<nettime> WJ-Spots Brussels: History and Future of Artistic Creation on the Internet, 3 December 2011

[Yves Bernard <yb@imal.org>]

More than 15 years after the beginnings of net 
art, the Internet has become the most ubiquitous 
participative global media of the 21st century; a 
huge territory between normalisation, commerce, 
hope and utopia. Is the Internet a disenchanted 
space for artists and creative people or is there 
a future for online arts and critical creative 
actions? If so, what are their possible forms and 
directions?

This is what WJ-Spots Brussels proposes to 
investigate by gathering an international panel 
of some of the most influential net artists, 
theorists, online activists and digital cultures 
thinkers who will share their views on the past 
and future of artistic creation on the Internet

An immersive performance of live websurfing and speeches
The format of this event will be far away from a 
usual conference: during the speeches, webjays 
Isabelle Arvers and Anne Laforêt using the 
WJ-Spots platform of Anne Roquigny will be 
surfing live through a list of representative 
websites selected by the speaker. A multi-screen 
system is used to display those pages around the 
audience.

The proceedings of the WJ-Spots Brussels event 
will be published in early 2012 as a special 
edition of the MCD magazine, and as video 
documents made available on the Digitalarti and 
iMAL websites.

With: Raphaël Bastide & Yannick Antoine (FR/BE, 
artists), Michel Bauwens (BE, p2p2foundation), 
Josephine Bosma (NL, journalist and critic), 
Heath Bunting (UK, artist), Paolo Cirio (IT, 
artist), Florian Cramer (NL, Professor at Piet 
Zwart Institute), Régine Debatty (BE, 
we-make-money-not-art, journalist and critic), 
Constant Dullaart (NL, artist), Jodi (BE/NL, 
artists), Olia Lialina (RE/DE, artist), 
Alessandro Ludovico (IT, neural.it), Nicolas 
Malevé (BE, Constantvzw), Miltos Manetas (GR, 
artist), Julian Oliver (NZ/DE, artist), Domenico 
Quaranta (IT, contemporary art critic and 
curator), Rafael Rozendaal (NL, artist), 
Sakrowski (DE, curatingYouTube), Gordan Savicic 
(AT, artist).

Practical info
Saturday 3 December 2012, 15:00 - 23:00
iMAL, Brussels
Free entrance!
Bar open. Food and drinks available.

Thanks to register online if you wish to attend this event!
More info: www.imal.org

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Yves Bernard    yb@imal.org
asbl iMAL vzw
Center for Digital Cultures and Technology
30 Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai 30
1080 Bruxelles/Brussel
tel 32 2 410 30 93

http://www.imal.org
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