[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Mark Amerika and Alexander Galloway at the Disrupting Narratives symposium, London, July 13th
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Disrupting Narratives
Friday 13 July 2007, 10.00--18.30
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium, Bankside, London SE1
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/8896.htm
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.
Session 1 keynote address
Mark Amerika: Remixology, Hybridized Processes, and Postproduction Art:
A Counternarrative
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.
Mark Amerika's book /META/DATA: A Digital Poetics/ 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: http://leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/amerika.html
Session 2 keynote address
Alexander R Galloway: Counter-Protocol
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.
Alex Galloway's book /Protocol: How Control Exists after
Decentralization/ 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:
http://leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/galloway.html
MEMBER DISCOUNT! Leonardo/ISAST Associate Members are eligible for 20%
off all Leonardo Book Series titles as well as a number of other
membership benefits! Visit http://leonardo.info/members.html for more
details.
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