Many thanks to everyone who participated in what we thought was a very exciting session last weekend in Maastricht, generously hosted by the Jan van Eyck Academie. Pictures are online at http://www.metahaven.net under 'News' (feel free to use them), videos will soon be and next weekend we will post our - far from objective - report on what was discussed.
What we especially appreciated in the Forum was that questions which are normally handled by separated spheres, namely political, technical and aesthetical questions, became somehow united and could be discussed.
In fact, the polar opposites 'political' and 'technical' collapsed in the notion of a P2P search engine, like the one currently under development by Open Search (see http://www.open-search.net/). The surprising outcome under the banner of 'Exodus' is ultimately exciting.
More soon.