Cyberspace Salvations

Cyberspace Salvations #1 Lee Felsenstein lecture

14.Sep.05 - Lee Felsenstein: "The Arming of Desire. Counterculture and Computer Revolution".

Moderator: Rop Gonggrijp. Introduction by Peter Pels.

Lee Felsenstein was a key figure in the Bay Area hardware hacking scene in the seventies, active in the Free Speech movement and a moderator of the now-legendary Homebrew Computer Club. Among others, he designed the processor Technology Sol (one of the first competitors of the Apple II) and the Osborne 1 in 1981 (the first mass-produced portable computer). Lee currently works at the Fonly Institute. This is the first part of this lecture and discussion in the Cyberspace Salvations series.

>> Cyberspace Salvations #1a (English | 00:47:26 | 331 MB)

Cyberspace Salvations #1 Lee Felsenstein discussion

14.Sep.05 - Lee Felsenstein: "The Arming of Desire. Counterculture and Computer Revolution". This is the discussion following the lecture of Lee Felsenstein.

>> Cyberspace Salvations #1b (English | 00:53:41 | 375 MB)


Cyberspace Salvations #2 Richard Bartle lecture

21.Sep.05 - Richard Bartle: "A better World through Better Worlds. MMORPGs and Practical Hacker Ethics".

Moderator: Marinka Copier (Utrecht University). Introduction by Stef Aupers.

Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw developed the first Multi User Domain (MUD) around 1980. He is also a writer on all aspects of virtual world design and development.He authored Designing Virtual Worlds (2003) which rapidly became the standard work for anyone developing persistent 3-dimensional worlds (like MMORPGs). Bartle is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at Essex University, Essex, United Kingdom. This is part 1 of this lecture and discussion.

>> Cyberspace Salvations #2a (English | 00:56:41 | 395 MB)

Cyberspace Salvations #2 Richard Bartle discussion

21.Sep.05 - Richard Bartle: "A better World through Better Worlds. MMORPGs and Practical Hacker Ethics". This is the discussion following the lecture of Richard Bartle.

>> Cyberspace Salvations #2b (English | 00:42:57 | 300 MB)

Cyberspace Salvations #3 Mark Pesce lecture

28.Sep.05 - Lecture by Mark Pesce in the series Hackers & Utopia.

Moderator: Jan Simons (University of Amsterdam). Introduction by Stef Aupers.

Mark Pesce developed ‘Virtual Reality Modelling Language’ (VRML) in the 1990s and authored various books, like The Playful World. How Technology is Changing our Imagination (2000). As a self-proclaimed ‘technopagan’, Pesce wrote and lectured extensively on the affinity between the ontological claims of magicians and virtual reality. With Terrence McKenna he lectured on Technopagans at the end of history (Essalen, 1998) and speculated on the future of humans in his film Becoming Transhuman 2001 (a narrative of what-we-are-becoming). Since October 2003 he began teaching at the Australian Film Television and Radio school in Sydney.

>> Cyberspace Salvations #3a (English | 00:57:08 | 399 MB)

Cyberspace Salvations #3 Mark Pesce discussion

28.Sep.05 - This is the discussion following the lecture of Mark Pesce in the series Hackers & Utopia.

>> Cyberspace Salvations #3b (English | 00:39:07 | 273 MB)



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