[aha] synthetic times

[Simona Lodi]

ecco l'intervento di Armin Medosch
The currently running exhibition in beijing, synthetic times, and the
holding of isea 2008 in singapure both raise the question of the
compatibility of media art with dictatorial regimes. I am not commenting
on the quality of individual art works, and surely a show as big as the
beijing one contains at least a few good artworks, yet the field as a
whole must ask itself the question if it has any potential of resistance
vis-a-vis the cooptation of 'digital creativity' by regimes practicing
totalitarian capitalism - especially as western countries themselves are
on the tipping point of becoming electoral dictatorships whereby
politics is replaced by technocratic crowd management and other
techniques of 'authoritarian democracy'. it is clear that in times of a
funding crunch many people are happy to show any work anywhere, but the
institutions and individuals participating must ask themselves where
they stand when they show work in an exhibition which on the whole is a
sanitised version of media art from which all notions of dissens and
social critique have been purged. if this is business as usual then it
is not my business, sorry, I could not leave this unnoticed ...





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "roberta buiani" <robb at yorku.ca>
To: "List on artistic activism and net culture" <aha at ecn.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [aha] synthetic times


qualcuno mi manda il link dell'intervento?
mi interessa....sono una di quelle che va a ISEA (con non pochi salti
mortali finanziari) in cerca di collaborazioni che "fanno la
differenza" (e mi pare ce ne siano a giudicare da certa gente che
partecipera')


> il boicottaggio funziona a mio avviso se è un onda cosi amp0ia da
> ar vacillare e anche cadere
> ciò cntro cui si sta lottando

...e ovviamente  con l'idea sopra. o si e' in tanti (ma tanti
davvero) o non funziona.
trovo  piu' produttivo (e  piu' difficile, sia strategicamente che
concettualmente) trovare un modo per partecipare e ottenere qualcosa
pur mantenendo la propria coerenza. anche li' i pericoli di essere
"risucchiati" non sono pochi.

r

On 29-Jun-08, at 12:46 PM, maya wrote:
>
> Il 29 giugno 2008 17.23, Simona Lodi <simona.lodi at toshare.it> ha
> scritto:
> cosa ne pensate di questa questione che  Armin Medosch ha sollevato
> su "spectre" qualche giorno fa?
> " The currently running exhibition in beijing, synthetic times, and
> the
> holding of isea 2008 in singapure both raise the question of the
> compatibility of media art with dictatorial regimes...."
>
> cosa fareste voi...partecipare, boicottare, collaborare per
> cambiare...?
>
> s.
>
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