Dear All on the 17th of October the Croatian activist/programmer/new media artist/curator Nenad Romic (aka Marcell Mars) will give a lecture on Avant garde Art & Open Source programming, the internet as a counter culture, his experiments on setting up a new fysical network structure as a way to question the existing ones,... (bio further in this message). You are all welcome on the 17th of October (as of 14.30h) at Kaai16 (www.kaai16.be) in Hasselt (Belgium). The event is free and will be broadcasted live on our Ustream-channel http://www.ustream.tv/expmed. This is an organisation of the Belgian new media master Communication- & MultimediaDesign (http://www.c-md.be). BIO Nenad Romic (aka Marcell Mars) (http://ki.ber.kom.uni.st) _free software advocate_, _cultural explorer_, _social instigator_... Marcell is one of the founders of Multimedia Institute - mi2 and net.culture club mama in Zagreb. He initiated GNU GPL publishing label EGOBOO.bits, TamTam platform for on-line collaboration, NGODE software for NGOs financial management. He initiated Skills sharing regular informal meetings of enthusiasts in mama + started Skills sharing's satellites g33koskop and 'The Fair of Mean Equipment'. Marcell participated in collborative artistic projects like NRD Kit of NRD Van group of artists, gifoskop (interactive animation) together with Nikolina Pristas & Maja Marjancic, and did programming and technical support for EditThisBanner (by Lina Kovacevic), Flying Carpet (by Lala Rascic) and Telephoning (by Ivan Marusic Klif). He was one of the organizers of summer camps "Otokultivator" on island Vis (together with URK/Močvara & EASA Croatia) and SummerSource (together with TacticalTech). Marcell participated in curating or producing mi2 yearly exhibitions "I'm still alive" (2001), re:Con and Freedom to creativity!" (2005) and in conceptual exhibition "System.hack()" (2006). He is a member of Creative Commons Team Croatia.