[spectre] Support Dulltech

[Josephine Bosma]

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The unexpected happened: artist Constant Dullaart is very close to reaching his 30.000 euro goal on kickstarter. He is now at about 25.000 with only 20 hours to go. Dullaart has developed a video player for art installations under the name Dulltech. Apart from the player being a solution to issues in syncing video's in art installations however, this project highlights some critical issues in media art itself.

You can help realize this work by pledging anything from 30 to 6000 euros, the latter for the gold pledge I wish I could make myself. This project is particularly interesting for institutions that present video art. 

If you want to read more about this project here are some links and some quotes:

Interview for the ICA:

"How does this model work for institutional critique, or works that can’t be explained in the preferred two and a half minute pitch video? "Explain the value of your work in this elevator pitch so my uninterested uncle can understand it." In the meantime I am getting emails from Kickstarter to sharpen up my video, to keep tweeting happy tweets, to thank my backers with personal emails, to clarify my project, to pay large sums to get onto mailing lists with guaranteed interested backers and investors. Between my research of starting a company—to which this Kickstarter campaign belongs—and riding the neoliberal snake, this happy corporate optimising bullshit is getting to me."

https://www.ica.org.uk/blog/neoliberal-hardware-lulz-constant-dullaart

Article on Rhizome:

"For Dullaart gaining access even to view the conditions of labor means operating within its stratification as a business. Similar to other migrant laborers in the region, those who Dullaart and his colleagues interviewed prior to contracting the O.E.M. came from rural areas in China to Shenzhen because of their desire to be middle class, the higher wages available compared with local agricultural labor in their hometowns and the factory's provision of room and board as well as some benefits. Despite the unsettling reaction to Chinese factories, when one criticizes the product for using the labor in Shenzhen, one  also criticizes the products that form the infrastructure of the web."

Link to the kickstarter page of Dulltech:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1271076119/dulltechtm-straightforward-technology-for-you-and


I invite you to help this project along in any way possible, this includes any criticism you might have.




best,



J
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