BW )(: The Art + Politics of P2P

[Peter Ferne]

Please excuse the cross posting. Slightly off-topic but hopefully of  
interest:
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petef

Begin forwarded message:

The Art + Politics of P2P
24 March, 19.00
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
FREE

Michel Bauwens
Respondents: Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova

The presentation introduces the work of the Foundation for Peer-to- 
Peer Alternatives - a clearing house for open/free, participatory/p2p  
and commons-oriented initiatives. The interest is in how P2P networks  
challenge hierarchical server-client relations and provide an  
alternative organisational principle for understanding cultural  
production and the creation of value. In discussion we aim to explore  
the potential of this way of thinking to re-energise the production of  
art following the principle that emergent and radical arts practices  
can be found in social energies not yet recognised as art.
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/about

Michel Bauwens is an active writer, researcher and conference speaker  
on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation. He is  
the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works  
in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration  
of peer production, governance, and property. He teaches at the  
Dhurakii Pundit University International College in Bangkok, Thailand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhurakij_Pundit_University
http://p2pfoundation.net/Bio

Matthew Fuller is author of 'Behind the Blip, essays on the culture of  
software' and 'Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and  
technoculture' and is editor of 'Software Studies, a lexicon' amongst  
other titles. He works at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths  
and is involved in a number of projects in art, experimental software  
and media.
http://spc.org/fuller/

Olga Goriunova is currently a Lecturer in Interactive Media at the  
Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College. She has been involved  
in the field of software cultures, co-producing four software art  
festivals Readme (http://readme.runme.org) and a software art  
repository Runme.org. She is currently working on a book 'Art  
Platforms'.

http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki/read.cgi?section=P2P&page=Home

organised by Arnolfini and Art & Social Technologies Research group  
(University of Plymouth), with support from the Pervasive Media Studio/ 
Watershed.
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/
http://www.art-social.net/
http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/

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