<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Hello, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I would like to distribute the following call for papers for:</div><div><br></div><div> amber '12 Arts and Technology Festival and Conference 9-18 November, Istanbul</div><div>Call for papers: <span style="font-weight: bold;">deadline 31st of August</span></div><div>Conference dates: <span style="font-weight: bold;">9-11 November</span></div><div>http://amberplatform.org/en/festival/item/341-paratactic-commons</div><div><br></div><h2 class="itemTitle">
<font size="3">amber' 12 theme: PARATACTIC COMMONS
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<div>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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?</div>
<div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>For more information visit: http://amberplatform.org/en/festival/item/341-paratactic-commons</div><div>Applications for the conference can be made from our website. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>