florian schneider's blog

Next thursday, april 2nd, 2009 a new exhibition opens in Extracity, Antwerp, showing "The Mexican Drawings" by Sergej Eisenstein.

Over the last couple of weeks Alan Toner, intellectual property and communications researcher, has been in Stockholm for the criminal copyright infringement case against the Pirate Bay, "or rather four individuals who are being treated as the principal agents behind the site". In his blog "kNOw Future Inc." he is reporting about the events in court and interesting encounters alongside the trial, like meeting Roger Wallis in Stockholm.

Any attempt to understand the rapid transformation of territories in the 21st century reveals shifting landscapes and moving boundaries, thus a continuous struggle for their redefinition through conflicts and exclusions. Different conditions of mobility and migration encouraged by the so-called 'globalised world' inscribe in material environments social and psychological borders. In this context Cyprus and its inherent division acts as one of the frontiers to the EU. The aim of this workshop is to explore such liminal spaces with a particular reference to Cyprus and the Middle East.

"Anna Kournikova Deleted by Memeright Trusted System —Art in the Age of Intellectual Property" is the long title of a show that still runs until October 19th in Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund.

http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_exhibitions/detail.php?nr=3010&rubric=e...

"How does the changing notion of (creative) work relate to ‘intellectual property’? Today we live in a post-industrial society where the goods being produced are no longer material (like steel, coal, etc.), but immaterial."

1. There is a well-known myth according to which indigenous people believe that when a camera takes a picture of them, it captures a part of them, if not stealing their soul. This has been repeated often enough, by the pioneers of ethnographic photography as well as in online forums by today’s amateur photographers; so-called natives have been credited with this belief in every part of the world and across time. Like many other popular assumptions from the field of ethnography, the idea of the theft of a soul by image has become a commonplace, free from critical reflection and questioning.

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