Free Soil will present a bus tour, outdoor film / video festival and on-site exchange (June 5-7, 2008) in conjunction with the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge in San Jose, California :: Call for Submissions - Onsite Learning Exchange / Post Tour Teach-In :: Deadline: March 30, 2008.

Building upon the energy of our first bus tour — A Journey through the techno-utopian beginnings and environmental currents of the Silicon Valley — Free Soil would like to use this year’s gathering of artists and practitioners to think about how we learn. How can we use our tools and practice to reflect and engage with the world around us?

The early work done in Silicon Valley by people with visions of improving the world wasn’t isolated from their politics or what was going on around them. It was part of a broader movement and a profound cultural shift. “Technology is shaped by the prism of culture, politics and economics,” says John Markoff.

Through this bus tour and its related events, Free Soil will look at education as a form of cultural production and creative resistance.