Posted June 27th, 2009 by surplus
Not An Alternative is sponsoring Participation Camp this weekend, an un-conference to take place at NYU’s ITP department and online via livestream, skype, twitter, and other virtual social media. Participate here: http://mudball.net/pcamp09/
More info:
Change the Rules: Democracy is a game in which we all make the rules. How do we make this serious game more inclusive, more fair, and more fun?
Participation Camp will provide the spark for an explosion of sharing, experimentation, and collaboration around this question. Participants may attend a wide range of physical and virtual presentations (or deliver one themselves), compete in a conference-wide participation game, or roll up their sleeves in a hands-on workshop.
Posted June 21st, 2009 by surplus
Not An Alternative will be participating in an upcoming show called No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents*.
June 24-28, 1-9pm daily
X-Initiave (former Dia space)
548 West 22nd Street
Chelsea, NY, NY 10011
From the press release:
Held at X from June 24 through June 28, NO SOUL FOR SALE – A Festival Of Independents will bring together the most exciting, creative and respected not-for-profit centers, alternative institutions, artists’ collectives and independent enterprises from around the world that contribute to the international art scene by inventing new strategies for the distribution of information and by supporting a diverse cultural program.
X has invited more than 30 art spaces to travel to New York City to present themselves, their programs and the artists they support. With associations and groups coming from Berlin, Milan, Dublin, Barcelona, Paris, Reykjavík, Hong Kong, Rabat, Trinidad, New York, Los Angeles, and many other locations, NO SOUL FOR SALE provides a unique occasion to foster creative exchange and to connect with international organizations that aren’t usually accessible in New York City. With free entrance and a rich program of daily activities, NO SOUL FOR SALE will be a celebration of the independent forces that animate contemporary art.
*Our installation is made possible with generous support in the form of equipment from Eyebeam. Thanks Eyebeam!
Posted June 21st, 2009 by surplus
Thursday, June 18, 6:30 - 8pm (free)
Please join us this Thursday, June 18 for the next installment of the 2009 Upgrade New York programming series.
This month’s featured speaker is internet theorist, consultant and author Clay Shirky. Clay will discuss the concepts of fork and failure in the open source process, and will open them to discussion in the context of activism and the creative process.
If you can’t make it in person, tune in to the live-stream at http://www.livestream.com/notanalternative
Clay Shirky is a writer, educator, and consultant on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He is an adjunct professor at New York University (NYU) in their graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he teaches courses on the interrelationships of social and technological networks, particularly how they shape culture and vice-versa. He consults to a variety of organizations on network technologies, and is an acknowledged expert on collaboration tools, social networks, peer-to-peer sharing, collaborative filtering, and Open Source development. Clay has spoken and written extensively on the Internet since 1996, with regular columns in Business 2.0, FEED, OpenP2P.com and his own shirky.com blogsite. He has appeared in The New York Times, Time, The Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, and others. In his new book, “Here Comes Everybody”, Clay explores how organizations and industries are being upended by open networks, collaboration, and user appropriation of content production and dissemination.
Upgrade! is an international network of autonomous nodes located throughout the world that are united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. Upgrade! NY is a monthly programming series co-produced by Eyebeam and Not An Alternative. The 2009 curatorial theme explores open source activist and creative practices.
Posted June 1st, 2009 by surplus
Thursday June 4, 7:30 pm, free
@ The Change You Want To See Gallery
This Thursday evening artist and activist Martin Krenn will present his work that ranges from co-operative, socially committed and participatory projects to politically symbolic, provocative actions. Based in Vienna, Austria, Krenn is an artist, curator, filmmaker, and activist whose work focuses on strategies and methods of resistance to the governing relations of power. He uses different media such as photography, video and the internet to develop projects that are realized in exhibitions, the web and in public space. His talk will give insights in his newer projects where an extended concept of art, subversive techniques and testing the so-called ‘freedom of art’ are deployed mostly strategically.
Krenn is the Chair of the Austrian Artists Association - IG Bildende Kunst and since 2006 has taught Interventionist Art at the Department of Art and Communicative Practice/University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Current projects include “In between the movements - an ongoing video project about global justice movements”, “Normality in [the] Crisis”, “Democracy and Welfare for All” and “On the Tectonics of History” which can be seen in the ISCP-New York in Brooklyn till June 28.
http://www.martinkrenn.net
This event is co-produced by Not An Alternative and Pond: art, activism, ideas.
