Territories and resources
As the part of the film festival “Cinema City” in Novi Sad exhibition
and conference “Territories and Resources are organized” from 14th till
21st of June. Its aim is to research the phenomena of social networking
sites, online multiplayer games, virtual worlds and the so-called Web
2.0; all set in the context of new digital and network territories. New
social technologies are creating new domains of possibilities, which
mirror contemporary art, sociability, economics, politics and culture,
which are all deeply incorporated into the logic of info-capitalism.
Within the context of these new frames of reference, hitherto
unacquainted and specific resources manifest themselves: the users, to
which new technologies are tailored. The forementioned territories are
regulated by social and economic frameworks, which necessarily have to
be critically analyzed and thoroughly re-examined.
Conference Territories and resources
15th - 16th of June 2008
Theatre "Pozoriste Mladih", Ignjata Pavlasa Street 4, Novi Sad
Sunday, 15th June
14:00 - 18:00h
Virtual worlds and social networks as new territories
Massive multiplayer online games, 3D virtual worlds, social networks and
Web 2.0 become part of massive spending and socialization. Are these the
new things for socialization and social criticism? How can this kind of
a socialization function as economic exploitation? Which are the models
of cultural and artistic production in electronic social networks and
virtual worlds?
14:00 - 14:30
Alessandro Ludovico, Italy
“The (online) economy of desire”
14:30 - 15:00
Vladan Joler, Serbia
“New territory as a political playground“
15:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:00
Paolo Cirio, Italy
"Recombinant Theatre and Digital Resistance 2.0"
17:00 - 17:30
Kristian Lukic, Serbia
“Factories, resources and love - Virtual worlds and social networking”
17:30 - 18:00 Discussion
18:00
Projection of the movie “Steal This Film”
Monday 16th June
11:00 - 14:00 h
The future of content distribution, documenting, archiving, tagging,
metadata
With broadband expanding, we have less difficulty accessing information,
but at the same time a problem in selecting and distributing that
information. Which systems of archiving and distribution of knowledge
are there today on the global network? How to efficiently solve the
problem of information relevance and meaning?
11:00 - 11:30
Armin Medosch, Austria
“Antisocial networks, or, how to write a plug-in that destroys capitalism“
11:30 - 12:00
Vladimir Jeric, Serbia
„Curating the free 'content', free culture communities and the politics
of metadata“
12:00 - 12:30
Break
12:30 - 13:00
Marcell Mars, Croatia
"Being parazitoid"
13:00 - 13:30
Roman Minaev, Russia
"Electroboutiqe. Media Art 2.0"
13:30 - 14:00
Discussion
14:00
Projection of the movie “Good copy bad copy”
Virtual worlds and social networks as new territories
Sunday, 15th June
Alessandro Ludovico
“The (online) economy of desire”
Internet users’ retinas are endlessly tangled up by online marketing
visual and cultural agents. The (human) target of choice is entered in
its own intimate screen space through different strategies, mainly
deeply stimulating users' inner instincts. Abusing these instincts to
sell goods is essential in the extremely fast online economy, hence
embodying the economical 'raison d'etre' of internet corporations.
Analyzing Spam as a communication phenomenon, such as the funny
dictatorship of Google (unveiled in 'Google Will Eat Itself'), the
peep-show book selling of Amazon (reverse engineered in 'Amazon Noir'),
show that digital
art can be used to simultaneously unmask, and be visionary about,
pervasive and mesmerizing online marketing strategies.
Paolo Cirio
"Recombinant Theatre and Digital Resistance 2.0"
The "Performative Matrix" studied by CAE collective in the middle of
nineties has a new role in our “Convergence Culture” era characterized
by the explosion of pervasive personal media, tons of user-content and
new kinds of sociality generated by mass of identities on social network
platforms. We have finally the perfect stage for a real immersive
recombinant theatre. The easy recombination of identities and of their
interpersonal connections allows the “Transmedia Storytelling”, a
multiplatform theatre. The storytelling across multiple forms of media
recombined for the spectators who can become immersed in a story of a
real world. The rise of “Cross-Media Fiction”, “Alternative Reality
Games” and “Viral Marketing” are just the practices of the “Recombinant
Theatre” theorized by CAE ten years ago. Now the large use of these
practices engages a wide audience and it becomes an official new form of
fiction: “Alternative Reality Fiction”. Reality and Fiction blurred
their boundaries as well as Spectators and Actors swap their roles, in
the end the distinction between art and life collapsed, and the artifact
of life emerges. Some examples of new projects based on “Alternative
Reality Fiction” will be showed, most of them with a political approach.
Some projects are performances of “Digital Resistance” played directly
in the matrix of web 2.0 platforms.
Vladan Joler
“New territory as a political playground“
Kristian Lukic
“Factories, resources and love - Virtual worlds and social networking”
How do social networking and virtual worlds combine all aspects of human
life: work, love, public and private? Introducing free labour,
entertainment and boredom.
The future of content /
document distribution, archiving, tagging, metadata
Monday 16th June
Armin Medosch
“Antisocial networks, or, how to write a plug-in that destroys capitalism“
Vladan Jeremic and Vladimir Jeric - Vlidi
„Curating the free 'content', freeculture communities and the politics
of metadata“
Some rights reserved. Some ports closed
About the politics of metadata and the imaginary futures and forgotten
past of collective ownership and self-management.
Dear friends, this is the place where we thought that together we could
try to reformulate the questions around the following (and similar)
issues: what is the market on which "identities" are the commodity? Have
you managed to find a place, on or off-line, which is not already
parceled or owned one way or another? And why we should be careful about
what we wish for <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_7>?
If the politics of metadata appear through the designing of software,
not through the production of hardware, if we still think in terms of
personal and ownership but represent collective and participatory, does
that renders the relationships within The Network invisible? Who exactly
is in charge of building the culture of interface and the control of
metadata, and who is being considered a "user"?
Choose your desired identity from our fine selection of offers.
What is your best price?
Marcell Mars
"Being parazitoid"
Being parazitoid The history of gestures in avant-gard art and
counterculture is the history of unsuccessful attempts to avoid
appropriation by market forces. The free software movement is the only
movement which did it successfully. The GNU manifesto was important but
it's not comparable with the appropriation of copyright licence through
a hack called GNU General Public Licence. After two decades business
finally found a way to appropriate GNU GPL. They had to make
revolutionary changes to their business models. What's the answer from
free software? What can counter culture learn/do from/in this ongoing
revolution?
Roman Minaev
"Electroboutiqe. Media Art 2.0"
As a post-consumerist manifesto for the real power of art and its place
in society, 'Media Art 2.0' is a call for critical artists to escape the
ghettos of their production and conquer the market. Proposing all-in-one
plug-and-play solutions art objects become technological products that
are ready to be consumed here and now by anyone anywhere.
Exhibition Territories and resources
14.06 -21.06.2008
Exhibition Territories and resources will present, with the contemporary
art production, some of the possible views on the development of
electronic social networks and virtual realities. The exhibition
highlights critical aspect of art production and artistic interventions
in the field of digital network.
Artists:
Main square (Trg Slobode) / Container 001
Alessandro Ludovico : Italy, Paolo Cirio : Italy, Ubermorgen - Austria
- GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself
- Amazon Noir - The Big Book Crime
Bureau D’etudes : France
- Mapping the Laboratory Planet
Njegoseva Street / Container 002
Serious Games Interactive : Denmark
- Global conflicts: Latin America
Croquet consortium - USA
- Project Croquet
Crossroad of Bulevard Mihajlo Pupin and Ignjat Pavlas / Container 003
Electroboutique : Works
- Commercial protest
- Digiluck
- MediaMirror
Plateau in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina /
Container 004
Slobodnakultura.org - Serbia
- Freedom Toaster
Platoniq : Spain
- Bank of Common Knowledge
Plateau in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina 005
Linda Hilfling : Denmark
- Participation 0.0
Second Life Liberation Army - USA
The concept of the exhibition, following the context of territories and
resources, is realized inside cargo containers, which are placed on the
main city square (Trg Slobode), Njegoseva Street, Boulevard Mihajlo
Pupin and in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in
Dunavska Street.
www.cinemacity.org
Credits:
Program directors / Concept of exhibition and conference:
Vladan Joler
Kristian Lukic
Program coordinator:
Gordana Nikolic
Executive director
Natali Beljanski
Production:
The State of Exit , Novi Sad
Co-production:
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad
Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies : NAPON, Novi Sad
Art Association : INBOX, Novi Sad
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