[spectre] Art + Politics of P2P

[geoff cox]

The Art + Politics of P2P
24 March, 19.00
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
FREE

Michel Bauwens
Respondents: Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova

The presentation introduces the work of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer 
Alternatives - a clearing house for open/free, participatory/p2p and 
commons-oriented initiatives. The interest is in how P2P networks 
challenge hierarchical server-client relations and provide an 
alternative organisational principle for understanding cultural 
production and the creation of value. In discussion we aim to explore 
the potential of this way of thinking to re-energise the production of 
art following the principle that emergent and radical arts practices can 
be found in social energies not yet recognised as art.
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/about

Michel Bauwens is an active writer, researcher and conference speaker on 
the subject of technology, culture and business innovation. He is the 
founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in 
collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of 
peer production, governance, and property. He teaches at the Dhurakii 
Pundit University International College in Bangkok, Thailand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhurakij_Pundit_University
http://p2pfoundation.net/Bio

Matthew Fuller is author of 'Behind the Blip, essays on the culture of 
software' and 'Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and 
technoculture' and is editor of 'Software Studies, a lexicon' amongst 
other titles. He works at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths 
and is involved in a number of projects in art, experimental software 
and media.
http://spc.org/fuller/

Olga Goriunova is currently a Lecturer in Interactive Media at the 
Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College. She has been involved 
in the field of software cultures, co-producing four software art 
festivals Readme (http://readme.runme.org) and a software art repository 
Runme.org. She is currently working on a book 'Art Platforms'.

http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki/read.cgi?section=P2P&page=Home

organised by Arnolfini and Art & Social Technologies Research group 
(University of Plymouth), with support from the Pervasive Media 
Studio/Watershed.
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/
http://www.art-social.net/
http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/

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