Copying as a Means for Creativity?
Shared Digital Futures
‘Chinese Creativities’ and Plagiarism on the Chinese Bestseller Market
The realm of contemporary popular Chinese literature offers rich examples to examine closely how works refer to or make use of extant works. The presentation focuses on the works of two extremely popular young authors Han Han and Guo Jingming, the 2004 bestseller Wolf’s Totem by Jiang Rong, that won international fame through the Man Asian Literary Prize, as well as the sequels to the Harry Potter series written by Chinese authors. To understand these phenomena, it is necessary to look beyond legal and moral implications usually associated with copyright infringement. Only through such a broad approach can we understand these creative processes – and the social, economic and cultural circumstances in which literary texts are being produced.
Shared Digital Futures
‘Chinese Creativities’ and Plagiarism on the Chinese Bestseller Market
The realm of contemporary popular Chinese literature offers rich examples to examine closely how works refer to or make use of extant works. The presentation focuses on the works of two extremely popular young authors Han Han and Guo Jingming, the 2004 bestseller Wolf’s Totem by Jiang Rong, that won international fame through the Man Asian Literary Prize, as well as the sequels to the Harry Potter series written by Chinese authors. To understand these phenomena, it is necessary to look beyond legal and moral implications usually associated with copyright infringement. Only through such a broad approach can we understand these creative processes – and the social, economic and cultural circumstances in which literary texts are being produced.
The Challenges of Sustaining a Cultural Society with Multiple Contributors
Shared Digital Futures
One of the greatly positive effects of the digital world is that many more people engage in creative and expressive activities and become able and willing to develop new capabilities to this effect. This positive development confronts us with great economic and social challenges. They have been long hidden by the focus of the cultural industry of the past on eradicating file sharing between individuals. It is time to take the real challenges in our hands and revisit the contribution of various schemes to the sustainability and development of digital culture. The talk will discuss in particular voluntary and statutory resource pooling schemes
Shared Digital Futures
One of the greatly positive effects of the digital world is that many more people engage in creative and expressive activities and become able and willing to develop new capabilities to this effect. This positive development confronts us with great economic and social challenges. They have been long hidden by the focus of the cultural industry of the past on eradicating file sharing between individuals. It is time to take the real challenges in our hands and revisit the contribution of various schemes to the sustainability and development of digital culture. The talk will discuss in particular voluntary and statutory resource pooling schemes
Die Neuen Zugänge zu Kultur
World-Information Institute
Diskussionsveranstaltung zu: "Österreichische Kulturinstitutionen und ihre Zukunftsperspektiven"
Mit: Marc Sands, Director of Media and Audiences, Tate London / Laurence Rassel, Director Fondation Antoni Tapies, Barcelona / Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Direktor MAK Wien / Gabriele Fröschl, Österreichische Mediathek / Bettina Kann, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Moderiert von Felix Stalder
World-Information Institute
Diskussionsveranstaltung zu: "Österreichische Kulturinstitutionen und ihre Zukunftsperspektiven"
Mit: Marc Sands, Director of Media and Audiences, Tate London / Laurence Rassel, Director Fondation Antoni Tapies, Barcelona / Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Direktor MAK Wien / Gabriele Fröschl, Österreichische Mediathek / Bettina Kann, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Moderiert von Felix Stalder
Die Neuen Zugänge zu Kultur - Begrüssung
World-Information Institute
Eröffnung der Diskussion durch Sektionschef Dr. Michael P. Franz, Leiter der Sektion Kultur des Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur und Konrad Becker.
World-Information Institute
Eröffnung der Diskussion durch Sektionschef Dr. Michael P. Franz, Leiter der Sektion Kultur des Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur und Konrad Becker.
Politics of Free Culture
CIMPA
Politics of Free Culture started from a clear consensus on the panel, that the current intellectual property regime had been outdated for quite some time and was now a severe blockage to cultural production and access, and that substantial changes had become inevitable. The panelists brought in a broad range of perspectives: from political activism to media politics and cultural policy, and to perspectives mainly focusing on economic and juridical concerns.
Panel discussion with:
Konrad Becker, World-Information Institute, Vienna
Eric Kluitenberg, Kennisland, De Balie, Amsterdam
Simona Levi, Conservas, Free Culture Forum, Barcelona
Felix Stalder, World-Information Institute, Zürich
Prodromos Tsiavos, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
Moderation: Lena Doppel
CIMPA
Politics of Free Culture started from a clear consensus on the panel, that the current intellectual property regime had been outdated for quite some time and was now a severe blockage to cultural production and access, and that substantial changes had become inevitable. The panelists brought in a broad range of perspectives: from political activism to media politics and cultural policy, and to perspectives mainly focusing on economic and juridical concerns.
Panel discussion with:
Konrad Becker, World-Information Institute, Vienna
Eric Kluitenberg, Kennisland, De Balie, Amsterdam
Simona Levi, Conservas, Free Culture Forum, Barcelona
Felix Stalder, World-Information Institute, Zürich
Prodromos Tsiavos, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
Moderation: Lena Doppel
Interview with Philippe Agrain
World-Information Institute
Philippe Agrain speaks in this interview about a turning point in the information ecology and the "war on sharing". Agrain is interested in the questions of an information continuum through cultural and intellectual exchange emphasizes that the internet changed the artist-user relation. Seeing Social Rights as more important than Copyrights he discusses a digital flatrate system and other models of financing cultural production . According to Agrain it is also more important to help produce cultural products through upfront financing less than through renumeration afterwards. Regreting the overall rise of control society instead of open exchange he addresses the gap between winning the intellectual arguments on a reform of intellectual property rights and the political realities.
World-Information Institute
Philippe Agrain speaks in this interview about a turning point in the information ecology and the "war on sharing". Agrain is interested in the questions of an information continuum through cultural and intellectual exchange emphasizes that the internet changed the artist-user relation. Seeing Social Rights as more important than Copyrights he discusses a digital flatrate system and other models of financing cultural production . According to Agrain it is also more important to help produce cultural products through upfront financing less than through renumeration afterwards. Regreting the overall rise of control society instead of open exchange he addresses the gap between winning the intellectual arguments on a reform of intellectual property rights and the political realities.
ZKW KF45 on TV
Die politische Kuhentführung der Widerstandsgruppe rund um Public Netbase im Oesterreichischen Fernsehen
Die politische Kuhentführung der Widerstandsgruppe rund um Public Netbase im Oesterreichischen Fernsehen
Nach dem Ende der Politik- Diskussion mit: Andrea Roedig, Monika Mokre, Corinna Milborn, Elisabeth Mayerhofer und Konrad Becker Moderation: Lisa Mayr
Nach dem Ende der Politik
World-Information Institute / IG Kultur Österreich - Diskussion:
Machtausübung erfolgt in modernen Gesellschaften vorwiegend über undurchschaubare Netzwerke von Konventionen, Regeln, interpersonellen Beziehungen und internalisierter Kontrolle. Das macht eine breite Debatte über Kultur als konstitutives Element sozialer Beziehungen und politischer Gemeinschaften notwendig.
Nach dem Ende der Politik
World-Information Institute / IG Kultur Österreich - Diskussion:
Machtausübung erfolgt in modernen Gesellschaften vorwiegend über undurchschaubare Netzwerke von Konventionen, Regeln, interpersonellen Beziehungen und internalisierter Kontrolle. Das macht eine breite Debatte über Kultur als konstitutives Element sozialer Beziehungen und politischer Gemeinschaften notwendig.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Part II
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Steve Kurtz Statement
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Steve Kurtz is one of five tactical media practitioners who constitute the Critical Art Ensemble group, formed in 1987.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Steve Kurtz is one of five tactical media practitioners who constitute the Critical Art Ensemble group, formed in 1987.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Claire Pentecost Statement
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Claire Pentecost is a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and contributor to the Continental Drift blog about globalization.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Claire Pentecost is a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and contributor to the Continental Drift blog about globalization.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Andreas Stadler Statement
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Andreas Stadler is the director of the Austrian Cultural Center in New York.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Andreas Stadler is the director of the Austrian Cultural Center in New York.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Felix Stalder Statement
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Felix Stalder is a writer and researcher in the fields of culture, technology, and politics.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Felix Stalder is a writer and researcher in the fields of culture, technology, and politics.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Amanda McDonald Crowley Statement
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Amanda McDonald Crowley is the curator of the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Amanda McDonald Crowley is the curator of the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Peter Lamborn Wilson Statement
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Peter Lamborn Wilson is a poet and scholar of Sufism and Western Hermeticism.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Peter Lamborn Wilson is a poet and scholar of Sufism and Western Hermeticism.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Ted Byfield Statement
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Ted Byfield is a moderator of the nettime mailing lists, a group of digital discussion groups about media arts and culture.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Ted Byfield is a moderator of the nettime mailing lists, a group of digital discussion groups about media arts and culture.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Franco Berardi Statement
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Franco Berardi is a writer, media theorist, and media activist.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Franco Berardi is a writer, media theorist, and media activist.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Jim Fleming Statement
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Jim Fleming is the editor and publisher of books on radical media, politics, and the arts at Autonomedia.
Critical Strategies in Art and Media discussion Sept 2009, NYC
Critical Studies in Art and Media was a one-day conference on the current state of cultural practices in art, technology, and activism. The roundtable discussion invited speakers from the fields of new media, digital theory, art, and political activism to reflect on strategies for creating a sustainable convergence of their areas of interest in order to foster social alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism.
Jim Fleming is the editor and publisher of books on radical media, politics, and the arts at Autonomedia.
FUTURE NON STOP
...is a semantically connected content repository, which contains documents on 15 years of new practices in art and media.Based on an extensive archive going back to 1994 the site collects materials that serve as important reference documents in the field of new media, politics, and art and makes them accessible to a wider public. Instead of a hierarchically structured archive an experimental navigation interface opens up new ways to explore large information nodes. Documents are associated by a range of tag that allow to filter relevance according to topics and issue relations. ASCR, short for Advanced Semantic Content Repository, is the open source information architecture and "editing back end" of Future Non Stop.
Future Non Stop is a project of:
Institute for New Culture Technologies/ t0.
Institute for New Culture Technolgies / t0
