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I am very much looking forward to the conference in just a few weeks. I plan to be an active listener more than anything, but will also be moderating a panel on Saturday with Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Kenneth Rogers, Burak Arikan and Chris Barr called “USER LABOR: CREATIVE RESPONSES.” I have introduced myself on this list before and my bio is on the conference website, so I won’t do that here. But, for me this conference is most interesting in thinking about the process and potential of “crowdsourcing” or mass collaboration enabled by the internet. What are the opportunities and false hopes (especially in relation to activist media art)? My work of late has been about making platforms to visualize/re-contextualize data (usually government and/or scientific). This is a starting point to enable new kinds of access and, thus, new kinds of conversations and descriptions (re-inscriptions). You can visit www.superfund65.org and www.undesigning.org for more of what I am talking about.<BR>
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Hope to see many of you there!<BR>
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Best, Brooke<BR>
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Brooke Singer<BR>
<a href="http://www.bsing.net/blog">http://www.bsing.net/blog</a><BR>
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