[NetBehaviour] Open Season!

[marc]

*Open Season!*

This October the UK government holds a pan-European conference on how to 
increase official regulation and control of intellectual property, 
copyright and technology.

In response, NODE.London is declaring this October an 'Open Season' on 
technology, media, culture, politics and art with a diverse and 
challenging series of events:

*WSFII*
World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures
Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October 2005, 11am - 6pm.
Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London E14 7HA
booking details: http://wsfii.org/register/
http://wsfii.org
£10

This event brings together practitioners and projects from the front 
lines of information infrastructure development to map out connections 
between Free Networks, Open Hardware, Free Media and Culture, Open 
Maps/Geodata, Open Civic Information and Community Currencies.


*Open Congress*
Creativity and the public domain
Friday 7th Saturday 8th October 2005, 11am - 5pm.
Tate Britain, Millbank London SW1P 4RG
booking details: Tate booking: 020 7887 8888
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
http://opencongress.omweb.org/
£20

Open Congress explores how methods derived from Free / Libre and Open 
Source Software (FLOSS) production can be deployed by those working in 
the area of art, visual culture and cultural production in general.

Unfolding over two days, this innovative Congress will be structured 
through three themes of Governance, Creativity and Knowledge; and an 
array of international and UK participants - artists, theorists, 
academics and activists - will shape Open Congress through 
presentations, discussion, workshops and events.

Open Congress includes Cory Doctorow - from the Electronic Frontier 
Foundation, Lawrence Liang - Alternative Law Foundation, McKenzie Wark - 
A Hacker Manifesto, Demos, Johanna Gibson, The Libre Society, Trebor 
Scholz - The Institute of Distributed Creativity, Tiziana Terranova, 
Talkaoke and Wireless London among many others

In collaboration with Chelsea College of Art and Design, NODE.London, 
Mute, Tate Britain, and Tate Digital Programmes.

*Future Wireless*
Practical.discourse.creative / Cybersalon & Open Spectrum UK
Tuesday 4th October, 12am-10pm.
The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, 
London SW7 5HE
booking details: email bookings at cybersalon.org
http://www.cybersalon.org
£5

A day of presentations, demonstrations, practical workshops, artistic 
interventions and debates to illustrate and probe the nature, impact and 
potential of wireless Internet, mobile telecommunications and other 
radio-based technologies.

The full programme for these and a series of related events visit 
NODE.London:
http://www.nodel.org/
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