[spectre] KLab9:Art Call for Contributions

Mon Oct 23 18:05:49 CEST 2006

Hello,

This may be of interest to some of you.

Best regards,
Ana

KLab9:Art Call for Contributions
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Technology, Authorship and Ways of Living 
A weekend gathering for collaborative and creative
reflection. 5th - 7th October, 2007 tbc. 
Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University,
North West England. 
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INTRODUCTION
The Knowledge Lab is an attempt to provide a
collective space for anti-capitalist reflection. It is
located at the margin of the university, an
institution essentially geared towards the production
of knowledge as a resource for corporate interest and
as justification for particular constellations of
power relations. 
This knowledge lab will address art and ways of
critically thinking about our world. Within this broad
region of enquiry, the lab will encompass notions of
life and art as a political commitment, the influence
art can exert in politics and how political ideas in
turn influence art. It will also address new ways of
making art and how this relates to technologies and
social changes, and the use of art as an
anti-capitalist means to change and fight the system. 
We hope that the knowledge lab will not merely
address, but also show that art can initiate critical
thinking in the various guises outlined above. Our
expectations, in terms of the event, and its outcome,
are that this be a sharing of creative ideas and ideas
about creativity. We hope that it will draw together
people with a common interest in art and alternative
ways of living, but working in different fields. From
this collective thinking we hope that people will be
incited to realize, or make manifest, some of these
ways of living and thinking creatively when they
leave: We will learn from each other. 
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STREAMS
Like previous knowledge labs the day will be divided
into four streams, each will take place in a separate
room. 
STREAM 1: TECHNOLOGY Free software, art spaces and
interfaces, hardware, and recycling/reusing. 
STREAM 2: WAYS OF LIVING Process, moment, performance,
politics, gender issues, community and cultural
production, personal/political, and imaginative
resistance. Also we hope to see papers touching on
initiatives in direct democracy; the art of changing
that system, and the paradigms of inspiration. 
STREAM 3: AUTHORSHIP Copy rights, ownership,
patenting, and appropriation. 
STREAM 4: THE ART MARKET (new ways of) curating,
spaces (physical and virtual) to show art, ways of
making money: Marketing, the means of production,
market forces and anti-market forces, the art market,
and art and ethics. 
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ACADEMIC PAPERS
The list above is not prescriptive, it simply outlines
some of the issues we envisage arising given the
titles of the four streams. Please also send papers on
other themes, these will be gratefully considered. 
Submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. In
addition please enclose a brief biography. Try to make
this, along with your paper, as accessible as
possible. 
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WORKSHOPS, FACILITATED DISCUSSIONS, ARTWORKS AND
PERFORMANCES
These will broadly tie in with, and be presented as
part of, one of the four streams above. Send a
proposal [Max: A single side of A4], elaborate on:
What your contribution will be e.g. a workshop, a
discussion, a performance, an artwork. How long you
envisage it taking. Do you need any equipment or
materials? Do you want to limit the number of
participants? If so, how many? What do you hope will
be born out of this? How do you propose to arrive at
this end? 
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SATURDAY EVENING
DJ and VJ session: Call for DJs and VJs to send in
samples so they might come and contribute to an
evening of art in many guises. 
Nb. Groups are welcome to contribute workshops,
materials for display and/or distribution. 
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INVOLVEMENT AND SKILLS SHARING
Anybody is welcome to attend the weekend, get involved
in the discussions, and take part in the workshops.
HOWEVER, YOU NEED TO REGISTER TO ATTEND AS THE EVENT
IS LIMITED TO 100 PEOPLE, SO PLEASE GET IN
TOUCH:klab9art at googlemail.com 
If you'd like to take a more pro-active role during
the conference, you might want to ADOPT a session -
that is, prepare it in advance (suggest questions,
main issues, reading material etc and propose the
length of the session), arrive prepared for discussion
themselves, attend it, and participate passionately in
the debates and in the drafting of the "output". 
We also still need people to FACILITATE sessions -
ideally a session should NOT be adopted and
facilitated by the same person(s). Facilitators are
usually best if experienced in their task, and will be
called upon to facilitate not only discussion, but
also the drafting of the "output". Any which way,
please get in touch. 
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INFORMATION
DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS 
February 1st 2007 

CONTACT 
klab9art at googlemail.com 
Amy, Ana and Synnove 

COSTS AND PRACTICALITIES 
Unwaged persons: free Unfunded students/low-paid
persons: donation Funded students/Lancaster university
staff: £20 Academics/waged persons: £65 This
contribution is for the whole weekend and includes
Friday and Saturday dinner, Saturday and Sunday
breakfast and lunch. All food will be vegan and
predominantly organic. 

ACCOMODATION 
Shared accommodation is available on the floor of the
very spacious and friendly Quakers' Meeting House, it
is free, but please bring sleeping bag and mat. Get in
touch if you have any special requirements, and again,
please let us know in advance if you're bringing a
child. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 
Visit respectively the respective sites for the
previous knowledgelabs: 
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/FirstKnowledgeLab 
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/SecondKnowledgeLab 
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/ThirdKnowledgeLab 
About Klab9:Art 
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/KLab9 

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