Salvor´s pictures from the conference
November 2001

ITDG conference

Ronneby, Sweden 16-18 November 2001
Information Technology, Transnational Democracy and Gender

Here are my pictures from the conference and the following ITDG network meeting. Most are from the visit to Ronneby´s cultural centre and the social activities.

Salvör Gissurardóttir

salvor@ismennt.is

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Vilnius workshop
Oslo workshop

Winter in Ronneby	Houses near the church	In front of the church Sari and Tarja	Lecture in the Cultural Centre	Discussion in the old town
Trees	Visit to Ronneby Cultural Centre We looked at the church and the surrounded old houses, three exhibitions inside the centre, one by artist who had traveled around the world and documented their travel, one from local artist who is reading signs from nature, one from artist that has moved away and many of his artwork were about human reproduction. Kind of cyborg thinking.		House and tree	Clem Herman in Ronneby old town
Giedre and Lijana in front of the church	In the Cultural Centre	Sign in nature 1	Sign in nature 2	Tone in front of the local children orchestra practising session
Jenny reading newspapers	Rebecka and Joan	Two local artists had an exibition. Some kind of diary from their travel around the world. They had collected newspapers from the places they visited.	Marja and Jaana	New York on the edge Joan and Guri
Maria and Jenny at the conferense dinner. It was in old gymnastics building that is now used for information skill center for educators	Each table at the dinner had to construct poem at of pile of labels with unrelated words. Guri and Helena reading their poem.	The music group sang English and Swedish Folk sangs	My poetry group members. We had to write poems - construct meaning from labels with individuals words.	I was proud of our poem, we used up all the words. We have the skills to construct meanings from isolated signs - from words and letters.
Swedish Crafts. The session rooms were decorated with several old and new textiles crafts.	slojd4.jpg	slojd1.jpg	slojd2.jpg	slojd5.jpg
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Uno Svensson There is a permanent art exhibition by the artist Uno Svensson at the cultural centre.Girls in the local children orcestra were practising in the cultural centre. Uno Svensson link world-art-gallerie about Uno	svenson2.jpg	svenson1.jpg	svenson4.jpg	svenson5.jpg
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The serious work. Pictures from the conference sessions and network meeting.
Cyborgs in Drags? Keynoter speaker Nina Lykke	From one session	The end of conference Lena, Pirjo, Christina, Annelie	From the ITDG network meeting Christina Mörtberg and Sari Tuuva	keynote speakers Nina Lykke, Ina Wagner, Joan Greenbaum, Alison Adam
The conference was held at Blekinge Institute of Technology. The Ronneby Campus of the institute is located at Soft Center (Ronneby), a cluster with some 80 companies working with software development and innovations within the IT sector. Here are pictures from inside and outside the Soft Center conference location.
Outside the university Rebecka	Rebecka and Tina at one of the Ronneby river bridges.	the library and information center	The library and information center	The river

© 2001 Salvör Gissurardóttir (salvor@ismennt.is)