Monday May 2nd 2005 Announcements

MeshForum 2005 started last night with our opening reception and performance by local musician Anne Harris and her band.

Monday May 2nd will feature a steller lineup of speakers and panels, it is not too late to register and join us for MeshForum 2005. Registration opens at 8:00am at HotHouse at 31 E. Balbo - full conference as well as single day rates are still available.

Monday morning breakfast will be a selection of fruits and baked goods, as well as coffee, tea, water, soda and juice available.

After getting a small breakfast we will start with a short introduction by me, Shannon Clark. The I will have the pleasure of introducing Dr. Anna Nagurney who will start us off with an overview of Networks.

Following her, we will screen a short documentary on the Yellow Arrow project, the first of five very different artists (and artist groups) whose works we will be screening as part of MeshForum 2005.

Then Valdis Krebs and Eszter Hargittai will present on Emergent Communities.

Over lunch Ross Dawson will moderate our Living Networks forum, for more information see the evolving WIKI pages for the Forum in the MeshForum eventspace.

The Lunch Menu includes: BBQ Chicken and Seasoned Chicken over rice. Vegetable Kabobs. Chopped Salad with Pork Tenderloin. Blue Cheese Potato Salad. Yukon Gold Smashed Potatoes. And a small dessert selection.

After lunch, Esther Dyson and Edward Vielmetti will lead a conversation on Social Networks.

Then after a short break and our second Interstitial - (works by Jean Marc Munerelle most likely and depending on timing may screen works by Alan Sondheim as well).

Then we continue with Dr. Noshir Contractor on the coevolution of knowledge networks and 21st century ways of organizing.

Jamais Cascio follows with a discussion about the Participatory Panopticon.

And we close our panels and speakers for Monday with a presentation by Buzz Bruggeman and John Kennedy on Networks and Sales.

After that discussion, we will have dinner.

On the menu for dinner:

SkrineChops (very well spiced and prepared pork chops)
Grilled Scallops
Chopless Salad
Yukon Gold Smashed Potatoes
Vegetable Medley
Chicken Vegetable Kabobs
and a small dessert.

A selection of very good red and white wines will be available.

After dinner, all MeshForum attendees who wish are invited to stay for the performance by Yoke Noge and Jazz Me Blues Band.

From their website:

Yoko performs with six Chicago legends featuring former Count Basie Band member John Watson on trombone. Legendary Chicago musician Jimmy Ellis on alto sax. The man of the year(Chicago Tribune)Tatsu Aoki on bass. Sweet and swinging soprano sax by Clark Dean. The wonderful drummer with the great beat, Avreeayl Ra. Please join our beautiful Monday audience of listeners, swing dancers, European and Asian visitors, business men and women from the loop, and Chicagoans from the South, North and West.