Werkbijeenkomsten / Sessions de travail

Verbindingen / Jonctions #13

2,3,4 december http://constantvzw.org/vj13/

Online, Brussel, Madrid, Rotterdam, Londen, Barcelona, Bergen, Montreal, Berlijn, Bangalore, Stuttgart, Parijs, Ho Chi Min City, Sydney …

ONDERWERP V/J13 is een pleidooi voor het web als publiek forum. Is er na Hadopi, ACTA, de massale Googlommoratie van webservices nog sprake van zoiets als een publieke virtuele ruimte? Net neutraliteit? Spontane groei? Moeten we, na Facebook, Second life, Twitter, Youtube geloven dat 'sharing', 'social', 'friends' enkel eufemismen zijn voor datahandel, kapitaalconcentratie en monopolisme?

Centraal staan een aantal vragen rondom het delen van artistieke processen. Wat betekent het om een werk aan te bieden als een 'vrij' werk? Is het zoals de telekommunisten zeggen, nodig om de productiemiddelen te bezitten? Garandeert het inzetten van encryptie-instrumenten vrij dataverkeer?

Hoe deel je naast kennis, materiële zaken die nodig zijn om hardware onderdelen te produceren zoals een zeldzaam metaal of een machine, of menskracht? Moeten we kennis hebben van de beginselen van electriciteit om controle te krijgen over de electronische tools waar we mee werken? Wat zijn voorbeelden als het gaat om vormen van artistieke collaboratie: Vrije software? De vrije markt?

Is het wenselijk of zelfs maar mogelijk om je als virtuele burger, net-artiest, web-theoretica, cc-muzikant, netwerkconsument, immo-surfer afzijdig te houden van politieke bewegingen als die ingrijpen op basisprincipes als vrijheid van communicatie, informatievergaring, je privésfeer, anonimiteit ? En hoe deel je als net-neutraliteit ondersteunend artiest of activist in een politiek besluitvormingsproces als je niet het kapitaal hebt om een legertje lobbyisten aan het werk te houden? Doe je dat zoals Quadratuur du Net suggereert door je europese MP ter verantwoording te roepen?

FORMAT: exposé exposite expositie

De 13e editie van het festival zal zich afspelen op het internet. V/J13 is een tijdelijke online verbindingsplaats tussen een wereldwijd netwerk van kleinschalige meetings, tussen geïnteresseerden, lezinggevers, artiesten. De knooppunten in dit netwerk bieden onderdak aan een interventies, lezingen, concerten, screenings, workshops die via VJ13 in een programma bij elkaar gebracht worden.

De werken op de expo website werden in de loop van 2010 en 2011 voor VJ13 gemaakt. Vijf artiesten, ontwerpers, ontwikkelaars opdracht om een werk te maken waarvan het maakproces volledig vrij en deelbaar is. Zij het door code beschikbaar te stellen, middels interviews of door het produceren van navolgbare handleidingen. Al het werk, inclusief de resultaten van de processen worden in het publiek domein gepubliceerd.

Late nineties project in which a cyberplace is created for worldwide dispursed dancers to dace together.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/leonardo/v034/34.1knott.html

“World Wide Simultaneous Dance addressed two of the important questions of what has come to be called “Net Art”: “disembodied-ness” and “spacelessness/placelessness.” The idea that cyber-territory is disembodied was partially resolved when the image on the screen was that of real bodies dancing in real time and when in some cases viewers left their mice behind [End Page 15] to dance themselves. ”

“Every technology is developed and used in a cultural context that includes values ranging from exclusionist and proprietary to inclusionist and nonproprietary. In selecting an Internet technology as the “presenter” of World Wide Simultaneous Dance, I looked for a technology that was as inclusionist and non-proprietary as possible. The characteristics defining such a technology would define the World Wide Simultaneous Dance cyberplace itself and, thus, the experiences that dancers and audiences would share as they met in that cyberplace. ”

From the spectre list: the minimuseum is a small 7“ digital image frame holding the 'art of the 21 century'. The frame travels through nodes in a social network: the artist that participate in the museum network, who become responsible for curaion of the frame when they host it.

10 years JavaMuseum – means 10 years of the development of an art genre which actually never became one, although people are continuously talking about, art schools and universities offer courses in netart, and netart is said by to be dead since so many years by so many people.

http://2010.javamuseum.org/

http://fffff.at/speed-show/

huur een internetcafe vor een avond en je hebt de infrastructuur die nodig is om een net art show te doen.

Art made for - and only available on - the peer to peer networks. The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it. After that the artwork will be available for as long as other users share it. The original file and all the material used to create it are deleted by the artist. ”There’s no original”. A project from Swedish artist Anders Weberg started in 2006. P2P Art - The aesthetics of ephemeralityA

http://www.p2p-art.com/

An online article of the NEWS BUREAU of the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS referring to the study Information Technology-based Collaboration Framework for Preparing Against, Responding to and Recovering from Disasters Involving Critical Physical Infrastructures: collaboration between insects in case of emergency could help oranise networks in times of crisis

http://news.illinois.edu/news/05/0301disasterresearch.html

(research proposal) One of the most ignored, but urgent and vital challenges confronting society today is the vulnerability of urban areas to extreme events. This research initiative proposes the development of a general conceptual framework to improve Collaboration among the key actors that should be involved in Preparedness against, Response to and Recovery from disasters involving critical physical infrastructures (CP2R). These key actors are firefighters, police officers, medical personnel, experts, the original civil engineers and constructor who built the infrastructure, and IT components, including sensors and systems of sensors embedded in the critical physical infrastructure. The participants as well as the technology will interact using a set of collaboration patterns inspired in analogies from epidemiology and entomology within the context of a social network.

http://nosh.northwestern.edu/externalfunded/ITR2004.pdf

The vOICe Learning Edition « The vOICe Home Page « The vOICe Learning Edition

The main goal of The vOICe vision technology is to offer an equivalent of “raw” visual input to blind people, via complex visual sounds, thus leaving the recognition tasks to the human brain. However, complementary to that it would be useful to have options for automatic recognition through computer vision technology. This page challenges object recognition engine developers to demonstrate the applicability of computer vision on mobile devices in real-life situations. It is an open invitation - with an open interface - to deliver convincing demonstrations for use with The vOICe.

http://www.seeingwithsound.com/ocr.htm

Vicky Calahan is writer of Reclaiming the archive http://www.vickicallahan.com/vickicallahan.com/Reclaiming_the_Archive.html

http://feminism3pointo.blogspot.com/

Elder generation film theory feminists discussing among others Free Culture, the Make fair, the burning man, amateurism “that is a different world from the art world that is a world of ideas. It has its own seperate crowd and market.” “I have heard the same story over and over again, there were people who made Film and people who made video … ”

A Conversation with Helen De Michiel (Co-Director, NAMAC), “THE BEST AND WORST OF TIMES…”

As an artist and Co-Director of NAMAC, the National Alliance for Media Art + Culture, Helen De Michiel has been an active participant in ongoing conversations amongst diverse groups about the current state of media arts and the impact of digital technology on artists, arts practice, and culture.

True to the spirit of Helen’s own art work, when I asked to interview her about contemporary media she suggested instead a “dialogue.” We discussed a number of issues that make digital culture “the best and worst of times” for artists, activists, and concerned citizens: technological, aesthetic, and generational divides, new forms and definitions of creativity, the shifting roles of curators, copyright and fair use questions, and the issue of “holistic literacy.” We hope this inspires further conversations.

notion of the “trusted guide”: somebody who can be trusted to mediate, can make sense

Could be a candidate for a research comission; I like her (quite old school) networked performances involving multiple languages, places, translation, gazing eyes, webcams …

Look at this collaborative work with AGF: (remember her ?) http://bram.org/collaboration/index.php

And the recent exhibition at http gallery, London: http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/ifnotyounotme/index.shtml

Library Thing initiatief om: ”, a free, “humble,” modern, open-source, crowd-sourced replacement for the Dewey Decimal System.“

http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Open_Shelves_Classification

http://www.librarything.com/blogs/thingology/2008/07/build-the-open-shelves-classification/

Jean Camp + Y.T. Chien: The Internet as Public Space: Concepts, Issues, and Implications in Public Policy

Neo liberal approach of public space as capsule containing commercial, private, public activities. Quote: “A regulatory regime that is too extreme may result in employee?s limiting employers to private areas on the Internet. This may result in a decrease in the legitimate use of public space. The corporate investment in the Internet has vastly increased its value by increasing the utility through information and service availability. Similarly the public square would be of little interest if it did not also house a marketplace, and were not surrounded by storefronts as well as government buildings. Spatial models offer a subtlety and complexity that are lacking in media models.”

http://www.utopic.nl/05links/03_Camp_internet.pdf

Cybering Democracy: Public Space and the Internet (Electronic Mediations) - Diana Saco

Not read yet, Ordered

Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms - Regis Debray

Not read yet, Ordered

Men, Masculinity, and the Media - Steve Craig

Not read yet, Ordered

Stein, Laura. “Speech Without Rights: The Status of Public Space on the Internet”

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 22, 2008 Online <PDF>. 2010-11-16 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p228714_index.html>

http://www.allacademic.com/one/www/www/index.php?cmd=Download+Document&key=unpublished_manuscript&file_index=2&pop_up=true&no_click_key=true&attachment_style=attachment&PHPSESSID=d282b5a9fd5a496c4b291c2e97323adb

Mark Weiser , The world is not a desktop

http://www.nextnature.net/2006/08/the-world-is-not-a-desktop/

Fun idea, ending not great

http://www.archive.org/details/NewspeakTranslator-TutorialVideo

This short film explains work that is currently being undertaken internationally on a series of public domains calculators aiming to help people find out whether a given work is in the public domain in a given jurisdiction.

http://vimeo.com/15678944

http://vimeo.com/13516268

BREAKDOWN, a mashup of thousands of public domain samples, is the ageless tale of corrupt power-seekers perpetrating hideous deceptions on gullible masses. The New York Times called BREAKDOWN “an uproarious bricolage of alien-invasion panic, financial distress, military might and patriotic sentiment.”