PUBLIC NETBASE:NON STOP FUTURE.New Practices in Art and Media[arte contemporanea

PUBLIC NETBASE: NON STOP FUTURE.
New Practices in Art and Media.
Revolver - Archiv für die aktuelle Kunst,
Francoforte sul Meno, 2008,
copertina rigida, 16,5x23,5 cm., pp.338,
illustrazioni e fotografie a colori,
testo in inglese,
peso: g.815
cod.0430
CONDIZIONI DEL LIBRO: ottime, come nuovo





New information technologies have become ubiquitous and thoroughly established
in our everyday lives.
This marks the end of a period of intense experimentation and speculations related
to the introduction of global communication systems more than a decade ago.
Artists and cultural workers were the first to explore their liberatory dimensions
and to apply their emancipatory potentials. These early pioneers developed a range
of interdisciplinary models and practices in order to expand the scope of social
participation in information society cultures.
Initiatives like the radical Viennese mediaculture institution Public Netbase became
important nodes in a global network dedicated to critical art, culture and science
based on new media practices.

A virtual world is possible, but never without real spaces and tangible social
interaction.
This publication is both a review of the pioneer days from the perspective of Public
Netbase as well as an outlook into the future of art and culture in digital networks.
It provides an overview of a critical information economy discourse, insights into
Tactical Media strategies and a critique of the loss of public domain and the commons.
Based on the extensive archives of Public Netbase, the book features some of the most
spectacular and controversial art projects and interventions from 1994 to 2006.
It also offers historical documents and manifestos critical of commercialisation and
control society issues, together with a view into the digital world of tomorrow.
"Non Stop Future" raises awareness for a need to invest in new and diverse practices
in art and media.
Extensive contributions from many art and media theorists and practitioners to this
book relate to long lasting collaboration with Public Netbase through different formats
of conferences and projects, reflecting some of the most relevant problematics in
constellation of art and tactical media practices and theories within communication
technologies. The broad spectrum of themes regarding politics of digital media culture,
art practices, networking, participation and self-organizing make the “Non Stop Future”
an important contribution to forming the critical digital heritage of the future.




DISCOURSE
A Virtual World is Possible: From Tactical Media to Digital Multitudes
Geert Lovink and Florian Schneider
Market-ideology, Semiocapitalism and the Digital Cognitariat, Franco Berardi Bifo
Byzantium 550 AD, Paulina Borsook
Seduction of the Cyber Zombies, Hakim Bey
Spiritual Telegraphs and the Technology of Communication: Tuning into The
Electromagnetic Imagination, Erik Davis
Which Democracy in a Post-political Age?, Chantal Mouffe
Free Software, Free Culture: After the dotCommunist Manifesto, Eben Moglen
The Information War, Peter Lamborn Wilson
Gray Markets and Information Warlords, Bruce Sterling
Economics, Computers and the War Machine, Manuel De Landa
Free Bitflows: Editorial, Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder
Torrents of Desire and the Shape of the Informational Landscape, Felix Stalder
A Topography of E-space - Electronic Networks and Public Space, Saskia Sassen
Free Software, Free Hardware, Free Bandwidth, Interview with Eben Moglen
Frequently Asked Questions about the Public Domain, Eric Kluitenberg
Myths about Copyright, Lawrence Liang
Bits of Freedom, Sjoera Nas
NEW ART PRACTICES
New Art Practices: Editorial, Branka Curcic
Becoming Nike? The Fake Behind the Swoosh, Vera Tollmann
On the S77CCR-Consortium, Marko Peljhan
Information War in the Age of Dangerous Substances, Sadie Plant
TextFM: Open Broadcasting System, An interview with Graham Harwood and Matt Fuller, Michelle Kasprzal
Posthuman Development in the Age of Pancapitalism, Critical Art Ensemble
Space Travel - By Any Means Necessary, Jason Skeet
An Interview with Stelarc, Miss M
Synworld, Konrad Becker
General Statement on Synworld, Faith Wilding
"Play with me!" or: Cyberspace as Toyspace, Oliver Marchart
Interface as the Key Category of Computer Culture, Lev Manovich
TACTICAL MEDIA
30 Years of Tactical Media, Felix Stalder
Various Documents, New Kunstsektion
The Nature of Art... Public Netbase's Hidden Manoeuvres, Martin Wassermair
Inverted Towers. Strategies for a Reappropriation of Urban Space, Gerald Raunig
Blown Into Peaces. Virtual Cow Kidnapping - a Drama in Four Acts, Lisa Mayr
Swarmachine, Activist Media Tomorrow, Brian Holmes
Reboot Your Radiol, Pit Schultz
DIGITAL MEDIACULTURE, NETWORKING AND PARTICIPATION
234 Introduction Meaning of Digital Networks, Saskia Sasseti
236 Report of the Work Group on "Cultures of Electronic Networks", Cultural
Competence, Linz
242 Reclaiming Spaces and Symbolic Culture, Netbased Public Interventions in Vienna
Konrad Becker
250 The Free Media Camp - Picturing Protest, Patricia Kostring
254 Reflections on Building the European Cultural Backbone, Andreas Broeckmann
256 A Look at Vienna's Ruins of Future, Andreas Broeckmann
258 wahlkabine.at, An Online Orientation Tool Awakens a New Interest in Politics
Karin Liebhart, Martin Wassermair
262 The Past - A Servant Of The Future, Katharina Wegan
264 Period After - A Review, Branka Curcic
PUBLIC NETBASE
268 Let it RIP! Obituary of an Endless Myth: Public Netbase, 1994-2006, Brian Holmes
272 Building a Netbase from Scratch, Francisco de Sousa Webber
276 Public Netbase; A Political Controversy, Konrad Becker, Martin Wassermair
280 Opposing Nest Culture: The Political Conflicts of Public Netbase, 1994-2006
Katharina Ludwig
286 Intermission at the Combat Zone, A Review of Public Netbase's Urban and Symbolic Lines
of Conflict, Clemens Apprich
294 Open Letter to the Austrian Public
300 Notice Served to Public Netbase in the Museumsquartier
302 Public Netbase tO Moves Into Position
Open Letter to Michael Háupl, Mayor of Vienna, and the Vienna City Government
Discussion on Public Funding and Critique, Branka CurÈic
WORLD-INFORMATION.ORG
World-Information.Org, World-Information.Org
World-InfoCon Brussels (2000): An Annotated Report, Steve Kurtz
World-Information Forum Vienna (2000): Conference Report, World-Information.Org
The Vienna Document, Xnational Net Culture and "The Need to Know" of Information
Societies , Open Cultures Working Group
World-InfoCon 2002 Amsterdam, Eric Kluitenberg
World-Information.Org mission in Serbia, Dejan Sretenovic
When State of Emergency Becomes a Constant, Branka Curcic
Cultural Intelligence and the Urban Multitudes, "World-Information City"
World-Information.Org
Bangalore and Back, Reflections on World-Information City, Bangalore, Felix Stalder
List of Contributors
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