AltArt Foundation: Bare Share. Culture of File Sharing in Romania (2007)

“The exhibition contained the works of largely anonymous artists and some of the best known – active in the digital space. The territory researched is the DC++-based neighborhood networks – providers of an endemic culture where the act of sharing is the prototypical contract of participating in this culture. Sharing while not expecting immediate gratification make neighborhood networks complex gift economies – where the community becomes an entity, the real gifting partner – playing the role of the donor and recipient in the same time.

This ideology of exchange – regardless of legal issues or moral concerns – builds a subculture of consumption that is maintained through giving. Gifting becomes a tool for the collapse of the permission-culture-based capitalist market hegemony while it is serving as an alternative consumption activity at the electronic frontier.”

Curators: Istvan Szakáts, Stefan Tiron
Project by AltArt Foundation

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AltArt Foundation: E-Tribal Art (2009)

The project brings together 12 international artists to test new ways of reaching electronic tribes with their work.

Editors: Alina Suatean, Corina Bucea
Curators: István Szakáts, Thomas Dumke
Project manager: Rarita Zbranca
Project by AltArt Foundation, Cluj, and British Council
Partners: c6.org, European Alternatives, GMT+2 Foundation, InterSpace
Funded by Romanian Cultural Institute through Cantemir Programme.

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Hans van Maanen: How to Study Art Worlds: On the Societal Functioning of Aesthetic Values (2009)

“This study brings together the organisational side of the world of the arts and the understanding of the many functions art fulfills in our culture. The author sets out to establish how the organisation of art worlds serves the functioning of the arts in society. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which presents a comparative study of approaches to the art world as practiced by Dickie, Becker, Bourdieu, Heinich, and Luhmann, among others. The second part focuses on the philosophical debates concerning ‘aesthetic experience’. Besides Kant, scholars such as Gadamer, Foster, Shustermann, Schaeffer and Carroll come to the fore. In the third part, the author traces the consequences of these theoretical approaches for the organization of art world practices.”

Publisher Amsterdam University Press, 2009
Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 License
ISBN 9089641521, 9789089641526
311 pages

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OAPEN

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