Three hyperactive days of Post-Flux just finished with a wide spectrum of themes and topics covered. Everything has been dismantled and packed at Bozar.
Thanks to all the speakers and the participants to the workshops and the audience. Thanks to all the partners in helping making these three days.
Post-Flux triggered many conversations about the place of “digital”. Time to see how we will share some of the stories which came during the three days at Bozar.
The list of short films – haikus – programmed by Géraldine Gomez, Centre Pompidou, is on-line.
http://www.post-flux.architempo.net/site/programme/post-flux-mix-media-night/
Thenextlayer.org (TNL) was started two years ago with the aim of providing an open-content platform for collaborative research that works around notions of “open source methodologies”. It invites artists and researchers to not only share finished products such as well polished essays but to engage in an exchange of ideas at an earlier level, to share also their links and footnotes, their bibliographies, images and audio and to allow close as well as weak-link collaborations. Using the free and open source software drupal, TNL has evolved into a system defined by its users whereby the development of the platform itself is also a shared process with emergent properties. Undertaking currently a practice based PhD at Goldsmiths, Digital Studios, the work on TNL has allowed me to find a context for my work and to get close feedback from others.
The work on theoretic aspects of my PhD has led me on to a path where I need to gain an understanding of the transitions and transformations described by terms such as Post-Fordism, a term which reflects changes in the way that capitalism operates which happened over the past 30 to 40 years. Those changes were made possible by digital technologies and electronic networks, yet technology is not the sole determining factor. That same period was also characterised by the ascent of post-modern theories, the neo-liberal ideology in the political arena and the rise and collapse of financial markets. Methodological reflection led me to understand that the question of media art or digital art can not be dealt with properly if it remains isolated from those historic currents. Paradoxically, while the age of Post-Fordism saw a steady increase in the prominence of media theories, it appears to me that a more broadly integrated theory of ’media’ which takes into account the political economy is still largely absent. A new project has emerged on TNL which adresses this deficiency by working out a shared model of technopolitical paradigm change within which the question of the media is put forward, related to social struggles / agency, forms of self-organisation and other indeterministic forces.
Friday 9:43 am
Ready to meet at Bozar.
Cimatics festival is hosting the 5th Video Vortex conference. Two years after its first edition, Video Vortex returns to Brussels, this time hosted in one of the great icons of mid 20th century modern architecture: the Atomium. The past two years, the conference series – which focuses on the status and potential of the moving image on the Internet – has visited Amsterdam, Ankara and Split, growing out into an organized network of organizations and individuals. Time for an interim report, perhaps.
With: Johan Grimonprez, Elisabeth Losh, Andrew Clay, Liesbeth Huybrechts, Geert Lovink, Stefaan Decostere, …
For full program:
http://www.cimatics.com/videovortex/VideoVortexV-Brussels.pdf
Tickets and info:
http://www.cimaticsfestival.com
Organised by Cimatics;
in collaboration with KASK, Clea and Institute of Network Cultures
INTERNATIONAL MARKETPLACE FOR DIGITAL ARTS – EUROPE (IMDA) – EDITION #1
BRUSSELS 27-28 NOVEMBER 2009
Cimatics is hosting the first edition of the International Marketplace for Digital Arts – Europe (IMDA). IMDA was initially launched in 2007 within the Elektra festival in Montreal, Canada. The International Marketplace for Digital Arts is a meeting for professional networking among those active in the field of production, creation and diffusion of digital arts.
Dedicated to the presentations of festivals, art galleries, labs, artists, cultural entrepreneurs and a range of organizations and cultural institutions that operate on an international level, the IMDA offers to its participants the occasion to attend presentations of various high profile socio-cultural projects, opening a window over the huge contemporary panorama that rotates around the art and digital culture’s world.
The value of the IMDA resides in the ability of gathering the creative minds in an informal atmosphere, which not only allows the exchange of ideas and projects, but also creates the basis for the emergence of new collaborations and cultural exchange, also made possible by the international nature of the event.
Placed in the contemporary artistic scenario in which market rules often and sadly prevail to the detriment of socio-cultural aspects, the IMDA represents a unique occasion not only to stay updated on the latest news, thanks to the presentations and the promotional material offered to participants, but also the way to contribute to the development and diffusion of a collaborative and open culture, which can give birth to the emergence of a real community that may enhance the progress of digital culture that today is getting lost in the maze of a context more and more ruled by the market.
IMDA Europe is organized by Cimatics in collaboration with Elektra. With the support of Délégation du Québec, Institut de la Francophonie numérique (IFN), Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Communauté française de Belgique – Art Numérique.
Friday afternoon, Post-Flux audience will know more about DROPSTUFF
DROPSTUFF.nl is a new platform for media art and e-culture that broadcasts both artworks by professional artists and creative contributions from the public themselves LIVE on a growing network of DROPSTUFF HOTSPOTS in museums, libraries, railway stations, schools and art academies. Base camp is a ‘glass house pavilion’, a mobile AV-studio space with a gigantic 60 square meters LED screen that travels round various cities. By sending in creative expressions such as videos, games or animations to your DS_Account everyone stands the chance of having his or her work broadcast on this museum-like network.
OKNO has invited seven artists, connected by their study at the interfaculty of Artscience in Den Hague to work around the idea of a responsive environment. The idea of a responsive environment is to move away from static group exhibitions in white cube galleries and move towards making integrated installations that adapt to the space and context.They invited artists engage the OKNO space by making an instrument out of it. They interconnect ready-made modules and let them respond to impulses coming from either the environment, the visitor or other modules.
After an intense workweek at OKNO, the environment is presented to the public.6/11 19h opening
7/11 – 8/11 exhibition from 12h to 19h
With Wolfgang Bittner, Lyndsey Housden, Lars Kynde, Selena Savic, Jeroen Uyttendaele, Dewi De Vree and Rachida Ziani.
To have access to the After party of Pecha Kucha 10 and Post-Flux, just come at the Pecha Kucha Night Vol. 10 on Nov. 6th and you will receive it.
Those coming to the Mix Media Night will also get the entrance “code”.
See you next week-end at Bozar and then at JustMirano for the “After-PKN+PF”, as of 23:00 on Nov. 7th, near Place Madou.
Already, thanks to cafénumérique.be and Mirano to receive us at JustMirano.
Digital Brazil
For those speaking Brazilian or Portuguese, do have a look at http://culturadigital.br/
UM NOVO JEITO DE FAZER POLÍTICA PÚBLICA
Bem-vindo à rede social da Cultura Digital Brasileira, espaço público e aberto voltado para a formulação e a construção democrática de uma política pública de cultura digital, integrando cidadãos e insituições governamentais, estatais, da sociedade civil e do mercado.