Save the Date! MyCreativity Sweatshop: Reality Check on the Creative Industries

On November 20^th/21^st 2014, the Institute of Network Cultures organizes the MyCreativity Sweatshop @Trouw in Amsterdam.

It’s going to be a conference and alter-creativity summit. With Talks, Discussions, Art & Design Lab, Workshops and Performances

Speakers include:

Robert Hewison (GB, DEMOS, author of Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain)
Mark Fisher (GB, Goldsmiths, author of Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures)
Pascal Gielen (B, University of Groningen, author of Repressive Liberalism)
Sarah Sharma (US, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics)
Zach Blas (US, artist, writer & curator)
Florian Cramer (D, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, author of Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts)
Rob van Kranenburg (NL, technology consultant, author of The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID)

And many more!

With contribution by artists, activists, and initiatives such as Teatro Valle Occupato (IT), European Freelancers Movement, Smart (NL), Supermarkt (D), Piet Zwart Institute (NL), Macao (IT), Die Epilog (D), Ongevraagd Advies Subcultuur (NL), Dictator Chips (NL), ZB45 (NL), and, again, many more!

For more information, please refer to the MyCreativity website.

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