[spectre] The Pirate Cinema by Nicolas Maigret at Aksioma Project Space

[Marcela Okretič]

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, in partnership with
Kunsthal Aarhus,
transmediale 2015, Berlin and Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester, presents:

*Nicolas Maigret:**/The Pirate Cinema/*
www.aksioma.org/pirate.cinema

*Aksioma | Project Space*
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
21 January – 20 February 2015

*Exhibition opening with lecture by Geoff Cox: *Wednesday, 21 January
2015 at 7 pm
*
Related events:*
- Launching of the online version of /The Pirate Cinema /during the
conference /Digital Utopias/
<http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/jobs-and-conferences/conferences/digital-utopias/>
at Hull Truck Theatre (UK): Tuesday, 20 January 2015
- Performance /The Pirate Cinema/ by Nicolas Maigret at transmediale
2015 (DE): Thursday, 29 January 2015, at 9 pm
​ ​

In recent years, piracy and peer-to-peer file sharing of audio-visual
contents have become a massive activity involving millions of internet
users, and one of the main ways in which cinema is experienced at home.
This does not only raise obvious copyright and legal issues, and not
only floods us with poor, downgraded versions of the hi-quality original
but also potentially challenges cinema’s materiality and the idea of a
movie as a linear narrative.

The Peer-to-Peer Sharing protocol is based on small samples file
fragmentation. This fragmentation smoothes the exchange between
different recipients: when all the “chunks” have been downloaded, the
file can then be reconstructed sample by sample until completion, from
chaotic scraps received from distinct users. This hidden architecture
reveals extraordinary narrative implications, automatizing and
randomizing the remix processes widely used in art since the Avant-gardes. 

/The Pirate Cinema /takes off from here to make the hidden activity and
geography of Peer-to-Peer file sharing visible. The project is presented
as a monitoring room, which shows Peer-to-Peer transfers happening in
real time on networks using the BitTorrent protocol. The installation
produces an arbitrary cut-up of the files currently being exchanged.
This immediate and fragmentary rendering of online activity, with
information concerning its source and destination, thus depicts the
topology of digital media consumption and uncontrolled content
dissemination in a connected world.

/The Pirate Cinema/ is based on a data interception software. It
reveals, through a simple diversion, different aspects of exchange
platforms, such as the global and multi-situated nature of Peer-to-Peer
networks (P2P), the potential for viral transmission, and alternative
social models. Its purpose is to make available for aesthetic
exploration the pre-existing potentials of Peer-to-Peer architectures.
The installation of /The Pirate Cinema/ relies on an automated system
that constantly monitors the most viewed torrents. The intercepted data
is immediately projected onto a screen, after which it is discarded. The
3 screens installation at Aksioma Project Space visualizes fragmentary
files received and sent all over the world.

*
*
*/Real-time for Pirate Cinema/, lecture by Geoff Cox*
As a portrait of the network in real-time,/Pirate Cinema/ somewhat
reflects the temporal complexity of the world now in the coming together
of different co-existing ways of being in time. In the talk Geoff Cox
wants to suggest that /Pirate Cinema /might allow us to better
understand the dynamics of networked technologies and some of the
defining conditions of globalization that underpin the cultural logic of
our times.
The lecture is based on Geoff Cox essay, which was commissioned for the
Aksioma's new series of brochures /PostScriptUM/.
www.aksioma.org/brochures <http://www.aksioma.org/brochures>

/The Pirate Cinema /(Online)
Abandon Normal Devices <http://www.andfestival.org.uk> (UK), Aksioma -
Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana <http://www.aksioma.org>(SI)
and Kunsthal Aarhus <http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en> (DK), in partnership
with transmediale <http://transmediale.de>(DE) have co-commissioned a
new version of /The Pirate Cinema/ project that will be available online
at thepiratecinema.com/online <http://thepiratecinema.com/online> from
January 20, 2015 onwards. /TPC (Online) /has been developed with the
support of mur.at <http://mur.at>(A) and creacast.com
<http://creacast.com> (F), and was realized in the framework of Masters
& Servers <http://www.mastersandservers.org>, an European adventure
focused on a new generation of digital interventionism.

The official release of the co-commission will happen in Hull (UK)
during the conference /Digital Utopias/
<http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/jobs-and-conferences/conferences/digital-utopias/>,
an Arts Council initiative curated by Abandon Normal Devices as a
trailblazer event for Hull City of Culture 2017.


*Nicolas Maigret* exposes the internal workings of media, through an
exploration of their dysfunctions, limitations or failure thresholds
which he develops sensory and immersive audio visual experiences. As a
curator, he initiated the disnovation.net <http://disnovation.net>
research, a critique of the innovation propaganda. He teaches at Parsons
Paris and cofounded the Art of Failure collective in 2006. His work has
been presented in international exhibitions and festivals: transmediale
(Berlin) - File (Sao Paulo) - Museum of Art and Design (New York) - 30th
Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg) - NWFF (Seattle) - SAIC (Chicago)
- China Museum of Digital Arts (Beijing) - The Pirate Bay 10th
Anniversary (Stockholm) - Palais de Tokyo (Paris) - Eastern Bloc
(Montreal) - Gli.tc/h (Birmingham).

*Geoff Cox *(UK) is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Aesthetics and
Communication, and Participatory IT Research Centre, Aarhus University
(DK), and Adjunct faculty Transart Institute (DE/US). His research
interests lie in the areas of contemporary art and performance, software
studies and network culture. He is an editor for the DATA Browser book
series (published by Autonomedia). With Alex McLean, he wrote Speaking
Code: coding as aesthetic and political expression (MIT Press 2012).


*Production of the exhibition:* Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary
Art, Ljubljana, 2015

Artistic Director: Janez Janša
Producer: Marcela Okretič
Executive Producer: Sonja Grdina
Public Relations: Hana Ostan Ožbolt
Technician: Valter Udovičić
Documentation: Adriana Aleksić

*Presented in partnership with* Kunsthal Aarhus (DK), transmediale 2015
(DE) and Abandon Normal Devices (UK).
​
​    
/The Pirate Cinema is a project developed with the support of ArtKillArt
(F), CNC / DICREAM, La Maison populaire, Conseil Général de
Seine-Saint-Denis (F), Eastern Bloc (CA).
/

/The Pirate Cinema /is realized in the framework of *Masters & Servers*,
a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), AND (UK), Link Art
Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The Influencers (ES).


This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the
Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of
the information contained therein.
​
*Supported by:* Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of
Ljubljana, Institut français de Slovénie
 
*Partners for technical equipment:* Zavod Projekt Atol, Forum Ljubljana


-- 
Marcela Okretič
Aksioma | Zavod za sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana
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