From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Mon Dec 21 16:12:11 2020 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:12:11 -0800 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] New_ Public Festival ------ FYI Message-ID: Friends, In just three weeks, a fast-growing and extraordinary group of technologists, visionaries, designers, critics and activists, researchers, and builders will be kicking off the New_ Public festival -- including you! The timing couldn’t be better: At a precarious moment for democracy and the turn of the new year, we’re coming together to chart a more hopeful and equitable future for digital public life. So, *please block these times on your calendar* now (all times ET): 11:15am-3:15pm *January 12* and 7-9pm *performance/open mic* 11:15am-3:45pm *January 13* and 7-9pm *performance/open mic* 11:15am-4pm *January 14* Below, there are more exciting updates about what’s in store. Our experiential track is filling up fast, but if there are a few key other folks who you think would benefit from being part of this conversation,* encourage them to sign up now*: *https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-public-festival-registration-129333438797?aff=affiliate* On to the updates! *New exciting speakers and discussants: *In addition to our previously announced speakers and discussants, we’re excited to welcome Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and host of the On Being podcast *Krista Tippett*, futurist *Madebo Fatunde*, Facebook Oversight Board member and Cato Institute Vice President *John Samples*, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry *Safiya Noble, *pioneering interactive media designer and researcher *Brenda Laurel, *Director of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism *Rasmus Nielsen*, tech humanist *Tristan Harris*, Taiwan digital minister *Audrey Tang, *digital infrastructure visionary *Ethan Zuckerman* and many more to the lineup! The full list is below. And stay tuned for a few more big special announcements to come. *Genre-bending award winning artistic collaborators: *Along with the MAP Lab who are helping us build a not-your-normal-Zoom experience for this event, we’re excited to be working with director, artist and founder of Early Morning Opera Lars Jan, product designer and Dialup CEO Danielle Baskin, artist and creator of P5.js Lauren McCarthy, and transdisciplinary artist, evocator of future histories and professor Stephanie Dinkins. *Future space showcase: *We’ll tour some exciting glimpses of platforms built with principles of public space, including *Planetary* (Evan Henshaw-Plath), *Friend Camp* and *Run Your Social* (Darius Kazemi), *Cortico* (Deb Roy), *DemocracyOS *(Pia Mancini), *PublicSpaces* (Geert-Jan Bogaerts), *Majal.org *(Esra’a Al Shafei) and *Block Party*(Tracy Chou). *Big research debut: *At the festival, Civic Signals co-founders, Talia Stroud and Eli Pariser, will share the surprising, hopeful results of two years of research on the qualities of healthy digital space. *..and a number of chances to work, talk, and think together throughout the program. *All of this is up on the *newly updated Festival website* . *Our full festival lineup includes:* - *Aaron Z. Lewis*, Product designer and writer - *Anasuya Sengupta*, Poet, author, and co-founder of WhoseKnowledge.org - *Astra Taylor*, *The People’s Platform* author, documentarian, and political organizer - *Audrey Tang*, Taiwanese free software programmer and Taiwan's Digital Minister - *Brenda Laurel,* Video game designer, researcher, and author - *Cory Doctorow*, Special Advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and author of ATTACK SURFACE - *Danielle Allen*, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and author of *Difference Without Domination* - *Darius Kazemi, *Computer programmer and artist - *Deb Roy, *Cortico founder and MIT Media Lab Executive Director - *Esra'a Al Shafei, *Bahraini human rights activist and founder of Majal.org - *Ethan Zuckerman, *founder of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst - *Evan Henshaw-Plath,* Technologist, CEO at Planetary - *Eve Pearlman,* Journalistic innovator and co-founder of Spaceship Media - *Gabriella Gomez-Mont,* Founder and former director of the Laboratorio para la Ciudad, and director of Experimentalista, a new urban+creative studio. - *Geert-Jan Bogaerts, *initiator of the PublicSpaces coalition and head of innovation at VPRO - *Glen Weyl,* Social technologist, Microsoft advisor and founder of the RadicalxChange Foundation. - *John Samples,* VP, Cato Institute and FB Oversight Board member - *Konstantinos Dimopoulos*, game urbanist, designer, and researcher; author of *Virtual Cities* - *Krista Tippett*, Journalist, author, and creator of On Being - *Lucy Bernholz*, Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford - *Madebo Fatunde*, Strategist, writer, and Guild For Future Architects founding member - *Mona Sloane,* Principal Investigator for Terra Incognita; NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology - *Nathan Matias, *Assistant professor at Cornell University, founder of the Citizens and Technology Lab (CATLab) - *Panayotis Antoniadis,* Senior researcher, Co-founder NetHood Zurich - *Philip Rosedale, *Founder of Linden Labs (host of Second Life) and HighFidelity - *Rachel Coldicutt,* Community technology strategist at Careful.Industries - *Rasmus Nielsen,* Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford - *Safiya Noble*, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry - *Sara Hendren,* Artist, design researcher, and Professor at Olin College of Engineering - *Tracy Chou,* Software engineer, CEO at Block Party - *Tricia Wang,* global tech ethnographer and founder of Sudden Compass - *Tristan Harris,* Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. - *Xiaowei Wang,* Artist, coder, author of *BlockChain Chicken Farm*, Creative Director of Logic magazine We’ll be following up in the next few weeks with specific information about how to participate. We can’t wait to see you all there, and to envision a new public together. Sincerely, Eli, Talia, Romy and Neelam The New_ Public team -- Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good * http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci 4cg-announce* Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/liberating-voices -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: