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<span lang="EN-GB">Disrupting Narratives<br>
Friday 13 July 2007, 10.00–18.30</span>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Tate Modern Starr Auditorium, Bankside, <st1:City
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<span lang="EN-GB">Leonardo Book Series authors Mark Amerika
and Alexander Galloway will each give a keynote address for the
"Disrupting
Narratives" symposium, organized by Kate Southworth, in collaboration
with
the Tate Modern and iRes (Research in Interactive Art & Design) at
University
College Falmouth. This international symposium brings together some of
the
world's leading media artists, theorists and researchers to explore
real-time
interaction in electronic media. Over the last few years network
theories have
started to shape our thinking about social and cultural issues. This
event
seeks out artistic strategies and art forms that engage with these
ideas.
Contributors include: Mark Amerika, Alexander R Galloway, Andrea Zapp,
Kelli
Dipple, Kate Rich and Paul Sermon.</span>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Session 1 keynote address</span>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Mark Amerika: Remixology, Hybridized
Processes, and Postproduction Art: A Counternarrative</span>
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In this keynote address, artist and theorist Mark Amerika remixes
personal
narrative, philosophical inquiry, spontaneous theories, and cyberpunk
fictions
that investigate the emergence of digitally constructed identities,
fictional
personas, experiential metadata, narrative mythologies, and
collaborative
networks. Locating what he describes as the "postproduction artist"
who engages with D-I-Y networking and alternative distribution schemes
to build
new models of audience development, Amerika will role-play the
contemporary
remixologist who is part VJ, part novelist, and part net artist, a
made-up
character in a book yet written, someone who uses the forms of new
media not so
much to counter spectacle in the media culture, but to create a
counternarrative drift that moves away from the art object per se while
investigating the depth of possibilities waiting to be discovered in
the
creative unconscious.</span>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Mark Amerika’s book <i style="">META/DATA: A
Digital Poetics</i> was recently published by the MIT
Press for the Leonardo Book Series in April 2007. For more information,
or to
purchase a copy, visit the Leonardo Book Series online:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/amerika.html">http://leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/amerika.html</a><br style="">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Session 2 keynote address<br>
Alexander R Galloway: Counter-Protocol</span>
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In this keynote address, Alexander Galloway asks us to imagine an art
exhibit
of computer viruses. How would one curate such a show? Would the
exhibition
consist of documentation of known viruses, or of viruses roaming live?
Would it
be more like an archive or more like a zoo? Perhaps the exhibit would
require
the coordination of several museums, each with "honey pot" computers,
sacrificial lambs offered up as attractor hosts for the contagion. A
network
would be required, the sole purpose of which would be to reiterate
sequences of
infection and replication. Now imagine an exhibit of a different sort:
a museum
exhibit dedicated to epidemics. Again, how would one curate an exhibit
of
disease? Would it include the actual virulent microbes themselves (in a
sort of
"microbial menagerie"), in addition to the documentation of epidemics
in history? Would the epidemics have to be "historical" in order for
them to qualify for exhibition? Or would two entirely different types
of
institutions be required: a museum of the present versus a museum of
the past?
In this talk Alexander Galloway explores a "counter-protocol"
aesthetic and how it relates to the contemporary landscape of artmaking.</span>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Alex Galloway’s book <i style="">Protocol: How
Control Exists after Decentralization</i> was published
by the MIT Press for the Leonardo Book Series in 2004. For more
information, or
to purchase a copy, visit the Leonardo Book Series online:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/galloway.html">http://leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/galloway.html</a><br style="">
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well as a
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