December 8 – December 16, 2011
Opening Event: Thursday, December 8, 2011 6-8pm

Deadline: December 7, 2011 6pm.

Art heeds the clarion call of the Occupy Wall Street movement at the AC Institute. This special show of posters is dedicated to the spirit evinced by the patriots at Liberty Square. Original, commissioned artwork will be shown beside authentic posters from the protest and will be on view for one week.

In addition to an opening there will be a poetry reading and performance (Date to be Announced.) The artists will then take their artwork to Liberty Square to demonstrate. This effort will be made into a film.

You can participate in this exhibition by bringing your poster to the AC Institute on Tuesday, December 6 and Wednesday, December 7 between 1 and 6pm. Submissions may be mailed to the AC Institute or emailed in PDF to info@artcurrents.org if received before Dec. 7.

The AC Institute reserves the right to disqualify submissions.

Link: http://www.artcurrents.org/

Deadline: Wed Dec 7th, 2011

Location:

“The artists displaying their multimedia wares here are true avant-garde upstarts… Saturating your eyeballs with new imagery while listing on a rusty boat? Priceless.” —NBC New York

“Presenting a solid mix of street art, fine art, installation, performance, and all around general creativity, the Fountain Art Fair was a breath of fresh air for those tired of the white tents and fancy cocktails.” —Warholian.com

“A New York favorite, Fountain is the [fair] we always check out for punk, funk, and unvarnished bolts of creativity. With a number of Brooklyn galleries, artists, and undercover rebels getting into this mix, you never know what you are getting, but there will be something mind blowing.” —Brooklyn Street Art

(New York, NY – February 8, 2011) – Fountain Art Fair, an alternative exhibition of avant-garde, independent galleries and art collectives, returns for its 6th year during Armory Arts Week in New York. Opening with a VIP & Press Preview on Thursday, March 3rd, Fountain will feature over 20 projects in its latest and most ambitious exhibition yet. Continuing Fountain’s tradition of supporting underground artwork, Fountain is thrilled to announce its latest addition for New York 2011—a massive collaborative installation by more than ten of the country’s up-and-coming, notorious street artists.

Visitors entering Fountain Art Fair at Pier 66 Maritime will encounter the 100-foot long street art installation stretching along the entrance and exit to the Fair. Fountain has brought together some of the freshest artists from New York and Los Angeles for this site-specific piece, which follows the success of Fountain Miami‘s recent street art installation during December 2010’s Art Basel Miami Beach 2010. The Fountain New York 2011 installation wall will feature work by notable artists CHRIS STAIN, DICKCHICKEN!, FARO, GAIA, SHARK TOOF, CLOWN SOLDIER, LOVE ME, ELLIS G, ALESSANDRO ECHEVARRIA, LEE TRICE and others to be announced. “From the first Fountain show in 2006 with McCaig-Welles, to working with Ad Hoc Art in Miami and New York in 2008 and 2009, to the street art install in Miami 2010, the medium and movement referred to as Street Art has played an integral role in Fountain Art Fair’s development,” said David Kesting, Fountain Art Fair Co-Founder.

Among the 20 art projects and exhibits presented, Grace Exhibition Space will present artists from Mobius Collective performing roaming and sited pieces on Pier 66 Maritime’s Frying Pan lightship throughout the weekend, and video artist Allison Berkoy who will take over the pier’s salvaged train caboose with a multi-media installation. Continuing Fountain’s precedent of recognizing music as a vital contemporary art form, Friday’s public opening night reception (March 4th) will feature a live performance by breakout pop/funk force Gordon Voidwell. He will be joined by the upbeat electro-pop of Tecla. Hip hop/pop-punk trio Ninjasonik will headline Saturday night’s event (March 5).

Recognizing and supporting Fountain’s commitment to up-and-coming, culturally resonant artwork are this year’s sponsors, including standout media institutions and tastemakers such as The Village Voice, Gawker Artists, Flavorpill, The Onion, and The L Magazine. Additional Fountain participants and sponsors will be announced in the coming weeks, as well as more details on the exciting and carefully-culled lineup of exhibits, installations, partners, and events that will push Fountain New York 2011 even further beyond the boundaries of the traditional art fair model.

http://fountainexhibit.com/2010/index.php/fountain-new-york-announces-massive-street-art-installation-for-2011-fair/

A long list of artists have joined a group actively protesting new immigration laws in Arizona, refusing to play gigs in the state until the laws are changed.

The new law – called SB 1070 – allows police to question any individuals they suspect are illegal immigrants, and all legal immigrants are required to carry registration documents at all times.

Rage Against The Machine singer Zack de la Rocha is spearheading the group, which includes Cypress Hill, Juanes, Conor Oberst, Michael Moore, Kanye West, Joe Satriani, Rise Against, Massive Attack, Sonic Youth, Jack Black’s Tenacious D and many others.

“We are reaching out to get your ear for a minute about this critical situation in Arizona,” says Zack. “If you haven’t heard, the Arizona state legislature passed a bill (SB 1070) that was signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer that legalizes and sanctions racial profiling. Straight up.

“It forces the cops to hunt down and target anyone they “reasonably suspect” that may be undocumented. And if the people they harass don’t have proof that they were born in the U.S., they can be detained and arrested. This must be stopped.

“Fans of our music, our stories, our films and our words can be pulled over and harassed every day because they are brown or black, or for the way they speak, or for the music they listen to. People who are poor like some of us used to be could be forced to live in a constant state of fear while just doing what they can to find work and survive. This law opens the door for them to be shaked down, or even worse, detained and deported while just trying to travel home from school, from home to work, or when they just roll out with their friends.

“Some of us grew up dealing with racial profiling, but this law (SB 1070) takes it to a whole new low. If other states follow the direction of the Arizona government, we could be headed towards a pre-civil rights era reality. This unjust law was set into motion by the same Arizona government that refused to acknowledge Martin Luther King Jr. day as a national holiday.

“When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, they arrested her. As a result, people got together and said we are not going to ride the bus until they change the law. It was this courageous action that sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. What if we got together, signed a collective letter saying, “we’re not going to ride the bus”, saying we are not going to comply. We are not going to play in Arizona. We are going to boycott Arizona!”

The action follows earlier protests by Ricky Martin, Shakira, George Lopez and Eva Longoria.

To sign a petition and join the artists in their fight against racism, click here.

Read more: http://www.looktothestars.org/news/4515-rage-against-the-machine-leads-celebrity-protest-in-arizona#ixzz0q5zAhpch

Deadline for extended abstracts: June 7, 2010

The 3rd Free Culture Research Conference

Free Culture between Commons and Markets: Approaching the Hybrid Economy?

The Free Culture Research Conference presents a unique opportunity for scholars whose work contributes to the promotion, study or criticism of a Free Culture, to engage with a multidisciplinary group of academic peers and practitioners, identify the most important research opportunities and challenges, and attempt to chart the future of Free Culture. This event builds upon the successful workshop held in 2009 at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, organized and attended by renowned scholars and research institutions from the US, Europe and Asia. The first event was held in Sapporo, Japan, in 2008, in conjunction with the 4th iCommons Summit. This year’s event is larger in ambition and scope, to provide more time for interaction in joint as well as break-out sessions. It is hosted jointly by the Free University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and will take place at October 8-9, 2010 at the Free University Campus in Berlin, in collaboration with COMMUNIA, the European Network on the digital public domain. Funding and support is also provided by the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Given this year’s theme and the generous support of the Free University’s School of Business and Economics, we encourage submissions at the interface of Free Culture and business, although we welcome submissions from any relevant discipline, will be inclusive and will maintain the interdisciplinary nature of the event, as in previous years. Enabled by new Internet technologies and innovative legal solutions, Free Culture prospers in the form of new business models and via commons-based peer production, thereby both challenging and complementing classic market institutions. Alongside business perspectives, we expect that perspectives from law, IT, the social sciences and humanities will help us develop a better understanding of the challenges at hand, for individuals, business, law, the economy, and society at large. Topics of interest include:

• Studies on the use and growth of open/free licensing models
• Critical analyses of the role of Creative Commons or similar models
• The role of  Free Culture in markets, industry, government, or the non-profit sector
• Technical, legal or business solutions towards a hybrid economy
• Incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative peer production
• Economic models for the sustainability of commons-based production
• The economic value of the public domain
• Business models and the public domain
• Successes and failures of open licensing
• Analyses of policies, court rulings or industry moves that influence the future of Free Culture
• Regional studies of Free Culture with global lessons
• Best practices from open/free licensing, and the application of different business and organizational models by specific communities or individuals
• Definitions of openness and freedom for different media types, users and communities
• Broader economic, sociopolitical, legal or cultural implications of Free Culture initiatives and peer production practices
• Methodological concerns in the study of Free Culture

This is the first time the event will be held in Europe, the home of many past supporters and participants of the Free Culture workshops and also home to millions of individual and institutional adopters of open licensing models. We will therefore strive to promote and connect European scholars working in relevant spheres, while also representing the global diversity of the field.

http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/fcrc/Home

Today, a broad spectrum of Montreal artists are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and supporting the growing international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli state. Last winter, the Israeli state launched a violent military assault on the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip, leaving over 1400 Palestinians dead, including over 300 children. Despite the official end of military operations, the blockade continues to this day, with devastating consequences for Gaza’s residents.

Over 60 years from the beginning of the ongoing Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) in 1948, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from historic Palestine through Israel’s creation, Montreal artists are united in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice.

Montreal artists are now joining this international campaign to concretely protest the Israeli state’s ongoing denial of the inalienable rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties, as stipulated in and protected by international law, as well as Israel’s ongoing occupation and colonization of the West Bank (including Jerusalem) and Gaza, which also constitutes a violation of international law and multiple United Nations resolutions.

Palestinian citizens face an entrenched system of racial discrimination and segregation, resembling the defeated apartheid system in South Africa. A matrix of Israeli-only roads, electrified fences, and over 500 military checkpoints and roadblocks erase freedom of movement for Palestinians. Israel’s apartheid wall, which was condemned by the International Court of Justice in 2004, cuts through Palestinian lands, further annexing Palestinian territory and surrounding Palestinian communities with electrified barbed wire fences and a concrete barrier soaring eight meters high.

Gaza remains under siege. Israel continues to impose collective punishment on the 1.5 million Palestinians of Gaza, who still face chronic shortages of electricity, fuel, food and basic necessities as the campaign of military violence executed by the apartheid state of Israel endures. UN officials recently observed that the “situation has deteriorated into a full-fledged emergency because of the cut-off of vital supplies for Palestinians.” As a result of Israeli actions, Gaza has become a giant prison.

The global movement against Israeli apartheid, supported by a large majority of Palestinian civil society, is not targeted at individual Israelis but at Israeli institutions that are complicit in maintaining the multi-tiered Israeli system of oppression against the Palestinian people.

In fact, the Palestinian civil society BDS call, launched by over 170 Palestinian organisations in 2005, explicitly appeals to conscientious Israelis, urging them to support international efforts to bring about Israel’s compliance with international law and fundamental human rights, essential elements for a justice-based peace in the region. The present appeal is also rooted in an active engagement with many progressive Israeli artists and activists who are working on a daily basis for peace and justice while supporting the growing global movement in opposition to Israeli apartheid.

During the first and second intifadas, Israel invaded, ransacked, and even closed down cinemas, theatres and cultural centers in the occupied territories. These deliberate attempts to stifle the Palestinian cultural voice have failed and will continue to fail. Around the world, the call for BDS is growing and is strongly rooted in the historic international solidarity movement against apartheid in South Africa.

In keeping with Nelson Mandela’s declaration that “our freedom [in South Africa] is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians,” we believe that international solidarity is critical to liberating Palestinians from Israeli colonialism and apartheid. This struggle will continue until all Palestinians are granted their basic human rights, including the right of return for all Palestinian refugees living in the Diaspora.

Today, a diverse array of artists in Montreal, from filmmakers, musicians and dancers to poets, authors and painters, are joining the international movement against Israeli apartheid. On the streets, in concert halls, in words and in song, we commit to fighting against apartheid and call upon all artists and cultural producers across the country and around the world to adopt a similar position in this global struggle.

To add your support to this letter or to present questions or suggestions please write to info@tadamon.ca

http://artthreat.net/2010/02/500-artists-israeli-apartheid/

With: Stefanie Wuschitz + Amir Hassan
Organized: Natalia Borissova/aa-vv.org
Hosted: Stephan Kallage/West Germany

Dates:
April 20. – 24. 2010, 2PM – 7PM+
April 24. 2010, from 7 PM – Public: Come-come

Location:
WEST GERMANY Skalitzer str.133 10999 Berlin

Registration until April 15. 2010:
workshop |at| aa-vv |dot| org -> Natalia

Abstract:
Transiting from the ‘ARE YOU CONDUCTIVE?’ workshop, which recently took
place in Munich, to the ‘ARE YOU CONNECTIVE?’ a workshop for relative
interactions in Berlin, we are hoping to encounter different, but
experimentally thinking, DIY and collaboratively working individuals in
time, place and space meaningfully and relatively, trying (still) to
connect all into an organic ‘whole’ fluently by means of inventing
transitions between each other, the inside/outside spaces, analog and
digital, high and low-no-tech..

Suggested content:
We will be exploring simple functions and hardware of mobile phones
such as: SMS, blue-tooth, video, in-built photo camera, speakers,
vibrator, sensors to generate participatory art project in public space
by playing with different ways of connecting the inside of our
studio-space with the outside-neighborhood. For those interested we will
also look into a programming environment to code little applications for
mobile phones called Mobile Processing to control in-built sensors or
create graphical user interfaces. Participants with newer phones are
also welcome to use their GPS or video chat function or play with
Linux-based mobile operating systems.

Possible structure Day 1-5:
Investigating the venue, surroundings and possibilities for intervention;
Exploring the neighborhood in terms of integration and being a part of a
process;
Ideas round and how those ideas could be related;
Hands-on: Functions and hardware of mobile phones, Mobile Processing
or/and Arduino and Processing basics + DIY potentiometers, hacked
toys controlled via Arduino etc;
Round: ‘What have we got done so far’ and how all this can be related;
Collaboratively developing ideas further, helping each other, fluently
relating and meaningfully constructing the ‘whole’;
Performing, enjoying and celebrating;
De-constructing, cleaning up and heading home with happy plans for the
future;)

The workshop aimed at:
10-12 technology-related ‘artists’ working in DIY and experimental
spirit. Experience in programming is beneficial, but not essential.
Please make sure that you can manage the whole duration of the workshop
= April 20.- 24. 2010, including public part on the evening 24th.

Fee:
65,- Euro/the whole lot (Including missing Arduinos, basic materials,
tee, cookies, surprises ..)
The project is unfunded

Stefanie Wuschitz
uses interactive technology to build mobile sound and video
installations site-specifically encouraging the construction of unique
social and collaborative spaces. Her current focus is on subversive
public art produced by women with wireless technology. She was one of
the organizers of the international festival ‘Eclectic Tech Carnival’ in
Umea/Sweden and founder of ‘Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory’= weekly
workshops on Open Source Software, Arduino, art techniques as e.g. laser
cutting, wearable technology and circuit building (currently based at
Metalab/Vienna). Conducted the following workshops:
Mobile-hack-day, Supersimple Robots Workshop at Letni dilny
Cistirna-Prague, XBee Workshop at OKNO Bruesseles,
Mobile Processing Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden and many other.
http://metalab.at/wiki/Lage
http://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org
+
Amir Hassan
Java, C++, Perl, Shell/Script, Prolog, Linux, mplayer, VMs, fire, CNC
mill, lathe, laser cutter, his blues harps
http://metalab.at/wiki/Benutzer:Amir

More information about the project:
http://aa-vv.org

To participate:
Please send an e-mail to workshop|at|aa-vv|dot|org
with a brief statement of your interest/ideas.
The URL of your activity would be helpful too.

Until:
April 15. 2010

El artículo completo puedes leerlo en:

http://iceautogestion.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=189%3Aicea-cita-las-fabricas-recuperadas-en-argentina-&catid=19%3Anoticias&lang=es

Camp Eureka Weekend
A weekend of radical history, discussion, networking & planning
April 24th – 26th
Camp Eureka, Yarra Junction

Here we are still trying to figure out how to change what sometimes seems like the inevitable.
We have two major wars continuing and the biggest environmental disaster we’ve ever seen.

The world economy is in such dire straits it’s hard to see it being able to recover.
People all round the world (including right wing economists) are questioning if Capitalism is a viable system.
Something we on the left have been arguing since it began.

Yet the world waits!

In Australia we have racist attacks continuing. The NT Intervention
continues with communities becoming more desperate.
The Labor Governments treatment of workers in our country is
sickening. The posties recently showed how to fight back with
direct industrial action and work stoppages.

Australians are working some of the longest hours in the western world why?

What are we waiting for? When will enough be enough?

In 2010 Renegade Activists are getting busy.

At Camp Eureka this year, we want to provide a forum for historical
information about radical struggles that have been fought
and won, or at least done well! We want to learn from our elders and
bring people together to build relationships and plan for
the future.

Will you be there with us?

With Richard Downs, from the Ampilatwatja  walk-off against the NT intervention,
Walkley Award winning journalist Colm McNaghton,
Dimity Hawkins on uranium and the Nuclearn Non-Proliferation Treaty,
Dave Kerin & Davie Thomason, ex- Builders Laborers Federation & Union
Solidarity,
Margaret Craegh & Peter Riley on the Tramways dispute,
Iain MacIntryre on unemployed workers organising and eviction resistances.

Plus planning for actions, games, films & music in a relaxed bush setting.
More info: Ph: 0402 657 392     Email: renegadeactivist@gmail.com