[spectre] Request distribution amber'12 arts and technology conference 9-11 November

[Zeynep Gunduz]

Hello, 


I would like to distribute the following call for papers  for:

amber '12 Arts and Technology Festival and Conference  9-18 November, Istanbul
Call for papers: deadline 31st of August
Conference dates: 9-11 November
http://amberplatform.org/en/festival/item/341-paratactic-commons

amber' 12 theme: PARATACTIC COMMONS 
The decade that followed 9/11 witnessed a radical regression of 
communal energies, forcing us to live strictly in individual spheres; 
the fear and control society in the guise of a war on terror, the 
tendency of nation-states to impose their ideological agendas onto 
everyone and everything under their control and the conflicts and 
collaborations of a global consumerist economy that urges the rapid 
privatization of public goods have all taken a toll on the common values of human societies around the Globe. The commons that we need to regain entail a broad spectrum. They range from ecological unbalances, which 
result from the privatization of natural resources, to the ‘de facto’ 
privatization of judicial systems, which has led to the degradation of a justice that is common to all.

Meanwhile, the ever-popularizing 
digital media, beginning with the Internet itself as a common resource, 
has been a major source of inspiration in revitalizing the idea of the 
commons. More specifically, the capacities offered by new media have 
helped to re-understand that information is a “common” as well as the 
right to access information.

amber’12 selects as its theme 
“Paratactic Commons”: Can digital commons be an alternative platform to 
launch a political system whose main aim is sharing, transparency, and 
freedom of expression? What can we learn from free software’s, copyleft 
movements, peer-2-peer systems, the logic of open source, and creative 
commons? Could the [digital] commons help for the creation of another 
form of economy and ecology? Could humans [we?]share their common 
resources rather than exploit them? What kind of paratactic artistic 
strategies could digital commons consist of?
amber ’12 invites artists, designers, academics, researchers and 
others interested parties to take part in “Paratactic Commons” for 
re-thinking the commons through the perspective of art and free, 
creative, and participatory thought.

For more information visit: http://amberplatform.org/en/festival/item/341-paratactic-commons
Applications for the conference can be made from our website. 
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