[Autonogram] March 2010 Autonogram

[Stevphen Shukaitis]

Greetings Autonogram Subscribers,

After several months of winter Autonogram hibernation, here we are again
with another set of updates and announcements. So let the thaw begin:

1. IDEOLOGY OF DESIGN, COLLABORATION WITH KUDA (FROM NOVI SAD, SERBIA),
RELEASED

2. “THE ARTISTIC DÉRIVATIVE, OR SPLITTING DEAD HARES” TALK, NYU, APRIL 1ST

3. CRITICAL STRATEGIES IN ART & MEDIA RELEASE PARTY, NYC, APRIL 15TH

4. UPCOMING TABLING & EVENTS

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1.  IDEOLOGY OF DESIGN, EDITED BY BRANKA CURCIC, RELEASED

How can we follow the crucial development of recent design practices
during the last decades of the 20th century, and their connections with
artistic practices and critical discourses? Whether under socialism or
capitalism, design is always in close and dynamic connection with the
economic and productive bases of society and material culture. Although
dealing with broader theoretical approaches, this anthology focuses on the
former Yugoslavia, which tried to define the role of design in a
(non)market socialist economy. Developing progressive, yet critical and
contradictory positions, design was simultaneously presented as a symbol
of post-war reconstruction of a country under the wing of
industrialization and the liberation of man from material privation. But
as decades went by, it increasingly played a main role in building a
socialist market society. Includes Jean Baudrillard, Igor Chubarov, Jerko
Denegri, Branislav Dimitrijević, Hal Foster, Dejan Kršić, Nenad
Malešević, Metahaven, Borislav Mikulić, Barbara Predan, Jacques
Rancière, Feda Vukić, WHW collective. Co-published with Kuda.org. All
texts in both English and Serbian. Hardbound, dustjacketed, marker ribbon.

http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&products_id=645

In collaboration with New Media Center Kuda: http://www.kuda.org/en

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2. “THE ARTISTIC DÉRIVATIVE, OR SPLITTING DEAD HARES” TALK, NYU, APRIL 1ST

The Artistic Dérivative, or Splitting Dead Hares
Stevphen Shukaitis, Autonomedia / University of Essex

Thursday, April 1 at 5pm
665 Broadway, 6th Floor Conference Room
(call ext 28248 to get to the floor)

“Everyone is an artist” proclaimed Joseph Beuys. Beuys, as an inheritor of
the avant-garde desire to abolish the separation between art and daily
life, argued for the realization of a multitude forms of creativity
through out many areas of social life, or forms of social sculpture as he
called it. What can we make of this goal in age of semiocapitalism where
the dream of everyone an artist has been realized in perverse form as
“everyone is a worker” all the time? That is to say where the
relationality ‘sculpted’ through the circuits of an always-present network
culture are rendered into opportunities for capitalist valorization, all
YouWork and MyProfit? Is it possible to reclaim any of the subversive
impulse of the avant-garde when the difference between the advertising
firm and the détournement of the art provocateur is increasingly
imperceptible? Drawing from a compositional approach to political analysis
this presentation will examine the ways that social energies and processes
created within various tendrils of the avant-garde have influenced the
development of the capitalist production. From this it will elaborate the
notion of the artistic dérivative, or a form of production where value is
created through the labor of circulating creativity through the productive
basin of the metropolis, configured as a factory.

Bio: Stevphen Shukaitis is an editor at Autonomedia and lecturer at the
University of Essex. He is the author of IMAGINAL MACHINES: AUTONOMY &
SELF-ORGANIZATION IN THE REVOLUTIONS OF EVERYDAY DAY (2009, Autonomedia)
and editor (with Erika Biddle and David Graeber) of CONSTITUENT
IMAGINATION: MILITANT INVESTIGATIONS // COLLECTIVE THEORIZATION (AK Press,
2007). His research focuses on the emergence of collective imagination in
social movements and the changing compositions of cultural and artistic
labor.

Sponsored by the Community Learning Initiative of the Gallatin School,
Tisch’s Department of Art and Public Policy, and Steinhardt’s Department
of Art and Arts Professions of New York University.

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3. CRITICAL STRATEGIES IN ART & MEDIA RELEASE PARTY

When: 15 April, 6.30-8.30
Where: New School University, Vera List Center, Wollman Hall 65 West 11th
St, NYC, New York

Panelists:
Steve Kurtz, Critical Art Ensemble
Marco Deseriis, New York University
Amanda McDonald Crowley, Eyebeam
McKenzie Wark, New School University
Andy Bichlbaum, The Yes Men
Konrad Becker, World-Information Institute

Moderators:
Ted Byfield (New School University)
Jim Fleming (Autonomedia Verlag)

CRITICAL STRATEGIES IN ART AND MEDIA – PERSPECTIVES ON NEW CULTURAL
PRACTICES – EDITED BY KONRAD BECKER & JIM FLEMING

For centuries, art has been put on pedestals and in pillories, literally
and figuratively, over its supposed capacity to carry a critical,
political charge. Yet the trends of the last few decades – the birth pangs
of hypercapital and environmental catastrophe – have hardly brought about
any form of art potent enough to meet challenges on that scale. In
September 2009, the World-Information Institute convened a group of
digital theorists and practitioners to debate whether art has a future
beyond a “creative industry” bent on decorating disaster – or, if not,
what new kinds of approaches might be called for. This book distills that
debate. Contributions by: Konrad Becker, Ted Byfield, Amanda McDonald
Crowley, Steve Kurtz, , Jim Fleming, Claire Pentecost, and Peter Lamborn
Wilson. Interventions by Bifo, Marco Deseriis, Rene Gabri, Brian Holmes,
McKenzie Wark, and Felix Stalder.

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4. UPCOMING EVENTS

Autonomedia will be tabling at a number of events and bookfairs in the
coming months:

Toronto Anarchist Assembly April 9-11:
http://torontoanarchistassembly.blogspot.com
NYC Anarchist Bookfair April 17: http://anarchistbookfair.net
Ghent Alternative Bookfair April 17: http://www.spin.be/aboekenbeurs
Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair May 22: http://www.bookfair.org.uk
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair May 29-30: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca
London Zine Symposium May 29: http://www.londonzinesymposium.org.uk
Stockholm Anarchist Bookfair June 5: http://anarchistbookfairsweden.se
US Social Forum (Detroit) June 22-26: http://ussf2010.org

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That, me thinks, is all for now. More to follow shortly. Wishing you all a
lovely spring and a delightful April Fools.

Cheers
Stevphen

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