SFAI Design+Technology Salon: The Strange Destiny of Open Source in the Nation State April 6, 2006

Free and Open to the Public
Free Snacks and Drinks

http://www.sfai.edu/design/salon

SFAI's Center for Media Culture and Leonardo, The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, will co-sponsor the next SFAI Design + Technology Salon on April 6 from 7 - 9:30 PM during which the RAQs Collective will initiate a discussion on the topic of "The Strange Destiny of Open Source in the Nation State" accompanied by a presentation on intellectual property issues by San Jose based writer and librarian Steve Cisler. The salon will consist of short 20-minute presentations followed by an ?open mic? and a lively Q&A. An open wine bar and food will precede the presentations and dessert will follow.
Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta of Raqs Media Collective from New Delhi are the Spring 2006 Fellows of SFAI's Center for Media Culture. Raqs is a collective of artists who work in new media and digital art practice, documentary filmmaking, photography, media theory, research, criticism, and curating. Their work has been exhibited at the Guangzhou Triennial, China; the Venice Biennale; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Walker Art Center; and Documenta 11, Germany.

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RAQs Collective: http://www.raqsmediacollective.net
Sarai: http://www.sarai.net
Leonardo: http://www.leonardo.info
Design+Technology Salon http://www.sfai.edu/design/salon

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