FWD.: Conference about "social software" in Berlin

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transmediale.01  - international media art festival berlin
DIY [ do it yourself ! ]
4 - 11 February 2001


The transmediale.01 includes a two-day conference about the DIY theme,
focusing on Software (8 February) and Net-based Forms of Distribution and
Participation (9 February). On both days, there will be simultaneous
English-German translation in the hall, and a live-stream online.


* Social Software - Soziale Software

Thursday, 8 February 2001, 14.30 - 18.00 h

The development of computer hardware and the global network infrastructure
provide ever-extending possibilities for social and creative interactions
between people. These possibilities have to be designed and coded in
software in order to be realised. Thus, software becomes a crucial catalyst
for the emergence of the Information Society and its social and cultural
structures.

To what degree does software determine the structures and potentials of
technically based communities? What will be the social design of future
political processes? Will political representation become as virtual as
online voting? How can software be used not only to support, but also to
catalyse social processes? How do social standards of commitment and
responsibility work in an environment where anonymity and fluid identities
are a given?


Project presentations

Lutz Henckel (D), GMD FOKUS, project manager of the German BerliOS Open
Source platform
http://www.berlios.de

Christian Hübler (CH), Knowbotic Research: IO_dencies, experimental and
artistic interfaces for networked cooperation
http://io.khm.de

Heiko Idensen (D), Hyperdis: hypertext projects and collaborative writing
environments
http://www.hyperdis.de

Thomax Kaulmann (D): Open Meta Archive, an open, multi-nodal database
structure for cultural content
http://orang.orang.org
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/sa/3590/1.html

Prof. Dr. Dieter Otten (D), University Osnabrück, research project manager
'Internetwahlen' (online voting)
http://www.internetwahlen.de/

Joel Slayton (US), C5 Corporation: SoftSub, an information mapping and
knowledge
representation project
http://www.c5corp.com/softsub


Discussion panelists

Steven Clift (US), political analyst of 'e-democracy'
http://www.publicus.net

Michael van Eeden (NL), programmer, co-founder of Amsterdam's Digital City
http://www.waag.org

Georg Greve (D), programmer, software analyst, representative of the
European Free Software Foundation Hamburg
http://www.gnu.org/people/greve.html

Jeanette Hofmann (D), political scientist, internet researcher at the
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
http://duplox.wz-berlin.de/people/jeanette/

Rena Tangens (D), FOEBUD Bielefeld, net pioneer and cryptography expert
http://www.foebud.org/


Kindly supported by Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung http://www.bpb.de


Best
kwp