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The Lift12 video of Gordan Savicic talking about the "Web 2.0 suicide machine" is finally online!

I recently checked my Facebook friends to see how many actually had deleted their accounts. They are listed at the end of the list, and I was quite surprised by the number!

Not sure however if they used this fantastic "Web 2.0 suicide machine", which offers quite an entertaining way to end your life on social media in style.

At Lift, we always keep an eye on cool new event formats, and Julien has provided some of the most innovative and interesting events in recent memory. His latest creation: Museomix, a giant workshop happening inside one of Paris' Museum, with attendees looking to reinvent the way our glorious (and a bit old fashioned...) museums work.

Julien will speak about the future of several things, explaining how the principles of the web (collaboration, sharing, openness) have now "contaminated" many spaces, among them conferences... and Museums!

Lifestyle Experiments and the Crisis of Agency

Working at the crossroads of contemporary art, science, and engineering, Natalie Jeremijenko shows various projects of hers related with environmental issues. Each of them exemplifies a peculiar aspect of her approach that aims at addressing the transformative potential of new technologies in unexpected ways.

Hojun Song thinks kids will soon ask their parents to offer them satellites, and that an open source initiative could make it more affordable and realistic than you think. He is an artist and dreamer, and he might very well achieve his goal as early as next year, sending a satellite collecting data from the cosmos and transforming it into information artists could use back on earth. He will be speaking at Lift Asia 09 in the Networked objects, from wifi rabbits to ubiquitous cities session alongside Rafi Haladjian, Adrian David Cheok and Julian Bleecker

Soh Yeong Roh, director from Art Center Nabi in Seoul, gives her perspective the importance of spirituality and art as a way to question the values of our technophile culture. Based on her experience and a strong south-asian flavor, she shows how art can create "creative communities" that can work as engine for social development (socio-cultural-economic) for our knowledge based society.

Lifestyle Experiments and the Crisis of Agency

Working at the crossroads of contemporary art, science, and engineering, Natalie Jeremijenko shows various projects of hers related with environmental issues. Each of them exemplifies a peculiar aspect of her approach that aims at addressing the transformative potential of new technologies in unexpected ways.

Soh Yeong Roh, director from Art Center Nabi in Seoul, gives her perspective the importance of spirituality and art as a way to question the values of our technophile culture. Based on her experience and a strong south-asian flavor, she shows how art can create "creative communities" that can work as engine for social development (socio-cultural-economic) for our knowledge based society.

Lift conference presents an original program that alternates between a series of conferences exploring the economic and social implications of new technologies, and long breaks that favor meeting people while discovering the creative projects of the Lift Experience.

Because we must touch the world that is moving, because we must see to understand; live the Lift Experience, an immersion into the future, through projects done by artists and designers; a unique opportunity to accompany those who make us see the world differently.

In a comfortable and ambient environment, discover these remarkable and playful installations, presented by different creative people from the Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur region, and the French-speaking community.

Wander around in the Garden of Eden and its unusual robots. Express yourself on camera for an interview.

Equip yourself with a funny machine, to question your perception of reality. Let the network overflow from its screen as you VJ sources from the web. Meet other participants around an interactive bar or just have fun by hijacking keyboards and toys to circuit-bend them from their initial usage…

Visit the Lift Experience page to see all the fascinating projects that will be presented in Marseille! Check the conference blog regularly, where two projects will be introduced every week.

Web 2.0 meets Marxist (Foucaultian?) economic theory in the latest video from Austrian subversive art collective http://www.monochrom.at/english/

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http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/02/15/monochroms-marxist-s.html

Go see for yourself. The are pretty good. And smart. And on-topic.
Enjoy!

Mobile phone cell antennas are being camouflaged as trees and tomatoes are turning square. Technology wants to look like nature, and nature like technology. Mieke Gerritzen is a dutch artist talking about how culture becomes nature.