The International Conference on Network Culture (ICNC'2001) was promoted by Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Linguagens (CECL: Research Center on Communication and Languages), a research unit primarily financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and associated with the Communication Sciences Department in FCSH (New University of Lisbon).

The event took place from the 29th to the 31st October 2001, in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon. 6 keynote speakers were present (Jonathan Crary, Jacalyn Harden, Henri-Pierre Jeudy, Claudia Giannetti, Ieda Tucherman and Mark Poster), and there were also 5 thematic sessions (Network theory, WebArt, Mappings of the experience, (Un)connected bodies and Technology and cyberculture).

The proceedings were published in a special issue of Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, and the abstracts may be viewed online.

ICNC'2001 President
José A. Bragança de Miranda

Scientific Committee
José Augusto Mourão (President)
António Fernando Cascais
António Machuco Rosa
Hermenegildo Borges
Jacinto Godinho
Jorge Martins Rosa
Maria Augusta Babo
Maria Lucília Marcos
Maria Teresa Cruz
Paulo Filipe Monteiro

Executive Committee
Maria Lucília Marcos (President)
Hermenegildo Borges
Jacinto Godinho
Jorge Martins Rosa

Honor Committee
Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Doctor Eng. José Mariano Gago
Minister of Culture, Prof. Doutor Augusto Santos Silva
State Secretary of Social Communication, Dr. Arons de Carvalho
Magnificent Dean of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Professor Doutor Sousa Lobo
Chairman of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Dr. Victor Sá Machado
President of FCT, Prof. Doutor Luís Magalhães
President of ICS, Dr.ª Teresa Ribeiro
President of ICP, Dr. Luís Nazaré
Mayor of Lisbon, Dr. João Soares
President of FLAD, Dr. Rui Machete
President of Instituto Cervantes, Dr. Jorge Urrutia
President of Institut Franco-Portugais
Director of Varig in Portugal, Dr. Mário Bruni

Supporting staff
Manuel Granja (design and Flash programming)
Jorge Martins Rosa (webmaster and HTML programming)

Contacts
ICNC'2001
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Linguagens
Av. de Berna, 26-C, 5.º andar
1069-061 Lisboa PORTUGAL
Tel/Fax: +351 21 795 08 91
e-mail: icnc2001@cecl.pt

Sponsors
Instituto da Comunicação Social
Foundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Instituto das Comunicações de Portugal
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
Fundação para a Divulgação das Tecnologias da Informação
Institut Franco-Portugais
Instituto Cervantes
Banco Espírito Santo
Varig: Linhas aéreas brasileiras

Keynote speakers
José Bragança de Miranda: «Problems of network culture»
Mark Poster (University of California, Irvine, USA): «Digital networks and citizenship»
Jonathan Crary (Columbia University, USA)
Jacalyn Harden (Seattle University, USA): «Our computers, ourselves: What anthropology tells us about technological change»
Henri-Pierre Jeudy (CNRS, Paris): «Body and webcam society»
Claudia Giannetti (MECAD, Barcelona): From Frankenstein to the cyborg: From myth to allucination»
Ieda Tucherman (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro): «New subjectivities: Intempestive connections»

Network theory
António Machuco Rosa: «Networks and imitation»
Jorge Martins Rosa: «Rules for the cyborg park»
António Câmara: «Bridging virtual networks and real locations: The role of location based games»
Graça Rocha Simões: «Interface as tool and as metaphor»
Francisco Rui Cádima: «From the regulation of the Net to the networks of deregulation»
José Fernando Mendes: «Language as a word network in evolution»
Manuel José Damásio: «Collaborative online learning as a new educational model»

WebArt
Maria Teresa Cruz, «Art and cybernetic space»
Jacinto Godinho, «Welcome to webart»
Jorge Leandro Rosa: «The aesthetic temporality in the era of networks»
Fernando José Pereira: «Of impureness as a factor of creative expansion? The case of WebArt»
Margarida Carvalho: «WebArt: wishing connections in cyberspace»
Rui Pereira Jorge: «The plasticity of sound: On the adoption of sound as a resource for some contemporary arts (Instalation, performance and video art»
José Júlio Lopes: «Artistic-scientific fictions: Modes of resistence and some ressentments in actuality (the dark net, the aesthetical electricity, the mystic digital, the sensible technique and the second humanity)»
Rita Lima: «The body of the multimedia artist: Notes to think the relation between technique and subjectivity»

Mappings of the experience
Antonio Rodriguez de las Heras (Univ. Carlos III, Madrid)
Eduardo Prado Coelho: «Two thinkers of connectivity: Karl Mannheim and Derrick de Kerkhove»
António Fidalgo: «Perception and authenticity on the network»
Rosa Coutinho Cabral: «The tortoise syndrom»
Rui Braz: «From where the fish escapes»
André Lemos: «The art of life: Personal diaries and webcams in the Internet»
Lídia de Jesus Oliveira Silva: «The scientific community in the threads of the Net: What perception?»
Luís Carlos Nogueira: «Cyberspace: Utopy or prosthesis?»

Technology and cyberculture
José Augusto Mourão: «The networked text: Narrative and the technological life-forms»
Maria Augusta Babo: «The network of texts/the text in network»
J. Arriscado Nunes: «Text materialitiy(ies) and cultural practices: On digital age literature»
Luís Filipe Teixeira: «Machinic figur@tions of writing 2.0: Alphabets, ars combinatoria and hypertext»
Pedro Barbosa: «Construction of meaning, automatic text and artificial intelligence»
Christiana Soares de Freitas: «The virtual space for the production of knowledge: Abandon or expression of the real?»

(Un)connected bodies
Maria Lucília Marcos: «Relationship without relationship
Tensionally, singularly»
António Fernando Cascais: «The unsacrifiable»
Paulo Cunha e Silva: «The fractal body: A connection through the scales»
José Luís Garcia: «Modern technique and heterogony of the ends»
Gonçalo Tavares: «Human flesh»
Sofia Neuparth: «Body»
Maria Teresa Geada: «Connected bodies: Mobilization and neutralization of desire»