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  • The Database Imaginary: Memory_Archive_Database v 4.0

    Steve Dietz in Database Aesthetics edited by Victoria Vesna 2007 In 1968, in a report to the Rockefeller Foundation during a residency at SUNY Stony Brook, Nam June Paik argued that 97 percent of all electronic music was not recorded and that “a simple measure would solve the whole problem. An information center for unpublished…

  • Free Software on the Surface, Behind the Screen and in a Cultural Kaleidoscope: X-Devian.

    The New Technologies To The People® System By Jacob Lillemose In 1999, when the art and technology festival Ars Electronica awarded The Golden Nica, first prize in the ”.net” category, to the programmer Linus Torvalds for his development of the Linux operating system, it was pointing in general to the relationship between free software and…

  • The Aesthetic Interface

    May 2007 9-11 May Conference 11-13 May Exhibition, Workshops Locations: IT-Huset, IT-Parken, Aarhus Universitet & Aarhus Kunstbygning, Denmark Information about Aarhus here. Map of IT-Parken/IT-City here (the conference takes place in building 5510) Conference poster Advance programme (short version) Advance programme (long version with abstracts and bios) The interface is the primary cultural form of…

  • Who talks about art today?

    documenta 12 magazines, Zehar Who talks about art today?-Daniel García Andujar When we considered organising a debate on the teaching of art, on the one hand we wanted to include the “educational memory” built up at Arteleku which, like a “rolling stone”, seemed to us to be “alive” and, on the other, we wished to…

  • Art’s price

    By Daniel G. Andujar* Artists Rights Artecontexto, winter 2006 In the last few years, copyright has become a controversial issue. On the one hand, current information and communication technologies have generated a new social reality in which both old situations and new sceneries coexist. Undoubtedly, these transformations have also produced a crisis on the prevailing…

  • 404 Object not found: Symposium

    404 Object not found Symposium @Art Center Nabi 1. Date: Oct. 20, 2006 (Fri) 13:00 2. Venue: http://www.404objectnotfound.net Related Images:

  • Armed citizen

    1998/2006 Website with linked images www.irational.org/tttp/Crypto/armed1.html Presented in the exhibition with large-format DVD slide projection and Folder Presented in the exhibition as an upgrade of almost 100 images, the internet project Armed Citizen shows a series of 17 small arms. No information is given on their origins. Who owns them? Are they being used as…

  • Language (property)

    1997 Website with trademarked sentences linked with URLs www.irational.org/tttp/TM/trademark.html Presented in the exhibition as wall installation Daniel García Andújar – the Spanish media artist better known by his company name Technologies To The People — almost ten years ago created with Language (property) a work addressing the increasing privatization and commodification of language. A plain…

  • Postcapital

     by Raquel Herrera Ferrer For someone who was “born” in terms of cultural awareness long after The Wall fell (I still remember when the pop music magazine I used to read would distribute a “free piece of the wall” with an “authenticity certificate” among its readers), the feeling of visiting Postcapital exhibition, a physical and…

  • e-sevilla.org

    Kafka’s novels introduce us to creatures defined as “helpers”. They do not, however, appear to be in any state to help. They understand nothing, they have no “tackle”, they do nothing more than play childish, silly pranks, they are annoying and even at times brazen and lascivious. In aspect, they are so similar that they…