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DIGICULT Digital Art, Design & Culture Founder & Editor-in-chief: Marco Mancuso Advisory Board: Marco Mancuso, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Claudia D'Alonzo Publisher: Associazione Culturale Digicult Largo Murani 4, 20133 Milan (Italy) http://www.digicult.it Editorial Press registered at Milan Court, number N°240 of 10/04/06. ISSN Code: 2037-2256 Licenses: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs - Creative Commons 2.5 Italy (CC BY- NC-ND 2.5) Printed and distributed by Lulu.com E-publishing development: Loretta Borrelli Cover design: Eva Scaini Digicult is part of the The Leonardo Organizational Member Program TABLE OF CONTENTS Maresa Lippolis Geert Lovink: Free Cooperations In P2p Networks ................................................ 3 Giulia Simi Carlo Zanni: Information Is The New Color ............................................................. 9 Bertram Niessen Trok!: Free Music, In Free Spaces ............................................................................. 13 Antonio Caronia Who Is Afraid Of Janez Jana? ................................................................................. 20 Fabio Franchino Generator X 2.0, Objects That Don’t Exist (yet) .................................................... 26 Cristiano Poian An Heideggerian Lecture Of Software Culture ..................................................... 29 Alessio Galbiati Ken Jacobs: The Demiurgo Of The Moving Image ............................................... 34 Giuseppe Cordaro Taylor Deupree: The Beauty Of Minimalism .......................................................... 45 Marco Mancuso Sonic Acts Xii: A Cinematic Report ......................................................................... 53 Silvia Bianchi Dafne Boggeri: Zigzagging Between Images And Sound .................................. 60 Luigi Pagliarini The Darwinian Composer ......................................................................................... 64 Gigi Ghezzi The Hidden Road To The City Of The Future ........................................................ 69 Marco Mancuso Aether Architecture: Real Spaces, Virtual Spaces ................................................ 72 Massimo Schiavoni The Eye Of Women ..................................................................................................... 81 Massimo Schiavoni Babilonia Teatri, Society Of Spectacle ................................................................... 85 Luca Barbeni Share Festival 2008: Manufacturing ........................................................................ 91 Monica Ponzini Christina Ray: Open Source Territories .................................................................. 98 Geert Lovink: Free Cooperations In P2p Networks Maresa Lippolis was often at the margins of the conference, and sometimes it emerged and got someone intrigued. I was one of those, and I decided to interview Geert Lovink, curator of the event and author of Zero Comments, published in Italy by Mondadori, in order to give more space to the topic of P2P networks’ production and organization. For years now Geert Lovink has been one of the major During the latest Video Vortex analysts of that arena where Internet meeting organized by the Institute for meets the economy, politics, social Network Culture in Amsterdam at action, art. His prolific activity as a Club 11, the large networker’s writer and as organizer of community met to analyze how video international meetings had made him and other materials are shared one of the main promoters of through the net. In substance the innovative net culture and of net.art. questions that were addressed were Already in 1995 he created how video and audiovisual www.nettime.org mailing list, which information is used and shared is now recognized as one of the main through the net, how platforms like discussion forums of the net and of its Vlog and podcast are developing and capabilities. Co-founder of Adilkno what tomorrow’s television will look [Foundation for the Advancement of like in terms of clustering of Illegal Knowledge], editor of information and free construction of Mediamatic magazine between 1989 programs with independent content. and 1994, organizer and soul of Digital City of Amsterdam project, founder of Participation, sustainability and new the Institute for Network Cultures, interaction strategies between artists, Geert Lovnik is hard to pin down as a produces and public have been classic intellectual figure, as he central topics of discussion. Piracy effortlessly moves between academia 3 and the countercultural scene: he’s on Maresa Lippolis: You’ve been studying the borders of both, but certainly not networks and how people collaborate on the margins of either. into networks, how do you describe, in your analysis, p2p, their He is author of seminal texts such as communities, and the new production Dark Fiber (2002), Uncanny Networks of sense they are developing? (2002), My First Recession (2003) e The Principle of Notworking (2005). Geert Lovink: We need to make a Lately Lovnik’s activity has focused on distinction between the official P2P creative practices and on sharing ideology, in which I also participate, patterns on the net and through the and the dirty reality. There is a net. On the one hand he has thus multitude of reasons why people published texts and articles that deal participate in P2P networks. Also with new creative practices, which politically there is a interesting range were born and developed through of people involved in P2P, from the Internet with low costs and high post-modern poor, driven by a lack of visibility, on the other hand the Dutch cash to techno-anarchists to capitalist intellectual has focused on the pro-market libertarians. In that sense phenomenon of Web 2.0, on practices P2P is deeply human. It’s like sex. of content sharing and their There is so many ways of doing it, and organization on the net, on the ever the reasons and intensions are so increasing creative and professional different, each time, even within one networking activities. We met Geert person. I am not saying the situation is Lovnik at the Dutch Video Vortex complex. I do not mind to explain, and meeting, and we jumped on the defend, the idealistic version of opportunity to have a chat with him. exchange, anti-copyright, sharing and so on. The fuzzy everyday use of P2P exchange networks is largely happening outside of any discourse. I see P2P networks as a temporary autonomous zones, as described by Hakim Bey, as they are bound to disappear (in order to reappear elsewhere). I do not think it is useful to argue that they should be legalized. Maybe this is because I am from . Amsterdam where we have made a lot of interesting experiments with 4 phenomena that happen in the grey empower people and develop new zone between legality and illegal channels to distribute sense? practices. We have often seen that half-way tolerating illegal activities is Geert Lovink: You are right that we generating interesting situations. Elias witness an unprecedented Canetti’s descriptions of how crowds ‘massification’ of web platforms with gather and fall apart might help in this up to 100 million users of a single context. Complete legalization often website. Average social networking kills the activity and neutralizes the sites have somewhere between 1-5 problematic field up to the point of million users. However, they are not disappearance. Legalization of online all the time. At any given exchange of copyrighted material is moment in time there are around not the way to go. What we instead 40.000 people inside Second Life. need is an alternative economy, one in These numbers might grow and look which artists and creative producers different at peak times. are financially rewarded directly, Still, they are not grouped together. I without ‘middle men’, for instance believe that we have left behind the through micro-payments. television age where we sit around the fire together, as Marshall McLuhan once described it. With the exception of moments like the Olympic Games the Long Tail is bound to get longer. We will have to get used to this and reconfigure our understanding of what power consists of in the distributed age. Power as such does not disappear, neither does propaganda. What diminishes is the . spectacular, celebratory aspect of it. The trend of indirect, invisible Maresa Lippolis: In your essay The ideology further continues. It will Principle of Notworking (2005) you become really difficult to detect say that propaganda is not as present forms of subliminal effective in networks than in other indoctrination. media. Do you still think that’s true, even considering the extend web 2.0 There is a still a great desire for is growing? Is it possible that p2p consumer capitalism, in particular could be a good instrument to when it is glamorous and wild. P2P 5 networks are not a serious counter would see that Michel Bauwens, Franz force in this game. The fact that one Nahrada and Adam Arvidsson have a collaborates and exchanges doesn’t lot of interesting insights. Five years make you a Gutmensch, let alone a ago it was a German list community revolutionary. For me it is not enough called Oeknonux that discussed these to ask the question of empowerment. issues. Oekonux as a project got really For what? It’s the same with this far into the debate but then stalled abstract (but appealing) demand for because the founder and moderator, ‘change’? Change in what direction? Stefan Merten, wasn’t able to let go of the project and so