«ART UNDER MASS SURVEILLANCE» 1. Workshop with Danja Vasiliev & Julian Oliver & Talk 2. Book Launch «Delivery for Mr. Assange» 3. Conversation between Julian Assange & !Mediengruppe Bitnik
Saturday, March 8 2014 Helmhaus Zürich, Limmatquai 31, 8001 Zürich ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Dear People under Mass Surveillance How does the NSA spying scandal affect us as artists? What is the role of art and artists after the revelations of Edward Snowden? The digital has moved from the margins and has become central to every day life. Can art be a means to critically reflect on the possibilities and the implications of the digital? Have new technologies become a means exclusively to service power and surveillance? Or can they be made to service protest and resistance? Together with artists Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev and WikiLeaks-founder Julian Assange, we will explore questions around art, free internet and surveillance. ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 1. NETWORKSHOP 12:00 - 18:30 h with Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev In the afternoon, Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev, authors of the «Critical Engineering Manifesto», will give participants of their NETworkshop insights into the technical and political dimensions of the Internet. Their workshop deals with questions of how technology shapes communication, how networks are built and how they are manipulated. Please note: The workshop is booked out. http://criticalengineering.org/networkshop/ http://digitalbrainstorming.ch/de/programm/art_under_mass_surveillance ___________________________________________________________________ 1.1 TALK - JULIAN OLIVER & DANJA VASILIEV 20:00 h - door opens at 19:30 h We will start the evening with a presentation by Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev of their artistic works related to the topic of mass surveillance of electronic communications systems. http://k0a1a.net/ http://julianoliver.com/ ___________________________________________________________________ 2. BOOK LAUNCH - «DELIVERY FOR MR. ASSANGE», ECHTZEIT VERLAG 21:00 h We are very happy to announce our book «Delivery for Mr. Assange. Ein Paket für Mr. Assange». The book recounts the many stories that occurred around «Delivery for Mr. Assange» and «Delivery for Mr. Rajab». It follows the Deliveries from our perspective, describing the extraordinary deliveries, all the craziness and the uproar it caused on the internet in a fast-paced gonzo narrative. Together with musician Bit-Tuner, author and Bitnik member Daniel Ryser will launch the newly published book. You can buy your copy on Saturday at the Helmhaus or order it from your favourite local bookshop or online: http://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/book/ http://www.echtzeit.ch/buecher.php?id=242 Title: «Delivery for Mr. Assange. Ein Paket für Mr. Assange» Publisher: Echtzeit Verlag Languages: English / German Publication Date: March 08 2014 ISBN: 978-3-905800-81-4 Pages: 250 Bit-Tuner: http://bit-tuner.net/ ___________________________________________________________________ 3. JULIAN ASSANGE LIVE A Conversation between Julian Assange & !Mediengruppe Bitnik 22:00 h In a conversation between !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London via video-link we will focus on art under mass surveillance. We will talk with Julian about his perspective on the deliveries, his take on mass surveillance and where to go from here. There will be time for some questions from participants at the end of the conversation. https://wikileaks.org/ http://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/ ___________________________________________________________________ The event is part of the exhibition «!Mediengruppe Bitnik – Delivery for Mr. Assange» Helmhaus Zürich, February 14 to April 6 2014. http://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/news/2014-helmhaus-images/ http://www.helmhaus.org -- Concept and realisation: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Helmhaus Zürich, :digital brainstorming http://digitalbrainstorming.ch/de/programm/art_under_mass_surveillance # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
