Empires, Ruins + Networks A Major International Conference at the Australian centre For moving Image (ACMI) from April 2-4 2004 In April 2004, fifteen internationally renowned speakers will converge at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Federation Square to discuss the role of the artist in a post 9/11 world. Empires, Ruins + Networks is a landmark conference which will extend international networks for all those attending. Topics of concentration include: New media networks have shrunk the globe, yet cultural difference has become the target of new types of surveillance and border control. How can artists respond to this environment? Can we create new models of artistic and cultural collaboration? Can art expand the democratic principles in public culture? Empires, Ruins + Networks will draw together leading artists, curators and cultural theorists from around the world. The keynote address - Crisis in global capital and the war on culture - will be given by Okwui Enwezor; a leading New York artist, curator and thinker and the Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed Documenta XI. Cost: $375 Full/$121 Concession (numerous concession categories available) Empires, Ruins + Networks is presented by the Australian Centre, and the Media & Communications Program, University of Melbourne and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). For further information and online booking, CLICK HERE. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts and funding and advisory body. It is an initiative of the Australia Council's Arts in a Multicultural Australia policy.