[ELECTRON] Fwd: [world-info-news] CRITICAL STRATEGIES, NYC, September 2009

[Simon Yuill]

The event is in the States but there are some publications related to it
that might be of interest to some.

best wishes
Si





24-08-2009

 ++ World-Information Institute:

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CRITICAL STRATEGIES IN ART AND MEDIA

 Perspectives on New Cultural Practices

 New York September 10, 2009

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A roundtable conference of digital theorists and practitioners on the
future of cultural intelligence and freedoms

With:
 Ted Byfield/Nettime, Steve Kurtz/ Critical Art Ensemble, Amanda
McDonald Crowley/Eyebeam, Claire
 Pentecost/Continental Drift, Peter Lamborn Wilson/Temporary Autonomous
Zone

Moderators:
 Konrad Becker/World-Information Institute, Jim Fleming /Autonomedia

Profound changes related to global digital information and communication
systems challenge the cultural heritage of the future and require
independent cultural intelligence analysis. The World-Information
Institute debates the future of art and culture in a fast-changing world
and in a shifting economic and ecological environment.

 http://world-information.org/wii


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Location:
 Austrian Cultural Forum (ACF)
 11 East 52nd St
 New York, NY 10022
 http://www.acfny.org

Date:
 September 10, 2009

Time:
 1:30–6:30pm   7:00–9:00pm

 Admission is free!

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CRITICAL STRATEGIES IN ART AND MEDIA

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Beyond the obsolete models of artist or author as genius and their
fetish objects, what collective and collaborative practices are
inventing new terrains and flows?

As information and communication technologies saturate our world, how is
art giving way to new forms of cultural symbolic manipulation?

Can we identify new models to replace the auteur and the artwork? If so,
where do they come from and what might that say about the future of
critical practices?

What new kinds of "virtual" spaces are opening up for cultural practice
in electronic media? As "old media" begin to collapse under the
pressures of the virtual, what new media can we find?

How are didactic illustration and channeled dissidence giving way to new
forms of surprise and intensity?

What strategies elude the Creative Industries’ seemingly infinite
appetite for things radical? Are there any strategies that can elude
being reduced to styles in the service of sales, or are critical
practices doomed to play cat and mouse with the forces of consumerism?

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 Steve Kurtz, of the seminal Critical Art Ensemble, a collective that
has influenced new generations of artists and activists. The CAE
realized a number of guerrilla science and art projects, from street
performance to major museums. Their work spans the breadth of informed
critical practice and includes a solid body of publications. Their most
recent project on bio-technology and bio-warfare brought them years of
legal harassment but also prompted a wave of international solidarity.

 Peter Lamborn Wilson is a writer and essayist who commands a deep
knowledge of the history of heretic, deviant schools of thought. An
expert on religious studies and the alternate realities of an autonomous
creation of knowledge, his influential and incendiary texts have also
been published under the name Hakim Bey, a cult figure of the nineties
underground rave and radical computer culture. Despite his status as a
"cyber guru," he is a fierce critic of technology and avoids it.

 Claire Pentecost is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who engaged
a variety of media to interrogate the imaginative and institutional
structures that organize divisions of knowledge. As a co-organizer of
Continental Drift, she has extensively surveyed responses to the
changing geopolitical order.

 Ted Byfield, an editor, educator, and co-moderator of one of the more
venerable mailing lists on digital culture nettime-l. His research
extends into anomalies, ecologies, economies, governance, intellectual
property, and hacking. He will provide expertise in subjects including
law, mapping, P2P, policy, propaganda, security, and systems.

 Amanda McDonald Crowley is one of the best-informed organizers and
curators working with new media and art. Encouraging collaboration and
cross-disciplinary cultural practice she has herself been involved in
many areas from practice to policy on several continents beyond her
native Australia. Currently she is the director of Eyebeam, one of the
most high-profile art and technology centers in the US.

 Jim Fleming is a key mover of the eminent Autonomedia in New York City,
the main US publishers of radical theoretical works on media and
politics, and an autonomous zone for critical art discourse. Autonomedia
cooperates in an inter-activist exchange online forum and is a major
source for contemporary critique. Its authors include Peter Lamborn
Wilson and CAE.

 Konrad Becker, a pioneer in media art and electronic music, is known
for initiating seminal and controversial net-culture projects. A thinker
and activist, he has curated and organized a large number of
international conferences and exhibitions. His recent book, "Strategic
Reality Dictionary" published by Autonomedia, addresses issues of
cultural agency beyond the tactical. He runs the World-Information
Institute in Vienna, doing critical research into culture and technology.


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A World-Information Institute event in cooperation with Ludwig Boltzmann
Institute/Media.Art.Research and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York
(ACF NY)

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Forthcoming Conference Publication:

 "Critical Strategies in Art and Media"
 (Autonomedia, 2010)

Autonomedia Book launch:

 "Strategic Reality Dictionary" (Autonomedia, 2009) ISBN 978-1-57027-202-8
 with an Introduction by Brian Holmes and an Afterword by Steve Kurtz/CAE

 When:
 September 29, 2009, 7pm
 Where:
 Eyebeam 540 W. 21st St, New York, NY 10011
 http://eyebeam.org/events/strategic-reality-dictionary-book-launch-and-presentation


Upcoming new book by World-Information Institute, October 2009:

 "Deep Search. The Politics of Search beyond Google" (Transactions 2009)
ISBN 978-3-7065-4795-6
 "Deep Search. Die Politik des Suchens jenseits von Google" (SV 2009)
ISBN 978-3-7065-4794-9


The World-Information Institute works in a global network of partners
and experts in the field of information and communication technologies.

 Cooperation with Ludwig Boltzmann Institute/Media.Art.Research within
the scope of "netpioneers 1.0"
 http://media.lbg.ac.at


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