[spectre] fwd: artwashing leipzig

[Carsten Stabenow]

dear list,
this could be interesting beyond the german context:
best, c.


Why is Palantir sponsoring the Dimensions art exhibition in Leipzig?

Palantir is a US-based data analytics company whose business model seems to be 
the pushing and exceeding of any ethical and legal boundaries that stand in the 
way of a fully “transparent humanity”. Some questions come to mind. What was 
the reasoning behind Palantir’s decision to sponsor the Dimensions exhibition 
in Leipzig? What exactly were the role of art impresario Walter Smerling and 
the association Foundation for Art and Culture e.V. (Bonn) which he heads, 
after his efforts were stifled in Berlin? What role do art, curators and 
artists play in such an exhibition?

read further:
https://artwashing-leipzig.de/open-letter/

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Re: [spectre] a terrible day

[carsten stabenow]

depends on how you define ‚disinformation‘
crimethInc has a clear history, easily to track 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrimethInc.)

thanks andreas for opening up the discussion here!
i’m personally shocked by the war rhetoric from all sides. i worked the past 25 
years with artists from ukraine and russia in context trying to make borders 
unnecessary, call me naive, but i’m still 100% that we have to stand together 
against any kind of war - boycotts in the cultural sector would be confession 
of failure. (my subjective position)

there was just a post by geert lovink on nettime with many proposals for 
constructive action:
https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-2203/msg5.html

best, carsten


> Am 02.03.2022 um 15:49 schrieb Matias Schüttenberg :
> 
> Is this the same desinformation campaign from Social Networks?? 
> 
> Has someone researched on this subject there?
> 
> 
> On 2 Mar 2022 10:39, "Nicolas Montgermont"  > wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Maybe it is good to have the point of view of some political groups in 
> Ukraine and Russia.
> 
> Here is an article from some anti anti-authoritarian ukrainian groups that is 
> two weeks old:
> https://en.crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine
>  
> 
> 
> Here is one by russian anarchists, updated one week ago.
> https://en.crimethinc.com/2022/02/26/russian-anarchists-on-resisting-the-invasion-of-ukraine-updates-and-analysis
>  
> 
> 
> They really helped me to understand the political situation!
> Best,
> n
> 
> PS : forgive me if these were already posted here.
> 
> https://nimon.org 
> Le 02/03/2022 à 11:48, Spyros Boukas a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi everyone, 
>> 
>> I would like to share some thoughts that I have had since last week.
>> I apologize in advance for my English :) 
>> 
>> 
>> This is a world war that didn’t start last week.
>>   
>> It has started many years ago.
>>   
>> It has started straight after the end of the ‘’cold war’’ that was not cold 
>> at all.
>>   
>> It started with the first Gulf War in 1990, were the western Alliances 
>> attacked Iraq. 
>> And it continued with the occupation and destruction of many eastern 
>> countries since then. 
>> But in western countries and western media this was not a problem, because 
>> we were the ones that were bombing.
>> And because the dead people were Muslims.
>> 
>> In 1995 there was a massacre in Kosovo, the biggest massacre after the 
>> second world war, in which all the European countries took part, by their 
>> silence. 
>> And still, this was not a problem, because the dead people were Muslims. 
>> Here in Greece, the media were saying that the people were bombing their 
>> city by themselves 
>> because they were fanatic Muslims (the same ideology that continued with the 
>> second war in Iraq)
>> 
>> Now that the country that is attacking is not a western country, it is 
>> called war.
>> As if previously we were having peace in the world.
>>   
>> In Ukraine from 2014 there is a war and since then, 14000 people have died. 
>> If we look back when this started, we can see that this is something that 
>> was pushed from the western countries back then. 
>> By sending weapons and supporting the para-military of Ukraine and helping 
>> to establish a Fascist regime that oppresses the people and the working 
>> class of Ukraine 
>> and forwards neonazi ideologies and practices.
>>   
>>  
>> As the global Capitalistic crisis rises more and more, the war probably will 
>> come closer to us. 
>> But whenever the Bosses of this world are making wars to compete for their 
>> geopolitical thirst and capitalism expansion, we are the ones who always 
>> die...
>>   
>> As the war expands, our personal or collective dilemmas for participation 
>> for sure will get stronger. 
>> We should not join any National flag. We should fight in our countries 
>> against their participation in any war, 
>> because we will be the victims of something that we only have to lose. 
>> We have to lose our friends and beloved people’s lives or even our lives.
>> 
>> We won’t fight for anyone. 
>> 
>> Peace among the people, War among the Classes.
>>   
>> Together with the Oppressed people of Ukraine who are fighting against this 
>> war.
>>   
>> Together with the Oppressed and arrested people of Russia, who are fighting 
>> against this war.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>  Virus-free. www.avast.com 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 3:36 PM Lanfranco Aceti > 

[spectre] opening: Ralf Baecker - IRRATIONAL COMPUTING

[carsten stabenow]

IRRATIONAL COMPUTING

Opening: 27th October 2011, 7pm
Schering Stiftung / Unter den Linden 32-34 / 10117 Berlin / Germany
Exhibition: 28th October - 17th December 2011, Mo-Sa 11am – 6pm, Admission is 
free

IRRATIONAL COMPUTING is an artistic test of material, esthetics and potentials 
of digital processes. The installation is based on semiconductor crystals - the 
basic raw material of information technology. The installation in the Project 
Space of the Ernst Schering Foundation consists of five interlinked modules 
that use the varied electrical and mechanical particularities and 
characteristics of crystals and minerals and, through their networking, form a 
kind of primitive macroscopic signal processor.
IRRATIONAL COMPUTING is not supposed to “function” – its aim is to search for 
the poetic elements on the border between “accuracy” and “chaos amplifying the 
mystic and magic side of these materials.
IRRATIONAL COMPUTING was developed during a three-month project residency, 
which was made possible by DOCK e.V. with support from the Ernst Schering 
Foundation.

Opening Dr. Andreas Broeckmann 
(Leuphana Arts Program, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)


more Informations about the project and the related lecture program:
http://www.scheringstiftung.de/en/project-space/news/2575-ralf-baecker-irrational-computing.html




A production by DOCK e.V. in cooperation with the Ernst Schering Foundation.

http://www.dock-berlin.de
http://www.scheringstiftung.de
http://www.no-surprises.de


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