A User’s Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible (2011)
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This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It’s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht’s words to heart: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements.
Produced by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, London, December 2010
This version coordinated by Minor Compositions, May 2011
ISBN 978-1-57027-218-9
62 pages
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e-G8 Forum report (2011)
Filed under report | Tags: · business, economy, education, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, internet, open government, politics, society, technology, web 2.0
“Fittingly, this e-book is a virtual incarnation of an event whose physical existence was fleeting, but whose impact will endure. Opened on May 24, 2011 in Paris by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the e-G8 Forum gathered together the finest minds and most skillful operators of the Internet for just two days. But the Forum’s effect as a catalyst—on participants, on the G8 Summit that succeeded it, and on public policy by governments worldwide—was, and will continue to be, far more meaningful.
The Forum was an intense and ambitious gathering of 1500 participants from more than 30 countries. It culminated in a delegation to the G8 Summit of Heads and State and governments, where questions regarding
the Internet were on the agenda for the first time in the history of international summit meetings. The delegation was led by Maurice Lévy, Chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe, and comprised Hiroski Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten; Yuri Milner, CEO of Digital Sky Technologies; Stéphane Richard, CEO of France Telecom-Orange; Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google; and Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook.” (from Preface)
Edited by Ruth Marshall
Produced by PublicisLive
Published in June 2011
76 pages
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Hlavajova, Winder, Choi (eds.): On Knowledge Production: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, contemporary art, education, knowledge economy, knowledge production, neoliberalism
“On Knowledge Production presents a selection of newly commissioned and anthologized texts by a diverse group of artists, art historians, philosophers, and theorists who have engaged with thinking critically about the field of art as a site for the production of knowledge. The body of contributions to this reader comprise a series of critical inquires, thought experiments, documents of practice, and tentative propositions about the status of producing knowledge in contemporary art, which vary widely in perspective, approach, and form. This selection unfolds different entry points and layers, unwrapping the (often) uncritically adopted notion of “art producing knowledge” and casting diverse views on the context, meaning, and potential of this understanding of art practices today.”
With contributions by Matthew Buckingham, Copenhagen Free University, Critical Art Ensemble, Clémentine Deliss, Joachim Koester, Sven Lütticken, Eva Meyer & Eran Schaerf, Marion von Osten, Alejandro del Pino Velasco/Sarat Maharaj, Irit Rogoff, Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Ashley Hunt, and Simon Sheikh.
Edited by Maria Hlavajova, Jill Winder, and Binna Choi
Publisher BAK-basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, and Revolver, Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
ISBN 9789077288115 (BAK), 9783865884664 (Revolver)
223 pages
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