Lecture

In recent years, social graph surfaced as the representation of how people are present on the web and how they are related to each other, on a global scale. It is generated by user activity on a wide range of social networking sites. Being offered the privacy control settings within the network, the users "perform their privacy" and voluntarily feed in the content designated solely for their peers. This creates not only "walled gardens" of closed systems, but more importantly, "privacy lock-in" for users who are left to demand protection of their personal data.

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Part artist lecture, part historical context, Owen Mundy will discuss his Give Me My Data project within the contexts of the history of state surveillance apparatuses, digital media and dialogical art practices, and the ongoing contradiction of privacy and utility in new media.

Art Meets Radical Openness (Liwoli 2011) Plutonian Striptease Guests Friday 13 May Marloes de Valk - http://naked-on-pluto.net and http://pluto.kuri.mu Owen Mundy - http://givememydata.com/ Dusan Barok - http://www.faceleaks.info/ Guests Saturday 14 May Nicolas Malevé - http://yoogle.be/spip.php?page=start_yoogle Margaritha Köhl - http://www.univie.ac.at/publizistik/Koehl.htm Pippa Buchanan (Mozilla Webcraft) - http://p2pu.org/webcraft Birgit Bachler - http://www.birgitbachler.com

This lecture explores the artist-developer relationship in artist-led open source software projects, drawing on my own personal experience with UpStage. UpStage is an open source web-based platform for cyberformance (live online theatrical performance), initiated in 2003 by myself and three other artists because we were in need of a purpose-built platform for our work.

This lecture will review the reflexive and critic capabilities of the artistic practices that use open hardware and DIY (Do it yourself) as production methodologies.

Hardware development, as an artistic practice, offers an alternative way of production, becoming symptom of tension and conflict in the relationship between art
and technology. From this position, artist seeks through his own production processes to find paths from where establish a critical discourse respect the actual technical progress and its transformations.

[img_assist|nid=1053|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=250|height=141]The RepRap project ("REPlicating RAPid prototyper") combines efforts from the fields of mechanical engineering, electronics and software development to conceive open 3D printers, which do not only turn (almost) arbitrary 3D models into tangible plastic objects, but can also replicate themselves.

20 min Presentations from 10 speakers.

Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source software, hardware and art. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free and open source software.

genderchangers is a network of women who promote FLOSS (and hardware) skill shares. genderchangers was once a vibrant group based in amsterdam, organising workshops and events, based on DIT principles. genderchangers has since spread and become a loosely knit network communicating via mailing list. what happens when an unorganised group of women with day jobs have to juggle demanding priorities?

Copyright has become central in shaping contemporary art and culture, with mainstream media reinforcing ideas of authorship, authenticity, and the myth of the individual creator. At the same time, many artists use digital practices like sampling, remixing, and appropriation to blur boundaries between cultural categories and challenge these notions. The talk explores how recent media art navigates the tension between legal frameworks and evolving artistic strategies.