Posted: October 28th, 2008 | Filed under: English | Tags: 2008, Inke Arns, Irational.org, Jacob Lillemose, Novi Sad, Serbia, The Wonderful World of irational.org | No Comments »
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF IRATIONAL.ORG: Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006

Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina
Dunavska 37, Novi Sad, Serbia
Curators: Inke Arns (Dortmund) and Jacob Lillemose (Kopenhagen)
Dates: 28. October – 27. November 2008. from 9-17h, during weekends from 9-14h; Museum is closed on Mondays.
Production:
New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad, http://www.kuda.org
Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, http://www.hmkv.de
Co-producers of the show:
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, http://www.msuv.org
Institute for Flexible Culture and Technologies – Napon, Novi Sad, http://www.napon.org
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Posted: October 21st, 2008 | Filed under: Srpski | Tags: 2008, Inke Arns, Irational.org, Jacob Lillemose, Novi Sad, Serbia, The Wonderful World of irational.org | No Comments »
Izložba čuvenih pionira net.arta
kustosi:Inke Arns, Jakob Lilemoze (Jacob Lillemose)
Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad
Dunavska 37, Novi Sad
28. Oktobar – 27. Novembar 2008.
Otvaranje izložbe: Utorak 28. Oktobar, u 20:00 časova
Producent izložbe:
Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad
Koproducenti izložbe :
Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Centar za nove medije_kuda.org, Novi Sad
Institut za fleksibilne kulture i tehnologije – Napon, Novi Sad
Irational je neformalna grupa šest internacionalnih net i medijskih umetnika koji su se svojevremeno okupili oko servera irational.org, kojeg je osnovao britanski net umetnik Heath Bunting 1996. Članovi Irational.org su: Daniel G. Andujar (Valensija/Španija), Rachel Baker (London/Velika Britanija), Kayle Brandon (Bristol/Velika Britanija), Heath Bunting (Bristol/Velika Britanija), Minerva Cuevas (Mexico City/Meksiko), Marcus Valentine (Bristol/Velika Britanija) Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: September 17th, 2008 | Filed under: Español | Tags: 2008, Dortmund, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Inke Arns, PHOENIX Halle, Postcapital | No Comments »
Anna Kournikova, la Sirenita y Mowgly son algunos de los personajes reinterpretados con técnicas de ‘sampleado’, copia, apropiación y plagio

R. B. / S. C. 18/09/2008
Ciberpaís
Año 2067, los diarios anuncian la muerte de la ex tenista y modelo Anna Kournikova eliminada con un potente rayo láser enviado desde un satélite, por haber sido erróneamente confundida con una imitación de sí misma.
El terrible incidente ha sido posible porque, según elucubra el artista estadounidense David Rice, en el futuro las estrellas como Kournikova, patentarán su aspecto físico y se protegerán de las copias a través de un sistema vía satélite capaz de identificar y eliminar los parecidos no autorizados. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: July 8th, 2008 | Filed under: Deutsch | Tags: 2008, Dortmund, Francis Hunger, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Inke Arns, Postcapital | No Comments »
Arbeit 2.0 Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System
Die Ausstellung im Hartware MedienKunstVerein beschäftigt sich mit dem wandelnden Begriff der Arbeit in einer postindustriellen Gesellschaft. Vom 19. Juli bis zum 19. Oktober 2008 zeigen 25 Künstler und Künstlerinnen in Dortmund, was ihnen zum Thema Urheberrecht und Kunst eingefallen ist.
Was hat der sich wandelnde Begriff der Arbeit mit „geistigem Eigentum“ zu tun? In einer postindustriellen Gesellschaft werden nicht mehr allein materielle Güter (wie Stahl, Kohle etc.) produziert, sondern zunehmend mehr immaterielle Güter. Es gibt jedoch einen signifikanten Unterschied: Immaterialgüter wie Wissen und Informationen lassen sich verlustfrei reproduzieren. Um in einer Wertschöpfungskette funktionieren zu können, müssen diese Immaterialgüter daher in ihrer Verbreitung eingeschränkt werden – und zwar mit Hilfe des Patent-, des Urheber- und des Markenschutzrechts. All dies sind Formen „geistigen Eigentums“. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: June 17th, 2008 | Filed under: English | Tags: 2008, Copyright, Dortmund, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Inke Arns, PHOENIX Halle, Postcapital, Technologies To The People | No Comments »
Art in the Age of Intellectual Property
PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, July 19 – October 19, 2008

‘You can’t use it without my permission … I’m gonna sue your ass!’ shouts Disney’s Little Mermaid with the angry voice of a copyright lawyer in the video Gimme the Mermaid (4:49 min., 2000).
The video by Negativland and Tim Maloney, situated at the exhibition entrance, is only one of more than twenty works included in ‘Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System: Art in the Age of Intellectual Property’, an exhibition presented by Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) It is part of Arbeit 2.0 – copyright and creative work in the digital age, one of thirteen projects in Germany funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation focusing on ‘The Future of Labour.’ In the framework of Arbeit 2.0, HMKV – together with the Berlin-based collaborative partner iRights.info/mikro e.V. – explores the relationships between creative work, intellectual property law, and technology (www.iRights.info). Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: September 23rd, 2006 | Filed under: English | Tags: 1998, 2006, Armed citizen, Control, Dortmund, Germany, Hack, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Inke Arns, Irational.org, PHOENIX Halle, Politics, Public Intervention, Technologies To The People | No Comments »

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 criminal evidence? Are they perhaps murder weapons? Who does the ›armed citizen‹ of the title refer to — the police? Or a citizens’ defence group that has taken up arms? Is there some allusion to the liberal firearms laws in the United States, to bloody incidents like the amok shootings that took place in Columbine High School, Colorado, in 1999, or in the Gutenberg Gymnasium in Erfurt in 2002? Armed Citizen is difficult to pin down. But it is safe to assert that it deals with an indeterminate feeling of fear and menace, and, by association, with the growing longing for security in a world felt to be increasingly less safe. The exhibition deliberately groups Armed Citizen in a kind of »security zone« together with Heath Bunting’s CCTV and Rachel Baker and Heath Bunting’s CCTV Sabotag — further irational works pointing to the essential futility of technology — or weapons based protective measures. (Inke Arns)
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Posted: January 25th, 2006 | Filed under: English | Tags: 2006, Inke Arns, Irational.org, net.art, Technologies To The People, The Wonderful World of irational.org | No Comments »
by Inke Arns
Hardly a day goes by without some news item about the discovery of a carefully concealed crop of genetically modified maize, about liquid explosives in airplanes and bombs inside suitcases on trains, about calls for blanket video surveillance, about the global spread of avian ’flu. We wonder when the virus will reach our own part of the world, have long begun to feel the pinch of economic cutbacks in Germany, to notice the effects of climate change, and cannot help but think: Life’s harder than it used to be. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: January 22nd, 2006 | Filed under: English | Tags: 2006, Dortmunder U, Inke Arns, Irational.org, Language (property), Media Art, Technologies To The People | No Comments »
by Inke Arns (published in: Nam June Paik Award 2006, Frankfurt am Main 2006)
Almost ten years ago with Language (property), Spanish media artist Daniel Garcia Andujar, better known under his company name Technologies to the People, developed a work which addressed the increasing privatisation and commodification of language. On a simple HTML page he listed phrases which have been registered as trademarks, and with that, had become the property of their respective owners, for example, “Where do you want to go today?TM” (Microsoft), “A better return on informationTM” (SAP), “Moving at the speed of businessTM” (UPS), “What you never thought possibleTM” (Motorola). By entitling this project “Remember, language is not freeTM” Andujar anticipated the disputes concerning “intellectual property”, which emerged in the following years (visible as early as the second half of the 1990s in the fierce battles for the allocation of domain names on the world wide web). Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: June 2nd, 2000 | Filed under: English | Tags: 2000, Information Society, Inke Arns, La sociedad informacional, Street Access Machine, Technologies To The People | No Comments »
by Inke Arns, Berlin, June 2000 <inke@snafu.de>
written for Technologies to the People [d.i. Daniel Garcia Andujar], La sociedad informacional, catalogue, to be published in August 2000 [English / Spanish]
„I am not fond of manipulation, and I think you should not use it for political aims.” (1)
(Left-wing squatter in Berlin, April 2000)
In 1996-1997 together with Ute Vorkoeper we organized and curated the international exhibition project discord. sabotage of realities (2) which took place in the Kunstverein and the Kunsthaus in Hamburg. The exhibition was part of the Hamburg Week of Visual Arts 1996, partly funded by the city’s Cultural Office. Artists worldwide were invited to submit artistic concepts dealing with today’s more and more un-peaceful political and social realities. The organizers received more than 500 concepts from 31 countries. The actual exibition discord was divided into six thematic zones focussing on control (security/insecurity), news services (disinformation), everyday (alienation), border politics (walking the tightrope), state machineries (law, discipline, repression), science fiction & economy (the administration of the future) and included an international selection of 34 artistic works most of which were premiered in the exhibition, and 26 additional artistic concepts from 18 countries.
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Posted: February 11th, 1997 | Filed under: Deutsch | Tags: 1996, 1997, Hamburg, Inke Arns, iSam, Jens Rönnau, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstverein Hamburg, Technologies To The People, un-frieden, Ute Vorkoeper | No Comments »
kunstforum
Band 136, Februar – Mai 1997, Seite 363, AUSSTELLUNGEN
HAMBURG
Jens Rönnau
un-frieden. sabotage von wirklichkeiten
Kunstverein und Kunsthaus in Hamburg, 30.11.1996 – 19.1.1997
540 Künstler aus 31 Ländern der Welt waren 1996 dem Aufruf gefolgt, Konzepte zum Thema “un-frieden. sabotage von wirklichkeiten” einzureichen. Per weltweitem Internet hatten die Ausstellungskuratorinnen Ute Vorkoeper und Inke Arns für eine Beteiligung an diesem Projekt geworben, das im Rahmen der Hamburger Woche der Bildenden Kunst 1996 präsentiert wurde. Nur 34 Projekte davon wählte die Jury für jene Schau in den Räumen von Kunstverein und Kunsthaus Hamburg. Allerdings waren fast alle anderen eingereichten Konzepte den Ausstellungsbesuchern ebenfalls zugänglich: 26 in einem speziellen Konzeptraum, die übrigen in einem Archiv – “ein Ort für Entdeckungen und Vernetzungen”, so die Ausstellungsmacherinnen. Read the rest of this entry »
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