Mark Tribe with Benjamin Mako Hill
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Please join us tomorrow, Monday, Monday 3, 2008 at 7pm for a lecture and roundtable discussion with Mark Tribe with Benjamin Mako Hill on Networks, Tactics, Breakdown in the Joan Jonas Performance Hall at the MIT Visual Arts Program located here. Mark Tribe will present a selection of projects, such as the Port Huron Project, that explore how tactical practices and public interventions use the internet and other networks as a means to instigate political discourse and public collaboration. This work addresses zones of emergency in a broad sense, raising issues related to the psychological condition of being politically oppressed. Benjamin Mako Hil will present his work on online voting machines for the masses as well as discuss his involvment as an activist in the free software movement.