DEMOCRATICEMOS LA DEMOCRACIA
Nuevo vuelo Barcelona-Badalona
Domingo 22 mayo 2011, 13.00-14.00 horas

May 202011
 


Ver a vuelo de pájaro Barcelona en un mapa más grande

Este proyecto requiere participación.

“La ligera paloma, que siente la resistencia del aire que surca al volar libremente, podría imaginarse que volaría mucho mejor aún en un espacio vacío”
Immanuel Kant, Crítica de la razón pura (1787)

Tomando la metáfora de Kant, podríamos decir que los procesos de participación permiten volar a la democracia, aunque si se truncan o se pervierten, el sistema entero puede estrellarse o no levantar vuelo hacia ningún destino.

A vuelo de pájaro, es un evento participativo propuesto por el artista DANIEL G. ANDÚJAR (Almoradí, , 1966), quién iniciará un vuelo publicitario el domingo 22 de mayo de 13:00 a 14:00 horas.
El itinerario arrancará desde La Barceloneta, recorriendo el litoral barcelonés hasta las playas de Badalona.

Si estás en uno de estos lugares, el día indicado, puedes participar en el proyecto enviando cualquier tipo de documentación audiovisual del itinerario (y entorno) del vuelo.
Tus grabaciones, filmaciones y fotografías, realizadas mediante el dispositivo que prefieras (cámaras, teléfonos móviles, vídeos, equipos de sonido, etc.) serán recogidas en la página web de la propuesta y construirán el fondo documental del vuelo.

El cielo también tiene sus plazas.

Enviar material:
participo@localizacion.org

Twitter:
#avuelodepajaro

http://localizacion.org
Flyer Democraticemos la Democracia Barcelona

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Law and access to culture in the information society: questions and legal challenges

May 062011
 

This seminar aims to provide a framework for reflection and discussion about intellectual property rights and their impact in promoting access to culture. With the participation of workers from different sectors of the intellectual property field, from copyright management companies representatives to use defenders of Creative Commons Licenses. The seminar is organised in five round tables, preceded by a presentation, and followed by a closing session, which will outline the conclusions of the day.
The initiative is related to the project Combined Arts (A Place for Education, and Research) of , which comprises the digitalization of documentation related to the publications, the Collection and the Fundació , with the aim of making it available to the public.

Programme
10:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Coffee and reception

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Law and access to culture in the information society: questions and legal challenges
Laurence Rassel, Director of Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Dídac Martínez, Head of University Services, UPC.
Manuel Martínez Ribas, lawyer of id law partners (BGMA)

11:00 – 12:30 a.m.
Access and use of cultural digital archives: principles and conditions
Moderator: Laurence Rassel, Director of Fundació Antoni Tàpies

Prodromos Tsiavos, representative of the Communia network and Head of the Creative Commons project in England, Wales and Greece
Marià Hispano, archivist of Dos Punts Documentació i Cultura
Daniel Solà, designer and computer systems director, and José Ribas, managing director, of the magazine Ajoblanco
Daniel G. Andújar, artist, Vice president of Associació d’Artistes Visuals de Catalunya (AAVC) Continue reading »

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Democraticemos la Democracia. Daniel G. Andújar. 1 Mayo 2011

May 042011
 

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Post_Cyber-Communism and the Holes in the Pavement (v0.2.0.1)

Mar 042011
 

EXTRACTS from the READER 01
1989–2001

Daniel García Andújar describes the condition and the period after the “fall of the Berlin Wall” as an aspect of post-capitalism, rather than of post-communism. That condition, the period covered in Andújar’s project “Postcapital. Archive 1989-2001” also features the advance in information technologies and the phenomenon of the Internet.

When the students began ripping of the paving stones to throw them to the police during the events of May 1968 in Paris, they realized the yellow sand underneath the paving stones; the cobblestones. And when they also turned on the water pumps, the sand got wet. Yes, this was the “beach”. The beach of freedom, covered up by the pavement of the modern civilization of property and control. The “beach” was the “another world”, ”under the paving stones”.

In his 1998 essay “Cyber-communism”, Richard Barbrook stated “the Americans are superseding capitalism in cyberspace”. This was also the time Andújar describes as an aspect of post-capitalism. According to Barbrook, the Americans were having a different experience than that of capitalism in their daily Internet practice. This experience, which he relates to that of communism, was a consequence, an aspect of capitalism. According to Barbrook, it was capitalism itself which made the “digerati” a powerful class with high salaries, and it was the digerati who developed the information technologies, the Internet and the idea of free/open source software, as well as many other possibilities that enabled the individuals to “supersede” capitalism in “cyberspace”. Just like the scenario Karl Marx proposed for the end of the capitalism: “At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or — this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms — with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.”  Continue reading »

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A Castle in Ruins. Decoding the Empire

Feb 282011
 

Daniel G. Andújar

A HISTORY
The Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial (the Monastery of El Escorial), as you will know, is a large building complex (a palace, the monastery itself, a museum and a library) set in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, a town 45km northwest of Madrid, in the Region of Madrid (Spain). The name El Escorial owes its name to the ancient slag (“escoria” in Spanish) deposits left by an ironworks in a village near the place where this group of buildings was erected -upon the orders of king Philip II- to commemorate Spain’s victory in the battle of St Quentin on the 10th of August, 1557, against the troops of King Henry II of France. Furthermore, it would serve as a burial place for the remains of Philip II’s parents, Emperor Charles I and Isabella of Portugal, as well as his own and those of his descendants. The building’s floor plan and its towers are reminiscent of the shape of a grill, which has led to the claim that it was built in this way in order to pay homage to St Lawrence, who was martyred in Rome by being grilled on a gridiron, and whose saint’s day is celebrated on the 10th of August, the day of the Battle of St Quentin; hence the name of the building complex, San Lorenzo, and the town which emerged around it. Prestige and power were built on slag, commemorating victory in battle and honouring a martyred saint. In addition, St Lawrence had been one of the deacons of Rome, in charge of the administration of Church goods. For this duty, he is regarded as one of the first archivists and treasurers of the Church and was made the patron saint of librarians. All of this gives rise to a series of linked metaphors which would inspire any self-respecting artist. Continue reading »

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Net-Capital /Post-Capital: The Istanbul Node

Feb 252011
 

EXTRACTS from the READER 01
1989–2001

1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall and 2001, September 11… These watershed Daniel G. Andújar chooses for his network-based archive-process installation signify a paradigm shift: the paradigm shift from scale economies to capacity economies, industrial production to flexible network production, physical power to power, the nation state to transnational Empire, a unipolar world to a multipolar one, de-centralized and distributed all-encompassing net-world: This is a paradigm coined by the most recent global crisis: Global Network Capitalism…

Andújar’s choice of dates also heralds what’s beyond this paradigm. The fall of both the Wall and the Twin Towers indicate there is an “after” to capitalism. This potential future ironically feeds off the “network” concept. Because at its core, the concept of “network capitalism” embodies an antagonistic dichotomy. The network topology undermines the foundations of capitalism. The process of capitalist accumulation and profit now depends upon co-operations established online, collaborative intangible labor, innovation networks, and the development of knowledge production, access, dissemination, that is to say the process of creating surplus value through open, continuous, horizontally coordinated networks. Network means co-operation and sharing, whereas capitalism is the product of an instrumental reason dominated by competition. Continue reading »

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On Archives and Networks

Feb 102011
 

EXTRACTS from the READER 01
. 1989–2001

Turkey has been going through incredibly rapid and immense social, political, and cultural changes since the shift to neo-liberal economy in the beginning of the 80’s. While we have been simply going through these changes, we have neither been able to record them nor have been aware of their speed. Our lives have been transformed. To slow down the pace of these changes and to visualize such a data would enable us to understand and to confront the details that lie behind the reasons for these changes and their effects on us.

Today, media collects and distributes images for us with immense speed and magnitude. We are surrounded by these images; and more than ever, all communication technologies -as efficient apparatus of late capitalism- infuse our lives with vast attacks of images. Nevertheless, we have also learned from the same sources that the meaning of any image is dependent upon the context. It is not only the images, but also the ideologies and realities behind the images that are being created for us.

In this respect, “Postcapital” archive developed by Daniel García Andújar ironically shoots back with the same gun by detecting lapses in our perception and explanation of political, cultural, economic, social, and even technological conditions and realities. He indexes our cognitive mechanisms. Andújar’s project strives to make sensible connections between mediated images of an immense and chaotic pile. His intention is building a system that helps the viewer/user to correlate incidents of certain periods from different time slates of a decade via multidirectional links. Continue reading »

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WIKILEAKS/WIKIREBELS. ¿La Glasnost de nuestra época?

Jan 112011
 

Fuera de programa 2011
19 enero 2011
19 h – Proyección del documental “WIKIREBELS”, 50’, Bosse Lindquist y Jesper Huor, 2010, Suecia

Los periodistas Bosse Lindquist y Jesper Huor siguieron a Julian Assange durante más de seis meses, realizaron entrevistas y recopilaron información con la que construyeron este documental en el que podemos conocer cómo se creó la organización , cuáles son sus objetivos, cuál es su entramado interno en la actualidad y cómo sus dos principales impulsores, Julian Assange y Daniel Domscheit-Berg, se han separado por discrepancias en la forma de actuación. Actualmente Daniel Domscheit-Berg ha formado Openleaks.org.

La proyección será presentada por Jesper Huor.

20 h – Debate con Daniel G. Andújar (artista, fundador de [TTTP], www.irational.org), Jesper Huor (periodista y coautor del documental) y Patrice Riemens (geógrafo, promotor del software libre y miembro de www.waag.org), que tienen diferentes posiciones, tanto en su opinión como en su actuación y situación, ante este fenómeno. Continue reading »

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The Art of Not Being Governed Like That

Nov 282010
 

November 28, 2010 – January 9, 2011

An exhibition by
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart

In conjunction with
Re-Designing the East. Political Design in Asia und Europe / In Charge. The Role of Political Designers in Transformation

Idea und conception
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With contributions by
NOH Suntag, Daniel García Andújar, Dan Perjovschi and others
The The Art of Not Being Governed Like That, refering in its title to Michel Foucualt, is an independent project while simultaneously comprising part of the Re-Designing the East: Political Design in Asia and Europe. Continue reading »

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The Archivist’s Impatience, Curated by Shaheen Merali

Nov 142010
 

The Archivist’s Impatience is a series of installations and works by artists Daniel G. Andújar , Pablo Bartholomew, Leila Pazooki and Jean-Gabriel Périot, that constitute a collective response to the slow, but ever growing, relationship to media and the erosion of values which followed the global upheavals after the Second World War and, particularly its continuing effects in the second half of the twentieth-century.

Drawing on … various archival material and closely examining the effects of change, the artists, as members of the community, have reconfigured the material to address aspects that they find important, towards allowing a better understanding of the role of images and ideas in the world. The is curated by . This is the third in a spate of few years by the curator Shaheen Merali in , following the inaugural at the BMB Gallery, The Dark Sciences of Five Continents, which had followed on the heels of Everywhere is War (and rumours of War) at Bodhi Mumbai.

THE LOFT

Lower Parel

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