[Air-l] February on -empyre-: Geert Lovink and Trebor Scholz discuss networks, art and collaboration

[Michael Arnold-Mages]

February on -empyre-:


networks, art & collaboration

With Geert Lovink and Trebor Scholz


collaboration
1. United labour, co-operation; especially in literary, artistic,
or scientific work.
2. specifically Traitorous cooperation with the enemy.
--Oxford English Dictionary, Online Edition

Rarely does a word contain within it such positive and negative
connotations.  The history of collaboration reflects this duality.
Wordsworth and Coleridge, Fluxus, Wiki, Blogging, the organization of the
WTO protests, the rise of Nazism in pre-WWII Germany and surrounding
states, and the actions of the recent US-led "coalition" in Iraq
demonstrate positive and negative aspects of collaborative effort.

-empyre-, in cooperation with the conference on networks, art, &
collaboration (http://www.freecooperation.org), welcomes Geert Lovink
and Trebor Scholz, as they discuss the complexity, challenges and
rewards of collaboration both off and on-line.

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Lovink and Scholz are both part of a collaborative team that
created the collaborative weblog Discordia on arts, politics, and techno
cultures. (http://discordia.us)
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Geert Lovink Geert Lovink is an Amsterdam-born media theorist and
activist who co-founded the on-line group for media arts producers,
nettime, and the Australian-based forum fibreculture.org.  Lovink has
lectured widely on media theory, and is a member and co-founder of
Adilkno (Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge).
http://www.laudanum.net/geert
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Trebor Scholz
Born in East Berlin, Trebor Scholz is a media artist who,
involved in ventures both collaborative and individual, addresses
issues on the intersection of art, politics and the Internet.
Dividing his time between Brooklyn and Buffalo he is professor
at the Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo.
http://molodiez.org

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