Future Events: September 25, 2006M 6:30 p.m. Mapping. And Now We Can See it All? With: William Bevington, Parson Institute for Information Mapping Daniel N. Dubno, Producer, CBS News Joy Hirsch, Columbia University, Department of Neuroscience Henrik Mayer, Reinigungsgesellschaft A discussion on the different areas in which information is decoded, presented, and processed in an overstimulated culture, with a focus on the politics of information mapping in terms of what is revealed and what is concealed. September 29, 2006 7 p.m. Negativland: Adventures in Illegal Art A Performance by Mark Hosler Of mythical stature in the worlds of music, performance and law, Negativland presents a film/performance/lecture by one of its four members, co-founder Mark Hosler. For over two decades, Negativland has not just touched on critical issues but has actually provoked, and in court defended, them: concepts such as intellectual property issues, file sharing, media literacy, creative activism in a media-saturated multinational world, evolving notions of art and ownership, and law in a digital age. October 27, 2006 6:30 p.m. Public Space and Sustainable Development The Future of an Old City With Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, WORKac, New York John Krieble, Office of Sustainable Design, City of New York Victoria Meyers, Landscape Architect Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Parsons The New School of Design Joel Towers, Tishman Environment and Design Center, The New School As the distinction between commerce and leisure is increasingly blurred, public space has morphed into a structure that is semi-private, semi-governmental and facilitates both commerce and entertainment. This panel considers how sustainable designwith its emphasis on energy conservation, efficiency, environmentally reflexive material specification etc.has been deployed in contemporary public space through developers initiatives and government subsidies, and to what ends. December 4, 2006 6:30 p.m. Open Source on the Line With Cory Arcangel, artist Daniel Mayer, CFO, Wikipedia and others A discussion on the contested terrain of open source culture online, and how new models and practices offer innovative artistic and political possibilities to some, and questionable author- and ownership complications to others. Panelists from different disciplines and backgrounds will explore the effects of online platforms such as Wikipedia and delicious on culture and offline systems of knowledge, as well as current challenges to open source principles such as net neutrality. Presented in collaboration with Rhizome. Additional programs in the works.