NMN CONFERENCE TO TAKE PLACE IN GLASGOW

SCOTTISH Screen have announced that the New Media Networks (NMN) Conference will take place at the CCA in Glasgow between November 30 and December 1.
The conference investigates how networks have been established in Britain and Europe for the development of artistic and cultural practices in new media.
The event includes contributions from leading practitioners in net culture and has a premier screening of Desktop Icons - a New Media Scotland touring programme curated by Iliyana Nedkova exploring the cross over of popular culture, media and new technologies. It includes work by Chris Cunningham, Mike Stubbs, Torsten Lauschmann, Kristin Lucas, com&com and many others.
There is also Panels and Presentations on Network Cultures, Networked Arts Practice and Commissioning/Curating Networks. Speakers include: Eric Kluitenberg, a theorist, writer and organiser on culture and technology. He is based at De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam; Josephine Bosma, an independent researcher in the field of net culture. Her work has been published in Mute, Telepolis, Ars Electronica '97 catalogue and she was editor of the streaming media section of the nettime book ReadMe; Chris Byrne, Director, New Media Scotland; Carey Young, an artist and IT consultant based in London; Thomson and Craighead, London based artists, their work has recently been shown in Digital ArtNow (Tate Britain) and 010101 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Duncan Campbell, a Glasgow based artist and organiser of Radio Tuesday; Heath Bunting, an artist committed to building open/democratic Communication systems, he has worked on a range of artistic Projects using the internet, pirate radio and fax/mail art; Simon Yuill, who is currently completing his PhD on the idea of the digital artifact at the Department of Television and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee; Eddie Berg, Director of Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool; Iliyana Nedkova, an independent producer and researcher of old and new media art events. She has recently curated Blind Dating Technology, Crossing Over and Desktop Icons and Francis McKee, Head of New Media and Digital Art, CCA. (CD)