More than 15 years after the beginnings of net
art, the Internet has become the most ubiquitous
participative global media of the 21st century; a
huge territory between normalisation, commerce,
hope and utopia. Is the Internet a disenchanted
space for artists and creative people or is there
a future for online arts and critical creative
actions? If so, what are their possible forms and
directions?
This is what WJ-Spots Brussels proposes to
investigate by gathering an international panel
of some of the most influential net artists,
theorists, online activists and digital cultures
thinkers who will share their views on the past
and future of artistic creation on the Internet
An immersive performance of live websurfing and speeches
The format of this event will be far away from a
usual conference: during the speeches, webjays
Isabelle Arvers and Anne Laforêt using the
WJ-Spots platform of Anne Roquigny will be
surfing live through a list of representative
websites selected by the speaker. A multi-screen
system is used to display those pages around the
audience.
The proceedings of the WJ-Spots Brussels event
will be published in early 2012 as a special
edition of the MCD magazine, and as video
documents made available on the Digitalarti and
iMAL websites.
With: Raphaël Bastide & Yannick Antoine (FR/BE,
artists), Michel Bauwens (BE, p2p2foundation),
Josephine Bosma (NL, journalist and critic),
Heath Bunting (UK, artist), Paolo Cirio (IT,
artist), Florian Cramer (NL, Professor at Piet
Zwart Institute), Régine Debatty (BE,
we-make-money-not-art, journalist and critic),
Constant Dullaart (NL, artist), Jodi (BE/NL,
artists), Olia Lialina (RE/DE, artist),
Alessandro Ludovico (IT, neural.it), Nicolas
Malevé (BE, Constantvzw), Miltos Manetas (GR,
artist), Julian Oliver (NZ/DE, artist), Domenico
Quaranta (IT, contemporary art critic and
curator), Rafael Rozendaal (NL, artist),
Sakrowski (DE, curatingYouTube), Gordan Savicic
(AT, artist).
Practical info
Saturday 3 December 2012, 15:00 - 23:00
iMAL, Brussels
Free entrance!
Bar open. Food and drinks available.
Thanks to register online if you wish to attend this event!
More info: www.imal.org
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Yves Bernard [email protected]
asbl iMAL vzw
Center for Digital Cultures and Technology
30 Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai 30
1080 Bruxelles/Brussel
tel 32 2 410 30 93
http://www.imal.org
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