We are asking for submissions of works that emanate from broadly speaking: artistic practice, as individuals or collectives, as well as other trans-disciplinary working arrangements, for a group exhibition to be held at Banner Repeater in June – August that consider the following:
“When the structure that something takes influences the shape the content takes, and also the ways that people might approach that content and use it, and likewise, the content begins to affect the structure as well” (Sean Dockray of
aaaaarg.org interviewed by
Cornelia Sollfrank in Giving What You Don’t Have, Expanded Appropriation:
http://vimeo.com/60377168), we can begin to understand the binding between humans and technology as a co-evolution.Of particular interest are new relations that come of issues regarding copyright, patents, trademarks, and the consequences of trade secrets, brought to the fore by digital media.
“Intellectual property rights, at least for patents and copyrights, may be considered rights in ideal objects. Patents can be obtained only for “practical” applications of ideas, but not for more abstract or theoretical ideas. Philosophical, mathematical or scientific truths cannot be protected under current law on the grounds that commerce and social intercourse would grind to a halt were every new phrase, philosophical truth, and the like, considered the exclusive property of its creator. But the distinction between creation and discovery is not clear-cut or rigorous. Nor is it clear why such a distinction, even if clear, is ethically relevant in defining property rights. No one creates matter; they just manipulate and grapple with it according to physical laws. In this sense, no one really creates anything. They merely rearrange matter into new arrangements and patterns. An engineer who invents a new mousetrap has rearranged existing parts to provide a function not previously performed. Others who learn of this new arrangement can now also make an improved mousetrap. Yet the mousetrap merely follows laws of nature. The inventor did not invent the matter out of which the mousetrap is made, nor the facts and laws exploited to make it work.” (N. Stephan Kinsella – Against Intellectual Property (2008))
We are interested in works that consider how content might be shaped by structural form and vice versa, that appropriate images/objects, and structures beyond the object, that challenge or critique all, or any of the above ideas, that might address:
It is worth noting that all technologies, on, and offline, are of interest.We will be screening the new film from director Ben Lewis: Google and the World Brain:
http://www.worldbrainthefilm.com/ “The most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google’s master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them. Google says they are building a library for mankind, but some say they also have other intentions”, during the exhibition period.Other recent points of interest may be found here:
http://artcopyright.interartive.org/category/art-and-copyright/
UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now
Everyone = Silicon Valley ad platforms tech companies
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/29/err_act_landgrab/
Furball – On Wikileaks, Bitcoin, Copyleft – Three Critiques of Hacktivism
By The Wine and Cheese Appreciation Society of Greater London, 8 February 2013
http://www.metamute.org/community/your-posts/furball-wikileaks-bitcoin-copyleft-three-critiques-hacktivism
Giving What You Don’t Have.
On the basis of filmed interviews Cornelia Sollfrank explores the frontiers of peer-to-peer production and distribution. Artistic research project commissioned by the Post-Media Lab, Leuphana University. Project launch with initial four interviews: Kenneth Goldsmith, Marcell Mars, Sean Dockray, Dmitry Kleiner. All interviews can be viewed in full length through the project website:
http://www.postmedialab.org/GWYDH
OPEN SUBMISSION PROCESS.
The open submission fee is £10 (to cover administration costs): please pay here.
Submission material criteria: 2-3 low res images of 2/3D works, vimeo link for all videos, live links to online works, with maximum 200 word description, and one page CV please.
Please send your submission to info@bannerrepeater.org with OPEN SUBMISSION in the header by the 31st May.
Successful submissions will be notified by 5th June, and must be able to deliver work to Banner Repeater (where appropriate) on 10th – 12th June, ready for opening on the14th June.
All BANNER REPEATER Associate Members enjoy free submission to the annual open submission exhibition as well as other benefits:
AMPP - Associate Membership Peer Programme.
· Peer Programme meetings; an opportunity to discuss new work with other members.
· Free submission to the Banner Repeater annual open submission exhibition.
· Banner Repeater membership card to AMPP.
· 10% off publishing in the bookshop.
· 10% off prints in the growing print portfolio.
To become a member of AMPP for £25 – please join here.
Selecting panel bios:
Ben Vickers is a writer, network analyst, curator, technologist and luddite. He makes a living and finds a vocation in understanding how systems of distribution, both human and other, come to affect our personal perception of reality. Vickers is currently Curator of Digital at the Serpentine, co-runs LIMAZULU Project Space, is an active member of EdgeRyders, leads Brighton University’s Professional ‘Reality’ Development Program and facilitates the development of unMonastery, a new kind of social space designed to serve the local communities of towns or small cities throughout Europe in solving key social and infrastructural problems.
Alana Kushnir is a freelance curator and art lawyer based in London. She is completing the MFA Curating program at Goldsmiths and prior to this, was working in Melbourne, Australia at the law firm King & Wood Mallesons, where she specialised in competition and intellectual property law. Her curatorial practice and research explores the intersections of intellectual property law, curating and art practices influenced by internet culture. Recent curated exhibitions include TV Dinners at BUS Projects, Melbourne (2012), Acoustic Mirrors (co-curator) at the Zabludowicz Collection, London (2012), Paraproduction at Boetzelaer|Nispen Gallery, Amsterdam (2012) and Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument (co-curator) at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2012-13). She has presented her research in a wide range of contemporary art publications and academic journals, including the Journal of Curatorial Studies, Leonardo Almanac and the self-published exhibition-zine, Paraproduction.
Helen Kaplinsky is a London based independent curator, tracing the confluence of contemporary art and the history of design. She has worked with the Arts Council Collection since 2011, having received a fellowship with the collection whilst studying Curating MFA at Goldsmiths University from 2009-11. Upcoming projects include a residency with Flux Factory (NYC), Muscle Memory and Auto Couture (both London). She lectures in Art and Design at City Literacy Institute. Her current research concerns consumer technologies, the Romantic imagination and post-fordism.
Ami Clarke both facilitates the running of Banner Repeater: reading room and project space, on Platform 1, Hackney Downs train station, opening up an experimental space for others, whilst dually sharing the goal in her practice to explore ideas that come of publishing, distribution, and dissemination: how the performance of language increasingly impacts upon daily life. BR commissions new art-writing for the publication UN-PUBLISH: a series of critical works published on paper, determined by ideas of shifting time and labour relations, that bear witness to epigenetic affects that may come of these new conditions. She is a co-founder of the Diagram Research, Use and Generation Group (DRUGG). Upcoming projects include Data-Pool 3, and Low Animal Spirits.
