About 'Digital Activism'

VIEW THE LIVE STREAM HERE (22nd April 2003, 7-11pm)

This event will be a gathering of:

  • Activists using digital technology for social issue campaigning within NGOs, other groups and/or as individuals
  • Campaigners interested in using digital technologies
  • Academics, students and theorists with an interest in this area of activity
  • Artists and creative industry professionals active/interested in social issues and digital technology
  • Programmers and 'techies' providing or interested in developing tools and support to campaigns.


About OneWorld.net

OneWorld.net <www.oneworld.net> produce the world's leading portal on human rights, sustainable development and ending world poverty bringing together non-governmental organisations from UN agencies to Oxfam, Amnesty International and Greenpeace and grassroots organisations working in Africa, Asia and Latin America.


"Information is power, as governments and companies have long realized, and that's why they have tried to control access to information. What the Internet does is make information available to everybody, quickly and relatively cheaply. And that is an enormous tool for citizen activism. We saw that at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. So we think it's a fantastic and vital democratic tool."
Charles Secrett, former Director of Friends of the Earth.

"OneWorld TV is an impressive response to a global media system that all too often is filtering out both innovation in film-making and the wider communication of social issues to citizens around world. If you are a filmmaker concerned about what's going on in our world today, add your stories to OneWorld TV and join this radical network at the cutting edge of technology and social change."
Mike Figgis, Director (Leaving Las Vegas, Timecode)

"The Trade Justice Movement have got it right. It wouldn't cost much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival. Our politicians have to put this right."
Bono

  

In the ICA Bar

Fun-da-mental World Service

Fun-da-mental: 100% Politics, Information, Debate, Dialogue. These are the elements that fire the engine of this so-called 'Asian Underground' band. Actually, we refute the 'Asian underground' tag, as it carries limitations and barriers, that once again try to dictate what people of colour 'should say or sound like'. We hopefully come armed with passion and sincerity as we try to find solutions to some of the social ills that affect not only the minority, but also the majority. Why we try to do this via the musical platform instead of taking up public office, is a question that we have asked ourselves, and the answer seems to be that we are not cold enough to become politicians that lie to their constituents and the general public on a daily basis. Through the hardly auspicious offices of label Nation Records, we release items our articles of faith, in the hope that somewhere a change will be made somewhere on this planet that is our only home.
www.usaterrorist-no1.com <www.usaterrorist-no1.com>
www.nationrecords.co.uk <www.nationrecords.co.uk>

Moshikop

Moshikop plays tracks from his debut album ‘Pisces/Way Above Below’ on the Israeli MDMA/German Forte Records labels and almost everything you’ll hear was written, produced, arranged, programmed, played and mixed by Moshikop himself. It’s a complex weave of down-tempo rhythms, vocal layers, electronic noises and orchestral overtones - ‘hazy, monumental, overwhelming, electronic and acoustic’ says Techno magazine. The CD was selected as album of the month in three German magazines and reached number 1 in the German ‘chill-out’ chart. Moshikop also performs a selection of new material accompanied by Rohan Kriwaczek - a multi woodwind and violin player.

About the screenings



www.piratetv.net - 24/7 DIY psychedelic active and interactive streaming zentertainment with quality content from top selectors.

Born out of the excitement of Coldcut's early pirate radio days on the orginal Kiss FM, frustration with the dumbing down of legal stations and the straitjacket of commercial television, www.piratetv.net started netcasting in Jan 1999. Streaming through www.spc.org, piratetv.net is the place to visit for live audio/visual streams.

Now into the fifth year it started life as a Coldcut/SPC/geekcrew project, and branched off to include not just music and pretty visuals, but documentaries, interviews, independent films, and general misbehaving. Now, the content is created by various groups, collectives, individuals, autonomous activists and record labels from around the world. It is non hierarchical, not for profit and free.

Choose from

  • live stream - regular shows and weekly playlist.
  • special events stream - live performance, one off events, lectures etc
  • piratetv theatre - the classics and some modern radio-inspired art are all featured as we travel into the era of the imagination.
  • alt news stream - the news you don't see on mainstream tv.

Our contribution to the DIGITAL ACTIVISM event is a series of audiovisual pirate cutz compiled from around the world, which have recently been screened on the station. We love it when a planet comes together : )

Films by earl Stanley and Code-E

What happens when we are killing people' is a live perfomance activist film about the streets of London during the war in Afghanistan. Using VJ technology, the visual artists produce a live edit to a music soundtrack, creating a raw energetic visual style that generates layers of meaning, interpretation and resonance. (13 mins)

'What happens when we are going to kill people' is a live performance activist film about the largest march in London's history - Don't attack Iraq, February 15, 2003. Developing the techniques used in earlier works, this film features an extensive use of the ambient sounds from the march and a hard hitting visual style. (4 mins)

Earl Stanley [aka Gareth Rees] is a film maker and visual artist. In the documentary realm, his work has focussed on social movements, protests and protestors (Road Wars 1999 [BBC British Shorts 1999, SIDF 2000], Driven to Protest 2001[Channel 4]). In the fiction realm, everything from Paella Westerns (Bad Grass Never Dies, 1997) to Opera (The Beggar's Trailer 2000). He is currently first assistant director on 'Underbelly', the debut feature from Brownian Motion Pictures.

Code-E [aka Neal Coady] is an interactive designer and video artist, and a member of the Cybersalon digital arts collective. His short film 'Age of Corporations', about London Mayday 2001 was screened at the Screenworks Festival, Australia and he has provide VJ support for the Bays and Shur-i-kan. He has edited and created videos for Saturn and Playstation 2. His online sound toy 'Aquacoustica’ was selected by www.soundtoys.net in 2001