[spectre] Brazilian Velvet Gold Mine - Sub>midialogy.

[marc garrett]

Sorry for any cross posting...

Brazilian Velvet Gold Mine - Sub>midialogy.

Article by Ricardo Ruiz on Furtherfield.

Since 2005, a series of radical conferences has taken place around 
Brazil, organized on a discussion list: Sub>midialogy - the art of 
re:volving knowledge logos by practices and disorienting practices by 
the immersion in sub-knowledge. Ricardo Ruiz wonders what will happen to 
all this creative energy now that funding has arrived.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=364

"Some years ago, the elements (ideas, conceptions, practices, people) 
that compose the current (so-called) Free Culture movement were 
appropriated by the bureaucrat and the capitalist. The ones that made 
use of the technologies and available media to the creation of actions 
that provided the debate on new perspectives of possible social 
arrangements (obtained by tools such as free licenses, networks of 
communication, open source software), are today digested by the old 
apparatuses and social mechanisms that once they have used and 
questioned. They participated, many times unconsciously, in a 
“socio-professional training” in order to occupy the same functions 
established for the maintainers of a system that is distant from what we 
imagine as a possible human grouping, even more distanced from freedom." 
submidialogy.


Other Info:

A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...

We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org

VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html

Furthernoise -  an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org