For the last day of Hack the Barbican. There will be two last events in the Hammerson Room including a panel discussion + screening today!
Details below: *How do we engage political and creative participation? *Saturday 31st August for Hack The Barbican (closing event!) Discussion panel on participation 3:00pm, Barbican Centre, Hammerson Room @humanspace_ #HTB13 Speakers: *Shahrar Ali, Green Party Janet Gunter, The Restart Project Richard Davis, LibDem* *Shahrar Ali, Green Party *@ShahrarAli After training as a biotechnologist and philosopher, Ali worked in the science unit of the European Parliament and joined the Green Party soon thereafter. Ali believes it is vitally important for us to be engaged in grassroots campaigns, and to be outwardly focused and outspoken. http://shahrarali.net/ *Janet Gunter, The Restart Project *@JanetGunter Gunter is an American/British novice anthropologist and blogger, an former “aid worker”, who works on transformational projects involving communication, technology and new economies. She works as a part-time consultant with the International Land Coalition on a project to develop an online platform to monitor and crowdsource data on large-scale land acquisition or “land grabbing. She is also starting up a social enterprise aiming to reduce electronic waste and transform our relationship to electronics called The Restart Project. http://www.rizominha.net/ *Richard Davis, LibDem *@DrDickyD Davis is the Lib Dem European Parliamentary candidate for London. He has a background as a scientist working as a biochemist before taking a role as a risk specialist and more recently setting up a software design company. He has worked with a number of local parties as both local party Chair and Regional Executive Member and has been working to involve grassroots activists in all layers of government and developing new initiatives to spread our party message far beyond our membership. http://drricharddavis.co.uk/ Further details can be found at: http://lanyrd.com/2013/humanspace/ Organised by: http://humanspace.org.uk/ -- *TECHNOFUTURES: Projected Utopias / Emerging Dystopias** **Screening presented by Critical Technologies* Barbican Centre, Hammerson Room, 5pm Saturday 31 Aug, 2013 * *#HTB13 @HumanSpace_ TECHNOFUTURES is a film programme that explores the impact of technological change in our contemporary society from a critical perspective. The films explore visions of the future from the optimistic world of the hyper-connected, design-driven, socially networked Tech City, to the emerging nightmares of a world where users/customers/citizens are at the hands of government and corporate surveillance. TECHNOFUTURES seeks to explore topics: of privacy, data mining, surveillance, ubiquity, public/private, hacking, open source, crowd-sourcing, user-generated content, viral media, mimetics, social media, analytics, collaboration, precarious labour, digital economy, innovation, and more. All films are sourced online and are freely available to view online. Screenings and discussions will be hosted with selected films and speakers on a periodic basis. We welcome contributions to the film list. *Got a film to share? Send us your links!* [email protected] <%[email protected]%22> *Film list: *http://humanspace.org.uk/?p=279 *Critical Technologies* is a platform to explore the social/political impact of technology on our contemporary society. Through meet-ups, screenings, and talks Critical Technologies aims to foster debate on issues around digital innovation in today’s technocapitalist economy.
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