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The “Cyberspace Salvations” project actively seeks collaboration with like-minded researchers and others interested in its topics, in the Netherlands as well as abroad. It cooperates with colleagues abroad in the organization of conferences or conference panels, it collaborates with De Waag Society in organizing lecture series in the Teatrum Anatomicum in Amsterdam, and its takes the lead in organizing a “cyberculture seminar” in which researchers in this field from the Netherlands, and visiting researchers from abroad, report on their work in progress. Those who are interested in collaboration should contact Stef Aupers. |
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The Cyberculture seminar |
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The "Cyberspace Salvations" project has the ambition to organize regular meetings of a national seminar on cyberculture, in which researchers from all the different disciplines that study the cultural and social transformations effected by cyberspace and computer technology in everyday life present their findings. The organizers of the seminar are biased towards scheduling "work in progress" by younger researchers in anthropology, cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, and the like, guided by the idea that we are now witnessing the rise of the first generation of researchers at PhD-level who are fully cyberliterate. Earlier sessions have already featured colleagues from abroad reporting on current research. The cyberculture seminar usually takes place monthly on a Friday afternoon, either in Amsterdam, Leiden or Rotterdam. Those interested in presenting their work in progress should contact Stef Aupers.
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“Cyberspace Salvations” and the Waag Society |
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The field of research of the “Cyberspace Salvations” project is one in which both researchers (or “distanced” observers) and people researched (or practitioners) are academically trained and engage in theorizing about the past, present and future of cyberculture. They can thus both continually learn from each other in the process of this research. The Waag Society for old and new media in Amsterdam has shown its interest in bringing some of the research topics of our project before a larger audience. Staff members from the Waag Society and the researchers of the Cyberspace Salvations project have agreed to collaborate in organizing several lecture series, for which the former predominantly act as the producers of the series, and the latter as its editors. The Pauwhoff Fund has generously subsidized this initiative. This first lecture series took place in September 2005 and dealt with the utopian visions that characterized (and continue to characterize) three different generations of hackers. The speakers are listed below in our calendar. In the spring of 2007, we will organize another series of three lectures, called 'Science Fiction/Science Faction', dealing with the mutual influences between (Science Fiction) authors and technology innovators. The general theme will be 'creation' - creation of fantasies and stories, of products, of reality, the world and future - and we will explore the way in which Sci-fi writers and technological innovators (have) interact(ed) in relation to this. For a detailed schedule, see below in our calendar.
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Calendar |
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Science Fiction Science Faction seminar
A symposium about the mutual influence of science fiction and computer technology development. Organized by Waag Society, XS4ALL Internet and the Cyberspace Salvations research team.
With Brenda Laurel (virtual worlds and game designer) and Bruce Damer & Galen Brandt (virtual worlds developers and performers)
Moderated by Christian van ‘t Hof (Rathenau Institute)
Location: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam
Start: 19.45 uur
Entrance: Free
Reserve through: symposium@cyberspacesalvations.nl
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Science Fiction Science Faction seminar
A symposium about the mutual influence of science fiction and computer technology development. Organized by Waag Society, XS4ALL Internet and the Cyberspace Salvations research team.
With RU SIrius (founder cyberculture magazine ‘Mondo 2000’) and Rudy Rucker (co-founder cyberpunk movement)
Moderated by Giselinde Kuipers (Sociology, University of Amsterdam)
Location: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam
Start: 19.45 uur
Entrance: Free
Reserve through: symposium@cyberspacesalvations.nl
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Science Fiction Science Faction seminar
A symposium about the mutual influence of science fiction and computer technology development. Organized by Waag Society, XS4ALL Internet and the Cyberspace Salvations research team.
With Bruce Sterling (co-founder of cyberpunk movement, designer)
and Peter Pels (anthropology professor Leiden University).
Moderated by Sally Wyatt (Virtual Knowledge Studio, president of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology)
Location: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam
Start: 19.45 uur
Entrance: Free
Reserve through: symposium@cyberspacesalvations.nl
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Cyberculture seminar:
Mini-conference "Ethnic groups online"
Tamara Witschge (ASCoR, University of Amsterdam)
Other speakers to be announced
Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam; time and room to be announced
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Cyberculture seminar :
Willem de Koster (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences): "Virtual Communities and Late Modern Identities"
15.00-17.00 hrs; Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam; room to be announced
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Cyberculture seminar:
Andre Nusselder (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of Philosophy): "Imagining (Cyber)Space"
15.00-17.00 hrs; Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam; room to be announced
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Waag lecture: hackers & Utopia # 3
Mark Pesce (title to be announced)
Moderator: Jan Simons (University of Amsterdam)
Introduction by Stef Aupers
Waag Society for Old and New Media, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam, 20.00-22.00 hrs.
Mark Pesce developed ‘Virtual Reality Modelling Language’ (VRML) in the 1990s and authored various books, like The Playful World. How Technology is Changing our Imagination (2000). As a self-proclaimed ‘technopagan’, Pesce wrote and lectured extensively on the affinity between the ontological claims of magicians and virtual reality. With Terrence McKenna he lectured on Technopagans at the end of history (Essalen, 1998) and speculated on the future of humans in his film Becoming Transhuman 2001 (a narrative of what-we-are-becoming). Since October 2003 he began teaching at the Australian Film Television and Radio school in Sydney.
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Waag lecture: Hackers & Utopia # 2
Richard Bartle: "A better World through Better Worlds. MMORPGs and Practical Hacker Ethics"
Moderator: Marinka Copier (Utrecht University)
Introduction by Stef Aupers
Waag Society for Old and New Media, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam, 20.00-22.00 hrs.
Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw developed the first Multi User Domain (MUD) around 1980. He is also a writer on all aspects of virtual world design and development.He authored Designing Virtual Worlds (2003) which rapidly became the standard work for anyone developing persistent 3-dimensional worlds (like MMORPGs). Bartle is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at Essex University, Essex, United Kingdom.
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Cyberculture seminar:
Jeroen de Kloet (ASCoR, University of Amsterdam): "Global Bits, Local Bites - Hackers in New York and Shang Hai"
Moderator: Peter Pels
Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam; room A003, 15.00-17.00 hrs.
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Waag lecture: Hackers & Utopia # 1
Lee Felsenstein: " The Arming of Desire. Counterculture and Computer Revolution".
Moderator: Rop Gonggrijp
Introduction by Peter Pels
Waag Society for Old and New Media, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam, 20.00-22.00 hrs.
Lee Felsenstein was a key figure in the Bay Area hardware hacking scene in the seventies, active in the Free Speech movement and a moderator of the now-legendary Homebrew Computer Club. Among others, he designed the processor Technology Sol (one of the first competitors of the Apple II) and the Osborne 1 in 1981 (the first mass-produced portable computer). Lee currently works at the Fonly Institute.
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Cyberculture seminar:
Mini-conference "Gaming"
Speakers: Mirjam Vosmeer (ASCoR, University of Amsterdam)
Maaike Lauwaert (Maastricht University)
Stef Aupers (Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Other speakers to be announced
Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam; room and times to be announced
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