[rohrpost] COPYLEFT AT [PLUG IN] AND VIPER 21

aschindler aschindler@iplugin.org
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:53:41 +0200


=ABCopyleft=BB at =ABVIPER 21=BB

Panel on the economies for online cultural production.
Organized by =ABcopyleft.cc,=BB  featured by [plug in],
in cooperation with =ABVIPER 21=BB.

Thursday, Oct. 25. 5pm / kleine B=FChne

- Denis Barut, =ABmadeinmusic.com=BB / Nyon
- Dietmar Bruckmayr, =ABFuckhead=BB
leadmusician and economist / Linz
- Cornelia Sollfrank, netartist and cyberfeminist / Hamburg
- Philip W=F6lki, =ABbitfilm.de=BB / Hamburg
- Moderation: Walter van der Cruijsen, artist and curator / Berlin

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=ABCopyleft=BB at [plug in]
=ABVIPER 21=BB Side-Event

Thur. Oct. 25. through Sat. Oct. 27. / 10pm-2am
- simplebrainhotel, space systems
- garderobe23.de, M2V performance
- Sofa Records, nice and different loungesounds, 1am

Thursday, Oct. 25.=20
- Kold, minimal sound patterns, 11.30pm

Friday, Oct. 26.=20
- aN, soundunits contrld. by craze D and fX, 11.30pm

Saturday, Oct 27.
- Niki Neecke, sonogames, 11.30

Sunday. Oct. 28.
- copyleft, future-brunch, noon-4pm

Support us with 20 CHF. and become a member: 0901 101 101


copyleft.cc / [plug in]

St. Alban-Rheinweg 64 / CH-4052 Basel
http://www.youplugin.org / office@youplugin.org
http://www.copyleft.cc / you@copyleft.cc

special opening hours during =ABVIPER=BB
Thur. though Sat. / 10pm-2am, Sun. / noon-4pm
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Far off of any cultural funding or corporate resources, web user communitie=
s
in the last 10 years have opened territories of radically new cultural
production. At the same time, they have challenged the economical power
positions of large corporations. The web gives it's users access to
large-scale distribution channels and enables them to freely share
information regardless of commercial interests. While for online artists
thus the conventional functions of dealers and distributors in certain ways
become obsolete, still no economy is established, which would reward their
highly relevant cultural achievements.

Copyleft wants to provide the framework for a cultural production online,
which explores the new possibilities of functioning outside of the
traditional parameters of the copyright system, the art market and the musi=
c
industry. Many artist choosing the internet as their artistic tool are not
interested in protecting their results with Copyrights. The possibilities
which the web provides for them is the copying, forwarding, or even =AD as
with the Linux software =AD continue developing and changing it with other
people.

The copyleft panel wants to discuss forms of cultural economies, which are
appropriate to the needs of the artists and cultural producers in new media=
.
Is there a cultural economy beyond the elitist exclusivity of the visual ar=
t
market and the mainstream dictated music industry?

In the copyleft space visitors are invited to music and video performances,
which will be copylefted and freely accessible online. The digitalized
elements of the performances will be re-used by the following performers an=
d
worked into new copyleft pieces the next night. Late at night the Basel
electronic music lable Sofa will spin some chill sounds. On Sunday copyleft
and [plug in] will offer a copyleft-future-brunch with an open discussion o=
n
scenarios for the future, plans, hopes, requests, etc.

With mobile phones the visitors can send SMS, which will be rendered as
sound files and make an impact on the development of the copyleft works.

The events will be streamed on radio several radio stations. For current
information check: http://www.copyleft.cc events or
http://www.weallplugin.org news.

Economically, the audience can contribute to the event via telephone: by
calling 0901-101 101 an amount of CHFr. 20.- will be transfered from the
callers phone bill to copyleft. The caller can choose to become a member of
copyleft.cc or simply support the events. (Calls possible only from within
Switzerland).

Panelists

Madeinmusic.com, Denis Barut, Nyon
Madeinmusic.com is a site for production, promotion and distribution of
music 100% online. It offers services to music lovers, musicians, and
experts, which can engage by becoming co-producers or co-distributors of
music. Madeinmusic has developed a microeconomy, within which the community
members invest Euros and participate in the gains of the sales. Denis Barut
is the CTO of madeinmusic.com.

Dietmar Bruckmayr, Linz
As a front man of the groups Fuckhead and Wipe Out (www.fuckhead.at), as
performance and video artist, event and festival organizer, actor and
curator, but also as a academic with Ph.D. in commerce Bruckmayr knows both
sides of the coin of critical cultural production =AD including the open
source context: he harshly criticizes the prevailing capitalist mechanisms
while acknowledging, that he himself is a perfect product of this capitalis=
t
development, and even fosters it by displaying flexibility and doing withou=
t
social and occupational security."

Bitfilm.de Philip W=F6lki, Hamburg
Bitfilm is a web service for internet-film supporting production as well as
distribution for digital film in online formats =AD and currently offering
their services for free. Bitfilms managing director Philip W=F6lki will give
insight in the label=B9s experience with moving images online: how are they
used and who is the audience?

Cornelia Sollfrank, Hamburg/Berlin/Celle
As net-artist and founder of the first international cyberfeminist alliance=
,
old boys network (www.obn.org ), Sollfrank researches hacking and technolog=
y
related gender issues. Going beyond traditional artistic methods, Sollfrank
researches and writes about the condition of net art (production/
distribution), and use these issues again as material of her work as an
artist.

Moderator: Walter van der Cruijsen, Berlin
As a net-citizen, artist, curator, project developer, webmaster and
sitemanager Walter van der Cruijsen has built up his repuatation in digital
culture. With exhibition at ZKM and many independent projects, vdCruijsen
has proven to be thoroughly knowledgable in media art, it's history as well
as it's most current developments.

Copyleftspace Partners and Credits:
WOLFGANG HOCKENJOS / HYPERWERK
http://play.hyperwerk.ch
ANNETTE SCHINDLER / [Plug in]
http://www.weallplugin.org
ADNAN HADZI
STEFAN NIEDERHAUSER
PATRICK PARISI
http://www.i-love-u.ch
SIMPLEBRAINHOTEL
http://www.simplebrainhotel.com
MATT FULLER, TextFm
http://www.scotoma.org/TextFm
KOLD
http://www.kold.ch=20
SOFA RECORDS
http://www.sofarecords.ch
GARDEROBE 23
http://www.garderobe23.de