Tonight: LIVE on WBAI 99.5 FM NYC Feb. 26, 2002:
( Midnight to 1.30 am EST)
(on air with Bill Weinberg and Ann Marie Hendrickson)
JOHN PERRY BARLOW, PAUL GARRIN, & CRISTINE WANG
talk about ICANN (a/k/a the WTO of
the Internet) and ICANN's plan to
disenfranchise the public from the
governance of the internet. Barlow
and Garrin will speak out in support
of reclaiming public space on the
internet and what we all can do to
assure democracy, free speech and
open access to the digital media.
If you're not in range of WBAI's
50k watt transmitter, listen in via
the net at http://www.wbai.org or
http://www.2600.com
JOHN PERRY BARLOW (http://www.eff.org/~barlow/)
is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former
lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of
the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May of
1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard Law
School's
Berkman Center for Internet and Society,
following a term as a Fellow with the Institute
of Politics at Harvard's John F.Kennedy School of
Government.
PAUL GARRIN (http://pg.mediafilter.org/) is a
media artist and founder of Name.Space. His works
over the past 20 years encompass a full spectrum
of analog and digital media from video to the
Internet, exploring media and the social impact
of technology on society, and issues of media
access, free speech, and public/private space.
For over 15 years he collaborated w/ video artist
Nam June Paik (emerging as one of his most
important collaborators). He has received the
coveted Prix Ars Electronica, and awarded the
Cooper Union's Presidential Alumni Citation for
outstanding attainments and contributions to his
profession.
CRISTINE WANG (http://www.cristine.org/), Independent
New Media curator & critic is contributing editor of
NYARTS MAGAZINE whose curatorial work is included in
the Whitney Museum's ARTPORT website(organized by
Christiane Paul), and a curator of new media at The
Alternative Museum. Along with Paul Garrin and Frank
Morales, co-founded The Free Media Foundation
(http://freethemedia.org) and organised the first
"Art, Activism + Technology in the Age of Corporate
Globalism" series (http://freethemedia.org/events)
which is netcast live via the Linux Public Broadcast
Network (http://freethemedia.org/netcast)
Free.The.Media!
http://FreeTheMedia.org
If you miss the show, check out
http://FreeTheMedia.org/radio
for playback of the program archive.
Best Regards,
Cristine Wang
http://cristine.org
