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Dear all, We are pleased to announce the "D I S N O V A T I O N" research, which will lead to a few events beginning this fall. http://disnovation.net/ # PRESENTATION # DISNOVATION | @ ACCES)S( FESTIVAL | Oct 8th > Dec 6th, 2014 # ART HACK DAY - PARIS | Aug 30th, 2014, 7pm > Late # LINKS AND RESOURCES ====================================================================== # PRESENTATION http://disnovation.net/ DISNOVATION (aka. the propaganda of innovation) A critical exploration of the mechanisms and rhetoric of innovation Over the past few decades, industrialized societies have experienced an unprecedented technological boom. The advent of information and communication technologies, irrigating whole domains of our existence, has deeply transformed our relationship with the surrounding world. This global phenomenon has contributed to put techno-sciences at the core of our belief systems and the consumption / innovation duality as the driving force behind our economy. The notion of innovation is the ultimate contemporary rhetorical tool, spreading from the techno-scientific field into the sectors of politics, management, eduction and art. Thus we arrive at the hypothesis of a possible "propaganda of innovation", as an ideology aiming to solve any need, problem, or desire through the production of constantly changing artifacts and concepts, justifying technological obsolescence in the name of short-term economic vitality. This simple hypothesis raises many questions: * Is the continuous rush towards novelty and the negation of preceding values a human necessity, an intuitive tendency, an end in itself? * Is innovation the expression of a peculiar ideal whose purposes are dictated by mere economic and industrial choices? * How do artists become tacit agents in the spreading and popularization of innovations? * What kind of critical, subversive, poetic or alternative practices does this situation generate in return? DISNOVATION is an open event protocol that spreads across a wide range of documents, installations, films, concerts, workshops and lectures. - Nicolas Maigret, Bertrand Grimault [2012-2014] ====================================================================== # DISNOVATION | @ ACCES)S( FESTIVAL http://festival.acces-s.org/festival-2014/about Exhibition: Oct. 8th- Dec. 6th, 2014 @ Le Bel Ordinaire - Pau/Billière, France Festival: Nov. 13th -16th 2014 @ Le Bel Ordinaire - Pau/Billière - France More info, including artists and lecturers contributions, to come soon. - Starting with the hypothesis of a possible "propaganda of innovation" as one of the ideological driving forces of our time, the 2014 edition of the Accès(s) Festival aims to explore the notions of global digitalization, technological fetishism, obsolescence, artificial intelligence - as well as their potential diversions and appropriations - from a critical angle, via artistic and theoretical propositions. This edition will take the form of both an exhibition and an event consisting of concerts, performances, lectures, screenings and workshops. With talks by: Matteo Pasquinelli, Alessandro Ludovico, Eric Sadin... & artworks by: Julian Oliver, Jodi.org, Evan Roth, Rybn, Julien Prévieux, The Center for Genomic Gastronomy, The Terminator Studies, Set Up Shop... ====================================================================== # ART HACK DAY PARIS http://www.arthackday.net/events/disnovate Closing exhibit & party (free public admission) Saturday August 30th, 2014 - 7 pm > late Parsons Paris - 45 rue Saint-Roch - 75001 Paris "Disnovate" is a collaboration between Art Hack Day, Parsons Paris and Accès(s) festival. Between August 28-30, artists and hackers will inhabit Parsons Paris to create a flash exhibit on the theme "Disnovate?, in anticipation of the next Accès(s) festival in Pau. - Disruptive innovation is widely heralded as the driving force of progress, influencing all walks of life. Its vocabulary has seeped into domains as disparate as politics, education, or art. Computer culture is not immune: Hackathons have turned into rallies for smarter, cheaper and faster consumption. What role does the whimsical and useless play in this society? Can we evaluate creation without resorting to conceptions of value? What worldview is implied by the language of disruption; what does it clarify and what does it obscure? As artists we have an urge to break with the past and embrace novelty, ignoring the pioneers of our field. As hackers we reap the benefits of scientific breakthroughs, oblivious to its military-industrial foundation. Are we the apostles of a broader ideology of innovation? With: HeHe, Evan Roth, Benjamin Gaulon, Gijs Gieskes, Rybn, Olof Mathé, Nicolas Maigret, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, DarDex, Cécile Babiole... ====================================================================== # LINKS Main website: http://disnovation.net/ Research blog: http://disnovation.tumblr.com/ Arthackday: http://www.arthackday.net/events/disnovate Acces)s( festival: http://festival.acces-s.org/festival-2014/about FB page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DISNOVATION/ DISNOVATION Newsletter http://disnovation.net/mailing.html More details and press release on request. We're still open for relevant suggestions to be included in future events. Warm regards from Paris, -Nicolas _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
