September 12, 2006
TESLA Medien>Kunst
Picturing Free Knowledge
Picturing Free Knowledge :: Friday, 15 and Saturday, 16 September, 20:30, at TESLA Medien>Kunst
Image economies take place between Big Business and Creative Commons licences: The Brasilian agency Radiobrás started publishing its news and multimedia broadcasts under CC licences just this summer. During Robbie Williams' recent tour in Germany photographers were not permitted to take pictures of the pop star. A Berlin newspaper reacted by publishing mobile phone pictures taken by their reporter -- the resolution was accordingly low. If one compares the search results in Google Images with the results from databases like Corbis and Getty Images, one has to find out that the pay services clearly
offer higher quality.
Starting from the debate on copyrights, the videos in the programme ask for the power relations in image production and distribution. Which pictures dominate the discourse of the media? How can images be created and distributed outside copyright obligations? What does the enormous and enthusiastic image production in online video communities such as YouTube mean?
The programme presents artistic strategies by which power relations and media image policies represented in images are reflected: The correspondence with the footage-department of a company selling royalty-free film and video clips for commercial purpose reveals their guidelines allowing nothing but hegemonic and stereotypical images. For a moment the logic behind the circulation of capitalist value becomes visible. In other cases, works demand a freer way of dealing with images, for example when public domain footage from film archives is rearranged and published under a Creative Commons licence.
Picturing Free Knowledge I: Image Banks
Friday, 15 September, 20:30
Videos by Johanna Billing, Nina Fischer / Maroan el Sani, Nate Harrison, Marysia Lewandowska / Neil Cummings, Sean Snyder, VitoriaMario, Florian Zeyfang and others
The first programme entitled 'Image Banks' takes existing images as its starting point: Images and their sources are reflected in different contexts, for example, the homogenous aethetics of news images or the categories of commercial image databases are called into question.
Later in the evening, Ricardo Ruiz and Tatiana Wells, currently residents at TESLA, will play a music programme and live stream mix from Brasilian radio stations.
22:00 Klub: rádio cidadăo comum: net batucada brasileira on free and pirated music
Picturing Free Knowledge II: Image Agents
Saturday, 16 September, 20:30
Videos by Anna La Chocha, Anja Kirschner, Dariusz Kowalski, TV-TV, Tobias Werkner and others
'Image Agents' compiles video works that make productive use of found footage or pursue new concepts for media knowledge production. The programme is about the appropriation of visual technologies, formats and styles.
Following this logic, Serhat Köksal stirs up mass culture: orientalism, pop, politics and folklore collide in the works of DJ Hugo Chavez & VJ Ahmadinejad.
22:00 Klub: 'MyTube & YourSpace' by DJ Hugo Chavez & VJ Ahmadinejad
tesla berlin - andreas broeckmann - artistic co-director klosterstr. 68-70 - d-10179 berlin - tel. +49-30-24749-761 ab@transmediale.de - http://www.tesla-berlin.de
Posted by jo at September 12, 2006 10:01 AM
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Picturing Free Knowledge
Picturing Free Knowledge :: Friday, 15 and Saturday, 16 September, 20:30, at TESLA Medien>Kunst
Image economies take place between Big Business and Creative Commons licences: The Brasilian agency Radiobrás started publishing its news and multimedia broadcasts under CC licences just this summer. During Robbie Williams' recent tour in Germany photographers were not permitted to take pictures of the pop star. A Berlin newspaper reacted by publishing mobile phone pictures taken by their reporter -- the resolution was accordingly low. If one compares the search results in Google Images with the results from databases like Corbis and Getty Images, one has to find out that the pay services clearly
offer higher quality.
Starting from the debate on copyrights, the videos in the programme ask for the power relations in image production and distribution. Which pictures dominate the discourse of the media? How can images be created and distributed outside copyright obligations? What does the enormous and enthusiastic image production in online video communities such as YouTube mean?
The programme presents artistic strategies by which power relations and media image policies represented in images are reflected: The correspondence with the footage-department of a company selling royalty-free film and video clips for commercial purpose reveals their guidelines allowing nothing but hegemonic and stereotypical images. For a moment the logic behind the circulation of capitalist value becomes visible. In other cases, works demand a freer way of dealing with images, for example when public domain footage from film archives is rearranged and published under a Creative Commons licence.
Picturing Free Knowledge I: Image Banks
Friday, 15 September, 20:30
Videos by Johanna Billing, Nina Fischer / Maroan el Sani, Nate Harrison, Marysia Lewandowska / Neil Cummings, Sean Snyder, VitoriaMario, Florian Zeyfang and others
The first programme entitled 'Image Banks' takes existing images as its starting point: Images and their sources are reflected in different contexts, for example, the homogenous aethetics of news images or the categories of commercial image databases are called into question.
Later in the evening, Ricardo Ruiz and Tatiana Wells, currently residents at TESLA, will play a music programme and live stream mix from Brasilian radio stations.
22:00 Klub: rádio cidadăo comum: net batucada brasileira on free and pirated music
Picturing Free Knowledge II: Image Agents
Saturday, 16 September, 20:30
Videos by Anna La Chocha, Anja Kirschner, Dariusz Kowalski, TV-TV, Tobias Werkner and others
'Image Agents' compiles video works that make productive use of found footage or pursue new concepts for media knowledge production. The programme is about the appropriation of visual technologies, formats and styles.
Following this logic, Serhat Köksal stirs up mass culture: orientalism, pop, politics and folklore collide in the works of DJ Hugo Chavez & VJ Ahmadinejad.
22:00 Klub: 'MyTube & YourSpace' by DJ Hugo Chavez & VJ Ahmadinejad
tesla berlin - andreas broeckmann - artistic co-director klosterstr. 68-70 - d-10179 berlin - tel. +49-30-24749-761 ab@transmediale.de - http://www.tesla-berlin.de
Posted by jo at September 12, 2006 10:01 AM
