. Featuring: DJ Ripley, Darren Ziesing (Stalker), Keg de Souza, Tom Hall, Tom David