[resource-net] Meeting AG '21C Art & Digital Culture' -15 June @Supermarkt

Rachel Uwa rachel.uwa at gmail.com
Fri Jun 2 12:53:22 CEST 2017


Hi Everyone,

congrats on your first meeting!
Sorry I wasn't able to be there. I've grown to dislike group meetings and
decision-making because it's so difficult to
get people to get past discussions and actually DO SOMETHING! Looking at
the list of people in attendance here though
I think all of you are definitely DOers and probably feel the same way I
do. Lol. Anyway, will try and make
the next meeting if I can. Just wanted to send hi-fives and congratulations
for getting this initiative off the ground!
It's been a long time coming!

Warmly,
Rachel


On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:32 PM, <cdelutz at artlaboratory-berlin.org> wrote:

> Hello Colleagues,
> On 22 May the Koalition der freie Szene (KFS) Plenum approved a new
> working group: 21 Century art & Digital Culture, with the purpose of
> improving the situation for New Media and Hybrid arts in Berlin (see more
> below). We had our first official meeting as an AG (working group)  on 29
> May (also see below)
>
> The founding members include: Tatiana Bazzichelli, Ela Kagel, Christian de
> Lutz, Lieke Ploeger, Paolo Podrescu, Rüdiger Sakrowksi, Erika Siekstelyte
> a.o.
> On 15 June, 2017 at 6PM we invite you to our next meeting at Supermarkt,
> Mehringplatz 9, 10969 Berlin  (Ubhf Hallesches Tor)
>
> On the Agenda will be:
>    -  a discussion of a position paper for the Berlin Senat - content,
> research and division of tasks
>    - artistic research: the importance for artist and curators working
> with technology and science and the forthcoming paper from KFS and the
> Senat Office for Culture and Europe
>
>    - Other AGs (Working groups) within the KFS, and possible synergies
>    - Future plans/ projects
>    - Other business
>
>
> About Us/ Working Group 21st Century Art & Digital Culture within the
> Koalition der Freie Szene
>
> Mission Statement:    Working Group 21st Century Art & Digital Culture
> We are artists, curators and spaces in Berlin who are active in diverse
> cultural manifestations relating to new technologies and their greater
> social, political and cultural effects in the 21st century. Our work ranges
> from digital art (net.art, software art, hardware hacking, etc) to
> experimental electronic music (e.g. noise, glitch, drone), Science-Art and
> BioArt, investigations into digital and 'post-digital' culture: the open
> source  and DIY movements, data protection, digital surveillance and civil
> and human rights issues relating to new technologies, as well as the use of
> new technologies in performing arts, music, visual arts and especially in
> inter-disciplinary (Spartenübergreifende) and Hybrid forms.
> What ties this diverse, inter- and trans-disciplinary group together is a
> critical, knowledge-based approach to new technologies. We are united by a
> process of working with science and technologies as media to be examined,
> demystified and utilized for creative production with special attention to
> politische Bildung and the social good. Our use of new technologies as a
> starting point separates us from our original disciplines (Fine arts,
> music, performing arts) but binds us across our fields (Sparten).
> ============================================================
>
> Minutes of the MEETING: Monday 29th May 18:00 Supermarkt
>    - Present: Ela Kagel, Chris de Lutz, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Paolo
> Podrescu, Lieke Ploeger, Thomas Heidtmann, Lucy Patterson, Rüdiger
> Sakrowksi, Erika Siekstelyte
>
>    - We will draft an outline for the position paper to be discussed in
> the next meeting (see above)
>
>    - We will research into existing position papers to find out what
> format / outline could work best
>
>    - We will set up a mailinglist for the group (Lieke will look into
> possibility of using the OKFN instance of discourse)
>
> Tentative outline for a position paper (From Meeting on Monday 29 May,
> 2017 @ Supermarkt):
>
>    - Call for a more transparent jury- and decision-making process for
> digital art funding
>
>    - Raise awareness of the importance of digital art & culture for Berlin
> (also historically)
>
>    - Developing tactics & strategies in order to strengthen the digital
> arts scene at a political level
>
>    - Informing cultural policy makers about the needs and demands of the
> cultural producers of this scene
>
>    - Include a list of proposed measures to improve the situation (for
> example having our field recognised as a specific category to fund,
> including a representative in the Sprecherkreis of the Koalition der Freie
> Szene)
>
>    - Refer to text from the Koalitionsvereinbarung ("Zur Erprobung
> innovativer Formate mit digitalen Technologien wird die Koalition einen
> Innovationsfonds für Projekte der Einrichtungen und der Freien Szene
> etablieren.") and detail what this should involve from our perspective
>  ============================================================
> We welcome new members and interested colleagues from the community. If
> you have questions feel free to contact me.
> Christian de Lutz
>
>
> Christian de Lutz
> ARTLABORATORYBERLIN
> Prinzenallee 34
> 13359 Berlin
>
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> Nostitzstrasse 12
> 10961 Berlin
> www.artlaboratory-berlin.org
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