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Simon Yuill Lecture

2008-11-19T16:03+00:00

Conference Verbindingen / Jonctions - 10 *** Artist and programmer based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a developer in the spring_alpha and Social Versioning System (SVS) projects. He has helped setup and run a number of hacklab and free media labs in Scotland including the Chateau Institute of Technology (ChIT) and Electron Club, as well as the Glasgow branch of OpenLab. He has written on aspects of Free Software and cultural praxis and has contributed to publications such as Software Studies (MIT Press, 2008), the FLOSS Manuals and Digital Artists Handbook project (GOTO10 and Folly).

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-31T20:07+00:00

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-31T15:53+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** 11:00 Organisation von Kreativarbeitern // Diskussion Veronika Mirschel, Leiterin des ver.di-Referats Selbstständige, Berlin Dr. Alexandra Manske, Institut für Gesellschaftswissenschaften und historisch-politische Bildung, Technische Universität Berlin Manuela Zechner, Künstlerin, London Marc Röbbecke, Heimatdesign, Dortmund Moderation: Valie Djordjevic, iRights.info *** Arbeitnehmer schließen sich traditionell zu Gewerkschaften zusammen, um gemeinsam ihre Interessen durchzusetzen. Viele Kreative jedoch reiben sich als Einzelkämpfer in Verhandlungen mit Verlagen, Galerien oder Plattenfirmen auf. Wer vertritt die Interessen der prekarisierten Kulturarbeiter im 21. Jahrhundert? Was bieten Gewerkschaften den kreativen Freiberuflern, können sie die Vielfalt der Beschäftigungsformen erfassen? Sind alternative Zusammenschlüsse außerhalb der institutionalisierten Künstler- und Autorenorganisationen eine Lösung? Oder gehört die Zukunft sozialen Netzwerken, die ihren Kampf für eine faire Bezahlung in Facebook organisieren?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-31T01:27+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** # 17:00 Remix Culture // Diskussion mit # Dr. Felix Stalder, Dozent Theorie der Mediengesellschaft, Züricher Hochschule der Künste, Vertiefung Neue Medien # Martin Conrads, freier Autor; Dozent am Institut für Transmediale Gestaltung, Universität der Künste Berlin # Frank Dostal, Textdichter, Producer, stellvertretender Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender der GEMA, Hamburg # Johannes Kreidler, Komponist und Musiktheoretiker, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock, Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Berlin # Thierry Chervel, Journalist, Mitbegründer des Online-Magazins Perlentaucher, Berlin Moderation: Dr. Inke Arns, HMKV *** Kultur war schon immer Bezugnahme auf und produktive Verarbeitung von vorhergehenden kulturellen Äußerungen. Neue Technologien machen heute diese Aneignungen leichter - und führen zu einer massenhaften Re-Kreativität („Sampling“). Das Panel beschäftigt sich mit zeitgenössischen aneignenden Kulturpraktiken, die sich in rechtlichen Grauzonen bewegen und fragt, inwiefern das derzeitige Urheberrecht Kultur effektiv be- oder sogar verhindert. Heute entscheidet sich, ob wir in Zukunft in einer „Remix Culture“ – also einer Gesellschaft, die die Entstehung abgeleiteter („derivativer“) Werke erlaubt bzw. explizit fördert – oder in einer „Permission Culture“ („Erlaubniskultur“) leben werden, in der jede aneignende Bezugnahme einer expliziten Erlaubnis des Rechteinhabers bedarf.

The Informal

2008-10-31T01:15+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-31T00:40+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** 13:30 Rekreativität und Urheberrecht // Vortrag von Dr. Volker Kitz, LL.M. (New York University), Höcker Rechtsanwälte, Köln / Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München, Moderation: Philipp Otto, iRights.info *** Kreativität ist zu weiten Teilen immer auch Rekreativität: Sampling, Remixing, Appropriation, Cut-Ups und Mashups sind weit verbreitete Phänomene. Betroffen sind alle Bereiche kreativen Schaffens. Insbesondere der User Generated Content lebt von Rekreativität. Welche legalen Möglichkeiten für Rekreativität gibt es derzeit? Wie haben sich die rechtlichen Voraussetzungen für Zitat, Parodie und andere freie Benutzung im Lauf der Zeit verändert? Wie können neue Lizenzierungsmodelle die Rekreativität fördern? Welche rechtspolitischen Forderungen kann die kreative Klasse realistischerweise erheben?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-30T18:28+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** 11:00 Anticopyright in künstlerischen Subkulturen // Vortrag von Dr. Florian Cramer, Course Director Media Design M. A. und Professorial Coordinator (Lector) des Forschungsprojektes „Communication in a Digital Age“, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Moderation: Dr. Inke Arns, HMKV *** Der Vortrag erzählt eine Kulturgeschichte von Anticopyright-Kunst und -Aktivismus vor allem des späten 20. Jahrhunderts. Inspiriert von Lautréamonts Lob des Plagiats und Marcel Mauss' Anthropologie von „Geschenkökonomien“ propagieren Situationisten, Neoisten, Festivals of Plagiarism, Plunderphonics und das Luther Blissett-Projekt eine Kultur ohne geistiges Eigentum. Im Internet schreibt sich ihr Diskurs fort und ist neue Allianzen mit GNU-Copyleft, Open Source und Filesharing-Aktivismus eingegangen. Doch bleibt in diesem Mainstream des Anti-Copyrights ästhetische Radikalität auf der Strecke?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-30T16:14+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info*** # 20:30 Wir spielen, was wir wollen // Konzert # Christian von Borries, Dirigent, Komponist und Produzent, Berlin mit Schülerinnen und Schülern der Musikschule Dortmund (Uraufführung) *** Der Berliner Dirigent und Musiker Christian von Borries erarbeitet zusammen mit Dortmunder MusikschülerInnen eine neue Musik, die aus der Lieblingsmusik der TeilnehmerInnen besteht. Die Stücke verschiedenster Musikgenres, die in Form von Xerox Kopie, mp3, gepfiffener Melodie oder Erinnerung vorliegen, werden verschiedenen Kopier- und Scanvorgänge unterzogen. Dabei entstehen zwangsläufig Übersetzungsfehler und Unschärfen, die zu zentralen Elementen der neu entstehenden Komposition bzw. deren Notation werden. Handelt es sich bei den neuen, live gespielten Stücken um Medleys, Cover-Versionen, Adaptationen, Interpretationen oder gar eigenständige neue Kompositionen – oder gar nichts von alledem? Die Beantwortung dieser Frage wirkt sich unmittelbar auf die – möglicherweise unbezahlbaren – (Lizenz-)Gebühren aus. Dürfen wir wirklich spielen, was wir wollen?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-30T13:24+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** 17:45 Kunst und ihre technische Reproduktion // Diskussion mit Cornelia Sollfrank, Netz- und Konzeptkünstlerin, Hamburg, derzeit Dundee, sowie Prof. Dr. Gerhard Pfennig, Geschäftsführender Vorstand VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn und Christoph Irrgang, freier Fotograf, Hamburg sowie Hanns-Peter Frentz, Leiter Bildarchiv der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Moderation durch Dr. Volker Grassmuck, iRights.info. *** Die Künstlerin malt. Das Museum kauf an. Der Fotograf reproduziert. Die Agentur vermarktet. Die Verwertungsgesellschaft verwertet. So weit so einfach. Aber wie werden die Erlöse aufgeteilt und wie verändern sich die Verhältnisse durch die Digitalisierung der Medienwelt? Die Umsätze auf dem Kunstmarkt entwickeln sich positiv, wie die Enquete-Kommission Kultur des Deutschen Bundestages feststellte. „Doch nur wenige Künstlerinnen und Künstler haben daran auch teil.“ Sammeln, Bewahren, Forschen, Ausstellen im Dienste der Öffentlichkeit sind die Aufgaben des Museums. Heute kommt eine hinzu: Verwerten. Wird das Museum zum Anhang seines Shops oder erfüllt sich Benjamins Vorstellung von der Demokratisierung der Anteilnahme an Kunst durch ihre technische Reproduzierbarkeit?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-29T17:19+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** 15:30 Wer bezahlt Kreativität? // Diskussion mit Paul Keller, Senior-Projektleiter Creative Commons Niederlande & Vorstandsmitglied iCommons, Amsterdam und Peter Grafe, Referatsleiter K16 Kulturwirtschaft im BKM (Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien), Bonn, sowie Meike Richter, Kulturwissenschaftlerin, Dozentin, Kuratorin und freie Journalistin überwiegend für den NDR, Hamburg und Martin Juhls, Musiker, Kulturmanagement, sternschaltung, Dortmund. Moderiert vion Matthias Spielkamp, iRights.info. *** Kreative arbeiten in aller Regel freischaffend. Das Panel erkundet, wo sie Abnehmer und Förderer für ihre Werke finden. Wie sieht es tatsächlich aus in der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft, die von der Politik als Wachstumsmotor gesehen und besonders gefördert wird? Ist es möglich, Werke unter Creative Commons frei zu lizenzieren und dennoch Geld damit zu verdienen? Wo streckt sich Kulturschaffenden die öffentliche Hand entgegen: in Rundfunk und Theater, mit Wettbewerben und Residencies? Oder bleibt für die meisten Bohemiens doch nur der prekäre Mix aus Kneipenjob, Arbeitslosenhilfe und einem seltenen Taschengeld für die eigentliche kreative Arbeit?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-29T14:23+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** 13:45 Einkommensverhältnisse von Kreativen - Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Martin Kretschmer, Lehrstuhl für Informationsrecht & Direktor des Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management, Bournemouth University und  Moderation von Dr. Volker Grassmuck, iRights.info *** Martin Kretschmer und Philip Hardwick haben die erste umfassende empirische Studie zum Einkommen von Autoren aus Urheberrechten vorgelegt. Dazu haben sie 25.000 britische und deutsche Autoren befragt und Daten von Verwertungsgesellschaften, Künstlersozialkasse, Einkommenssteuer und Arbeitsämtern ausgewertet. Das Ergebnis: Die Einnahmen von Autoren liegen deutlich unter dem gemittelten nationalen Lohnniveau. Wenige Stars erzielen einen überproportionalen Anteil daraus. In Deutschland mit seiner stärkeren Regulierung von Urheberrechtsverträgen ist die Verteilung weniger stark verzerrt, aber die Einnahmen noch niedriger als in England. Autorinnen verdienen deutlich weniger als ihre männlichen Kollegen. Die zunehmende Verwertung im Internet hat sich nicht in zusätzliche Einnahmen übersetzt. Die typischen Autoreneinnahmen sind seit 2000 in beiden Ländern zurückgegangen.

Zoom - Shaina Anand

2008-10-29T13:23+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 ZOOM begins with a popular film from the 1970's that was said to define the "look of the 20th Century". We wonder about the powers of then, and the powers of now. The look acts at collapsable distances, and varying focal lengths. The captured subjects will not know whose eyes their bodies will receive, (even though they will imagine it), in which galaxies their images will wander, in blackholes of memory or as data-stamps of unique flesh. At various levels of X, equations emerge, governing the relationship between the subject/ actor and the explicit or phantasmic, but always-powerful "viewer". We take a closer look at some of these ratios and their registers of violence: in visual anthropology, CCTV, iris scans and more.

War and Multitude - Ali Akay

2008-10-29T13:21+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 Leaving behind the 20th century, the 21st century has appeared with two directions. On the one hand, a hope for the world with more freedom after the fall of the Berlin Wall; on the other hand, the hegemony of capital which has been named ‘Empire’ is as the imperial system based on the military operations and the occupations over multitude. A reaction has been created by the opponents which are called and conceptualized as ‘Multitude’ in a sensibility which has occurred not only with the former leftist anarcho-gochist groups but also with an ecological market rethinks a multi-dynamics ecological world and unites with multitude. These multi-dynamics come out as the players of today’s dictionary of war. In this political situation, there is an international immigration practice emerging from the movements of labor and capital becomes too mobile, so that it makes the fact of hybridization composing with multiculturalism, post-colonial discourse and the “third space” possible. At this point, by turning to a conceptual approach, it is proper to look at the grammar of war in the dictionary of the thought of Tarde in the beginning of the 20th century.

Waiting - Brett Neilson

2008-10-29T13:20+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 War is mostly about waiting. In strategy there is delay. In fear there is hesitation. In engagement there is exit. Languor, boredom, nullity: waiting around for orders, mobilization or attack. Capture and detention, setbacks and impediments, quagmires and fog: in all there is a tendency to confusion and deferral. Far from the politics of decision and the friend/enemy divide, waiting reminds us of all that is uncertain or undecidable in war. And if, by other means, war is politics, it signals the importance, perhaps the virtue, of patience in political life. Waiting, in other words, is a register of all that cannot be won or lost in war. Above all, it is a tonality of experience triggered by a sense of finitude, by the expectation that war will end. But what becomes of this expectation when war becomes permanent, perpetual or infinite? In a war without limits of time or place, what is the sense of waiting?

Vacuity, topo, deception, detour, bunker - Ti-Nan Chi

2008-10-29T13:19+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 Subtle! Subtle! It approaches the formless. ─ Sun Tze, Art of War, 500 BC Micro-urbanism came out of a shifting paradigm of city and philosophy, which suggests there are internal realities to be investigated in order to describe how things interact and coordinate in the micro-scale realm, and which manifest the true spirit of a city and its people. Architects not only need to work within these inner systems but also to forge tactics in the micro-zones, in order to propel the self-healing potential that has been forgotten and dumped in the cultural politics of design.

Piracy - Tilman Baumgärtel

2008-10-29T13:17+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 This paper looks at the phenomenon of media piracy on the internet and in real space. As I live in the Philippines, I will focus on the piracy here, but my remarks will not be limited to the local situation. I will look at the phenomenon of piracy as such and try and outline some observations about how piracy works. First of all, I will look at piracy as a means of distributing films, and - drawing on interviews with some traders of pirated media material - on how the piracy market functions in the Philippines. I will also discuss the effect that the access to quality films has on the local film culture and media literacy in general and on the teaching of film in particular. Then I will discuss the unprecedented rise of media piracy in the last couple of years as one of the most prominent issues of the "digital millennium". The "Pirates of the New World Image Order" (Patricia R. Zimmermann) are not only piggy-backing on the new globalized economy that has arisen due to the world-wide deregulation and liberalization of markets in the 1980s and 1990s. They are also profiteers of a number of technological developments in the computer sciences such as the international expansion of the Internet, which has challenged traditional notions of copy right and intellectual property on a very fundamental level.

Loyalty - Sam de Silva

2008-10-29T13:15+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 The tactic of killing in the name of loyalty places the non-fighter, the peacemaker - the journalist, the ordinary person - in to the war and the zone of fire. The Tamil Tigers, a militant group, branded terrorists by the US, Europe and Canada, has a track record of killing people from their own ethnicity, who challenge their strategy. Journalists who write critically against the Government or contribute to "demoralising" the army are attacked, disappeared and killed. The concept of "loyalty" will be explored through the Sri Lankan experience, a bloody war over land and power has been waging for over 25 years. Are you with us or against us

Insulation - Ashok Sukumaran

2008-10-29T13:11+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 Insulation is the silent twin of "mediation". It is the wrapper of refusal that surrounds and protects an act of transmission, of exchange, or of transport. It is then a systemic, "objective" part of the ways in which we distribute ideas, information, and materials. When visible, insulation provides an image in outline, of the symbolic order: shapes that tell the story of distribution, mark the boundaries of commodities, their flows, and provide a surface for continuous conflict... a Wall across which to imagine and produce an outside, and an interior. But then, do not these very materials also produce the shelters, camouflages, isolations, prophylactics, inductions and touch-me-nots that mark the conceptual limits of an era of advancing "networks" ? Could there be a political possibility here, a line of defence? Lenin once made a proposal to melt down enough church bells to provide the copper conductors necessary to wire yet un-electrified Soviet villages. In a contemporary response, we should be melting down and reusing things with quite the opposite properties, offering a different articulation of what is urgent, and a different order of sacrifice.

Four Notions on War - Wong Hoy Cheong

2008-10-29T13:09+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008

Dark Matter - Gregory Sholette

2008-10-29T11:50+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008 Sholette's research into politically-engaged artists' collectives raises the following proposition: cultural economies are secretly dependent upon a sphere of hidden social production involving cooperative networks, systems of gift exchange, unwaged labor, and collective forms of practice that act as a type of missing mass or dark matter, which the art world typically refuses to acknowledge. Thanks in large part to the spread of digital networks, however, this dark matter is getting brighter. By looking at more than 30 years of contemporary artists' collectives, Sholette's research attempts to map this materializing missing mass politically, as part of a broader history from below.

Conflict within Peace, Peace within Conflict - York W. Chen

2008-10-29T11:47+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008 In his lecture entitled Conflicts within Peace, Peace within Conflicts, Dr. Chen will discuss the unique situation of simultaneous war and peace that seems to exist across the Taiwan Strait. It goes without saying that the cross-strait political relationship is an extremely unusual case in international politics, and although most countries don't acknowledge Taiwan's nationhood and maintain it is a part of China, Taiwan is active on the international stage as a sovereign and independent national entity.

Cold, Coldness, the War of Coldness - Shih-Chieh Ilya Li

2008-10-29T11:42+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008 As the Russian army invaded the Georgian territory, right in the same day China celebrating its "one world, one (Olympic) dream", mainstream media soon were flooded with the term "new cold war". Russia is back, and right now United States of America is facing its most serious, urgent, catastrófico economic Recession that is going to influence the world. For the western journalist, cold war was over decades ago, and the "new" is coming back to haunt the world with it's new axis, new friends, and new competition. But there are certain places on the earth that still under the same old coldness. Just like the South Eastern Asian jungle where Japanese soldiers hided into and waited for long term resistance, people there just missed the institutional de-frozen message: the Emperor/tennō/Mikado's radio lecture announcing "unconditional surrender". Post-war period after World War II is called "Cold War", and when is the end of "Cold War"? Are we officially providing any equipment, or any institutionalized effort, to terminate the coldness? In post WWII situation, Taiwan was deemed the important freedom fighting fortress on the Pacific Ocean. An un-sinkable aircraft carrier. A free China, China outside of China. A kind of democracy window to let people look into the iron curtained Chinese mankind. Taiwanese development was deemed strategically aligned with US's interests. Embracing the financial (mostly in the form of raw material, just like the extended market for USA national production) support and accompanied ideologies, we are connected with the center of the war. Show our loyalty, going nowhere but embracing the superpower, even the enlightenment is coming from most US then coming back to our own people. Taiwan is not only a free China, better China, civilized China, but also an unsinkable refrigerator. Taiwan is a cold generating device. Taiwan is institutionalized into the generator of our own coldness, and help in sustaining other people's coldness. When our enlightened intellectuals coming back to Taiwan, they found Taiwanese people are so "cold", not responding to external International situations: don't go out to protest against the Viet Nam war, for example. How do we react to this situation? We don't even know who we are! The only thing we know is to produce things. We are hardworking people, and we are doing really good. As no one is officially announcing "the cold war is over" (they don't announce it when it began neither!) , the coldness generating device, the unsinkable freedom carrier on the Pacific Ocean, is still hardworkingly outputting its coldness. No one yet to check the ruins so very few people know it's still working. Some politician knows the product these people produced, so smartly find a way to utilize these coldness-related products. At least to better their political lives. I would like to propose a research/re-search into coldness, to uncover the cold war's technical sides: cold war's instrumentality, how did it terminated or even everlasting? What are the strategies and tactics of cold war initiator / collaborators? Do they know we are the children of coldness, and those are even extending to today?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-29T11:37+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info*** 11:30 Was für ein Urheberrecht braucht kreative Arbeit? // Standpunkte mit RA Wolfgang Schimmel, Sekretär im Fachbereich Medien, Kunst und Industrie, ver.di, Stuttgart und Ilja Braun, freier Journalist, Köln sowie Paul Keller, Senior-Projektleiter Creative Commons Niederlande & Vorstandsmitglied iCommons, Amsterdam und Christian von Borries, Dirigent, Komponist und Produzent, Berlin Moderation: Dr. Till Kreutzer, iRights.info *** Das Urheberrecht schützt die ideellen und materiellen Interessen der Urheber – sagt jedenfalls das Urheberrecht. Aber tut es das wirklich? Und tut es das in seiner gegenwärtigen Form? Was für ein Urheberrecht brauchen denn die Kreativen, die „Arbeiter 2.0“? Diesen Fragen werden vier Referenten nachgehen, die von den Antworten unmittelbar betroffen sind. Die kurzen, zehnminütigen Statements bilden den Auftakt zur Konferenz. Sie werden ein breites Spektrum unterschiedlicher Meinungen von Personen aufzeigen, die eigentlich alle „auf der gleichen Seite“, auf der Seite der Urheber stehen, jedoch ganz unterschiedliche Positionen vertreten. Dies dient nicht nur der Einführung in die Thematik, sondern auch dazu, einen Eindruck davon zu vermitteln, wie kontrovers über die Ausgestaltung eines zeitgemäßen Urheberrechts diskutiert wird.

Blank Space - Annett Busch and Florian Schneider

2008-10-29T11:36+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008 "To open to civilization the only part of our globe which it has not yet penetrated, to pierce the darkness which hangs over entire peoples..." With these words the "King of the Belgians", Leopold II. welcomed the participants of the "Geographical Conference" that took place in September 1876 at the Royal Palace in Brussels. Only nine years later nearly one million square miles in central Africa, an area that Joseph Conrad once called "the blankest of all blank spaces", has been named the "Congo Free State". For the next 23 years it was the private property of Leopold II. During that period at least 8 million people lost their lives under a regime of terror and exploitation.

Ambient Fears - Nikos Papastergiadis

2008-10-29T11:34+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008 Ever since September 11th not only has the perception of risk escalated but the meaning of fear has changed. At a personal level people have been speculating over their exposure to danger and institutions revising their security measures. Their capacity to cope with threats has been undermined by a loss of trust and morale. Fear has saturated every aspect of life. The American government has had to measure their ambition for global domination against the simmering prospects of revenge and sabotage occurring in their own locale. This level of anxiety is different to earlier forms of fear. It was easier to gain a sense of ironic distance from the earlier renditions of an invasion. Who can you trust? The enemy could be anyone or anywhere. The colonizer’s greatest fear is not the confrontation of the otherness in the enemy but the unexpected risks in intimacy. The intimate enemy can not only do greater harm than the visible foe but also sustain a state of perpetual anxiety that undermines any relief found in conquest. Ultimately, this state of being – when even silence is pregnant with danger, and where every stranger is also a potential enemy – is precisely the goal of the avenging colonized. Their aim is to disperse fear into the whole environment: to make anxiety ubiquitous and unlocatable. In this lecture I will examine a number of individual artistic and collective collaborative responses to the new politics of ambient fear.

Accident - Ravi Sundaram

2008-10-29T11:31+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008 The accident has been seen as an origin myth for a new prosthetic enhancement to the body in its drive to war (Marinetti). Recently, Paul Virilio calls the accident the diagnostic of technology, its inherent drive to catastrophe. What about the accident as the image of everyday danger in a city? Not an outside, not an inside.

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-28T21:40+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info 11:00 Eröffnung: Udo Mager, Geschäftsführer Wirtschaftsförderung Stadt Dortmund Dr. Inke Arns, HMKV Dr. Volker Grassmuck, iRights.info

Alphabetical Order

2008-10-06T09:24+00:00

Dictionary of War 7th Edition, Meta-edition, Bolzano September 20-21 2008

Setup

2008-10-06T09:21+00:00

Dictionary of War 7th Edition, Meta-edition, Bolzano, September 20-21 2008

War

2008-10-06T09:21+00:00

Dictionary of War 7th Edition, Meta-edition, Bolzano, September 20-21 2008

Concept Person

2008-10-06T09:20+00:00

Dictionary of War 7th Edition, Meta-edition, Bolzano September 20-21 2008

prozess gegen antimilitaristen eroeffnet

2008-10-03T19:31+00:00

Florian L., Axel H. und Oliver R. were arrested after they allegedly tried to set fire on military trucks, made by MAN-AG in Brandenburg/Havel. Today they had their first court-day...
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Bundeswehreinsatz in Afghanistan

2008-10-01T00:26+00:00

Truppen nach Afghanistan? Ohne sich dabei die 'Radikale' Attitüde ans Revers zu heften wirkt die Antikriegs-Szene, anders als ihr nachgesagt wird, wenig Illusionsgeschwängert.

PartisanInnen, Kärntner - Tina Leisch

2008-09-21T13:05+00:00

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Textbook - Hyunjin Kim

2008-09-07T06:43+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Statelessness - Ursula Biemann

2008-09-07T06:42+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

State of Emergency - Jo Ractliffe

2008-09-07T06:41+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Reconquest - Patrick D. Flores

2008-09-07T06:39+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Pundit - James Merle Thomas

2008-09-07T06:38+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Pig - Jang Un Kim

2008-09-07T06:37+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Narrating a time of war - Praneet Soi

2008-09-07T06:35+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Jihad - Okwui Enwezor

2008-09-07T06:34+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Jeunesse fougue - Abdoulaye Konaté

2008-09-07T06:32+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Hysteria - Hassan Khan

2008-09-07T06:31+00:00

An associative and casual listening session to examples of shaabiyat tracks produced and distributed in Cairo over the past three years. Khan will discuss how the taboo becomes totem, the self hysterically claims a space, and aggression and paranoia become productive cultural operations, his evidence a collection of tracks that he finds to be the most interesting, surprising, and exciting cultural product to come out of his home town for a very long time. Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Hindutva and Islamism: Twins in Annihilation - Ranjit Hoskote

2008-09-07T06:29+00:00

Hindutva and Islamism are both movements of revanchism and annihilatory impact, which claim to speak in the name of a pure religious tradition that has been tainted and threatened by alien influences. In a zone of cultural confluence such as South Asia, these global movements are at war with one another: to Hindutva, secular modernity as well as Islam and Islamism are the enemy; to Islamism, secular modernity as well as Hinduism and Hindutva are the enemy. Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Full Spectrum Dominance - Kerry James Marshall

2008-09-07T06:28+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Continuity - Chung Seoyoung

2008-09-07T06:26+00:00

We could find a definition for the word "continuity" as such: "A detailed script or scenario consulted to avoid discrepancies from shot to shot in a film, allowing the various scenes to be shot out of order." While all possible kinds of "wars" are going on in the world all "possible details" disappear. But details are the bridge towards what makes life more real and interesting. By disappearance of the detail, absurdity evolves in reality and the aspire to continuity is a strong contest around this absurdity. Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Change of Game - Jarbas Lopes

2008-09-07T06:24+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Al Mukaddima: Le Bout du Monde/Anwal

2008-09-07T06:20+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Youthorganizing Network Interviews

2008-08-23T15:58+00:00

Anja, Tautvydas and Sören - participants of the Youth Organizing Institute 2008 in Kragujevac - talking about the situation in the countries they live in concerning similar and different kinds of discrimination in society. Besides that they inform about their approaches to research on these topics and how they organize themselves in the struggle for another society. http://www.youthorganizing.net The Youthorganizing Institute is a yearly meeting of young researchers and activists, theorists and artists from the wider south-eastern europa and beyond to discuss experiences and analysis of the participants, develop notions, ideas and concepts. After meeting in summer the development of common projects, the developing discussion and contacts will all be visible on the Youthorganizing website.

Youthorganizing Network Interviews

2008-07-30T13:01+00:00

Paula, Olga, Tamara and Vitalie have been participants of the Youth Organizing Institute 2008 in Kragujevac (Serbia). In the following interviews they will talk about their experiences on types of discrimination such as racism and homophobia in their regions and what they are doing to reach a change of the situation there. http://www.youthorganizing.net The Youthorganizing Institute is a yearly meeting of young researchers and activists, theorists and artists from the wider south-eastern europa and beyond to discuss experiences and analysis of the participants, develop notions, ideas and concepts. After meeting in summer the development of common projects, the developing discussion and contacts will all be visible on the Youthorganizing website.

Youthorganizing Network Interviews

2008-07-30T12:21+00:00

Giorgi, Sanja, Stevica and Tanja - participants of the Youth Organizing Institute 2008 in Kragujevac (Serbia) - talking about the youth/social centers they are involved with and about their work there. Furthermore they provide some information about forms of racism and exclusion in the regions where they live and how they use the social/youth centers to approach against it. http://www.youthorganizing.net The Youthorganizing Institute is a yearly meeting of young researchers and activists, theorists and artists from the wider south-eastern europa and beyond to discuss experiences and analysis of the participants, develop notions, ideas and concepts. After meeting in summer the development of common projects, the developing discussion and contacts will all be visible on the Youthorganizing website.

Lebensverhältnisse von Flüchtlingen in Frankfurt(Oder)

2008-07-01T15:41+00:00

Interviews über die Lebensverhältnisse von Flüchtlingen in Frankfurt(Oder) und Eisenhüttenstadt (en/pl/fr/de - subtitle here: http://www.global-progress.org ) Benedikt und Rachel sind Flüchtlinge aus Frankfurt (Oder) und Eisenhüttenstadt, die in der Hoffnung auf ein besseres Leben in die BRD kamen. Beide mussten feststellen, was es heißen kann, hier ein Flüchtling zu sein. Sie berichten von ihren Erfahrungen mit den Behörden, von ihren Lebensbedingungen im Asylbewerberheim und von ihrem Alltag in den Städten. Im Film sprechen auch Frankfurter_innen über ihre Sichtweise auf die Situation von Flüchtlingen und berichten von einem Rassismus auf verschiedenen Ebenen. Außerdem kommt ein Anwalt zu Wort und klärt über die rechtlichen Grundlagen des Asylverfahrens auf.

The Oil of the 21st Century - File-Sharing as Culture Industry

2008-06-24T01:58+00:00

Peer-to-peer networks are here to stay. Often dismissed as a mere conspiracy of teenage consumers against the media industry, these networks have become one of the most powerful and resilient environments for the collaborative production and reproduction of cultural data. Thus it seems that the question of file-sharing is no longer just a matter of identifying and routing around its corporate adversaries. Instead, it is becoming a question of organization. One can already make out a multitude of new initiatives, groups, alliances, coalitions and business entities that are heavily - and not only ideologically - invested in the future of peer-to-peer protocols and infrastructure. The next Culture Industry may already be in the making.