Facebook game about collecting and selling personal data enables you to “Rise from small-time back room dealer to a mighty data mogul”. Finally: Big Data fun and profit for the multitudes! This exceptional online offer was developed with just a smal team by our friends from metaflimmer. A 2012 demo version released in German received great media coverage and big applause from the online community. Now the international version is available on datadealer.com and playable via web browser.
Date: June 14/15, 2013
Location: Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien / Project Space, Karlsplatz
“Shared Digital Futures” is a two day conference that explores the impact of digital network technologies for cultural production. more
Imagination as an epistemological weapon. Read his piece at Future Non-Stop
ACF NY / THURSDAY DEC 13, 06:30 PM
The Austrian Cultural Forum is pleased to present Austrian electronic media pioneer Konrad Becker with: Ayreen Anastas (16beaver) Stephen Duncombe (NYU) and Fran Ilich (Spacebank) Moderator: Jim Fleming (Autonomedia)
Dictionary of Operations, Autonomedia 2012 ISBN: 978-1-57027-261-5
Politics of Free Culture started from a clear consensus on the panel, that the current intellectual property regime had been outdated for quite some time and was now a severe blockage to cultural production and access, and that substantial changes had become inevitable.
Philippe Agrain speaks about a turning point in the information ecology and the “war on sharing”. Agrain is interested in the questions of an information continuum through cultural and intellectual exchange emphasizes that the internet changed the artist-user relation.
Talk by Felix Stalder (World-Information Institute), recorded of the live-broadcast from Stadtwerkstatt, Linz (AT) on 25.5.2012, duration: 48:55
Felix Stalder’s interview with Olivier Shulbaum and Enric Senabre Hidalgo, from goeto.org, has just been published today over at shareable.net.
Crowdfunding is a promising field because it can address many of the dynamics that underlie the crisis of the cultural economy and its transformation from a commodity- to a commons-based environment. So, it’s high-time to think about and experiment with this approach in a more comprehensive way and explore more radical approaches to alternative cultural economies. How can these new means be used to fund the commons, rather than to kickstart yet another round of “cool” new products?
Read the entire interview over at shareable.net
Date: Thursday, 21. Juni 2012, 19.00 –21:00
Place: Depot Breitegasse 3 A- 1070 Wien
The copyright-based models of artistic production are in crisis. Concepts of the culture or the creative industry offer few answers. At the same time, we are witnessing a large variety of new models of digital production and networking in the arts and culture. Using concrete examples, the new landscape of digital cultural practice are explored to identify opportunities and threats.
The debate will be in English.
The Dutch experience and Austrian perspectives
Public archives are managing, in the public interest, vast increasingly digitized collections of cultural heritage. Yet, the public interest is changing in the context of networked access and new practices regarding the use of cultural goods.
Date: June 21, 14:00-17:00
Place: Depot, Wien Breitegasse 3, 1070 Vienna
