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hey this sounds like fun wish I wuz in the UK Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 17:58:13 +0100 From: Josephine Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: EXTREME COMPUTING EXTREME COMPUTING The NTK/Mute Festival Of Inappropriate Technology 11am-7pm, Sunday June 9th 2002 The Camden Centre, London (opposite Kings Cross station) http://www.xcom2002.com/ THE FESTIVAL SEASON is here, but what does it offer to all those whose idea of a good time is sitting indoors hunched over a PC with the curtains drawn or plotting the overthrow of the gallery-system from a pub in Shoreditch? Well, now there's EXTREME COMPUTING 2002, an electronic village fete for the 21st century, an off-the-radar alt.jumble-sale, an all-day celebration of do-it-yourself technological and cultural unusualness. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that hackers and activists don't mix and techies and artists come from different planets, award-winning news site NTK and long-running digital arts magazine MUTE have put aside their differences to bring pioneers of the UK's outside-the-mainstream techno-cultural world together under one roof. The roof in question is that of THE CAMDEN CENTRE, positioned almost unhealthily close to Kings Cross railway station. Come SUNDAY JUNE 9TH, it will be packed to its maximum 900-person capacity with stalls selling everything from home-made robots to Japanese junk food, fanzines to tea towel manifestos, and aerials to astro-bonsai. Free software enthusiasts and misfortune-tellers will vie for your attention to create a general air of well-intentioned chaos. Areas which the event will cover (but not be restricted to) include: community wireless networking - free software - screenings - independent media centres - PC recycling - no borders activism - retro video gaming - renewable energy - mp3 remixing - critical art - robots - weird science - weblogging - new distribution models (not all of which are necessarily "inappropriate" technologies, we should emphasise - unless you happen to be Bill Gates or a regional sales manager for Dixons). Further updates and illustrations are available on the official website: http://www.xcom2002.com/ - - click on "media" to go to the special press area. Press inquiries: please call Dave Green on 07719 907136 for further information, interviews, or potentially inflammatory comments on a wide range of subjects. Notes for editors: NEED TO KNOW (http://www.ntk.net/) is the UK's longest running independent technology newsletter, and the winner of last year's Net-Media award for "Internet Journalist of The Year". MUTE MAGAZINE (http://www.metamute.com) purveyors of critical/information/services since 1994. Mute magazine is the UK's leading magazine on network culture.
