Call for Papers: The Art and Politics of Netporn

Jan. 25, 2005

Type: opportunity
Deadline: Jan 25 2005 at 4:30AM

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> CALL FOR PAPERS and ART PROJECTS
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> The Art and Politics of Netporn
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> Institute of Network Cultures,
> Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> 6-7 October, 2005
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> 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.
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> 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