shu lea cheang on Tue, 4 Dec 2001 01:05:28 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: [oldboys] Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> - call for submissions |
Since we do respect artists and authors.. it is their right to decide their work copyleft, not corporation. sl >Kind of odd that a "piracy" project would copyright contributors???? > > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Mary Jo Aagerstoun >University of Maryland at College Park >mjaag@wam.umd.edu >www.artwomen.org >phone:(202)234-6038 >fax:(202)332-1479 >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > >On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Cornelia Sollfrank wrote: > >> Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> >> Online Exhibition >> http://kop.adac.com.tw >> >> Acer Digital Art Center, Taiwan >> Joint Curation: Shu Lea Cheang, Armin Medosch, Yukiko Shikata >> Pilot launch: december , 2001 >> Onsite exhibition: March, ArtFuture2002 >> >> Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> is an online, open work space which explores >> piracy as the net's ultimate art form. Hosted by the Acer Digital Art >> Center [ADAC] in Taiwan as part of ArtFuture 2002, [KOP] will include >> links, objects, ideas, software, commissioned artists' projects, >> critical writing and online streaming media events. The exhibition >> will launch a pilot website in December 2001, and during the >> following three months the project's curators will begin a process of >> commissioning projects and written work. While remaining an online >> exhibition, the totality of the workspace will be presented on site >> in ArtFuture 2002, to be held in Taiwan in March. An edition of all >> works commissioned will be kept on the ADAC server as an open-ended >> online exhibition, whilst artists and authors will remain sole >> copyright owners of their works. >> >> With the increasing shift towards an immaterial or 'weightless' >> economy, the concept of intellectual property rights has become one >> of the key battle lines of our times. IP is at the core of big >> industries from IT (including hardware and software) to entertainment >> (music, film and books) to pharmaceuticals and biotech. A handful of >> high profile cases such as Napster, DeCSS (DVD content encryption >> system), SDMI and the Russian eBook hacker recently arrested in the >> US have highlighted this battle. >> >> The idea that IP rights should be rigidly enforced around the world >> through patent and anti-piracy laws is hotly contested by a growing >> alliance of researchers, open source developers, crackers and >> hackers, artists and intellectuals. The patent law applied on plants, >> seeds and other natural resources is further contested as biopiracy >> by environmentalists. The purpose of Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> is to >> consider the law and order provisions surrounding intellectual >> property in the context of geographical and cultural borders, and to >> examine the changes and challenges presented by information >> technology. >> >> The concept of intellectual property rights has no history in Asia. >> The recent show destruction of millions of pirated CDs and DVDs in >> China, a preliminary to the country's entry into the WTO, does not >> change the fact that much of the Asian continent is still operating >> completely on its own terms. The burst bubble of dot-commerce in the >> early 21st century has plunged Taiwan and Asia's electronic supply >> industries into recession, keeping the divide between Western and >> Eastern economies as wide as ever. The Kingdom of Piracy will >> consider this digital divide, and its sustaining strategies, from a >> global perspective. Theorist Arthur Kroker speculated in 1994 about >> 'digital abundance', imagining Taiwan as a tetra-gigabyte data >> heaven, 'the largest data storage dump in the virtual world' >> (ctheory.net). <KOP> envisions a virtual free state outside of >> geography, time, corporate power and sovereignty; a decentralised, >> fragmented, immanent entity in which everyone can be an autonomous >> agent. >> >> The Kingdom of Piracy is everywhere: on the fringes and in the >> mainstream high-tech economies, from Asia to Eastern Europe to the > > data havens of Sealand and hackers' garages in Silicon Valley. The >> digital commons is bathing in millions of MP3s and an endless supply >> of warez. Codes for appropriation, cut-and-paste, replication, >> sampling and remixing have long been established as artistic >> practice. <KOP> challenges artists, writers and practitioners to use >> these techniques to question, contribute to, analyse and otherwise >> address this growing Kingdom. It also asks them to become intimately >> involved in the processes of the Kingdom itself, a place in which all >> productions are part of an innately collaborative, derivative and >> intimately interconnected environment of intellectual 'properties'. >> >> Sponsored by Taiwan's Acer Group and hosted by Acer's Digital Art >> Center server, Kingdom of Piracy invites allied crews of crackers and >> artists to plug into the supply lines of digital abundance. The >> <KOP>site will be an active public sphere for global data >> trafficking, descrambling and jamming. Commissioned works are >> encouraged to engage in acts of piracy for the causes of intellectual >> enhancement and poetic intervention. >> >> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: >> :::::"A smart artist makes the machine do the work"::::::::::::::::::::::: >> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::: >> :::::::::::::::::::::: [net.art generator]: http://www.obn.org/generator : >> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: >> :Cornelia Sollfrank | Rutschbahn 37 | 20146 Hamburg | Germany :::::::::::: >> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::+49-(0)40-4104937:::mobile:+49-(0)173-6173348: >> >> >> >> >> ** distributed via <oldboys list>: no commercial use without permission >> ** <oldboys list> is an unmoderated mailing list for global cyberfeminism >> ** to remove your address from the list, send a message to: >> <oldboys-unsubscribe-xy=domain.topleveldomain@lists.ccc.de> >> ** more info: send mail to: oldboys-info@lists.ccc.de and/or >><oldboys-faq@lists.ccc.de> >> ** archive: http://www.nettime.org/oldboys >> ** contact: oldboys-owner@lists.ccc.de >> ** www.obn.org >> >> >> > > > >** distributed via <oldboys list>: no commercial use without permission >** <oldboys list> is an unmoderated mailing list for global cyberfeminism >** to remove your address from the list, send a message to: > <oldboys-unsubscribe-xy=domain.topleveldomain@lists.ccc.de> >** more info: send mail to: oldboys-info@lists.ccc.de and/or ><oldboys-faq@lists.ccc.de> >** archive: http://www.nettime.org/oldboys >** contact: oldboys-owner@lists.ccc.de >** www.obn.org ** distributed via <oldboys list>: no commercial use without permission ** <oldboys list> is an unmoderated mailing list for global cyberfeminism ** to remove your address from the list, send a message to: <oldboys-unsubscribe-xy=domain.topleveldomain@lists.ccc.de> ** more info: send mail to: oldboys-info@lists.ccc.de and/or <oldboys-faq@lists.ccc.de> ** archive: http://www.nettime.org/oldboys ** contact: oldboys-owner@lists.ccc.de ** www.obn.org