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about Daniel Garcia Andujar |
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
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Gordon Dalton Daniel García Andújar works under the banner of Technologies To The People (TTTP), exploring virtuality, authenticity, copyright, sponsorship, media and power as new technology and the access to it spreads across the globe.
Instead of surrendering to the fetish-like quality of new technologies, TTTP focuses its attention on the battlegrounds that are emerging. Instead of complete rejection, TTTP has a pragmatic functionality when considering what could be in store, and our scope for action in a society immersed in rapid fundamental change.
It aims to question who has real access to technology and will there be a divide between ‘info-rich’ people and ‘info-poor’ people? How can we avoid this division and will it affect society in the future? What can we do to include more “classes of people” in the new information global infrastructure?
Promoting, using and developing resources, as in the case of Free Software applications, will give a wide range of communities a greater degree of independence and self-control; on their own terms rather than through tainted corporate or government controlled models.
The net allows the concentration of knowledge and information to be broken down, and contributes new dimensions of globality and virtuality. It is an instantaneous medium at a relatively low cost that, albeit only potentially, fans hope for the democratization of culture.
The friction in the work of TTTP lies in the apparent freedom of the Internet, the knowledge it holds, and who actually owns or distributes this knowledge as a means of developing power. How this battle is fought out has serious repercussions regarding the growing problem of a digital, techno-illiterate underclass.
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Irational.org - Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006 |
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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The Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow presents Irational.org - Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow Gallery Times: Tues –Sat: 11am – 6pm,
Closed Sun & Mon
http://www.cca-glasgow.com/
Irational is a loose grouping of six international net and media artists who came together around the server irational.org, founded by the British net artist Heath Bunting in 1996, going on to make decisive contribution to early net art from the mid-1990s onward. They include Daniel Garcia Andújar / Technologies to the People (E), Rachel Baker (GB), Kayle Brandon (GB), Heath Bunting (GB), Minerva Cuevas / Mejor Vida Corporation (MEX) and Marcus Valentine (GB).
Irational.org’s goal is to use the media of a large-scale showing, workshops, and a comprehensive documentation to make these artistic-activist pieces more accessible to a general public. Irational’s early work commented the Internet hype of the mid-to-late 1990s, competing with the commercialisation-euphoria of the new market by developing its own pseudo-ventures. Moving on from net art Irational now experiment with interrogating and overcoming economic, political, and social boundaries in real space, producing a great deal of comic relief, among other things.
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Free Software on the Surface, Behind the Screen and in a Cultural Kaleidoscope: X-Devian. |
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Saturday, 26 May 2007 |
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The New Technologies To The People® System By Jacob Lillemose
In 1999, when the art and technology festival Ars Electronica awarded The Golden Nica, first prize in the ”.net” category, to the programmer Linus Torvalds for his development of the Linux operating system, it was pointing in general to the relationship between free software and art, and more specifically to the affinity between free software and that part of contemporary art which is concerned with software’s constantly increasing influence on social, economic and political conditions. Like Linux, this part of contemporary art works against the proprietary software industry’s standardization, repression and rationalization of the software culture, and instead explores alternate possibilities for freeing the software culture through more open, expressive and speculative processes. |
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