Communities & Networks post Web2.0
Virtueel Platform wants to thank all moderators, presenters, reporters and participants for their input into the conference! It's been amazing and intense two days.. To follow what has been going on for the past days check out the link: Follow Walled Garden LIVE (see Sidebar).
Walled Garden is a 2-day international conference that will take place on 20 & 21 November 2008 in Amsterdam.
This international working conference will approach the development and future challenges of the current Web 2.0 through exploration, experimentation and exchange of knowledge. Our goal: a blueprint for policy makers, funders and practitioners that works towards a public garden.
Walled Garden will address issues of identity, mobile communities and networks by focussing on the tendency towards online gated and closed communities. How does this affect the accessibility of information and knowledge?
Now is the time to identify success factors and failures of Web 2.0 and to imagine and initiate new tools and strategies for the future Web. Our Walled Garden will be explored through conversations in form of structured group dialogue, open plenary sessions, discussions and face-to-face meetings with artists, researchers, theorists and technologists.
Virtueel Platform sows the seeds with lively debates but we need your expertise!
"What happens when we have friended our old friends on MySpace and
have written professional testimonials on LinkedIn, have scrobbled our
entire music libraries on last.fm and have written on many walls on
Facebook? Can networks be open, sustainable and valuable? Or does a
network only work when it's a walled garden?" (Sabine Niederer)
"Enough of those serious play group therapies! Enough of those brainstorm meetings! Enough of those project manager group planning sessions! Enough of those power point powered informal get togethers! Let's just make things happen. Now." (Aymeric Mansoux)
"Radical empiricism is about how the in-between of process in-forms the work of thought. Walled Garden is a multi-disciplinary investment in how the network makes operative this kind of thinking in process." (Erin Manning)
"Enough of those serious play group therapies! Enough of those brainstorm meetings! Enough of those project manager group planning sessions! Enough of those power point powered informal get togethers! Let's just make things happen. Now." (Aymeric Mansoux)
"Radical empiricism is about how the in-between of process in-forms the work of thought. Walled Garden is a multi-disciplinary investment in how the network makes operative this kind of thinking in process." (Erin Manning)
"We are the people we’ve been waiting for--imagining a future, whether or not it comes true, is what makes us happy." (Tom Klinkowstein)
"The Network is the Laboratory –
metamorphosis, osmosis, osis (condition, process, action).
If Social networking is at the adolescent stage - what will happen when it grows up?" (Bronac Ferran)
“There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.
It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” - Albert Einstein, 1932
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” - Albert Einstein, 1932
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
"If history is doomed to repeat itself, is it possible to miscalculate the future less radically than did the great minds of the past? What can we learn about the future from the role art plays in envisioning and inventing it?" (Edward Shanken)
"Rhetoric of open and free in the context of software and networks have become, besides being also sites of useful and creative practices, idealized dogmas. In networked communication in general, as well as in new media art and content creation, we will increasingly need a sense and sensibility of combining open and closed as tactics, rather than as ideals. In my walled garden, there are many gates with different protocols for entering and leaving. Also its walls are porous. Visiting my garden proper will require a keyword combination, or being part of a social network assemblage. There are waiting rooms, and a huge compost for spam. I eagerly look forward to life beyond e-mail." (Tapio Mäkelä)
(Image, Creative Commons: flickr.com/photos/roberts87/ )