AIRE
INCONDICIONAL
The emergence of community-based
and migrant e-strategies in Southern Europe
fecha: Feb 7 April 2004. Zurich
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In documentations, workshops and debates, the <AIRE INCONDICIONAL>
exhibition/project visualises the media and communication strategies that
have emerged from a specific southern european context (historical background).
The exhibition combines the points of view of activists, community groups
and artists and historically contextualises their critical ideas on tactical
media, open content, border and migration politics and experiments with
media technology, combining art, politics and media strategies.
The exhibition is structured along three core thematic threads, contextualising
them before the southern european historical/cultural background. The
host of projects, debates and activities is grouped along these three
thematic threads:
<VIRTUALISATION OF BORDERS> explores the possible
feedback loops between physical and information space focusing on projects
that adopt a critical view on migration and border politics. By opening
up a debate on the virtualisation of political and cultural borders, we
hope to encourage the emergence of community based and migrant e-strategies
dealing with the possibilities that arise through new technologies for
the cultural and social representation of migrants and minorities in Southern
Europe..
<HOME(WIRE)LESS> questions the possibilities in
using new technologies such as public wireless networks to redevelop and
repolitisize public space. How can activists and artists create tactical
interventions to open up public responses and discourse about the new
social realities in southern europe and how can they create new social
relations?
<DRIVE-IN BURN-OUT> explores the different alternatives
to copyright and the distribution structures that have emerged with them:
Concepts of alternatives to copyright are discussed in projects and documentations
included in the exhibition. More directly however, a notion of a free
culture of information and knowledge becomes manifest in the format of
the exhibition itself: the contents of the exhibition come with the proposition
of copy and paste. Visitors can choose contents they like, copy them,
and recycle them in own projects.
<AIRE INCONDICIONAL> explores a variety of forms and formats, from
audio-visual documentations to instalations, from interventions into public
space to work sessions and presentations, from free distribution of open
content music to live concerts.
Participating
Artists: RoTor, Hackitectura.net, Idealword, 0100101110101101.org , El
Perro, Frontera Sur RVVT , Jaromil y Alku.
