[-empyre-] complete public events for Paper and Pixel Week at Documenta 12 (with links)

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

documenta 12 magazines: Kassel 16-22 July 2007

http://magazines.documenta.de/frontend/site.php? 
IdPublication=1&IdLanguage=1&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10&NrArticle=1526#anker



Paper and Pixel


organised by Alessandro Ludovico and Nat Muller

in collaboration with LabforCulture.org    http://www.labforculture.org/



Tuesday 17 July

13:00-14:30 Lunch Lecture, Documenta Halle

How to Survive the Paper Industry

Participants: Simon Worthington (Mute, London)  http:// 
www.metamute.org/ , Alessandro Ludovico (Neural, Bari) http:// 
www.neural.it/

Moderator: Nat Muller (Rotterdam)

Ever since ink turned into toner and pixel, printed paper has been  
struggling to survive as a medium. Yet,
stubborn independent editors are still producing the most endangered  
species of paper products: the
independent magazine. By endlessly reinventing content, technical and  
economical strategies these magazines
testimony to the distinct qualities of printed publications, such as  
periodicity, touch of paper and smell of copy.
Yet, it is precisely the love for the speed of electrons, and an  
understanding of the potentials of networked
media, that have inspired the cultural tactics of these magazines;  
from print-on-demand, collaborative editing,
sharing content and knowledge, to surfing and playing up to new  
economical demands.

16:00-17:30 Screening and Discussion

Ibon Aranberri in dialogue with Pablo Lafuente (London)

Kabinett 1, Documenta Halle


Thursday 19 July

10:30-12:00 The Art of Blogging

Kabinett 2, Documenta Halle

A lecture by Regine Debatty (We-make-money-not-art.com, Berlin).   
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/

The art of blogging. How blogging is an art and how to make it  
successful. The queen of media art blogging
Regine Debatty talks about the king of media art blogs. Ironically  
titled, 'we make money not art', the latter is a
unique case in the world of digital art publishing successful,  
competent, engaging, and purely digital.



13:00-14:30 Lunch Lecture, Documenta Halle

Processual Aesthetics, Processual Editing: Net-Working

Participants:

 Miren Eraso (Zehar, San Sebastian),  http://magazines.documenta.de/ 
frontend/index.php?IdMagazine=146, http://magazines.documenta.de/ 
frontend/index.php?IdMagazine=77

 Christina McPhee (-empyre-, Sydney),  http://www.subtle.net/ 
empyre , http://magazines.documenta.de/frontend/index.php?IdMagazine=59

 Patricia Canetti (Canal Contemporaneo, Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro)  
http://www.canalcontemporaneo.art.br/_v3/site/index.php?idioma=br


Moderator: Alessandro Ludovico (Neural, Bari) http:// 
magazines.documenta.de/frontend/index.php?IdMagazine=58

Cultural networking has been embodied in different forms through the  
various nets of independent publishers.
We will focus on the aesthetics and practices of networking,  
collaborative editing and publishing and how that
all ties into what has been called “processual aesthetics”, namely an  
aesthetics that recognizes the material and
embodied dimensions of netculture. Strategies of connecting, sharing,  
improve altogether, meeting on shared
goals and then terminating collaborations to start new ones as  
temporary autonomous zones of production and
development. So how do editors really work on the net, and where is  
the locus of pixel and where is the locus of
paper?



Saturday 21 July

13:00-14:30 Lunch Lecture, Documenta Halle

Publishing the Public: Contextualising Locality

Participants: Jaime Iregui (Esfera Pœblica, Bogota),  http:// 
magazines.documenta.de/frontend/index.php?IdMagazine=91

 Fran Ilich (Sab0t, Mexico City),   http://magazines.documenta.de/ 
frontend/index.php?IdMagazine=129

 Jose-Carlos Maráitegui (Lima/London)

 Nebojsa Vilic (Concrete Reflection, Skopje)  http:// 
magazines.documenta.de/frontend/index.php?IdMagazine=81

Moderator: Nat Muller (Rotterdam)

In a time when the public sphere is shrinking and “things public”  
become convoluted with “things privat(ised)”,
we would like to approach writing and publishing as a public act.  
Like curating, we would like to view publishing
as an effort towards making this public, and in the service of  
various publics. What is public is of course shaped
and moulded by the specificities of context. In a global era we  
insist to ask how we can work from a particular
locality, and go beyond the standard (and by now tedious) “local vs.  
global” debate, but head to another (yet
unknown) destination altogether.