WOS 3 / Program / Panels / Free Content / Art as Anticopright Activism
Opening Speeches Opening Keynote Free Software Free Software in the Public Sector Free Software Economics Free Software & Quality Management Free Video Software Free Privacy Enhancing Technologies Open Archives I. Emulators Beyond the Unix Paradigm? Free Content CC I. Launch of Creative Commons Germany CC II. Creative Commons Summit Wikipedia and Friends Free Science I. Publishing Free Science II. Funding and Activism Art as Anticopright Activism Open Archives II. Games Globalization of Free Knowledge Cultures Globalization I. Globalization II. Internet Freedom goes East I. Internet Freedom goes East II. WSIS: Globalization of Civil Society Free Infrastructures Keynote on Peer-to-Peer Free Standards Free Wireless Networks Free Search Engines Copyrights Alternative Compensation Systems The Future of the Digital Commons Art as Anticopyright Activism Thursday, 10 June 2004, 13:00, Track 2 The panel will introduce and explain the concept of the exhibition »Public Library« which is part of WOS 3, and it will discuss the history and status quo of anticopyright art with four participating artists whose work is shown in the exhibition. Questions to be addressed are: * Why and how did the anti-copyright activism turn from a fringe to a mainstream issue in the last 20 years? * Which are the individual forms and aesthetics of anticopyright art, from Mail Art and plunderphonics audio to net art and software? * Which individual, optimistic or pessimistic conclusions do the artist draw from years or sometimes decades of questioning copyright through artistic activism? * How has digital technology and new media changed the shape of anticopyright art? * Do Internet and digital media provide perfect solutions for such art, or have their drawbacks and limitations become more apparent? * Is anticopyright artistic activism just a critical reaction to a cultural status quo, or can it shape a new culture? Mod: Florian Cramer Comparative philologist, Berlin Mod: Inke Arns Cultural Scientist, Author, and Independent Curator, mikro e.V., Berlin Lloyd Dunn Founder, Photostatic Magazine (1983-1998) and Founding Member, The Tape-beatles, Prague The Tape-beatles will be performing before audiences in Madrid, Spain (in May 2004), and in Pardubice, Czech Republic (in April). Cornelia Sollfrank Cyberfeminist Concept Artist, Creator of automatic Net.art generators, Co-Founder of the Cyberfeminist International and Webmaster of artwarez.org, Hamburg Alvar Freude Media Artist, Programmer and Activist for information freedom in the internet (odem.org), Stuttgart He created Assoziationsblaster and insert_coin together with Dragan Espenschied (2000/2001). Sebastian Lütgert Media Artist and Activist, Creator of Rolux and textz.comtextz.com, Berlin The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction "Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful. In all the arts there is a physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as it used to be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge and power. For the last twenty years neither matter nor space nor time has been what it was from time immemorial. We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of property." (Steve Jobs, Keynote, MacWorld San Francisco 2004) Discussion

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