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Lechner, Marie
3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Geert Lovink on the disadvantages of Web 2.0
Interviewed by Marie Lechner, Geert Lovink, a Dutch media analyst and Internet critic, warns against certain disadvantages of Web 2.0. "The quantity of personal data that a company like Google collects on us is without precedent. ... Internet is a public digital domain in which our data is stocked. It should be neither the property of States, nor that of companies. This is not as utopian as it may seem. This could have already been achieved by international organisations such as UNESCO. Unfortunately these organisations have become out-dated bureaucracies, as we were able to observe during the 2003 and 2005 World Summit of the Information Society [SMSI]. What we need is a strong and open European alternative to Google, a framework for decentralised knowledge, like Wikipedia, that works for the benefit of the public."
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A Body Art festival reaches out to the limits of the body
"Freaks, mutants, body modification enthusiasts, pariahs of institutional culture, trapeze artists, actors, dancers and musicians gathered for a week of radical performance at T.O.T.E.M, an industrial wasteland with a cyberpunk decor situated in Maxeville, near Nancy, in France, for 'Souterrain porte IV' (Underground Door IV), the international body art festival that drew to a close on Sunday [October 7th]. This year's ambitious, decompartamentalized event had a 'monster' theme", writes Marie Lechner. For Didier Manuel, an event organiser quoted by the daily, "It is a biennale about the body and its limits. A will, through the monster theme, to analyse certain signs of the times. The evolution of science, of genetics, of bio and nanotechnologies questions our physical integrity and humanity in a new light."
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Ars Electronica
"Goodbye Privacy, proclaims Ars Electronica, the top electronic art festival (held in Linz, Austria, September 5-11] which contemplates our surveillance society and the disconcerting facility with which we are giving up a fundamental right, under the pretext of a security fever", notes Marie Lechner. She notable explores the work of the Austrian net-artist Manu Lucksh who is presenting his 'faceless' project in Linz. "Living in London, she ever got used to the omnipresence of video surveillance cameras: 'there were so many everywhere, that I found my own superfluous'. She decided to make a science-fiction feature-film by exclusively using video surveillance footage ... . 'It is urgent, considers Brian Holmes, free-thinker and art critic, for artists to create new images and new metaphors that heighten public awareness of this intrusive surveillance.'"
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