JOIN D_CULTURE'S ONLINE FORUM

JOIN D_CULTURE'S ONLINE FORUM



Join John Oswald, Kenneth Goldsmith (UbuWeb) and Douglas Kahn (author of
Noise, Water, Meat) online in a discussion around the implications of
cultures of exchange on artistic practice. Moderated by Lina Dzuverovic
(Electra), the discussion is titled Cultures of Exchange/Politics Of Sound
and is part of London Tate Modern's online season d_culture. The forum
focuses on the creative applications and ramifications of the cultures of
downloading, sampling and cut-ups and runs until 23 March 2005. The forum
follows on from Sound and the 20th Century Avant-Garde course Co-produced by
Tate Modern and Electra in December 2004.



Starting points for discussion include: The Politics of Sound, History of
Sound Collage, Collecting, Artists' Practice, Distribution and the Culture
of Exchange.

*go to http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/d_culture/#outline





Introduction:



The Politics of Sound / The Culture 0f Exchange

The practice of cutting-up, appropriating and repurposing existing content
in the creation of new artworks was central to 20th century artistic
practice. From Marcel Duchamp