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size=2></FONT></DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT
size=3>Hi all,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT size=3></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT size=3>some notes I took during two
panels at the Oil of the 21st century conference might be interesting to
follow up during videovortex in January.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT size=3>Maybe others who attended the
conference could add to the following?<BR></DIV></FONT></SPAN>
<DIV><FONT size=3><SPAN class=377245016-29102007>panel "</SPAN>The File-Sharing
as Culture Industry</FONT><FONT size=3><SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>"</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><SPAN class=377245016-29102007>Jamie King (UK), The League of
Noble Peers (UK), Mininova (NL), The Pirate Bay (SE), Torrentfreak
(NL)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+0><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><BR></SPAN><FONT size=3><SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>O</SPAN>ne consensus <SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>among the panelists was that </SPAN>"youtube has not
changed much since google bought it"<SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>.</SPAN> <SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>T</SPAN>orrents were discussed as archives, because
they keep rare stuff in circulation, even the BBC supposedly makes public calls
for VHS material to fix the wholes in their archives.<BR><SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>I think that's a great claim for
bittorrent-durability.<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><SPAN class=377245016-29102007>"</SPAN>The Poverty of the
Small Author<SPAN class=377245016-29102007>" with Christian von Borries (DE),
Ariane Müller (DE), Cornelia Sollfrank (DE), Palle Torsson
(SE) </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT size=3>updated the old concept of
the </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3><SPAN class=377245016-29102007>"death of the
author" the becoming-producer and becoming-distributor of the capitalist
consumer.<BR></SPAN><SPAN class=377245016-29102007></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><SPAN class=377245016-29102007>Christian von Borries discussed
a</SPAN>uthorship as a strategic tool</FONT><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT
size=3>, one can define it differently depending on the contexts:
d</FONT><FONT size=3><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>epending on who you talk to, you stress one or the
other aspect of what you do. The other extreme is an all-in-one authorship:
</SPAN></SPAN>A very good example for von Borries is <SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>the </SPAN><SPAN class=377245016-29102007>practice in
Northkorea, everything is made by Kim Jong-il.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><SPAN class=377245016-29102007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><SPAN class=377245016-29102007>Is the a</SPAN>ppreciation
for<SPAN class=377245016-29102007> the</SPAN> non-original <SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>equivalent to a</SPAN> devaluation of
authorship<SPAN class=377245016-29102007>? </SPAN> <SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>How important is artistic reputation? </SPAN><SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>Is it bad for</SPAN> an artist to put videos on
youtube</FONT><FONT size=3><SPAN class=377245016-29102007>?<BR></SPAN><SPAN
class=377245016-29102007></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+0><FONT size=3><SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>P</SPAN>alle <SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>T</SPAN>ors<SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>s</SPAN>on <SPAN class=377245016-29102007>claimed
</SPAN>"stop being artists"<SPAN class=377245016-29102007>. </SPAN><SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>C</SPAN>ornelia <SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>So</SPAN>llfrank for example prefers visibility, to be
addressable as an author. <SPAN class=377245016-29102007>M</SPAN>ore people
should be recocgnised as authors. <SPAN class=377245016-29102007>Sollfrank
mentioned</SPAN> the <SPAN class=377245016-29102007>concept </SPAN>of a
performative author (from the feminist concept of performativity)<SPAN
class=377245016-29102007>: A</SPAN>uthors have to reenact their identities all
the time.<SPAN class=377245016-29102007> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT size=3>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT size=3>Christian von Borries said to
unclarify the function of the author, "to unclarify our position as artists
against political action", is the most interesting strategy behind authorship.
In his understanding, a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT
size=3>rtists make a prototype for how the society could deal with
property.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007></SPAN> </DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT size=3>Sebastian Lütgert's notion of
the Small Author was taken up by the moderator Ariane Müller to talk about the
historic figure of the "Small Man", a working class man (not
really translatable as "average man"). It is a diminuitive for the
majority of the people who cannot act politically efficient from their lower
position, because they have to spend all their time with earning money
etc. The first pocket book printed by rororo (Rowohlts Rotationsroman /
rotation novel) in Germany was "Kleiner Mann was nun", 1932 (What's next,
Small Man...), dedicated to the struggle to survive with poor jobs in Berlin.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT size=3>Its more to be understood
as a metaphoric comparison; an excursion into historic terminologies and
rethoric tactics to keep the working class people in place, to stigmatise their
minor role in society.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT size=3></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT size=3>For more information, see <A
href="http://www.oil21.org/"><FONT
size=3>http://www.oil21.org/</FONT></A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT size=3></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=377245016-29102007><FONT size=3>All
best,<BR>Vera</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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