| Subject: | [youthgas] (Youthgas) Vibewire announces youthweek's 2008, e-Festival of Ideas | | Date: | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:09:20 (+1100) | | From: | annie <annie.lecavalier @.....com>
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Hi Youthgasers,
We'd really appreciate your help in helping us spread the word through your networks about
Vibewire Inc's favorite Youthweek event:
THE e-FESTIVAL OF IDEAS – 8-12 April @ www.vibewire.net
Five days of discussion around democracy, media, arts and social change, live and unmediated with special guests from around the world and, most importantly, you. Have your say and join the conversation!
WE WANT YOUR INPUT!
This year the e-Festival of Ideas is encouraging young people not just to join a conversation, but to start one too. We are calling on young Australians to submit their questions for interviews with some of our special guests.
ALL STANDING FOR QUESTION TIME!
Vibewire is giving young people across Australia the opportunity to ask five of our favourite guests your burning questions about culture, politics, democracy and social change for possible inclusion in a podcast produced for the e-Festival. Email your question, who you would like it to be put to, your name and phone number to efest@vibewire.net by March 25 2008. The interviews will be released as pod and vodcasts on April 8 as part of the e-Festival of Ideas.
So, have you got a question for…
GOTYE?
Since his Aria win in 2007, Gotye has been a touring blur taking his music right around Australia. Join us as he takes a breather and speaks to us about life as an independent artist in Australia.
GET UP!?
With almost 250,000 registered members, Get Up! is one of the movers and shakers in Australian politics today. Moving from strength to strength since their campaign to bring David Hicks home, Get Up! is reinvigorating democracy around Australia and putting grassroots activism back on the agenda. Their Campaign Co-ordinator, Ed Coper, is on stand-by and ready to take your questions!
OUR FEDERAL SEX DISCRIMINATION COMMISSIONER?
Elizabeth Brodderick is our new Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner and she wants to hear from you as she embarks on forming her five-year agenda. What are your concerns for women when it comes to bridging the gender divide? Rises in reported domestic violence, continuting gaps in rates of pay. What's going on? Send Elizabeth Brodderick your gender benders.
CREATIVE COMMONS?
Copyright law is confusing. Even for lawyers. What's more, it can be restrictive and limiting for artists looking to share and promote their work in the digital world. Creative Commons' internationally recognised licences aim to solve this dilemma. Want to know more about CC, it's birth and purpose? Can't see the sense in dishonouring a system that works? Send your questions to us and we'll put them to Eric Steur, Creative Director at Creative Commons.
CITY OF MELBOURNE COUNCILLOR, DAVID WILSON?
So, it's no big news that we're living in an increasingly global world. But where does that leave your local council? If local democracy isn't just about sorting the recycling then what is it about? Seek the counsel of City of Melbourne Councillor, David Wilson, as we put him in the hot seat this e-Festival.
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL…
The e-Festival of Ideas is more than just interviews – it's a whole five days of intriguing online discussion with Australian and international guests between 8-12 April. So have your say and join the conversation as our forums explore these six discussion themes:
e-Participation: Fad or Future?
2018: New Frontiers in Digital Arts
Reworking Feminism: What does gender equality mean in the 21st century?
The Creative Entrepreneur's Toolkit: a How-To Guide for Young Artists
Reaching Off the Screen: Film, Audiences and Social Change
Are You Being Heard? Youth Voices in Local Government
This year's e-Festival of Ideas forum discussion will feature some of the most interesting guests that our global media and arts landscape has to offer. Not to mention a whole stack of leading thinkers on the Internet, social change and democracy. Jump online and start a conversation with:
Mark Pesce
Known internationally as the man who fused virtual reality with the World Wide Web to invent VRML, Mark Pesce is the author numerous articles and five books, including The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming our Imagination, and has written for such publication as WIRED, Salon, and The Age. For the last three years, Pesce has been a panelist on the hit ABC show THE NEW INVENTORS. From 2003 to 2006, Pesce chaired the Emerging Media and Interactive Design Program at the world-renowned Australian Film Television and Radio School. Last year he received an appointment as an Honorary Associate in the Digital Cultures Programme at the University of Sydney, and has gone on to found FutureSt, a Sydney Media and Technology consultancy.
Tony Wilson
Tony Walker has worked at various levels and in a variety of roles in the media, primarily in the ABC, for over 30 years. He has a background in journalism and broadcasting, working in news and current affairs, 2 Double J and Triple j, ABC Local Radio and Radio Australia, as well as in and the community and the indigenous media sectors. He is now Manager ABC Digital Radio and is involved in the development of new multi-platform digital services.
Arts Engine, Inc. (USA)
Based in New York, Arts Engine, Inc. supports, produces, and distributes independent media of consequence and promotes the use of independent media by advocates, educators and the general public. By fostering the production and use of independent film, video and new media, Arts Engine connects media makers and active audiences in order to spur critical consideration of pressing social issues.
Alan Rosenblatt (USA)
Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D. is the Associate Director for Online Advocacy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is a long-time and frequent speaker and author on digital media, advocacy, and politics, including social networking, blogging, grassroots, and mobile advocacy strategies.
Tony Wilson
Tony Walker has worked at various levels and in a variety of roles in the media, primarily in the ABC, for over 30 years. He has a background in journalism and broadcasting, working in news and current affairs, 2 Double J and Triple j, ABC Local Radio and Radio Australia, as well as in and the community and the indigenous media sectors. He is now Manager ABC Digital Radio and is involved in the development of new multi-platform digital services.
Axel Bruns
Dr Axel Bruns is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and has also authored Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production and edited Uses of Blogs with Joanne Jacobs.
Miriam Lyons
Miriam is Director of the Centre for Policy Development. Formerly the Policy Coordinator of New Matilda, Miriam has a long history of bringing policy ideas to new audiences, as the founding director of the Interface Festival of Ideas in Sydney, and director of the Ideas Program for the Straight out of Brisbane Festival. Miriam has also worked as a freelance writer and a media development consultant in East Timor with the international NGO Internews.
Kate Raynes-Goldie
Kate is a social web and online community expert with over a decade of internet experience. She has been involved in community building in both online and offline contexts with organisations such as TakingITGlobal and Campus Co-Operative Residences. Kate's practical work draws on her five years of internet and online community research, which she has shared conferences such as SXSW and the Association of Internet Researchers and in publications including the Globe and Mail and First Monday. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Internet Studies program at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia.
Plus many many more to be announced!
WANT TO JOIN THE E-FEST TEAM?
Looking for work experience in independent media and arts? Then the e-Festival of Ideas has a job for you! We're looking for committed moderators to join the e-Fest conversation and help us maintain quality forum discussion. Great opportunity for anyone looking to build on their portfolio in media, arts and event co-ordination. For a position description , email efest@vibewire.net.
Applications close 5 April.
Annie Le Cavalier
Marketing & Promotions Coordinator
Vibewire Inc
e: annie@vibewire.net
t: (02) 9660 6591
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