[spectre] last Hybrid Doscourse event

[Joasia]

Hybrid Discourse
May 13th 6 - 8 PM (British Time)
Place: Sherwell Centre / University of Plymouth / Plymouth / UK

to listen to webcast of event or to join on-line discussion:
www.i-dat.org/projects/hybrid

Speakers: Jospehine Bosma // Volker Grassmuck


Hybrid Discourse is a series of events investigating current cultural
debates in the context of digital media. Focusing on key issues such as
relations between art and industry, emerging cultural, commercial and hybri=
d
practices as well as new models of institutional practices this program
seeks to re-address critical terms of Adorno and Horkheimer's original
concept of the culture industry in the current context.

Josephine Bosma will be examining how the developments in net art provoke a
new perspective on not only art itself but also on its context, most
specifically art criticism. Incorporating media theory and media criticism
with art criticisim, she will examine ways to contextualize, exhibit and
value art in a networked society.

Volker Grassmuck's lecture will consider how  the  the architecture and
ethos of the internet is being changed   by the Content or more precisely
the Rights Industry -- today's designation for the Culture Industry. It is
not neccesarily a problem that the Bertelsmanns and Beate Uhses are  coming
online but how it effects the non- and decidedly anti-capitalist cultures
like the free software movement is a concern.
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Josephine Bosma writes on art and new media. Publications of her work have
been both offline and online in, amongst others, Mute (UK), Telepolis (D),
Metropolis M (NL), UHK (NO), Switch (USA), Ars Electronica '97 catalogue
(AT), the book cyberfeminizam edited by Igor Markovich (SI) and the book
netzkunst edited by Verena Kuni (D).In 1996 Josephine Bosma organised the
radio aspect of n5m2, and in 1999 she did so again for its successor n5m3.
In January 2001 Josephine Bosma initiated the newsletter for net art
criticism cream.

Volker Grassmuck is a media researcher & freelance writer. He has done
research on artificial intelligence, garbage, otaku, the Turing Galaxy, the
history of media and identity discourse in Japan, and on the knowledge orde=
r
of digital media. He is currently researching at the Helmholtz Center for
Cultural Technology of Humboldt University Berlin, curating the event serie=
s
The Wizards of OS=94, and networking media cultures as part of the group
mikro.

Hybrid Discourse is organised by Anya Lewin and Joasia Krysa with support
from the Institute of Digital Art and Technology (i-DAT), Dartington Colleg=
e
of Arts, World of Work, Mute, and the European Social Fund.
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