Monday June 20
Public Lectures

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien, Halle F3 - www.azw.at

14:00

Welcome and Introduction
Konrad Becker, Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0, Vienna

14:10-16:00

Panel 1

"Towards Open Networks" Bridging Global Information Society through Culture and Communication
Paul Keller, Waag Society, Amsterdam

"Invisibly Seeing the Invisible" Spatial Order and Biometric Identification
Stefan Nowotny, eipcp, Vienna

"Open Source, Citizen Rights and Software" The Making of Information Nodes in South Asia
Sunil Abraham, Mahiti, Bangalore

"City is Unwritten... Experiences and Thoughts seen Through Park Fiction"
Christoph Schäfer, Park Fiction, Hamburg

Panel discussion

16:00-16:30

Break

16:30-18:30

Panel 2

"Have You Looked Under Your Seat?" The Domestication of the Culture of Surveillance in South Asia - Preliminary Notes towards a Historical Understanding
Shuddhabaratha Sengupta, Sarai CSDS, Delhi

"Proximity and Information Gathering in Delhi"
Taha Mehmood, Sarai CSDS, Delhi

"Competing Voices in Information Cities"
Solomon Benjamin, Urbanist, Bangalore

"Law and Culture" Global Commons, Public Space and Contemporary IPR in Asia
Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore

Panel discussion

Program Tuesday June 21
Video Screening

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien, Halle F3 - www.azw.at

19:00-20:30

"New Media Practice in South Asia, Examples from Bangalore and Delhi" An assortment of media works from different perspectives that address questions of the politics of information, technology and new media in the contemporary.
Namita Malhotra, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore