Sorry about the late notice, but I'm sure of few of you will be
interested in this artist talk.
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Please join us this Sunday evening for an artist talk and
presentation by Sara Sajjad, a founding member of Swedish arts
collective Piratbyran (the Bureau of Piracy).
Sajjad will discuss their popular project The Pirate Bay, the
world's largest bit torrent file-sharing service on the internet. A
landmark trial pitting the Svandanavian pirates vs. Hollywood
privateers made international headlines this week when four defiant
Swedes were found guilty of violating copyright law. It's a mild
blow to the buccaneers, but more like cutting heads off hydras or
hitting hornets nests. Like an international game of whac-a-mole,
the file-sharing community keeps popping up to promote new modes of
connecting. A discussion about intellectual property and the free
culture movement will be joined by special guests, including folks
from MuxTape, a US-based music sharing site that was shut down last
year. Sajjad will also screen footage from related Piratbyran
projects and performances, includingKopimiTV (CopyMeTV), the
CopyRiot ritual, and the Pirate Bus art tour.
The talk will be followed by a guerilla music swap, so bring your
laptop, USB stick or hard drive, and share, swap, and propagate like
the pirate you arrrrrrr! As Piratbyran says, multiplication can
produce powerful numbers. And great music collections.
The Change You Want To See Gallery
http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org
Sunday, April 26, 7pm - 10pm (free!)
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn NY 11211
L to Bedford; G to Metropolitan; J/M/Z to Marcy
P.S. -- Don't forget Monday's event on Subversive Tech in Burma!
ABOUT PIRATBYRAN
We are a Swedish group that has been around for four years.
Piratbyrån explores how file-sharing and other copying technologies
interact with creativity and change how people relate to everyday
culture. We analyze tendencies and cases and discuss possible future
scenarios and opportunities.
Internationally we are mostly known for starting up the The Pirate
Bay. By this and many other projects, campaigns, performances, talks
and media appearances, we have intervened in the discussion known as
"the file-sharing debate".
FROM THE PIRATE BUS TOUR
Copying can express itself in multiple ways, of which P2P networks
only make up a few. That was one message established in Piratbyråns
famous Walpurgis ritual of 2007.
The S23M project is very clustered with The Pirate Bay, the world’s
largest torrent tracker for file-sharing, On the bus there is no
internet connection, but there are 100 mix tape cassettes, 23 spcial
fanzines, a mystical barometer and a game of go, just to name a few
things. Thus the project evolves themes from the Walpurgis ritual by
transferring them from one mountain to another, from spring to
summer, from the melting of winter to the flowering richness of
summer. Eyeball the media!
At the same time, Piratbyrån sums up the five years that has passed
since the initiation of the clustering in 2003. Finally, the bus
trip is an experiment: what will happen when an online-based
community is enacted within a delimited physical space, where
participants must somehow spend over a week together?
The opening party on July 18th is also laborating with how the the
digital abundance can be interconnected with time and space - more
specifically how large subwoofers can be used for this purpose. As a
guest performer, Piratbyrån has invited Jem Noble from the Bristol-
based Blackout Arts Collective. He is presenting a sound sculpture,
built by recycled loops, which he calls “generative piracy” and DJ
some bass-heavy dubstep. Other DJ’s representing Pirabyrån,
including Nine Inch Nils from the dubstep diaspora, and Brokep, more
known to the world as the populous of The Pirate Bay.
The S23M project is financed mainly by a grant from the Manifesta
foundation. Piratbyrån has added all their available money, coming
from t-shirt sales. The Swedish state’s Arts Grants Committee
refused to contribute, as would otherwise be the case when Swedish
artists are invited to prestige biennals of this kind. Seemingly,
futurehawkers like Piratbyrån are way too murky for Swedish art
discourse.
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