THE EVENT TSHIRTS WHO WE ARE ZINE DIRECTORY VISIT WEBZINE98 Join the Webzine Community event -> manifesto file: pressrel.wz1 date: 7-2-99 notes: WEBZINE 99 MANIFESTO by V. VALE WEBZINE 99 is this millennium's most important event for the next generation of cutting-edge, dangerously independent, "punk/alternative culture" web visionaries and content-creators who are pushing the limits of radical self-expression on the Web. This unique pioneering event, spawned in the heart of the Silicon Valley Gold Rush and Internet Boom, promises to be ground-breaking and archetypal--the first of many such events around the world. All primary movers and "early adopters" are urged to attend and meet like-minded future cohorts (just the talent pool alone, gathered together under one roof, will be amazing.) The Internet is bringing about a sea change in the communications landscape, with astonishing and still-to-be-predicted worldwide possibilities awaiting visualization and development. It is precisely those possibilities that intrigue us. In the spirit of a classic brainstorming session, all presentations will be focus will be: exploration of the "future-community-building" potential of the Web for artistic and social transfiguration. The Web provides a vehicle for collating and amassing a new folklore, mythology and history for a different kind of entrepreneurial future--one which rejects the prevailing (and suffocating) ethics of "commodity/corporate/business culture." The new adventure of the future will involve worldwide web-networking as well as conscious retribalization into passionate, local cadres of special-interest movers-and-shakers. At the heart of WEBZINE 99 is the shared desire to celebrate personal empowerment, artistic creativity and social change. WEBZINE 99 aims to permanently alter the balance of power in the information world, rejecting the dreary limits placed on our imaginations. If a new social architecture and network can be stunningly envisioned, perhaps some of our wildest dreams can come true. --WEBZINE 99 Manifesto authored by V. Vale Keynote speakers include Larry Harvey, founder of the Burning Man project Phil Agre, UCLA professor and editor of Red Rock Eater news service V. Vale, founder of Search & Destroy and REsearch--publications which have had a massive impact, chronicling and sparking two decades of underground cultural development. Motto: WEBZINE: Where the artists of the future meet NOW.