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This is the Public Domain
Date:
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Time:
7:00 PM
-
9:00 PM
Event Type:
Panel Discussion
Organizer/Author:
Will Bradley
Location Details:
Timken Lecture Theater, California College of Arts, 1111 8th Street, SF, CA 94107
*This is the Public Domain*
7pm December 5th
Timken Lecture Theater
California College of Arts, 1111 8th Street, SF, CA 94107
Free admission
A panel discussion organized by San Francisco-based
artist Amy Balkin to debate and explore ways to
achieve a viable practical framework for common land
in the 21st century.
with
*Keith Aoki*, UC Oregon law professor and co-author
of, among other works, the comic book 'Bound By Law -
Tales From the Public Domain'.
*Iain Boal*, Director of the Environmental Politics
Colloquium at the Institute of International Studies,
UC Berkeley, and co-editor of the recent book
'Afflicted Powers'.
*Ramon Sender*, writer, activist and participant in
the Morning Star Ranch open land experiment.
Amy Balkin's art practice combines cross-disciplinary
research and social critique with a search for
unrealized possibilities outside conventional systems.
Her ongoing project This is the Public Domain
(http://www.thisisthepublicdomain.org) is an effort to create
a permanent international commons from 2.5 acres of
land purchased near Tehachapi, California.
Balkin has organised a public conversation between
artists, legal experts, and people who have been
engaged personally and politically with open land and
commoning, exploring the search for a real-world
framework for —with the aim of proposing a solution
that the artist will then implement.
Balkin's recent projects include Invisible-5, a
collaborative environmental justice audio tour of the
I-5 corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles,
and Public Smog (http://www.publicsmog.org).
For more information, call: 415.551.9251
7pm December 5th
Timken Lecture Theater
California College of Arts, 1111 8th Street, SF, CA 94107
Free admission
A panel discussion organized by San Francisco-based
artist Amy Balkin to debate and explore ways to
achieve a viable practical framework for common land
in the 21st century.
with
*Keith Aoki*, UC Oregon law professor and co-author
of, among other works, the comic book 'Bound By Law -
Tales From the Public Domain'.
*Iain Boal*, Director of the Environmental Politics
Colloquium at the Institute of International Studies,
UC Berkeley, and co-editor of the recent book
'Afflicted Powers'.
*Ramon Sender*, writer, activist and participant in
the Morning Star Ranch open land experiment.
Amy Balkin's art practice combines cross-disciplinary
research and social critique with a search for
unrealized possibilities outside conventional systems.
Her ongoing project This is the Public Domain
(http://www.thisisthepublicdomain.org) is an effort to create
a permanent international commons from 2.5 acres of
land purchased near Tehachapi, California.
Balkin has organised a public conversation between
artists, legal experts, and people who have been
engaged personally and politically with open land and
commoning, exploring the search for a real-world
framework for —with the aim of proposing a solution
that the artist will then implement.
Balkin's recent projects include Invisible-5, a
collaborative environmental justice audio tour of the
I-5 corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles,
and Public Smog (http://www.publicsmog.org).
For more information, call: 415.551.9251
For more information:
http://www.wattis.org/programs/index.php
Added to the calendar on Mon, Dec 4, 2006 6:18PM
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