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>> participating projects (list will be continually updated):
ASCII: squat.net/ascii
ASCII is located in the basement of the Fort van Sjakoo,
an international bookshop in amsterdam (nl). they provide free computer facilities and Internet access.
ASCII is a non-commercial organization run by volunteers and the equipment
they use has either been salva or donated. it is probably the first
squatted "cybercafe" in the world. anyone can come in, check their mail and have a cup of coffee.
PUSCII: squat.net/puscii
Puscii (Progressive Utrecht Subversive Code for Information Interchange) is,
just like ASCII, a Free InternetWorkplace, a place
where gatherings consisting of more then one person is not prohibited,
where we don't blindly follow Microsoft in what they offer the braindead consumers,
where Linux is not as difficult is as you thought it would be,
where squatters appear to be nice and friendly and not immortal,
where Internetaccess is "more" free then the "free" Internet offered by big companies,
where you get "more" Internet for less money (zero guilders) then the "Public Library" offers you.
gca: www.genderchangers.org
GCA stands for The Gender Changer Academy. It is a nonprofit organisation located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
and it is run by women volunteers only. GCA was founded in March 2000 with the aim of giving women more
hands-on practice on computer hardware, and a chance to look behind the screen of A COMPUTER.
We give classes in computer hardware and teach about the parts, use and origin
of computers, including information about present ideas around gender and technology.
Technically speaking a genderchanger is a small device that changes the "sex" of computer cables. To us a genderchanger
is someone who wants to change the idea that computers are for men only. A genderchanger figures out how her computer works
and she is not afraid of taking it apart. She can also change any card, plug in and unplug any devices without too much
hassle.
lowtech: www.lowtech.org
RTI is an arts group based in Sheffield, England. It started in 1997 with a group of artists who
wanted to get involved with information technology, but didn't have the resources to buy computers.
So instead they went about getting their hands on trash computers, finding new ways to be creative
with old technology, then exhibiting the results.
Now RTI has accumulated hundreds of machines and has raised money to open a media lab, called
Access Space where people can learn, create and communicate using trailing-edge technology. At
last, after a series of frustrating delays, Access Space finally opened on April 6th 2000.
RTI continues to exhibit trash technology art around the UK and across Europe, and campaigns to
advocate low cost access to information technology.
lotec: lotec.squat.net
lotec started about 2 years ago (1999) in an empty shop at the ground-floor of
an ex-squat in friedrichshain in the eastern part of berlin.
after one year in the sama32 we had to move because our house was renovated (like
many other houses in this highly gentrificated neighborhood).
at our new place there is no direct access from the street anymore and it's much
smaller than the old shop - one of the reasons why the character of the project has
changed a bit.
some of the things we mostly do at the moment are: provide public access to computers, printers and the internet,
offer workshops, support political projects with equipment that we collect reassemble and configure and
give advice by providing technical infrastructure and knowledge.
print: squat.net/print
PRINT is a squatted computer workshop promoting the use of free software and technology for radical social changes, through skill-sharing workshops, tech support for activist groups and participation in various political actions and campaigns. It plans to create an open-access internet space in the near future.
mama: www.mi2.hr/eng
net culture club [mama] is a media lab that unifies our projects, while offering multimedia and technical backup
to our partners. [mama] is open to all, especially artists and activists taking part in theoretical, media and
direct.action groups., who are hereby invited to participate in ours or suggest their own projects. The club is trying to
create relaxed, working, homely, modern, open, tolerant, informative and multimedia atmosphere.
[mama] is a an airport, a living room, a waiting room, cybercafé, a library, a workshop and a radio-production.[mama] is a
project of the Multimedia institute [Mi2], occupating the space of SKD "PROSVJETA" in the heart of Zagreb, and was initially
funded by the Open Society Croatia.
urk monteparadiso: www.geocities.com/monteparadiso
monteparadiso is an austro-hungarian fort in pula, croatia, where where punk/ hardcore festivals take place every year. the
alternative scene around these festivals wants to start an open access point.
cyberpipe: www.cyberpipe.org
cyberpipe is a media lab in lubljana, slovenia. it is an open access point for netactivists and artists and anyone
else interested in technology, culture and politics.
Aus*connect*A: loa.hacklab.it/web/main.html
Aus*connect*A is a collective of young people from different backgrounds who have created an internet.start.point:
a space for people to learn, to socialize and to communicate. we see the internet as a free service, an instrument
permitting access to information with the capacity of exchanging and transforming knowledge. with our open access space we want to
give people a starting point from which to valorize and transform the technological resources available and connect the
different networks.
LoaHacklab: www.ecn.org/aus
LoaHacklab Milano was founded in 1998 by a group of people who had met on mailinglists and afterwards at Hackit - meetings. we are a
collective dedicated to cyberpunk and we take a big part in the discussion around internet, politics and culture. our media lab
is situated in the center of milano, where we also have an open access space.
netstrike: www.netstrike.it
netstrike is a webbased project proclaiming netactivism as a legal form of demonstrating on the net: the art of connecting
all together to collapse a site for political espression. In 1995 we invented a new form of network protest: netstrike.
In spite of the name, (that sounded good anyway), it is the networked version of a peaceful sit-in. The metaphor that best
represents it is that of a number of people that walk on pedestrian crossings with signs and banners, if their number is
really big they can stop traffic for a noticeable period of time.
The first target for a netstrike were the sites of french government that in that period was conducting nuclear tests on
Mururoa atoll. Since that time an infinite series of netstrikes were launched, in some case we promoted those, in many
other by initiative of people all around the world.
hackmeeting: www.hackmeeting.org
hackmeeting is the organisation in charge of the Hackit - meetings held every year in a different part of italy. Hackit is
the place where netactivists, netartists and people related to internet/ cultural projects meet.
autistici: www.autistici.org
autistici is a indypendant server offering different tools for people and organizations involved in netactivism.
inventati: www.inventati.org
at the present time the project is handled by a 40 people mailing list; this list handles in a transparent and horizontal
way (at least we are trying to do it) the technical and political aspects of this server.
We intended a project able to involve people on several levels: from the simple conscious use of some tools to the
implementation of new ideas and new projects to the involvemente of new individuals in the list itself (once relations
are well-estabilshed). We start rocking and we won't stop. Get in contact!
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