[-empyre-] Reclaiming creativity as agent of change

[Andreas Maria Jacobs]

Dear Simon,

May be tangent to your initiative:


Reclaim the Mind:

a transmedial collaborative initiative exploring empty spots in the human
mind

"When the possibility of expressing social reform vanishes, time has come
to change our minds." [A.A. 2010]

Censorship, Territorization, Mapping, Propaganda, Misconduct, Betrayal,
Charlatanism, Mediocrity, Commercialized Education, Orthodoxy, Cultural
Lobotomization, Zombie State Politics

Reclaiming the idiomatic resources, abused by the Creative Industries ™
and jeopardized by a majority of National Governments © and aiming to
protect these souvereign incomprehensible treasures of mankind by

- occupying the area between 'reality' and 'truth',
- re-using forgotten (collective) memory-spaces,
- connecting mental processes with physical spaces,

and intentionally breaking seperations between established cultural and
political domains by

- rewriting, tearing apart, scratching and stretching our lived
environment in an effort to liberate our ursurpated sensibilities.


Currently on view at most browsers worldwide

http://nictoglobe.com/new/query10.html?d=rtmfr42011&f=rtm

with contributions by a.o.:

Paolo Cirio, osvaldo cibils,Nettrice Gaskins,Joseph Nechvatal,Mauri
Lethonen,Jeremy Hight, The Memelab,Andy Deck, and a lot more


Andreas Maria Jacobs - Editor, Nictoglobe Online Magazine
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On Sun, July 3, 2011 18:25, Simon Biggs wrote:
> We would like to welcome our two colleagues for the first week's
> discussion
> for July on empyre, Shu Lea Cheang and Paolo Cirio. Each is an artist who
> engages themes and employs methods that directly address issues of
> authorship, intellectual property, sharing and open access.
>
> Shu Lea Cheang (Taiwan/USA/France) works with net-based installation,
> social
> interface, networked performance and film/digital production. Her work
> traverses hard and soft, sex and polities, fiction and reality, fantasia
> and
> earth-bound.  Cheang co-initiated Kingdom of Piracy (since 2002), an
> online,
> open work space which explores piracy as the net's ultimate art form. For
> KOP, she created BURN (2003), commissioned by FACT, Liverpool and shown as
> part of Zone of Urgency at Venice Biennale 2003.  Currently she is working
> on UKI, (2009-2012), a viral performance/game project which merges
> corporal
> virus, viral codes and bio-hack in a scenario of code-sexing frenzy.
> http://kop.kein.org , http://kop.kein.org/burn , http://www.u-k-i.co
>
> Paolo Cirio (Italy) works as media artist in various fields: net-art,
> street-art, video-art, software-art and and experimental fiction. He has
> won
> prestigious art awards and his controversial works have been sustained by
> research grants, collaborations and residencies. He has exhibited in
> museums
> and art institutions worldwide. As public speaker he delivers lectures and
> workshops on media tactics.
>
> The July edition of empyre " Reclaiming creativity as agent of change" is
> co-moderated by Simon Biggs (UK/Aus) and Magnus Lawrie (UK).
>
>
> Simon Biggs | simon at littlepig.org.uk | www.littlepig.org.uk
>
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