[Discussion] CFP: The Art and Politics of Netporn (Netherlands) (3/15/05; 10/6/05-10/7/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS and ART PROJECTS

The Art and Politics of Netporn

Institute for Network Cultures,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
6-7  October 2005


WHAT IS NETPORN?  Web-based media and environments that filter porn
images and traffic between industries and art/indie cultures,
corporations, ISP's and net users; involving daily (female and male)
activities such as blogging, webcamming, chatting, binging on porn
portals, p2p porn, live journals, confession boards, mailing lists and
zines.

THEORY AND POLITICS:  New waves of netporn censorship have a clear
affect on artistic freedom and our sexual bodies. We would like to
engage in discussions of globalization, freedom of speech, (self)
censorhip and government/institutional surveillance of traffic, of sex
cultures and networked minorities. Does netporn corroborate the image
regimes of 'cruelty,' a wide-spread creation of appetite for violence,
terrorism, war on innocence and sexual otherness, openness. What are the
alternatives?

ART PROJECTS:  We are looking for new openings, new definitions and
articulation of pornography, 'art' as solo path or collaborative wisdom,
a tactical media approach to netporn for belly wisdom and processing
media histories. As Matteo Pasquinelli ponders in 'Warporn Warpunk!
Autonomous Videopoesis in Wartime,' we are grinning monkeys who seek war
and torture news as a type of pornography, but can we use netporn to
nurture our inner beasts and media intellects?

DISCUSSIONS: Netporn is an intricate fabrication of desires and
mechanisms of repression. Debate means recognizing and re-drawing the
contours of hype and hysteria, of polemics and polarization, discussing
netporn as local and global phantasms, or cross-fertilization between
economies, desire and art/queer politics. Discussions will be opened
February 2005 on a web-based mailing list and will continue in plenary
sessions at the conference.

Please submit 250-word abstracts for papers/panels, or art/media
projects about the following topics. In your abstracts indicate what
type of media you need for your presentation, and please include an
address where you can be reached.

Censorship
Representation
Aesthetics
Traffic
Games
P2p
Economy
Politics
Queer/gender/gay
Feminism
War porn
Punk Porn
Media-archeology
Geographies


DEADLINE:  March 15, 2005

PLEASE SEND YOUR ABSTRACTS to:
netporn@networkcultures.org

The Institute of Network Cultures (INC), which was set up in June 2004,
caters to research, meetings and (online) initiatives in the area of
internet and new media. Not only will the INC facilitate, but also
initiate and produce a range of projects. Its goal is to create an open
organizational form with a strong focus on content, within which ideas
(emanating from both individuals and institutions) can be given an
institutional context at an early stage. Based on the fusion of old and
new media, the INC aims to organize both public and internal meetings
and to formulate new research.

Katrien Jacobs, guest scholar-curator for the Netporn Conference. Jacobs
is a scholar in the field of digital art and culture who has published
on netporn, sex art, censorhip and lectured widely on related topics.
She has a Ph.D. degree in comparative literature and media from UMCP,
with a thesis on dismemberment myths and rituals in 1960s/1970s art and
media. She has worked as web presence(s) and recently finished her book
'Libidoc: Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art.' (Parlor Press)
www.libidot.org

Geert Lovink, founder of the Institute of Network Cultures. Geert Lovink
is a Dutch-Australian media theorist and activist. Since January 2004
appointed as senior researcher/associated professor at Amsterdam
University (HvA/UvA). He is organizer of conferences, festivals and
(online) publications and the founder of numerous Internet projects such
as www.nettime.org  and www.fibreculture.org . He recently published
Dark Fiber (2002), Uncanny Networks (2002) and My First Recession
(2003).Email: geert@xs4all.nl. For more information:
www.laudanum.net/geert .

Sabine Niederer, producer and researcher Institute of Network Cultures.
Sabine Niederer graduated in 2003 as an art historian at Utrecht
University, with a thesis on manipulated art photography from Dada -
now. In 2003, she worked as producer of the international games
conference Level Up. From 2001-2004 she worked as curator of Hoogt4, the
platform of film-related arts at Filmtheatre 't Hoogt in Utrecht. Until
recently she taught (media) theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in
Rotterdam. Sabine Niederer is one of the editors of the bimonthly film
and video program 'Cinematiek'.Email: sabine@networkcultures.org. For
more information: www.niederer.info



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