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non* - nonSymposium
Friday 15th of June 2001
Dundee Contemporary Arts
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PRESS UPDATE
Networking is a major feature of 21st century life. It exists in many
forms: business get-togethers, the internet, stock market trading,
text-messaging, international revolutionary movements. Networks bring
things together. They have changed the way we travel by air, what we think
about when we go for a latte and how people make use of London's Oxford
Circus. The increasing expansion of networks and of connections between
networks - networks of networks - leads to a condition of convergence.
Established disciplines, ways of doing things and social systems that were
previously independent and unaware of one another are now interacting and
producing new hybrid forms. Charles Schwab employs a consultant on rave
culture. A messaging utility designed for telecommunications engineers
becomes a major medium of teenage communication. Charities and corporates
become arbitors of economic development. Governments, like royality before
them, move into the tourist industry.
The established boundaries defining these different, previously often
exclusive systems, no longer hold. People consciously and unconsciously
select different elements from across disparate disciplines to create new,
hybrid and sometimes deliberately contradictory modes of practice -
nonPractices. Practices which are in some sense outside of the established
disciplines to which they relate, and yet which nevertheless operate through
and because of them.
non* - nonSymposium is a day of discussion around such practices and related
issues. Participating in the discussion are Susanne Clausen, a member of
Szuper Gallery, an artists group who work with the institutions of art and
commerce as mediums in their own right, Terhi Rantanen, a specialist on
global media who focuses on international news agencies and their relation
to local and global culture, Nicholas Rengger, an expert on international
political relations and the point of intersection between politics and
culture in the postmodern era, Pedro Sepulveda-Sandoval, an architect
working on reciprocating physical urban space and mobile technologies, and
Paul Taylor who deals with the sociology of hacking culture and the
symbiotic relationship between hackers and computing corporates like
Microsoft. Together they will be exploring the various overlaps and points
of interference between their areas where politics, art and communication
combine.
The discussion itself adopts the structure of a TV talk show, in which the
conventions of the academic lecture hall have been given over to what is,
for most people, a far more familiar form of public debate. No one standing
on a podium or hiding behind a lectern but rather full-on audience
involvement.
The day is combined with the opening of the Duncan of Jordanstone College of
Art Degree Shows and ends with a live DJ-VJ set from Germany and Scotland
(Torsten Lauschman and Norman Shaw).
Friday 15th of June 2001
10am - 6pm
Visual Research Centre
(Univ.of Dundee)
at Dundee Contemporary Arts
152 the Nethergate
Dundee
DD1 4DY
Scotland - UK
tickets - including lunch and symposium publication:
30.00 pounds sterling - full price
10.00 pounds sterling - for full-time students and concessions
booking: 00 44 (0) 1382 606 220
further information:
web-site: www.livingzeroes.org
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: 00 44 (0) 1382 348 060
fax: 00 44(0) 1382 348 105
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