[spectre] Telekommunisten and Venture Communism in Belgrade and Novi Sad, 19th and 20th of April

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Saturday 19th of April 7 PM, MKM, (address: Kraljevica Marka 4) Belgrade
slobodnakultura.org and Festival of Free Culture No 2 presenting the project
Presentation of the projects: Telekommunisten, the Art & Economics
Group, and Venture Communism
guest speaker: Dmytri Kleiner  http://www.telekommunisten.net/
introduction: Vladimir Jeric Vlidi http://slobodnakultura.org

Sunday 20th of April 7 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina,
(address: Dunavska 37) Novi Sad
Institute for Flexible Culture and Technologies - NAPON,
slobodnakultura.org and Festival of Free Culture No 2 presenting the
project:
Presentation of the projects: Telekommunisten, the Art & Economics
Group, and Venture Communism
guest speaker: Dmytri Kleiner http://www.telekommunisten.net
introduction: Vladan Jeremic  http://slobodnakultura.org


Dmytri Kleiner is a USSR-Born, Canadian software developer and
cultural producer, he is a co-founder of Telekommunisten, a worker's
collective that provides telephone and Internet services, and an
independent researcher investigating the intersections of art,
technology and political economy. Dmytri lives in Berlin with his wife
Franziska and their children Henriette and Nikolai.
With Telekommunisten, the Art & Economics Group, and Venture
Communism, as well as the related writings and activties, Dmytri
Keiner encourages a critical analysis of the social and economic
relations of communications and promotes the ideal of worker's
self-organization of production as a means of class struggle.
 Since organizing the 1997 Plunderpalooza festival of cultural
appropriation in Toronto, Dmytri has been a critic of Intellectual
Property, especially of copyright and has been actively involved in
the Free Software and Free Culture communities, his most recent
article on the subject, "Copyfarleft, Copyjustright, and the Iron Law
of Copyright Earnings" extends his criticism to the Creative Commons
and proposes a theoretical alternative license which prohibits
reproduction by means of private property and wage labour.
Dmytri is currently investigating the process of the stratification of
the Internet, especially the process by which peer-to-peer technology
is being marginalized, restricted and replaced by centralized,
client-server systems, extending the analysis he co-developed in the
Mute Magazine article "InfoEnclosure 2.0" and is also developing the
first in a series of mis-communicative artworks titled "For Miss
Information Call," as a part of the Hack.Fem.East exhibition opening
on May 9th, in Berlin.
The main product of Telekommunisten, Dialstation, is also currently
being redeveloped. The new version will be released on May 1st.

this is a joint project by:
slobodnakultura.org, Bureau for Culture and Communication, Women at
Work, Cultural Center DOB, Institute for Flexible Culture and
Technologies - NAPON, Wikimedia Serbia, Creative Commons Serbia,
kuda.org
concept and realization: slobodnakultura.org
slobodnakultura.org is a part of Druga scena http://drugascena.org