[spectre] Live Performers Meeting - Cease and Desist Art

[Simona Lodi]

Dear friends and colleagues,

I'm glad to share with you what is going to happen in Rome next Thursday: 

Cease & Desist Art: yes, this is illegal!
LPM 2010 - LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING

>From 27th to 30st of May 2010, at Brancaleone in Rome, will take place 
the eighth edition of LPM - Live Performers Meeting: International 
encounter of live video performers, visual artists and vjs, dedicated to 
live video performances.

LPM will again use its 4-day formula, creating a unique and 
unforgettable event, which every year grants a program full of workshops 
and showcases of projects, softwares and brand-new products.

here more info:  http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/ 


Spotlight on:


THURSDAY 27: DIGITAL FREEDOMS

Digital Freedoms is a day of meetings that will reunite together leaders 
and creators of the italian digital and electronic culture. The intent 
is to bring together theorists, experts, activists and artists for a 
single date, to present and discuss the most important updates of this 
sector. The core theme of the day is the essence of culture, politics 
and communication throughout new medias, always keeping straight and 
firm the spirit of freedom that characterized them for decades. As 
coordinators of the day, a committee of excellence, Luigi Pagliarini 
(Artificialia), Simona Lodi (Piemonte Share), Arturo Di Corinto (FHF), 
Filippo Martorana (Linux club), Oriana Persico and Salvatore Iaconesi 
(Art is Open Source).

Here more info: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2010/en/thursday-27/


At 6.00 pm opening of the exhibition
“Cease & Desist Art: yes, this is illegal!”
curated by Simona Lodi.

For some years now, it has become common among digital artists to focus 
on illegal art practices. Countless Cease & Desist letters have been 
sent out by companies to pirates, plagiarists, hackers and disturbers, 
which are shown off as trophies in exhibitions, web communities and 
mailing lists. Action artists promote controversial forms of art, using 
guerilla tactics to protest against the fairness of copyright and 
intellectual property laws.
Receiving a Cease & Desist letter has become the latest badge in 
championing the freedom to create in the Corporation Age. Any artist 
interested in taking part in the movement chooses a good lawyer rather 
than a good gallery owner. What is happening to the future of art? What 
rights and freedoms are these artists championing? Does all this have 
something to do with the end of techno-utopias?
In what way has business co-opted the values of hackers, exploiting open 
source initiatives, web freedom and on-line equality and sparking the 
use of these practices?


http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2010/en/thursday-27/cease-desist-art-yes-this-is-illegal.htm 


Artists and works:

0100101110101101.ORG | Eva & Franco Mattes
Vaticano.org (1998)

0100101110101101.ORG | Eva & Franco Mattes
Nike Ground (2003)

Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico, UBERMORGEN.COM
Amazon Noir (2006)

Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico, UBERMORGEN.COM
GWEI | Google Will Eat Itself (2005)

etoy
The Digital Hijack (1996)

etoy
Toywar (1999)

Salvatore Iaconesi | Oriana Persico (Art is Open Source)
REFF | romaeuropa.org (2009)

Pete Ippel
oBay (2006)

Les Liens Invisibles
Liberté, Egalité, Volonté :: The Blasfemous Art Riot (2007)

Les Liens Invisibles
Seppukoo (2009)

Moddr_
The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (2009)

®TMark
GWBush.com (1999)

Cornelia Sollfrank
I DON'T KNOW (1968/2006)
Conversation between Andy Warhol and Cornelia Sollfrank

The Yes Men
The legendary BBC Bhopal Hoax (2004)

UBERMORGEN.COM
The Injunction Generator (2003)

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Simona Lodi, art critic and curator, was born in Alessandria and 
currently lives in Turin. Since 1993 she has been a contributor to 
various leading contemporary art journals. Simona's professional career 
spans New York, London and Turin - a city that has embraced the world of 
new technology and communication. It is in this context that the Share 
Festival - Art in the Digital Age, of which Simona is founder and Art 
Director, has found fertile ground to grow and develop.









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Simona Lodi
art director
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Share Festival
2/7 November 2010
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali 
Torino - IT
www.toshare.it
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SMIR Sant'Evasio
Multimedia Center
European Project Alcotra
Mondovì - Embrun
www.smirproject.eu/mondovi/ 
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The Sharing
Via Rossini 3 - 10124 Torino (IT)
phone: 0039.011.588.36.93
skype: simona.share.festival 

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