FREE KEVIN

FREE KEVIN
A Hacker Screening Series
Curated by Pirateturk
Organized by Laurel Ptak
Hosted by General Public Library
OCTOBER 14, 2010, 6-9pm
Art in General, New York

SCREENING SCHEDULE
6:00-7:45 pm – WAR GAMES (1983)
7:45-9:00 pm – HACKERS (1995)

POPCORN WILL BE SERVED AND YOU ARE WELCOME TO BYOB.

FREE KEVIN is an ongoing and roving screening series from a collection of 15.4 GB of downloaded films and documentaries depicting hackers and related computer culture from the 1980s-2000s. A range of material including blockbuster films, educational television programming, and documentaries produced within the hacking community will be presented in various cities worldwide over the next year in order to stimulate dialogue around issues of intellectual property and open culture.

FREE KEVIN can be read as the embodiment of resistance and struggle for rights and freedoms from corporate and state control inside an information age and economy. The project additionally opens up questions about the role of the curatorial inside network culture, where information is often freely, widely and anonymously distributed…

More info:
http://www.artingeneral.org/events/1030
http://www.freekevin.info
http://rhizome.org/editorial/3802