REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory (2010) [Italian]
Filed under augmented book | Tags: · augmented reality, commons, cultural politics, information aesthetics, innovation, intellectual property, mashup, reenactment, remix
The reinvention of the real through critical practices of remix, mash-up, re-contextualization, reenactment
Romaeuropa FakeFactory is an act of artistic and technological hacking, a platform for global discussion and a performance that, beginning in 2009, has dealt with the themes of active, critical and creative innovation, confronting the management of cultural and technological policies related to these areas. The story begins with the opening of the Romaeuropa WebFactory, a digital art competition launched in 2008 by the Romaeuropa Foundation (Fondazione Romaeuropa) and Telecom Italia. Oppressive copyright conditions, such as the unilateral transfer of the rights to the works submitted and a ban on the use of techniques like mashup, cutup, remix but conversely giving the Romaeuropa Foundation and Telecom Italia the right to remix the works, inspired the creation of a Fake capable of becoming a point for multi-disciplinary analysis of the possibilities offered by freely available knowledge, contents and resources: a chance to reverse the logic of the competition and bring to light the contradictions, limits and implications of such a typical, reactionary cultural policy.
“Remix the world! Reinvent Reality!” is one of the principal themes that has inspired the REFF, from an act of détournement and cybersquatting – that brought to life the creation of a remix skills competition determining in 2009 a reversal of the Romaeuropa Foundation and Telecom Italia’s policy on the management of intellectual property rights – to the presentation of REFF’s instances and methodologies to the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate (Commissione Cultura del Senato della Repubblica Italiana), up to the current production of the REFF book, as a global effort to create a working business model that implements the concepts and demands expressed by the RomaEuropa FakeFactory. Supporters of the REFF are found all over the world: over 80 partners among universities, artists, academies, associations, hackers, researchers, designers, journalists, politicians, magazines, networks, activitst, art critics, architects, musicians and entrepreneurs together with all the people who share a belief that art, design and new technologies can unite towards a critical, yet positive vision of a world that can create new opportunities and new ways of being, collaborating and communicating.
English version to be published soon.
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Publisher (Fake Press)
Publisher (Derive Approdi)
Foreword by: Bruce Sterling
Edited and produced by FakePress and Derive&Approdi
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial ShareAlike 2.5 Italy.
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Sandy Fitzgerald (ed.): New Times New Models – Investigating the internal governance models and external relations of independent cultural centres in times of change (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · cultural politics, governance, independent culture, nonprofit
The book investigates the How? and Why? of independent culture in Europe. It is based on presentations given at the conference at held at TEH Member Centre Pekarna Magdalenske Mreze (Maribor, Slovenia) in January 2010, and also looks at regional case studies, current models of practice and key recommendations for the independent cultural sector.
Foreword: Gregor Kosi
Publisher: Maribor: Pekarna Magdalenske Mreze, 2010
ISBN 978-961-269-327-5
Konrad Becker, Martin Wassermair (eds.): Kampfzonen in Kunst und Medien. Texte zur Zukunft der Kulturpolitik (2008) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · creative industries, cultural politics, democracy, politics
“Kampfzonen in Kunst und Medien” ist nicht nur der erste Versuch, die national-konservativen Regierungsjahre von ÖVP und FPÖ aus einer Perspektive zu beleuchten, die als besonderer Indikator für die allgemeine Kräfteverschiebung zu Gunsten einer neoliberalen Hegemonie gewertet werden muss. Er beschreibt auch die Handlungsfelder einer künstlerischen und medialen Praxis sowie die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Kulturpolitik.
Der Sammelband unternimmt einen wichtigen Versuch zur Sichtbarmachung einer kritischen Intelligenz, deren Bedeutung für die demokratische Bestandssicherung einer öffentlichen Sphäre immer weniger Wertschätzung erfährt und daher letztlich unterzugehen droht. Angesichts fundamentaler Veränderungen von Gesellschaften auf ihrem Weg zu Informationsökonomien sind Texte zur Analyse und Artikulation einer Kulturpolitik der Zukunft jedenfalls unerlässlich.
Mit Beiträgen von Konrad Becker, Isolde Charim, Sonja Eismann, Brian Holmes, Belinda Kazeem, Daniela Koweindl, Gunnar Landsgesell, Oliver Marchart, Gerhard Marschall, Thomas Mießgang, Monika Mokre, Helmut Ploebst, Gerald Raunig, Joachim Riedl, Gerhard Ruiss, Burghart Schmidt, Georg Schöllhammer, Elisabeth Schweeger, Felix Stalder, Marlene Streeruwitz, Dagmar Travner, Thomas Trenkler, Andreas Wahl, Martin Wassermair und Irene Zavarsky.
Publisher Löcker, 2008
ISBN 3854094833, 9783854094838
Length 237 pages
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