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Leonardo Book Series authors Geert Lovink and Mark Amerika will
participate in “Mediakunst 2.0″ presented by Kunstensite vzw and
Courtisane festival. The festival will focus on the changing shape and
repositioning of media art in the age of Web 2.0.<br>
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In a string of fast paced mini-lectures and presentations, Amerika and
Lovink will explore some of the recent tendencies within both the field
of media-art as well as popular digital culture. They will attempt to
maneuver through the hype and trends emanating from these emerging
fields while taking into account broader cultural and historical
perspectives. The discussion will also attempt to locate the
connections between recent phenomena such as the 90s net art movement
and contemporary web 2.0 culture, club-culture VJing and and live
audiovisual performance art, and the interface of web design and
media-art.<br>
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Session 1: Internet art from an historical perspective (Amerika)<br>
Session 2: media-art today (Lovink)<br>
Session 3: fictional narratives in media-art (Amerika)<br>
Session 4: web-design vs. media-art (Lovink)<br>
Session 5: net.art VJ - cyberpsychogeography and digital flux persona
(Amerika)<br>
Session 6: media-art and Avant-Pop (debate Amerika - Lovink)<br>
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Speakers:<br>
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Geert Lovink is a Dutch-Australian media theorist and internet critic.
He studied political science in <st1:City w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:City>
and received his PhD from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Melbourne</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.
He has been involved in the cultural politics of internet since the
early nineties. He is the co-founder of projects such as the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Digital</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, Nettime, Fibreculture and
Incommunicado. In 2002 MIT Press published two of his books, Dark Fiber
and Uncanny Networks. Since then other books appeared such as My First
Recession (2003) and The Principle of Notworking (2005). In 2004 he
moved from <st1:City w:st="on">Brisbane</st1:City> to <st1:City
w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:City> to found the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Institute</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Network
Cultures</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. He is research professor at <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Interactive
Media</st1:PlaceName> (<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Applied Sciences</st1:PlaceName>) and
associate professor in the new media program at the humanities
mediastudies department of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.
In 2005-2006 he was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study
where he finished his third study on critical internet culture for
Routledge <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:State>
entitled Zero Comments. Currently, together with the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>
political scientist Jodi Dean, he is writing a book for Polity Press
called Blog Theory.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.networkcultures.org">http://www.networkcultures.org</a><br>
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Mark Amerika has exhibited his work in many venues including the
Whitney Biennial, the <st1:City w:st="on">ICA</st1:City> in <st1:City
w:st="on">London</st1:City>, the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Walker</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Art</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceName>,
and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Denver</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Art Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. He has
had four early career retrospectives including the first-ever net art
retrospective in 2001 at the ACA Media Arts Plaza in Tokyo, Japan
(”Avant-Pop: The Stories of Mark Amerika [an Internet art
retrospective]”). Both retrospectives covered the years 1993-2001. In
2004, he had two follow-up retrospectives, one at Ciberart Bilbao in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>, and one at the Festival
International de Linguagem Eletronica at the Gallerie do SESI in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Sao Paulo</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<br>
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A cult novelist, media theorist, web publisher, and VJ artist who has
performed internationally, Amerika is the author of many books
including his recently published collection of artist writings entitled
META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (The MIT Press/Leonardo Books). He has
also directed a series of feature length foreign films scheduled to be
released in various formats as part of a new body of work entitled the
Foreign Film Series. Amerika, who as the founder of the Alt-X Network
[altx.com] is publisher of the electronic book review, is a Professor
of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.markamerika.com">http://www.markamerika.com</a><br>
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Info & Tickets:<br>
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Date: April 24th 2008 (13h30-17h30)<br>
Location: Cirk - Zebrastraat, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ghent</st1:place></st1:City>
(BE)<br>
Admission: 2,5 €<br>
Free for KASK-students and ticket-holders of the Courtisane Festival.<br>
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Visitors of the symposium get free access to the ‘Update II’ digital
art exhibition at Zebrastraat curated by Peter Weibel and Stef Van
Bellingen and Isolde Debuck, in collaboration with ZKM.<br>
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More info:<br>
Phone:+32(0)485.984609<br>
Mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:info@cimatics.com">info@cimatics.com</a><br>
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For more information about META/DATA by Mark Amerika (2007, MIT
Press/Leonardo Books), Uncanny Networks by Geert Lovink (2002, MIT
Press/Leonardo Books) and other titles in the Leonardo Book Series,
visit: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/leobooks.html">http://www.leonardo.info/isast/leobooks.html</a>
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