[artinfo] Fwd: KLab9:Art Call for Contributions

[Janos Sugar]

>KLab9:Art Call for Contributions
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>Technology, Authorship and Ways of Living
>A weekend gathering for collaborative and creative reflection.
>5th - 7th October, 2007 tbc.
>Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University,
>North West England.
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>INTRODUCTION
>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.
>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.
>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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>STREAMS
>Like previous knowledge labs the day will be divided
>into four streams, each will take place in a separate
>room.
>STREAM 1: TECHNOLOGY Free software, art spaces and
>interfaces, hardware, and recycling/reusing.
>STREAM 2: WAYS OF LIVING Process, moment, performance,
>politics, gender issues, community and cultural
>production, personal/political, and imaginative
>resistance. Also we hope to see papers touching on
>initiatives in direct democracy; the art of changing
>that system, and the paradigms of inspiration.
>STREAM 3: AUTHORSHIP Copy rights, ownership,
>patenting, and appropriation.
>STREAM 4: THE ART MARKET (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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>ACADEMIC PAPERS
>The list above is not prescriptive, it simply outlines
>some of the issues we envisage arising given the
>titles of the four streams. Please also send papers on
>other themes, these will be gratefully considered.
>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.
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>WORKSHOPS, FACILITATED DISCUSSIONS, ARTWORKS AND
>PERFORMANCES
>These will broadly tie in with, and be presented as
>part of, 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
>discussion, 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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>SATURDAY EVENING
>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.
>Nb. Groups are welcome to contribute workshops,
>materials for display and/or distribution.
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>INVOLVEMENT AND SKILLS SHARING
>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:klab9art at googlemail.com
>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 and in the drafting of the "output".
>We also still need people to FACILITATE sessions -
>ideally a session should NOT be adopted and
>facilitated by the same person(s). Facilitators are
>usually best if experienced in their task, and will be
>called upon to facilitate not only discussion, but
>also the drafting of the "output". Any which way,
>please get in touch.
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>INFORMATION
>DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS
>February 1st 2007
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>CONTACT
>klab9art at googlemail.com
>Amy, Ana and Synnove
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>COSTS AND PRACTICALITIES
>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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>ACCOMODATION
>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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>FOR MORE INFORMATION:
>Visit respectively the respective sites for the
>previous knowledgelabs:
>http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/FirstKnowledgeLab
>http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/SecondKnowledgeLab
>http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/ThirdKnowledgeLab
>About Klab9:Art
>http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/KLab9
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