Re: <nettime> dark days

[Armin Medosch <armin@easynet.co.uk>]

Hi, Felix,

why so negative? Of coure everything that you say in the first paragraph 
is true, but that can also be interpreted differently. Yes, it seems our 
governments are showing more and more their real faces, yes, there is a 
bourgeois authoritarianism, a term you yourself have used, and it is 
still growing. But resistance is also growing, Turkish civil society is 
not taking it anymore and here also people start to understand that they 
are getting cheated, that they are told lies, that nothing can  be 
relied on anymore, you can even shut down public television over night.

BUt the alternatives are also getting developed. I would like to point 
to a piece I have written on the occasion of the launch of Seeds 
Undergfround by Shu Lea Cheang tonight in Linz. The piece is about her 
work but raises also a theoretical question regarding an emancipatory 
media practice ...

Greening the Network Commons

In 2001, Shu Lea Cheang created Steam the green, Stream the field 
(Cheang, 2001-02), a work which anticipated a major shift in the 
discourse and practice of post-media art by 10 years. Shu Lea Cheang 
insists on calling herself a 'self-styled' artist, emphasising her 
autonomy to define her activities as art. Her projects highlight the 
potential of the coming together of social self-organisation with a 
social and trans-media art practice that combines landscapes and 
datascapes, the natural and the digital commons.

more

http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1462

All best
Armin




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