The Genius 2000 Conference 2000:  Genius 2000

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This is an official announcement of this year's Conference, which will focus on Genius 2000 as concept, text, media object, et cetera.  The subtopics are:

1.  Gnosticism Inc.
2.  The Genius 2000 Conference 1999 (www.geocities.com/~genius-2000/conference.html) 
3.  New Media Leadership 
4.  Max Herman
5.  The Genius 2000 Video First Edition (www.geocities.com/~genius-2000/Transcripts.html)
6.  What Keeps People Fighting 
7.  Art and Poverty After 1984 (Net Art to Date). 
Participants are welcome to submit work relating to Genius 2000, any of the above subtopics, or any topics called to mind by the ones printed here.  Information about Genius 2000 is available at www.geocities.com/~genius-2000
and by querying "Genius 2000" or "Max Herman" at www.rhizome.org.  Also try searching "Max Herman and Genius 2000" on Google.

The format of submissions should be either text (email is fine, send to [email protected]), small-file images like jpegs, or urls.  The Conference will have some server space available but not enough for video or sound files.  (Anyone willing to host such submissions please contact me.)  Actual tapes or CD's are welcome, and can be sent to an address TBA.

The Conference will be held at a Minneapolis, MN location TBA, beginning Sept. 15.  Public presentation of submissions will depend on available space, technology, people, etc.  All material received by Sept. 10 will be placed on the launch site if possible.  Later submissions, i.e. before Oct. 1, will be presented on a rolling basis.  A list discussion will run Sept. 15-Oct. 1 and be archived.  Documentation of simultaneous mirror conferences will be accepted for a follow-up archive.

The judges for the conference are:

Simon Biggs
Corey Eiseman
JDKeller
Carter Lebares
Jenn McCoy
Pat Mountain
Eryk Salvaggio



thanks for your interest,

Max Herman
The Genius 2000 Network
www.geocities.com/~genius-2000