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<p>KLab9:Art - Technology, Authorship and Ways of Living</p></font></u></b> <b><font color="#7e37ce" size="2">
<p>A weekend gathering for collaborative and creative reflection. 5th - 7th October, 2007 tbc.</p></font></b> <b>
<p>Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, North West England.</p></b> <b><u>
<p>INTRODUCTION </p></u></b>
<p align="justify">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.
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<p align="justify">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.
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<p align="justify">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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<p>STREAMS </p></u></b>
<p align="justify"><br>Like previous knowledge labs the day will be divided into four streams, each will take place in a separate room. </p>
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<p align="justify">STREAM 1: TECHNOLOGY </p></font></b><font color="#7e37ce" size="2">Free software, art spaces and interfaces, hardware, DIY and recycling/reusing.
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<p align="justify">STREAM 2: WAYS OF LIVING </p></font></b><font color="#7e37ce" size="2">This stream concerns process, moment and performance. It is the political stream where we will consider primarily imaginative resistance and artivism, but also touch on debates surrounding gender issues, community and cultural production, and personal/political. We hope to see papers touching on initiatives in direct democracy; the art of changing that system, and the paradigms of inspiration. We would like to discuss how artivism will change society, possibles networks of artivists, ways of action.
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<p align="justify">STREAM 3: AUTHORSHIP </p></font></b><font color="#7e37ce" size="2">Copy rights, ownership, patenting, and appropriation. (Creative commons, Copyleft,...)
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<p align="justify">STREAM 4: THE ART MARKET </p></font></b><font color="#7e37ce" size="2">(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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<p>CONTRIBUTIONS</p></u></b>
<p align="justify">Each day will be split into two parts. On Saturday and Sunday morning papers will be presented in each of the four streams, each lasting 20-30 minutes. Papers will be followed by a brief question period of 10-15 minutes. The afternoon will be divided into discussion periods in each of the four streams. During the weekend there will also be a separate space for workshops and performances.
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<p align="justify">There are therefore a variety of ways to contribute to the weekend. See below for details: </p><b><u>
<p>ACADEMIC PAPERS </p></u></b>
<p align="justify"><br>The list of streams is not prescriptive, it simply outlines some of the issues we envisage arising given the general themes. </p>
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<p align="justify">Please also send papers on other themes, these will be gratefully considered. </p>
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<p align="justify">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. </p><b><u>
<p>FACILITATED DISCUSSIONS (INVOLVEMENT AND SKILLS SHARING) </p></u></b>
<p align="justify">If you have an idea for one of the afternoon discussion topics that links in with one of the four streams then send in a your idea and think about one of the two types of involvement below: </p>
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<p align="justify">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.
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<p align="justify">We also need people to FACILITATE sessions - ideally a session should NOT be adopted and facilitated by the same person(s). Consider that facilitators are usually best if experienced in their task. Any which way, please get in touch.
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<p align="center">== WORKSHOPS, ARTWORKS, AND PERFORMANCES == </p></u></b>
<p>These will broadly tie in with 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 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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<p>SATURDAY EVENING </p></u></b>
<p>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. As well as other music, visual, perfomance, etc artist and Artivist. </p>
<p>Nb. Groups are welcome to contribute workshops, materials for display and/or distribution. </p><b><u>
<p>INFORMATION </p></u></b>
<p><br>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: <a href="mailto:klab9art@googlemail.com">
klab9art@googlemail.com</a><strong><u> </u></strong> </p>
<p>DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS May 1st 2007 </p>
<p><br>CONTACT <a href="mailto:klab9art@googlemail.com">klab9art@googlemail.com</a><strong> </strong> </p></font><font color="#008000" size="2">
<p>Amy, Ana and Synnove </p></font><font color="#7e37ce" size="2">
<p><br><b><u>COSTS AND PRACTICALITIES </u></b></p>
<p align="justify">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.
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<p><br><b><u>ACCOMODATION </u></b></p>
<p>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.
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<p>FOR MORE INFORMATION: </p></u></b>
<p>Visit respectively the respective sites for the previous knowledgelabs: </p></font><font size="2">
<p><a href="http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/FirstKnowledgeLab">http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/FirstKnowledgeLab</a> </p></font><font color="#7e37ce" size="2"> </font><font size="2">
<p><a href="http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/SecondKnowledgeLab">http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/SecondKnowledgeLab</a> </p></font><font color="#7e37ce" size="2"> </font><font size="2">
<p><a href="http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/ThirdKnowledgeLab">http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/ThirdKnowledgeLab</a> </p></font><font color="#7e37ce" size="2">
<p>About Klab9:Art </p></font><b><font size="2">
<p><a href="http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/KLab9">http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/KLab9</a> </p></font><font color="#7e37ce" size="2"> </font></b>