PAUL HEGARTY with : CHARLES MUDEDE (Seattle) "The Turntable", and PHILLIP VANNINI (UVic) "Cardboard Resistance"
MODERATED BY : STEVE GIBSON (Visual Arts)
Paul Hegarty | Arthur & Marilouise Kroker and Steve Gibson | Steve Gibson | Jackson 2bears and Kristen Roos
DATA BANKED BODIES: NEW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER
Stephen Pfohl is Professor and Chairperson of the Sociology Department at Boston College where he teaches courses on social theory, deviance and social control, postmodernity, social psychoanalysis, and the sociology of technology, art, and culture. The author of numerous books and articles, including Images of Deviance and Social Control (McGraw Hill, 1994), Death at the Parasite Cafe (St. Martin's press 1992), and the forthcoming Venus in Video: Cybernetics and Ultramodern Power. Stephen is also Past President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, a member of the editorial board of CTheory, performance artist, and founding member of the Boston-based Sit-Com International.
MUTANTS AND WILD TYPES : MY SEQUENCE, MYSELF
Clare Dunsford is an Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, she received her B.A. in English from St. Louis University and her Ph.D. in English from Boston University. She has been an adjunct lecturer at Harvard University and Boston College, teaching courses in writing, poetry, modern literature, narrative and interpretation, literature and censorship, and literature and illness. She is currently writing a book reflecting on her experience as the mother of a boy with Fragile X Syndrome.
SURVEILLANCE IN A NETWORKED WORLD:
PRIVACY ADVOCACY AND ACTIVISM
Dr. Colin Bennett received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Wales, and his Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1986 he has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, where he is now Professor. From 1999-2000, he was a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government Harvard University. His research has focused on the comparative analysis of information privacy protection policies at the domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous articles, he has published three books: Regulating Privacy: Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States (Cornell University Press, 1992); Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age (University of Toronto Press, 1999, with Rebecca Grant); The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in the Digital Age (Ashgate Press, 2003, with Charles Raab).
Life in the Wires, is in essence what Jean-Paul Sartre calls a "fused community" -- a global intellectual community of theorists, musicians, artists, filmmakers, computer programmers, multimedia designers, architects, engineers, Soweto poets, Net activists; young and old; a multiplicity of race, class, gender, nation and disciplines, writing from universities, industry, media, the streets; the design and programming centers of IT, from anti-globalization street protests, from mediawatch, from the badlands of Texas, the streets of San Francisco, the hybrid cities of Cape Town, London, Toronto, New York, Paris, Helsinki, Singapore and Berlin.
