10.) A french guy speaking broken english and simultaneously getting
translated into dutch, resulting in two people speaking three languages
at the same time for roughly 10 minutes.
9.) Some other guy doing shadow puppets getting beligerent about the
staff abandoning equipment in the middle of his performance and refusing
to work until someone fixed the lighting or something, followed by a
round of applause and moving on to the next performance.
8.) In the wrap up, a woman standing up to question why there was no
criticism of the Soros Foundation, and then the Soros rep standing up to
say, "You can criticise Soros," and then sitting down again. That ended
the discussion.
7.) Some british guy asked me what I was there for, followed by
"Net.art? Well what the hell does that mean?"
6.) Radio Bicycletta's radio being tested by Alexei Shulgin marching
down the street with a radio broadcast of the russian invasion of
Czechoslovakia.
5.) Two shining examples of Ted Byfield's greatness:
+ Presenting a forum on "radical software" that featured a guestbook
script as "radical" and ignored any mention of m9ndfukc.com.
+ After I was introduced as "the youngest net.artist," being told that I
was "probably the second youngest."
4.) Arguments on the exploitation of children which featured slides of
children holding painfully large signs and walking in parades to protest
exploitation.
3.) The unspoken, but quite pronounced idea that effective campaigning
needs a Logo designed by Heath Bunting.
2.) "Is that a NGO or a PGO?"
1.) The panel on effective "art after activism" slipping into a
discussion of how artists can get more funding.