DATA Event 51.0

When: February 16th 2012 18:30 – 20:30

Location: Studios One and Two, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin.

Cost: Free

Data 51.0 brings together an international selection of media artists and theorists, to explore the links between activism, art, and business. Where open source, hactivism and media art generally are still presented as ideologically opposed to the logics of information capitalism, the reality is that many hackerspaces receive corporate funding, open source platforms and user-generated content form the basis for many commercially orientated applications and much of the dominant media art of today is to varying degrees reliant on the financial trajectories of technological R&D. Rather than denying this relationship or refusing to engage with the corporation, we want to ask how artists and activists might use their position in the market and their creative tools to critique, disrupt, or even potentially reshape economic spaces from within. Speakers: Editor of Neural Alessandro Ludovico,and artist Paolo Cirio, creators of the Hacking Monopolism Trilogy: Google Will Eat Itself, and Face to Facebook, and artist/theorist Tatiana Bazzichelli, author of Networking: the Network as Art,


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Tatiana Bazzichelli Tatiana Bazzichelli is a researcher, networker and curator, working in the field of hacktivism and net culture. She is part of the transmediale festival team in Berlin. She received a Ph.D. in Information and Media Studies from Aarhus University (DK), conducting research on disruptive art practices in the business of social media (title: Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking). 
She is the author of Networking. La rete come arte | The Net as Artwork book published in December 2006 by Costa & Nolan, Milan. She is founder of the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism (2001), which won the Honorary Mention for the Digital Communities category at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 2007. She founded the aha@lists.ecn.org mailing-list regarding artistic activism and net culture in Italy.

website: www.tatianabazzichelli.com www.networkingart.eu

Paolo Cirio Paolo Cirio has worked as a media artist in various fields: net art, street art, video art, public art, software art and experimental storytelling. He investigates perceptions and the creation of cultural, political and economic realities manipulated by modes of informational control. As well as his work with Alessandro Ludovico on the Hactivist Monopolism Trilogy, Cirio is also the developer of the P2P Gift Credit Card, a system for counterfeiting virtual money in order to reintroduce wealth distribution though a new visionary economic model. The project proposes an alternative economy based on peer-to-peer architectures for an equitable distribution of wealth. Other recent works include Drowning NYC which branded and promoted a firm that exploits sea level rise in NYC, Recombinant Fiction, a transmedia storytelling project through social networks, and Open Society Structures, which explores the notion of direct, participatory and processual democracy.

Website: paolocirio.net

Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of the highly respected Neural magazine from 1993. He is the author of several essays on digital culture, he co-edited ‘Mag.Net Reader’. He’s one of the founding contributors of the Nettime community, one of the founders of the Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers)’ organization and he teaches ‘Computer Art’ and ‘Interface Aesthetics’ at the Academy of Art in Carrara. He also collaborates with Paolo Cirio on artistic projects which have toured the world: Face to Facebook (Distinction Prix Ars Electronica 2011), GWEI – Google Will Eat Itself (Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica 2005, Rhizome Commission 2005, nomination Prix Transmediale 2006) and Amazon Noir (1st prize Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2007, Honorary Mention Share Prize 2007).

Website:www.neural.it

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This event is funded by the Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTVR) and Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin.

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DATA Event 50.0

When: Friday 20th January 2012, 18:30 – 20:30

Location: Studios One and Two, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin.

Cost: Free

DATA 50.0 pays particular attention to the Sonic Arts, showcasing the intersection of practitioners across Digital Media, Electroacoustic Composition, Spatial Audio, Networked Performance and New Interfaces for Musical Expression.This is a good opportunity to see a diverse range of Dublin based sound artists talk through their practices, demonstrate their instruments, interfaces and tools, discuss upcoming projects and perform new work. Presenters include electronic collective Dublin Laptop Orchestra, and sound artists Slavek Kwi and Cobi Van Tonder. Broadcasting live with Ustream

Dublin Laptop Orchestra The Dublin Laptop Orchestra makes music with lots of laptops, hands, golf controllers, and hemispherical speakers. Our aim is to bring some theatricality and ‘physical presence’ into electronic music performance. We do this by creating software instruments that require movement and skill from performers and encourage interaction and improvisation. Dublin Laptop Orchestra are Alex Dowling, Jenn Kirby, Rachel Ní Chuinn, David Collier, Enda Gallery, Tara Lewis, Emma O’Halloran, Saramai Leech, Amanda Feery and Mark Rooney

website: www.dublinlaptoporchestra.com facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DublinLaptopOrchestra twitter:@DubLork

Slavek Kwi Slavek Kwi is sound-artist, composer and researcher whose main interest lies in the phenomena of perception as the fundamental determinant of relations with Reality. He has been fascinated by sound-environments for the last 30 years, focusing on electroacoustic sound-paintings. These complex audio-situations are created mainly from site specific recordings, resulting in subjective reports for radio-broadcast, “cinema for ears” performed on multiple speakers, sound-installations integrated into the environment and performances. His works oscillates between purely sound-based and multidisciplinary projects. From the early nineties Slavek has operated under the name Artificial Memory Trace.

Website: artificialmemorytrace.com/ listen here: soundcloud.com/artificialmemorytrace

Cobi Van Tonder Cobi van Tonder is a South African born composer, electronic artist and lecturer, currently undertaking a practice based PhD in the Art and Technology Research Lab in Trinity College Dublin. Her music, sound art and inter-media works range from networked acoustic explorations, to traditional instrumental works, to video installations and projections – the main focus always the listening experience. Works revolve around sound perception, multi-channel computer-generated composition, networked sound, acoustic studies, tools and methods for the control of spatiality in sound. The recursive theme in works are how they create, challenge and reinvent conceptions of the audio-physical experience of spaces and objects whilst maintaining a sense of mystery and beauty. Van Tonder has also produced commercially for cinema, television, radio, and mobile media before commencing academic studies at a later age.

Website:otoplasma.com/ Listen here: otoplasma.com/here.html View Larger Map

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