After four days of intensive consultations in 82 sessions SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture closed on Monday, May 28 in Hebbeltheater Berlin. The 450 registered delegates failed to produce a common declaration but started a process that will be continued online on the SUMMIT mailinglists, forums and websites of the project. Video recordings of many sessions that took place in the theatre hall will be available for download in the next few days.

The first "SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture" has been opened tonight in Berlin. The inaugurational ceremony welcomed 240 delegates and featured six statements by the members of the preparatory commitee. The archived audio live stream of the opening is available for download at:
http://www.olocolors.org/~acme/summit/Summit-opening-event.mp3
The manuscripts of the speeches are available as text files.

Below you can download the printed version of the SUMMIT program as a PDF file. Please note that this file is constantly updated since the program will be subject to changes until last minute.

Organizing means learning, and learning means organizing. Today it seems increasingly urgent to link the processes of informatization and informalization in knowledge-based economies on one hand, and on the other the constitution of new subjectivities as immaterial or affective labor force.

Organizing has a long tradition in the fight for social rights - and its power lies in the obvious: many can achieve what a single person cannot and the most well-known symbol for that power is the strike or civil disobedience.

This newsletter is sent out to SUMMIT delegates and interested guests who have registered for ‘SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture’ or subscribed to the newsletter.

This interview with Irit Rogoff and Florian Schneider on SUMMIT and its background has been realized for Idea arts+society magazine #26.

Organizing means learning, and learning means organizing. Today it seems increasingly urgent to link the processes of informatization and informalization in knowledge-based economies on one hand, and on the other the constitution of new subjectivities as immaterial or affective labor force.

Organizing has a long tradition in the fight for social rights - and its power lies in the obvious: many can achieve what a single person cannot and the most well-known symbol for that power is the strike or civil disobedience.

On Wednesday, April 18th 2007 the facilitating comitee is going to present the SUMMIT project at the art academy Vienna. Kodwo Eshun (London), Susanne Lang (Berlin), Irit Rogoff (London), Florian Schneider (München), Nicolas Siepen (Berlin), Nora Sternfeld (Wien) are going to introduce the idea and the background of the gathering end of May in Berlin.

The following texts have been published in "Academy", edited by Angelika Nollert and Irit Rogoff, 280 pages, Revolver Verlag.

"Academy" was an international series of exhibitions and projects initiated by Siemens Arts Program in cooperation with Kunstverein in Hamburg, Goldsmiths College in London, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp, and Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.