[Oops, I think we were meant to include this a couple weeks ago, but it got lost in the NewzBin. Anyhow, you’ve still got a couple days left to get your applications in.]

The N5M3 Conference (De Balie and Paradiso, Amsterdam, 12-14 March 1999) is an international working conference on tactical media. It consists of public programmes and a variety of smaller-scale workshops, presentations and discussions centred around four main topics: The Art of Campaigning; How Low Can You Go (or The Aesthetics of Low-Tech Media); Tactical Education; The Post-Governmental Organisation.

N5M3 will host a unique ‘PGO Contest’, in which contributors will present the most and the least effective strategies for achieving global presence. The PGO Contest will offer models and counter-models, witty and serious, inspiring and ridiculous proposals for organisations that just _might_ change the world for the better.

An open call is issued to all those who have the blue-print for a Post-Governmental Organisation and who want to present it to an international audience of enthusiastic, desperate, and power-hungry minds.

After an initial selection, the most promising model PGOs will be demonstrated and discussed during the PGO Debate on Friday, 12 March 1999. The best and the worst examples in different categories will be selected by public acclaim and will be awarded prizes of insignificant financial, yet high symbolic value.

Categories can cover a wide variety of areas like:

- the independent tactical Internet Service Provider - the PGO that legally issues passports to the Sans Papier - the ideal trade union for digital workers - the producer of the most effective infowar weaponry - the director of the Global Proletarian Monetary Fund - the Culture Board which fights the state’s disregard for culture

- the PGO that recycles redundant, y2k-incompatible

computer hardware to the next Silicon Alley - the Interfund that creates an independent funding infrastructure for media culture

- the Bureau of Investigation and Counter-Surveillance that tackles racism in police and other public organisations

The deadline for submissions is 31 January 1999, earlier submissions will be very welcome as they will make the proceedings of invitations etc. a lot easier. [Sorry!]

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