Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/19-03-2013 -Event 3

• 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch with presentations by PZI students [more about this later, but think short 5-7 minutes presentations]

These are for BA students coming to town with Seda Guerses, Femke Snelting, Nicolas Maleve, Diana McCarthy and Reni Hofmueller

• 14:00 - 15:00 Seda Guerses on the idea of 'transparency'

• 15:00 - 18:00 Seminar

• Seda Guerses is a researcher working in the group COSIC/ESAT at the Department of Electrical Engineering in K. U. Leuven, Belgium. She is interested in the topics of privacy technologies, participatory design, feminist critique of computer science, and online social networks. Seda is particularly excited about the topic of anonymity in technical as well as cultural contexts, the spectrum being anywhere between anonymous communications and anonymous folk songs.

Beyond her academic work, she also had the pleasure of collaborating with artistic initiatives including Constant vzw, Bootlab, De-center, ESC in Brussels, Graz and Berlin. http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/~sguerses

• Diana McCarty: Diana is a founding member of the radia.fm network of cultural radios, a network of radio stations that support citizen media. they made a content exchange platform between the radio stations, networking their  audiences/makers. she can contribute to the question of what makes an  "alternative" social network and how you can use existing  (social/digital/analog media) to do it.

(Germany)

• Reni Hoffmueller: Reni is an artist, she worked on mur.at an project with started with the then novel goal of providing its user base (mostly artists) with free web services. that was  the alternative platform of 20 years ago, before "free" services took

over. nevertheless, mur.at exists. what does it mean for your vision to  get hi-jacked? and, how do you sustain your alternative social networks?  are questions that she can talk about extremely well. (Austria)

• Nicolas Malevé is an artist, software programmer and data activist who lives between Brussels and Barcelona. He develops multimedia projects and web applications for and with cultural organisations. His current research is focused on cartography, information structures, metadata and the means to visually represent them.

Since 1998 Nicolas collaborates with Constant, a non-profit association, based and active in Brussels since 1997 in the fields of feminism, copyright alternatives and working through networks. Constant develops radio, electronic music and database projects by means of migrating from cultural work to work places and back again.(Belgium)