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Franny
Armstrong, 27, spent three years producing the 60-minute documentary
'McLibel: Two Worlds Collide', the inside story of the historic McDonald's
libel trial. The film was made with no budget and a volunteer crew
which included Britain's top movie director Ken Loach (My Name Is
Joe), who directed the courtroom reconstructions. The completed film
was banned for legal reasons in the UK, but has been shown widely
around the world. Franny might also have been involved with the 'McSpotlight'
internet site - ask her lawyer for more details - which has been accessed
more than 70 million times and which was described by Wired magazine
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Geert
Lovink (1959, Amsterdam), media theorist and activist, studied
political science on the University of Amsterdam. Member of Adilkno,
the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge, a free association
of media-related people established in 1983 (Agentur Bilwet auf Deutsch).
He is a former editor of the media art magazine Mediamatic (1989-94)
and has been teaching media theory throughout Central and Eastern
Europe. He is a co-founder of the freenet 'Digital City' (http:/www.dds.nl),
the support campaign for independant media in South-East Europe "Press
Now" and co-organiser of conferences such as Next Five Minutes 1-3
(93-96-99), Metaforum 1-3 (Budapest 94-96), Ars Electronica (Linz,
1996/98) and Interface 3 (Hamburg, 1995). In the spring of 1995, together
with Pit Schultz, he founded the international 'nettime'
circle which is both a mailinglist (in english and dutch), a series
of meetings and publications such as zkp 1-4, Netzkritik (ID-Archiv,
1997) and Readme! (Autonomedia, 1998). From Adilkno the following
books appeared: 'Empire of Images' (1985), 'Cracking the Movement'
(1990) on the squatter movement in Amsterdam, 'Listen or Die' (1992)
on free radio, the collected theoretical work 'The Media Archive'
(1992), 'The Datadandy' (1994) and 'Electronic Solitude' (1997). He
is currently based at De Waag, the Society for Old and New Media (www.waag.org).
Text archive: http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet.
contact: geert@xs4all.nl |
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