Mary Jo Aagerstoun on Mon, 3 Dec 2001 22:49:26 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: [oldboys] Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> - call for submissions |
Kind of odd that a "piracy" project would copyright contributors???? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mary Jo Aagerstoun University of Maryland at College Park mjaag@wam.umd.edu www.artwomen.org phone:(202)234-6038 fax:(202)332-1479 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Cornelia Sollfrank wrote: > Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> > Online Exhibition > http://kop.adac.com.tw > > Acer Digital Art Center, Taiwan > Joint Curation: Shu Lea Cheang, Armin Medosch, Yukiko Shikata > Pilot launch: december , 2001 > Onsite exhibition: March, ArtFuture2002 > > Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> is an online, open work space which explores > piracy as the net's ultimate art form. Hosted by the Acer Digital Art > Center [ADAC] in Taiwan as part of ArtFuture 2002, [KOP] will include > links, objects, ideas, software, commissioned artists' projects, > critical writing and online streaming media events. The exhibition > will launch a pilot website in December 2001, and during the > following three months the project's curators will begin a process of > commissioning projects and written work. While remaining an online > exhibition, the totality of the workspace will be presented on site > in ArtFuture 2002, to be held in Taiwan in March. An edition of all > works commissioned will be kept on the ADAC server as an open-ended > online exhibition, whilst artists and authors will remain sole > copyright owners of their works. > > With the increasing shift towards an immaterial or 'weightless' > economy, the concept of intellectual property rights has become one > of the key battle lines of our times. IP is at the core of big > industries from IT (including hardware and software) to entertainment > (music, film and books) to pharmaceuticals and biotech. A handful of > high profile cases such as Napster, DeCSS (DVD content encryption > system), SDMI and the Russian eBook hacker recently arrested in the > US have highlighted this battle. > > The idea that IP rights should be rigidly enforced around the world > through patent and anti-piracy laws is hotly contested by a growing > alliance of researchers, open source developers, crackers and > hackers, artists and intellectuals. The patent law applied on plants, > seeds and other natural resources is further contested as biopiracy > by environmentalists. The purpose of Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> is to > consider the law and order provisions surrounding intellectual > property in the context of geographical and cultural borders, and to > examine the changes and challenges presented by information > technology. > > The concept of intellectual property rights has no history in Asia. > The recent show destruction of millions of pirated CDs and DVDs in > China, a preliminary to the country's entry into the WTO, does not > change the fact that much of the Asian continent is still operating > completely on its own terms. The burst bubble of dot-commerce in the > early 21st century has plunged Taiwan and Asia's electronic supply > industries into recession, keeping the divide between Western and > Eastern economies as wide as ever. The Kingdom of Piracy will > consider this digital divide, and its sustaining strategies, from a > global perspective. Theorist Arthur Kroker speculated in 1994 about > 'digital abundance', imagining Taiwan as a tetra-gigabyte data > heaven, 'the largest data storage dump in the virtual world' > (ctheory.net). <KOP> envisions a virtual free state outside of > geography, time, corporate power and sovereignty; a decentralised, > fragmented, immanent entity in which everyone can be an autonomous > agent. > > The Kingdom of Piracy is everywhere: on the fringes and in the > mainstream high-tech economies, from Asia to Eastern Europe to the > data havens of Sealand and hackers' garages in Silicon Valley. The > digital commons is bathing in millions of MP3s and an endless supply > of warez. Codes for appropriation, cut-and-paste, replication, > sampling and remixing have long been established as artistic > practice. <KOP> challenges artists, writers and practitioners to use > these techniques to question, contribute to, analyse and otherwise > address this growing Kingdom. It also asks them to become intimately > involved in the processes of the Kingdom itself, a place in which all > productions are part of an innately collaborative, derivative and > intimately interconnected environment of intellectual 'properties'. > > Sponsored by Taiwan's Acer Group and hosted by Acer's Digital Art > Center server, Kingdom of Piracy invites allied crews of crackers and > artists to plug into the supply lines of digital abundance. The > <KOP>site will be an active public sphere for global data > trafficking, descrambling and jamming. Commissioned works are > encouraged to engage in acts of piracy for the causes of intellectual > enhancement and poetic intervention. > > :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > :::::"A smart artist makes the machine do the work"::::::::::::::::::::::: > ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::: > :::::::::::::::::::::: [net.art generator]: http://www.obn.org/generator : > :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > :Cornelia Sollfrank | Rutschbahn 37 | 20146 Hamburg | Germany :::::::::::: > ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::+49-(0)40-4104937:::mobile:+49-(0)173-6173348: > > > > > ** distributed via <oldboys list>: no commercial use without permission > ** <oldboys list> is an unmoderated mailing list for global cyberfeminism > ** to remove your address from the list, send a message to: > <oldboys-unsubscribe-xy=domain.topleveldomain@lists.ccc.de> > ** more info: send mail to: oldboys-info@lists.ccc.de and/or <oldboys-faq@lists.ccc.de> > ** archive: http://www.nettime.org/oldboys > ** contact: oldboys-owner@lists.ccc.de > ** www.obn.org > > > ** distributed via <oldboys list>: no commercial use without permission ** <oldboys list> is an unmoderated mailing list for global cyberfeminism ** to remove your address from the list, send a message to: <oldboys-unsubscribe-xy=domain.topleveldomain@lists.ccc.de> ** more info: send mail to: oldboys-info@lists.ccc.de and/or <oldboys-faq@lists.ccc.de> ** archive: http://www.nettime.org/oldboys ** contact: oldboys-owner@lists.ccc.de ** www.obn.org