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What will come of the next decade on the Internet? We often take for granted the state of the net today, but there’s no guarantee that it will remain this way. Will the digital future be dystopian, or is there a brighter outlook ahead than some may believe? Our panelists - thinkers and net visionaries, with backgrounds ranging from art, law, technology, politics, media, culture, and entrepreneurship - provided their perspectives on the future of the net, and engaged with members of the audience to further the exploration of what lies ahead.
Speakers:
Clay Shirky
Author: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Adjunct Professor, NYU ITP
http://www.shirky.com
Tim Wu
Author: Who Controls The Internet?
Professor, Columbia Law School
http://www.timwu.org/
Lauren Cornell
Executive Director, Rhizome
http://www.rhizome.org/
Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia and Wikia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimbo_Wales
Jonathan Zittrain
Professor, Oxford University; Visiting Professor, NYU Law
Author: The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It
http://www.jz.org
Published April 25, 2008
Looking at Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung’s art is like peeking into the fever dream of an overworked political blogger. Mr. Hung, 31, is a fierce, funny and inventive political satirist. In a John Heartfield meets Monty Python style, his animated, neon-hued, cut- and-paste montages gleefully skewer all comers left and right, including President Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Moore and all the current and former candidates in this year’s presidential race.
“Gas Zappers,” one of two five-minute videos included in Mr. Hung’s show, his first New York solo exhibition, is like a video game for environmentalists. It depicts President Bush ejecting oil barrels like bombs from his mouth until he is defeated by a polar bear-Al Gore hybrid.
A video called “Residential Erection” and its sculptural companion piece, a large-scale pop-up construction resembling a promotional display for a Hollywood movie, take on the issues and dramatis personae of the current presidential campaign. Voices intone sentiments like “Democracy is a process by which we get organized to perform capitalism,” and dozens of characters, often embarrassingly transformed into cheerleaders, rock stars, animals or pornographic pinups, cavort across the screen, manically acting out zany allegories about oil, war, immigration, health insurance and the mortgage crisis.
Mr. Hung does not assert any positions or propose any solutions, but by hilariously highlighting the exasperating, salacious and mendacious inanity of a hyper-mediated political process, he performs a valuable public service. KEN JOHNSON
Thank You Very Much Mr. Johnson! Original article here.
New film from award-winning documentary maker John Pilger which suggests that, far from bringing democracy to the world as it claims, the US is doing its best to stifle its progress. Talking exclusively to American government officials, including agents who reveal for the first time on film how the CIA ran its war in Latin America in the 80s, Pilger argues that true popular democracy is more likely to be found among the poorest in Latin America, whose movements are often ignored in the West.
This is a very serious matter…
In 2007, the ‘artist’ Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved him to death.
For several days, the ‘artist’ and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful ‘masterpiece’ based on the dog’s agony, until eventually he died.
Does it look like art to you?
But this is not all… the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the ‘installation’ was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.
PLEASE HELP STOP HIM.
http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html
It’s free of charge, there is no need to register, and it will only take 1 minute to save the life of an innocent creature.
Thank you for your time.
Thank You So Much Rob for this super great review! Wow you really explain so well how I got to this point 
Here’s the link to the article: Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung: The Madcap Laughs
Thank You Tyler Coburn for writing this great review!
My friend Randall recommends this to me, cannot wait until it release on DVD.