Dr Geert Lovink workshop, Adelaide Festival Artists' Week 2010

The first wave of net art experimented with the manually written HTML code of the then brand new World Wide Web with the possible aim to reverse and deconstruct the utopian communication design of the dotcom era. A decade later, the so-called Web 2.0 is democratised, corporatised and even more controlled.

How did artists lose their innovative and competitive edge and find themselves outsiders when it comes to the Twitter revolution? How can we re-invent and redesign spaces for creative intervention in digital culture? How do we curate the abundance of material that is now floating on the Net? What does it mean in this context that we are more and more moving away from an archive focused Web to a ‘news river’ that is happening in realtime?

Dr Geert Lovink is in Australia to discuss this as part of Adelaide Festival Artists’ Week in March 2010. For those wishing to participate, Dr Lovink will be leading an intimate workshop for emerging artists which involves online participation and a two days (2 & 3 March 2010) in Adelaide.

Contact Alison Dunn [email protected] or download an application form from www.helpmannacademy.com.au

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Comments

, marc garrett

I am not sure whether artists should be blamed for losing some kind of edge, when it is obvious that the structures that were in place sold them down the river. In fact, there are many artists who still have what is being discussed as 'edge', but perhaps it's certain institutions, platforms and organizations who have lost their 'edge', in ignoring the contemporary wave, lacking self-critical depth and authentic stances to challenge mainstream trends, instead of fighting for the culture of 'media art' and related practices.

One general criticism I have of many artists out there is that, they have not fought for their culture enough, relying on others to re-invent their practices. It is not artists who have been killing our culture, not by a long shot…