Beyond the Californian Ideology - In the month which WIRED magazine was sold off, Cyber.Salon 6 discusses whether this event symbolises the end of the Californian Ideology: the 'bizarre fusion of...the freewheeling spirit of the hippies and the entrepreneurial zeal of the yuppies.' Peter Lunenfeld from the ITA in Los Angeles will talk about alternative currents emerging on the West Coast which are combining new media, art and "doing science." Korinna Patelis from Goldsmith's College in London will talk about how Europeans are developing their own public service approach to digital convergence. Their presentations will be followed by a chaired discussion. What do you think lies beyond the Californian Ideology?

Peter Lunenfeld

Director of the Institute for Technology & Aesthetics (ITA), Lunenfeld offers a subjective view of Southern California's new media scene - raising questions about the aesthetics of Demo or Die and the relationship between local geography, human networks and schools of thought. Editor of The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (MIT Press, forthcoming), he recently organized Scripted Spaces: An ITA Conference on Entertainment Design, Narrative Architecture, and Virtual Environments.

Korinna Patelis

Korinna is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College. Her book on 'The Political Economy of the Internet' will be soon published by Arnold. She is also actively involved with the Association of Greek Internet Users.

//details: 7pm to 11pm. Wednesday 20th May. Sub-Cyberia (basement of Cyberia) 39 Whitfield St LONDON W1P 3LU entrance free

http://ma.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/ma.theory.4.2.db/http://www.artcenter.edu/scriptedspaces.html

(Source: Ninfomania NewsWire)