World-Information Institute (AT)
WED September 3, 2014, 1:30 PM
LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz
Automated network systems control global production and transaction processes. Increasingly digital models and virtual information regimes modify social reality. Arts and cultural workers have played an important role in shaping these new digital worlds.
Subordination to the market
But an enthusiasm for flexibility and the temporary has given way to an even stronger subordination under the market. While many forms of media culture have been forced into the Creative Industries paradigm in recent years, others have ventured into the art world and have come to terms with the White Cube and its conventions. This development seems to restrict the degrees of freedom of cultural interaction and limits the space of the possible. What logic is driving these effects and what alternatives exist?
Rhetoric of radical change
Inspired by freely available online knowledge and cheaper new production machines like 3D Printers, things which were made only in industrial plants and by specialists have moved into the realm of “doing it yourself”. A development accompanied by a rhetoric of radical change and empowerment, the practical results are mostly quaintly produced small series of more or less useful design.
Guerilla engineering
Where is guerilla engineering and civil social appropriation of know-how turning into a self-referential zone of handicraft? Viennese World-Information Institute invites to investigate these questions in the international symposium Information as Reality at LENTOS Art Museum Linz.
In cooperation with the magazine Springerin