This document outlines the agenda and topics for discussion at the Former West Brown Bag event. It includes: discussions on art production and infrastructure in the digital age; the role and representation of artists online through CVs and social media; how technology like the internet provides visibility and accessibility for artists; and the social consequences of mass art production. Other topics mentioned include contemporary art definitions; the transformative nature of the current time period; and how to think critically about issues like post-colonialism and imagining other worlds.
3. Strands of Participation
Reading Timelines
Société Réaliste
From CV to Time Line: A Workshop on Labor and
Social Media
Prof. D. Dieter Lesage
How to Deal with What is Considered to be Art
Today
Keti Chukrov
Welcome to the “hood”
Nina Fischer & Moroan el Sani
7. Representation and
Performance of the Self and
the Artist in the Contemporary
Reading CVs and Timelines
How should the artist represent themselves in
contemporary art and institutions?
Constant and permanent performance of
immaterial labor (Negri) and social media
Do we still sleep? Do we still rest from
performance?
12. Medium of the Internet
Computer/ Mobile Phones
Observable
Finite
13. What the Internet provides
Potent visibility
Accessibility
Transparency
14. Points
Password as contemporary subjectivity
Hacker breaks the code of hermeneutics
Cyborg as the secret of subjectivity
Going beyond the panoptic
Unbreakable encryption as the true utopia and
true subjectivity
22. Rhetoric of the Future
European collapse
Catalan, Basque, Greece
Final act of the neo-liberal
Failure of the occupied movements
Fragilization of empathy between human beings
Salaries and debts to pay
Precarization
Precario bello
26. Flashpoints
1832 (Steyerl)
Student uprising against the regime (France), setting
of Les Miserables, serialized pulp fiction
1977 (Bifo)
Apple trademark, death of Charlie Chaplin,
genetically created human being, beginnings of
punk, modernism dissolved, beginnings of the
European collapse
27.
28. Transformative nature of our
time similar to 1989
Contemporary Moment
Globalization
Migrations, Citizenship, Diaspora
Return of Religion
Religious extremism
Debate of good vs. evil
Impact of Technology
Internet
Social media
29. Maria Hlavajova:
Propositions
How do we think critically?
Post-Colonial, Post-Communist, Imagining the
World Other
Shifts and tilting balance
Shifts in vocabularies
Decentering Discourses