ryan griffis
Since 2002
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Ryan Griffis currently teaches new media art at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He often works under the name Temporary Travel Office and collaborates with many other writers, artists, activists and interesting people in the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor.
The Temporary Travel Office produces a variety of services relating to tourism and technology aimed at exploring the non-rational connections existing between public and private spaces. The Travel Office has operated in a variety of locations, including Missouri, Chicago, Southern California and Norway.

Is MySpace a Place?


Networked Performance pointed me toward an interview (download in PDF)with Networked Publics speaker Henry Jenkins and Networked Publics friend danah boyd about Myspace. The site, popular with teenagers, has become increasingly controversial as parents and the press raise concerns about the openness of information on the site and the vulnerability this supposedly poses to predators (Henry points out that only .1% of abductions are by strangers) and the behavior of teens towards each other (certainly nothing new, only now in persistent form). In another essay on Identity Production in Networked Culture, danah suggests that Myspace is popular not only because the technology makes new forms of interaction possible, but because older hang-outs such as the mall and the convenience store are prohibiting teens from congregating and roller rinks and burger joints are disappearing.

This begs the question, is Myspace media or is it space? Architecture theorists have long had this thorn in their side. "This will kill that," wrote Victor Hugo with respect to the book and the building. In the early 1990s, concern about a dwindling public culture and the character of late twentieth century urban space led us to investigate Jürgen Habermas's idea of the public sphere. But the public sphere, for Habermas is a forum, something that, for the most part, emerges in media and in the institutions of the state:

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor. The medium of this political confrontation was peculiar and without historical precedent: people's ...

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SWITCH: Issue 22



Carlos Castellanos:

HI everyone. Just wanted to announce the new issue of SWITCH:

SWITCH : The online New Media Art Journal of the CADRE Laboratory for
New Media at San Jose State University

http://switch.sjsu.edu switch@cadre.sjsu.edu

SWITCH Journal is proud to announce the launch of Issue 22: A Special
Preview Edition to ISEA 2006/ ZeroOne San Jose.

As San Jose State University and the CADRE Laboratory are serving as
the academic host for the ZeroOne San Jose /ISEA 2006 Symposium,
SWITCH has dedicated itself to serving as an official media
correspondent of the Festival and Symposium. SWITCH has focused the
past three issues of publication prior to ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA2006
on publishing content reflecting on the themes of the symposium. Our
editorial staff has interviewed and reported on artists, theorists,
and practitioners interested in the intersections of Art & Technology
as related to the themes of ZeroOne San Jose/ ISEA 2006. While some
of those featured in SWITCH are part of the festival and symposium,
others provide a complimentary perspective.

Issue 22 focuses on the intersections of CADRE and ZeroOne San Jose/
ISEA 2006. Over the past year, students at the CADRE Laboratory for
New Media have been working intensely with artists on two different
residency projects for the festival – “Social Networking” with Antoni
Muntadas and the City as Interface Residency, “Karaoke Ice” with
Nancy Nowacek, Marina Zurkow & Katie Salen. Carlos Castellanos,
James Morgan, Aaron Siegel, all give us a sneak preview of their
projects which will be featured at the ISEA 2006 exhibition. Alumni
Sheila Malone introduces ex_XX:: post position, an exhibition
celebrating the 20th anniversary of the CADRE Institute that will run
as a parallel exhibition to ZeroOne San Jose/ ISEA 2006. LeE
Montgomery provides a preview of NPR (Neighborhood Public Radio)
presence at ...

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Art & Mapping



The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) has released a special issue of their journal, Cartographic Perspectives:
Art and Mapping Issue 53, Winter 2006 Edited by Denis Wood and and John Krygier Price: $25
The issue includes articles by kanarinka, Denis Wood, Dalia Varanka and John Krygier, and an extensive catalogue of map artists compiled by Denis Wood.

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[-empyre-] Liquid Narrative for June 2006


Christina McPhee:

hi all, I am not sure we got this message out to Rhizome!

Please join our guests this month, Dene Grigar (US), Jim Barrett
(AU/SE), Lucio Santaella (BR), and Sergio Basbaum (BR) , with
moderator Marcus Bastos (BR), for a spirited discussion of "Liquid
Narratives" ----- digital media story telling with a dash, perhaps,
of 'aura' .

Here's the intro from Marcus:

The topic of June at the - empyre - mailing list will be Liquid Narratives. The concept of 'liquid narrative' is interesting in that it allows to think about the unfoldings of contemporary languages beyond tech achievements, by relating user controlled applications with formats such as the essay (as described by Adorno in "Der Essay als Form", The essay as a form) and procedures related to the figure of the narrator (as described by Benjamin in his writings about Nikolai Leskov). Both authors are accute critics of modern culture, but a lot of his ideas can be expanded towards contemporary culture. As a matter of fact, one of the main concerns in Benjamin's essay is a description of how the rise of modernism happens on account of an increasing nprivilege of information over knowledge, which is even more intense nowadays. To understand this proposal, it is important to remember how Benjamin distinguishes between an oral oriented knowledge, that results from 'an experience that goes from person to person' and is sometimes anonymous, from the information and authoritative oriented print culture. One of the aspects of this discussion is how contemporary networked culture rescues this 'person to person' dimension, given the distributed and non-authoritative procedures that technologies such as the GPS, mobile phones and others stimulate.

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state of the planet infographics


stateoftheplanet.jpg
a small collection of beautiful information graphics documenting the current state of the planet.
see also gapminder & 3d data globe.
[seedmagazine.com]

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DISCUSSION

Fwd: GLOWLAB Week #5, Balloons and Books


Begin forwarded message:
> Week #5
>
> The Glowlab psychogeography festival moves into Week 5 with a full
> schedule of walks, workshops and events. The exhibition will be open
> Saturday & Sunday, 12 -6PM, but don't miss these exciting special
> events.
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> SATURDAY, 2PM - 4PM:
> Balloon Launching Workshop
>
> WHAT: Artist Morgan Schwartz helps you launch a balloon with a secret
> message into the sky. Track your balloon on the project website.
> WHEN: Saturday, 2PM - 4PM
> WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge, MA
>
> Free and open to the public. Great event for kids!
> This event is produced in conjunction with The Berwick Research
> Institute
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> SATURDAY, 4PM - 6PM:
> Group Field Recording
>
> WHAT: Renowned sound artist Kabir Carter leads a group walk to collect
> field recordings from Central Square.
> WHEN: Saturday, 4PM - 5PM
> WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge, MA
>
> Free and open to the public.
> This event is produced in conjunction with Non-event.
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> SUNDAY, 12PM - 6PM:
> Write a story with 100 people
>
> WHAT: Toby Kim Lee will be present at the Eugene library to invite you
> to write a story that over 100 others are writing.
> WHEN: Sunday, 12PM - 6PM
> WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge, MA
>
> Free and open to the public.
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> MONDAY, 6:30PM - 8:30PM:
> N55 Artist Talk at CAVS
>
> Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled and
> will be rescheduled at a later date.
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> THURSDAY (Nov 17th), 7PM:
> Nathaniel Stern, Artist Talk
>
> WHAT: Nathaniel Stern (Johannesburg/New York City) is an
> internationally exhibited installation and video artist, net.artist
> and performance poet. His interactive installations have won awards in
> New York, Australia and South Africa, and his net.art has been
> featured in festivals all over Europe, Asia and the US.
> WHEN: Thursday, Nov 17th, 7PM
> WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge, MA
>
> Free and open to the public. FREE BEER provided by Tiger Beer.
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> Calendar:
>
> Check out the full festival calendar at
> www.artinteractive.org/calendar or download it at
> www.artinteractive.org/shows/glowlab/calendar.pdf.
>
> ______________________________________________________________
>
> About Art Interactive:
> http://www.artinteractive.org
> Art Interactive's mission is to provide a public forum for art that
> is contemporary, experimental, and participatory. Situated at the
> heart of Central Square, a lively neighborhood in Cambridge, MA, Art
> Interactive provides artists a supportive venue for showing
> cutting-edge work. It also offers the community in the Greater Boston
> Area unparalleled opportunities for experiencing innovative art forms.
>
> Gallery Hours & Location:
> Art Interactive is open Saturdays and Sundays from 12-6pm or by
> appointment. The gallery is located at 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the
> corner of Prospect Street in Cambridge, MA. For more information,
> please contact info@artinteractive.org, call 617-498-0100 or fax
> 617-498-0019.
>
> Support & Partners:
>
> The Glowlab: Open Lab exhibition and festival is made possible with
> the support of the following groups: iKatun, Guarino Design Group,
> turbulence.org, The Berwick Research Institute, Tiger Beer, Non-event,
> The Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, The Boston Society of
> Architects, Anthem Magazine, The Weekly Dig, Upgrade! Boston,
> RedMaps.com, The Weekly Dig

DISCUSSION

Fwd: MIND IN MATTER opening at OPENSOURCE!


Begin forwarded message:

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, November 10, 7-10pm
EXHIBITION ON DISPLAY: November 10

DISCUSSION

Fwd: free trade / post-postcard


SAVE-THESE-DATES PLEASE

Free Trade THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2005
This hour-long screening brings together a group of short films and
videos by 16 artists from Mexico, Canada and the United States. It
marks Outpost's one year anniversary and is part of our two-year cycle
of programs focusing on artists from North America.

Artists include Ruben Ortiz-Torres and Eduardo Abaroa, Karma
Clarke-Davis, Adam Frelin, Pedro Zulu Gonzalez, Chris Hanson & Hendrika
Sonnenberg, Tim Hyde, Paulina Lasa Gonsebatt, Stephanie Hutin, Julie
Lequin, Eamon Ore-giron, Renato Ornelas, Sandy Plotnikoff, Juan
Recaman, Beatriz Santiago Munoz, Joaquin Segura, and Siebren Versteeg.

Doors open at 7:00 pm.
One-hour program begins at 8:00 pm.
Lengua will play records and other sound devices starting at 9:00 pm.
$5 / Members get in free. Send us an email at info@outpost-art.org to
reserve your seat in advance.

Hosted by Marvimon, in China Town.
1411 N Broadway, LA, CA 90012
Get map..
- - -
Post-Postcard 2005, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4
Outpost's annual exhibition for small-format work is designed to offer
artists and their public an opportunity for direct exchange.
Post-Postcard 2005 will feature over one hundred small format editions
by local, national, and international artists organized and installed
in boxes on shelves that run along the gallery$B!-(Bs walls. Art lovers can
explore original works and discover hidden gems at affordable prices,
just in time for the holiday season.

All work is priced between $1 - $30. Bring your cash, checkbook, or
credit card.

exhibition and sale dates:
Friday, December 2, 2005
7$B!](B8 pm First Dibs Members$B!-(B Preview
8$B!](B10 pm open shop

Saturday, December 3
12$B!](B6 pm boxes replenished; shopping continues
8$B!](B10 pm

Sunday, December 4
12$B!](B6 pm, final shopping day

Hosted by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, in Hollywood.
6522 Hollywood Blvd
(East of Highland, West of Cahuenga. Cross street is Wilcox)
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Get map..
- - -
For more information please call 323 899 3533 or email
info@outpost-art.org

www.outpost-art.org

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Wear Me Out opening Nov. 5th


Begin forwarded message:
>
> SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5
> WEAR ME OUT: Queering Fashion, Art and Design - an exhibit honoring
> what we've fought to wear
> Opening reception 7pm
>
> November 5, 2005 to January 29, 2006
> at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
> 909 West Adams Blvd. at the corner of Scarff between Hoover and
> Figueroa
> www.oneinstitute.org
> 213-741-0094
>
> with DJ Emancipation and members of the Black Artists Collective
>
> "WEAR ME OUT: Honoring what we've fought to wear" puts textiles and
> clothing at the forefront of an exhibit on the subject of "reading
> fashion." Bringing together 30 queer visual artists and fashion
> designers, curator Tania Hammidi aims to "take the shame out of
> fashion and situate how aesthetics, gay/lesbian/trans memory, and
> utility have historically converged on our bodies."
>
> "The ONE Archives is proud to premiere Wear Me Out, an amazing
> exhibit honoring our rich queer fashion history," said ONE National
> Gay & Lesbian Archives board member Rita Gonzales. "Tania has
> brought together an eclectic mix of visual artists and fashion
> designers to showcase our history and deep cultural expressionism."
>
> The show busts seams in its exploration of aesthetics, narrative, and
> cultural memory wedded to olfactory perception and tactile exchange.
> Emily Roysdon explores gesture in her "Gay Power" jumpsuit
> installation while Heather Cox brings out gestural and patterned
> repetition in "Shirt Quilt." Privacy and monumentality meet in a
> dynamic series of bronze panties, "Porn Stars and Academics," by
> Elizabeth Stephens. And while "Visible Difference" by Lenore Chinn
> appears aesthetically balanced, its message is much bolder. New work
> from Emile Devereaux, "Wormhole #3," provides a sonic interactive
> piece on recognition while Mitzy Velez explores the artist's own
> emergence as a lipstick-donning gay woman confronting normative
> standards of beauty.
>
> Worn by Le Tigre's JD Samson is "Totally Soft" a t-shirt articulating
> a vocabulary of sentiment, bravery, and comfort through physical wear
> and tear. Chitra Ganesh dons resistance through Hindu mythology and
> constructed Indo-Persian armor in "The Awakening." The cover painting
> "Last Time I Wore A Dress" by author Dylan Scholinski suggests that
> scale communicates his own experiences of psychiatric incarceration
> and regulated dress, while drag couture of performance artist Shelly
> Mars evidences the 1990's historical shift in queer/lesbian focus on
> female masculinity and lesbian rites of passage. Queer fashion
> photography from K8 Hardy and Cass Bird and Sarah Baley are far ahead
> of the fashion industry; "Blue Things I Wear" by Jessica Lawless
> honors genderqueer sensibility while confronting heteronormative
> gallery phobias.
>
> Designers Parisa Parnian (Rigged OUT/Fitters, NYC), Hushi and Micheal
> (LA), Bre Cole + Aisha Pew (Chocolate Baby Designs, Oakland) and
> Gayngsta (LA) approach design, the body, and queer cultural memory in
> wildly divergent manners. Designer Parisa Parinan's "queering" of
> vintage menswear addresses desire and the problems of a global fashion
> labor force head on, while Micheal and Hushi bring Iranian identity
> and gay sexual desire together on one muscle T.
>
> 19th century African-American "Quilts of Suits", the lost shoe of
> Mayor Frank Jordan (on loan from SF Gay Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender
> Historical Society), and G.B. Jones' "Bitch Nation" T round out the
> archival corners of the exhibit.
>
> Whether celebrating the everyday or unfolding the repressed, these
> bold artists enact the subversive practices of reading fashion - and
> show us that we speak and remember through clothing.

DISCUSSION

Fwd: EFFector 18.37: Court Issues Surveillance Smack-Down to Justice Department


Begin forwarded message:
>
> EFFector Vol. 18, No. 37 October 27, 2005 editor@eff.org
>
> A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
> ISSN 1062-9424
>
> In the 353rd Issue of EFFector:
>
> * Court Issues Surveillance Smack-Down to Justice Department
> * Plan for Internet "Backdoors" Draws Coordinated Attack
> * Want to Take a Bite Out of the DMCA? Now's the Time
> * First Annual P2P Litigation Summit, November 3
> * The Patent System of the Future?
> * Spring Legal Internships at EFF
> * Stanford Center for Internet and Society Mailing List
> * miniLinks (10): Open Letter to Yahoo's Jerry Yang
> * Staff Calendar: 10.30.05 - Fred von Lohmann at Eastern
> District of California Judicial Conference in Monterey, CA;
> 11.3.05 - Cindy Cohn, Corynne McSherry, and Allison Navone at
> P2P Litigation Summit in Chicago; 11.4.05 - Cindy Cohn at IP
> Law Association of Chicago, Fred von Lohmann at Advanced
> Software Law and Practice in San Francisco, Cory Doctorow at
> Center for Brazilian Studies, Oxford
> * Administrivia
>
> For more information on EFF activities & alerts:
> <http://www.eff.org/>
>
> Make a donation and become an EFF member today!
> <http://secure.eff.org/support>
>
> Tell a friend about EFF:
> <http://action.eff.org/site/Ecard?ecard_id61>
>
> : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :
>
> * Court Issues Surveillance Smack-Down to Justice Department
>
> No Cell Phone Location Tracking Without Probable Cause
>
> New York--Agreeing with a brief submitted by EFF, a federal
> judge forcefully rejected the government's request to track
> the location of a mobile phone user without a warrant.
>
> Strongly reaffirming an earlier decision, Federal Magistrate
> James Orenstein in New York comprehensively smacked down
> every argument made by the government in an extensive, fifty-
> seven page opinion issued this week. Judge Orenstein decided,
> as EFF has urged, that tracking cell phone users in real time
> required a showing of probable cause that a crime was being
> committed. Judge Orenstein's opinion was decisive, and
> referred to government arguments variously as "unsupported,"
> "misleading," "contrived," and a "Hail Mary."
>
> "This is a true victory for privacy in the digital age, where
> nearly any mobile communications device you use might be
> converted into a tracking device," said EFF Staff Attorney
> Kevin Bankston. "Combined with a similar decision this month
> from a federal court in Texas, I think we're seeing a
> trend--judges are starting to realize that when it comes to
> surveillance issues, the DOJ has been pulling the wool over
> their eyes for far too long."
>
> Earlier this month, a magistrate judge in Texas, following
> the lead of Orenstein's original decision, published his own
> decision denying a government application for a cell phone
> tracking order. That ruling, along with Judge Orenstein's
> two decisions, revealed that the DOJ has routinely been
> securing court orders for real-time cell phone tracking
> without probable cause and without any law authorizing the
> surveillance.
>
> "The Justice Department's abuse of the law here is probably
> just the tip of the iceberg," said EFF Staff Attorney Kurt
> Opsahl. "The routine transformation of your mobile phone
> into a tracking device, without any legal authority, raises
> an obvious and very troubling question: what other new
> surveillance powers has the government been creating out of
> whole cloth and how long have they been getting away with
> it?"
>
> The government is expected to appeal both decisions and EFF
> intends to participate as a friend of the court in each case.
>
> For the full text of Judge Orenstein's new opinion, and the
> similar Texas opinion:
> <http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/USA_v_PenRegister>
>
> For this release:
> <http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_10.php#004090>
>
> : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :
>
> * Plan for Internet "Backdoors" Draws Coordinated Attack
>
> The FCC's new tech mandate requiring Internet backdoors is
> wrong in so many ways, we cannot even keep count. A few
> choice ways, in lawyer-speak, is that it exceeds the FCC's
> authority, is arbitrary, capricious, unsupported by the
> evidence, and is contrary to law. EFF and six other groups
> have now teamed up to stop it.
>
> The coalition has petitioned an appeals court to review the
> FCC ruling that would expand the Communications Assistance to
> Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to broadband ISPs and VoIP
> providers, forcing them to build insecure backdoors into
> their networks. Law enforcement says it needs the backdoors
> because, they argue, it's just too hard for them to intercept
> all the communications that they need. But that kind of easy
> access will also endanger the privacy of innocent people,
> stifle innovation, and risk the Internet as a forum for free
> and open expression.
>
> EFF has already argued against this expansion of CALEA in
> several rounds of comments to the FCC, and we'll be there
> every step of the way during the court battle.
>
> Petition from EFF and other groups:
> <http://www.cdt.org/digi_tele/20051025caleapetition.pdf>
>
> More on FCC and CALEA:
> <http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_09.php#004011>
>
> : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :
>
> * Want to Take a Bite Out of the DMCA? Now's the Time
>
> As part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),
> Congress instructed the U.S. Copyright Office to consider
> every three years whether we need exemptions to the DMCA's
> blanket ban on circumventing "technological protection
> measures" (aka Digital Rights Management or DRM) used to lock
> up copyrighted works. So if you want to make a legitimate
> use of a piece of media, but have been turned back by DRM and
> the DMCA, now is your chance to take your case to the
> Copyright Office and try to make the world a happier and
> safer place for the next three years. As two-time-
> successful-exemption-requester Seth Finkelstein says: "The
> lawsuit you prevent may be your own."
>
> The Copyright Office is soliciting exemption proposals for
> the next three-year period, 2006-2009. Proposals must be
> submitted to the Copyright Office by no later than December
> 1, 2005.
>
> Keep in mind that--as in the two previous rule-makings--you'll
> have to overcome some obstacles to convince the Copyright
> Office and Librarian of Congress to grant you an exemption.
> These include:
>
> 1. The Copyright Office can recommend exemptions only to the
> DMCA's ban on acts of circumvention, not to the ban on
> trafficking in tools of circumvention. So if you are
> interested in an exemption that would allow you to distribute
> circumvention tools (like DVD back-up software), you're out
> of luck.
>
> 2. You have to prove that your intended activity is not
> otherwise an infringement of copyright law and specifically
> identify the DRM technology that is getting in your way.
>
> 3. You have to identify a "class" of copyrighted works to
> which your exemption would apply. The Copyright Office
> requires that you do this by defining a subset of works of
> authorship. You are not allowed to frame the class by
> reference to particular non-infringing uses of those works,
> or by attributes of the users. For example, the Copyright
> Office has rejected past requests for exemptions for
> "classroom uses" of DVDs, while granting exemptions for
> computer programs protected by malfunctioning copy-protection
> dongles.
>
> These are just a few of the sometimes bewildering array of
> limitations on the Copyright Office's willingness to
> entertain exemption proposals. The best way to understand
> the requirements is to read up on the links below. If, after
> reviewing these, you think you might have something that
> qualifies, EFF would like to hear from you. Please email
> exemption class proposals to dmca2006-proposals @eff.org by
> November 24.
>
> Finkelstein describes his experience:
> <http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/finkelstein_on_dmca.html>
>
> Official Federal Register notice:
> <http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2005/70fr57526.html>
>
> Report on rule-making from 2003:
> <http://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/registers-recommendation.pdf>
>
> The four exemptions granted in 2003:
> <http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2003/68fr2011.pdf>
>
>
> : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :
>
> * Join us: First Annual P2P Litigation Summit, November 3
>
> In September 2003, members of the Recording Industry
> Association of America (RIAA) filed the first wave of
> lawsuits against individual peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharers.
> Two years and 14,000 lawsuits later, both P2P file-sharing
> and file-sharing litigation continue unabated, and members of
> the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) are now
> suing individual Internet users, as well. It's time to step
> back and consider where this litigation has been, where it's
> going, and whether there is a better way forward.
>
> EFF is co-sponsoring the First Annual P2P Litigation Summit,
> to be held on Thursday, November 3, 2005, at Northwestern
> University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois. We'd love to
> see you there.
>
> The daylong roundtable discussion brings together public and
> private defense attorneys, clients, investigators, advocates,
> and academics to discuss the latest developments in peer-to-
> peer litigation. How do the RIAA and MPAA go about
> identifying plaintiffs? What are the most effective legal
> strategies and tactics? Is it better to settle immediately
> or fight it out in the courts? How is this impacting the
> individuals sued? What is the role of ISPs in this quagmire?
> Should Congress step in and, if so, what legislation is
> needed? Are there other ways to compensate authors for their
> works?
>
> More information, and to register:
> <http://www.signmeup.com/51363>
>
> : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :
>
> * The Patent System of the Future?
>
> For those following the E.U. software patent directive, U.S.
> Patent and Trademark Office reform proposals, and the
> substantive patent law harmonization merriment at WIPO,
> here's your chance to meet the Trilateral PTOs. Join the
> European Patent Office, the Japan Patent Office and the USPTO
> for a meeting with users on "The Patent System of the Future:
> The Role of the Trilateral Offices" in Munich, November 17.
>
> For more information and to register:
> <http://www.trilateral.net/meet_users/index.php>
>
> : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :
>
> * Spring Legal Internships at EFF
>
> EFF invites outstanding law students to apply for Spring
> internship positions at our high-energy office in San
> Francisco. You can work with EFF's legal team to litigate
> cutting-edge issues surrounding new technologies. Interns
> assist in all aspects of litigation and advocacy, including
> legal research, factual investigation, and drafting of
> memoranda and briefs, while also helping with policy
> research, client counselling, and the development of public
> education materials. EFF's docket ranges across the
> technological and legal landscape, from file-sharing to
> electronic voting to the USA PATRIOT Act.
>
> Spring internships are two full days per week and last 10-12
> weeks. First and second-year law students are encouraged to
> apply, including students enrolled in non-US schools.
>
> For details:
> <http://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/legalinterns/>
>
> : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :
>
> * Stanford Center for Internet and Society Mailing List
>
> Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society lost its
> mailing list. (Oops!)
>
> To subscribe, or re-subscribe:
> <http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/list/>
>
> For the first issue of The Packets Newsletter:
> <http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/packets/vol_3_no_1/>
>
> : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :
>
>
> * Staff Calendar
> For a complete listing of EFF speaking engagements (with
> locations and times), please visit the full calendar:
> <http://www.eff.org/calendar/>
>
> October 30
> Fred von Lohmann speaking at the Eastern District of
> California 2005 Judicial Conference in Monterey, CA
>
> November 3
> Cindy Cohn, Corynne McSherry, and Allison Navone speaking at
> the P2P Litigation Summit in Chicago
> <http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/p2p_litigation_summit.php>
>
> November 4
> Cindy Cohn speaking at the Intellectual Property Law
> Association in Chicago
> <http://www.iplac.org</a>
> Fred von Lohmann speaking at the Advanced Software Law and
> Practice in San Francisco
> <http://www.marcusevans.com/events/CFEventinfo.asp?EventID