Last night at Dissension Convention- Tonight: Not to be missed!

[ruth catlow]

Hi All,

Last night at the Dissension Convention saw two cracking, energetic 
collaborative mixes. These ran alongside the march of 250,000+ 
protesters against Bush and the Republicans on the streets of New York.

It was amazing to see 2 such distinctly different approaches. The first 
performance by Patrick, Maya & Marc took a psychological approach; it 
was dark, rich and gutsy with great sounds. Moport.org & Glowlab were 
right in the thick of things in New York, receiving moment by 
moment,worrying updates of violent arrests. They jammed with images of 
the street protests and texts from the multitude sent in through the 
Moport facility. This was totally different style and content; 
grass-roots, journalistic, observant and serious. Mez contributed to the 
New Yorker's mix with her inimitable, apposite, code poetry chat.

Tonight promises to be a corker too with VS virtuoso, Chris Web & street 
poet Concrete Myrth (standing in for Sim) and 3 fine net art poets, 
Lewis Lacook, Alan Sondheim and Sheila Murphy.

Not to be missed!
http://www.furtherfield.org/dissensionconvention/

see you there,
ruth