[OKCon-Programme] just found out, a late submission

Thu May 19 14:29:10 BST 2011

Hi Daniel et al,

Great, let me know if you have any questions.

Best,

Owen

On May 19, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Daniel Dietrich wrote:

> Dear Owen,
>
> Thanks for contacting us. Your proposed talks sound very  
> interesting. I have forwarded this to the programme Committee to be  
> added t the review process.
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> You will get a not shortly.
>
> All the best
> Daniel
>
>
> On 18.05.2011, at 23:12, Owen Mundy wrote:
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>> Dear OKCon,
>>
>> I just found out about OKCon from a colleague at another  
>> conference. I'm an U.S. artist and educator, based in Berlin this  
>> year, working on Give Me My Data http://givememydata.com A Facebook  
>> application that helps users export their information. I just gave  
>> a paper about GMMD and a two-day workshop on data scraping,  
>> visualization, and the Facebook API, at Art Meets Radical Openness  
>> in Linz. I think it would be great to participate in OKCon if  
>> either of the below fits into your program.
>>
>> The Self-Indulgence of Closed Systems
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>> Part artist lecture, part historical context, Owen Mundy will  
>> discuss his Give Me My Data project within the contexts of the  
>> history of state surveillance apparatuses, digital media and  
>> dialogical art practices, and the ongoing contradiction of privacy  
>> and utility in new media.
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>> http://owenmundy.com/blog/2011/05/art-meets-radical-openness-give-me-my-data-a-short-history/
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>> Freedom for Our Files: Creative Reuse of Personal Data
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>> A two-day workshop, with both technical hands-on and idea-driven  
>> components. Learn to scrape data and reuse public and private  
>> information by writing custom code and using the Facebook API.  
>> Additionally, we’ll converse and conceptualize ideas to reclaim our  
>> data literally and also imagine what is possible with our data once  
>> it is ours!
>>
>> http://owenmundy.com/blog/2011/05/freedom-for-our-files-code-and-slides/
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>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Owen Mundy
>>
>>
>>
>> ~
>> Owen Mundy
>> Assistant Professor
>> Florida State University //
>> Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)
>> Arts Study Fellow
>> Universität der Künste Berlin //
>> omundy at gmail.com
>> http://owenmundy.com
>> http://givememydata.com
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