Hi all,
I am one of the organisers for Art, Lifestyle and Globalisation (see
subject for this message).
It is great to see how this discussion stemmed from the e-flyer we have
sent to NetBehaviour.
I really hope you all can make it on April 7 to Tate Modern, as this is
exactly the kind of discussions we were planning to estimulate on the
day between the audience and speakers.
Claudia
http://www.pva.org.uk/
On 29 Mar 2007, at 12:42, xD xD wrote:
On 3/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But it's also the institutions promoting it. Free Software strategies
are of little use to the capitalists, they'd rather hide that aspect
and that funny looking Richard Stallman.
James.
that's interesting.
i've been going to a couple of conferences, lately, about open source
appleid to several subjects such as art, digital rights and
identities, social systems aiming to enable autodetermination of
populations in peculiar social anthropological situations (there are
some really interesting projects, by the way: for example the Pontos
de Cultura in Brasil, with Gilbert Gil as ministry of culture).
Conferences and workshops held in foundations, institutions,
governement buildings.
the thing that amazed me was that everyone there seems to be a hacker!
jokes apart, hacker ethics and aesthetics seems to be the next toy to
be used by the managers of these institutions. they seem to be trying
to create an imagery that thay can exploit.
They are structuring language, they are creaing expectations. They are
using the same words to create a base of consensus.
everyone talking about digital rights, a none of them talking about
ecology, for example.
there is no perception of many issues: p2p is shown as the new molotov
bottle_bomb of this era, bradband is shown as a tool for liberation,
anything that is made on the web with a couple of colors and the
possibility to collabratively tag it is called art.
there is no perception of the meanings of these practices: no sign of
the fact that behind your pc monitor, the availability of broadband
means hundreds of kilometers of optic phiber, buildings full of call
centers full of underpaid workers, microwaves running amok thrugh the
air. There is no sign of the idea that in most cases, p2p just is an
autistic practice through which people fill their drawers with
thousands of movies on DVDs that they'll never watch.
"god" ( :) ) save us from engineers.
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