[Air-l] CfM: The Art and Politics of Netporn (Amsterdam, Oct. 7/8)

[geert lovink]

CALL FOR MATERIAL/ART PROJECTS
The Art and Politics of Netporn

Institute of Network Cultures,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
6-7 October, 2005

WHAT IS NETPORN?  Web-based media and environments that filter porn 
images and traffic between industries and art/indie cultures, 
corporations, ISP’s and net users; involving daily (female and male) 
activities such as blogging, webcamming, chatting, binging on porn 
portals, p2p porn, live journals, confession boards, mailing lists and 
zines.

THEORY AND POLITICS:  New waves of netporn censorship have a clear 
affect on artistic freedom and our sexual bodies. We would like to 
engage in discussions of globalization, freedom of speech, (self) 
censorhip and government/institutional surveillance of traffic, of sex 
cultures and networked minorities. Does netporn corroborate the image 
regimes of ‘cruelty,’ a wide-spread creation of appetite for violence, 
terrorism, war on innocence and sexual otherness, openness.  What are 
the alternatives?

ART PROJECTS:  We are looking for new openings, new definitions and 
articulation of pornography, ‘art’ as solo path or collaborative 
wisdom, a tactical media approach to netporn for belly wisdom and 
processing media histories. As Matteo Pasquinelli ponders in ‘Warporn 
Warpunk! Autonomous Videopoesis in Wartime,’ we are grinning monkeys 
who seek war and torture news as a type of pornography, but can we use 
netporn to nurture our inner beasts and media intellects?

DISCUSSIONS: Netporn is an intricate fabrication of desires and 
mechanisms of repression. Debate means recognizing and re-drawing the 
contours of hype and hysteria, of polemics and polarization, discussing 
netporn as local and global phantasms, or cross-fertilization between 
economies, desire and art/queer politics.  Discussions will be opened 
February 2005 on a web-based mailinglist and will continue in plenary 
sessions at the conference.

Please submit 250-word abstracts for papers/panels, or art/media 
projects about the following topics. In your abstracts indicate what 
type of media you need for your presentation, and please include an 
address where you can be reached.

Censorship
Representation
Aesthetics
Traffic
Games
P2p
Economy
Politics
Queer/gender/gay
Feminism
War porn
Punk Porn
Media-archeology
Geographies

DEADLINE:  March 15, 2005

PLEASE SEND YOUR ABSTRACTS to: netporn at networkcultures.org

Katrien Jacobs
Geert Lovink
Sabine Niederer

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