reSync visited the Besides the Screen conference in Sao Paolo, see programme , & our web-flyer.
We know by now, that the social is also visually constructed, that there is a struggle for “The Right to look” and that social visions are projective, contested as well as fractal. What we want to look at is how centralized visual event streams and orchestrations are producing alternative visual splinters, fractions and specters that also travel in fragmentary ways across the globe, making visible new landscapes and hidden horizons of meaning, i.e. “specters” to the current system and “mode of projection”. While we
are interested in the geopolitical aesthetic of a (to be) pirated reality of the “non-territories” which resist the address of the ‚national (interest)‘ and subsumption to the current globalized society of control and spectacle, we also want to focus on the particular way the resistancies to the FIFA World Cup 2014 travel around and haunt the global imaginary and feed the non-aligned social intellect.
S.o.S. Logs, collectively rinsing our imaginaries by re-collecting spectacles, part Spectrals of the Spectacles.
Regularly we are subsumed under the projections that are attached to and bundled with the new “megaspectacles” (D. Kellner) of mediatized transmodern capitalism. These new specatacles arose from the fusion of spectacles as they existed all along and the new hyper-medial environments we are now increasingly immersed in. They constitute a paradox milieu for resampling prevalent images of globalism and they illustrate the circulation-economies and -aesthetics of ‘Societies of the Spectacle’ as well as ‘Societies of Control’ (or ‘Fear’) … or however you want to characterize current global society.
As the Post-Media Age also follows up on the cinematic modes of projection (and production) it is generalizing visual and medial projection as a form of subsumption (i.e. non-coercive power), naturally relying more and more on ‘moving images’, … in all possible senses of the term. For sure new spectacles are socially disseminated in medial channels and fragments of all sorts, with video, in a wider sense, taking a central role as carrier. Often our perceptions and affects (or those of our peer-groups) are skewed and re-directed by these gravitating, serial singularities, rendering hyperbolic meta-images, and dooming a myriad of alternative co-existing realities and worlds to invisibility.
These spectacles primarily work by colonizing, monopolizing and tinkering our streams of attention. They segment our social senses in a stop-and-go manner, producing a peculiar form of psychic-cognitive binding and congestion, and, not the least, fractalizing communal senses and alternative social textures.
S.o.S. wants to provide an outlet, traveling alongside the culture of critical event-horizons, setting up a cultural triage mechanisms as soothing overlay to our own conventions. Here we dispose, digest, difract the projections of recent spectacles, for collective and individual cleansing. We playfully inventarize the grammars, aesthetics and hauntologies of radiant spectacles that are just in our back. We also collect, cherish and cultivize with subliminal ease all those tokens of spectral visions, in-/visibilities and social projections that precipitate around these monster events, knowing the alternatives always shimmer nearby, right at the periphery of the centers of vision.
To do this we collect medial fragments (videos, links, snapshots, media sets…) that pertain to recent spectacles, and populate the S.o.S. Box. This will become a traveling black box on the outskirts of the Spectrals of the Spectacle project trajectory, frivolously accompanying alternate events of all kinds and pirating them with the spirits of profanizing and secularizing the new imagescapes. This piratebox-turned-into-an-SoS-Box will be housing boulders of the spectacle alongside fragments commenting and reflecting on them, … but also keeping track of visions that are, or seem to be, peripheral to these events, projecting alternative visions in the monolithic face of the new society of the spectacle.
HOW TO
1) upload your media file to the piratebox
& if you want to make us happy:
2) download the file “0004_file_annotation-1.rtf”
3) fill out the questionnaire & save it
4) upload the “00_file_annotation.rtf” file back to the piratebox
README
FROM HIVENETWORKS TO PIRATEBOX
For the hands-on workshop we will create a PirateBox with participants in order to share visual spectacles during the whole period of the
conference (ideally the PirateBox would be set up in the main lecture theatre, where all the conference visitors could access the spectacles).
Hivenetworks, started by Alexei Blinov and collaborators nearly 10 years ago, is an Open Source project that explores the new concepts of
DIY network building, mesh architectures and ubiquitous computing. The aim is to take the DIY networking and publishing to the point where it
becomes accessible to anyone with creative mind and basic knowledge of computing.
A PirateBox, designed in 2011 by David Darts, is a portable electronic device, often consisting of a router and a device for storing
information, creating a wireless network that allows users who are connected to share files anonymously and locally. By definition, this
device is disconnected from the Internet.
We are proposing a gathering, where we’ll upload spectacles of the spectacular, distribute, share, & mesh the contents during the
conference in the main lecture theatre, and at the Cine Art Palacio. Autonomous spaces, autonomous networks, boxes and forks – we invite
all DIY lovers to come and join us for a re-appropriation of networking technology to bypass the censorship and liberate our files.
What does a free culture look like? What is technology that supports it? For many years artists (among others) have been engaging with
these questions, challenging restrictive laws and regulations as well as complex technical solutions. A new surge in search for practical
solutions to file-sharing, easier to use and incorporate to our everyday life is the focus of this workshop.
Inspired by pirate radio and the free culture movements, PirateBox utilizes Free, Libre and Open Source software (FLOSS) to create mobile
wireless communications and file sharing networks where users can anonymously chat and share images, video, audio, documents, and other
digital content.
PirateBox is free (as in freedom) because it is registered under the GNU GPLv3 (see: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). This license grants you the right to freely copy, distribute, and transform creative works according to the principles of copyleft.
Links:
http://www.hivenetworks.net/
http://piratebox.cc
http://piratebox.cc/openwrt:diy
http://forum.piratebox.cc/
http://daviddarts.com/piratebox/
http://daviddarts.com/piratebox-diy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PirateBox
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/01/piratebox-an-artistic-provocation-in-lunchbox-form/
http://pi.qcontinuum.com/project.html
http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-Powered-Raspberry-Pi/
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start
http://www.radical-openness.org/programm/2014/unitary-networking
http://www.radical-openness.org/programm/2014/vpn-picnic-hivenetworks-piratebox