:-))) --- kanonmedia ngo for new media alexandra reill
write to: 12/24, richtergasse, a 1070 vienna mail to: alexandra.re...@kanonmedia.com call: ++43[0]6991 820 70 03 visit: http://www.kanonmedia.com --- Am 31.05.2016 um 19:43 schrieb xDxD.vs.xDxD <xdxd.vs.x...@gmail.com>: > Dear Friends, > > sorry for cross-posting. > > some time has passed since, in 2012, we launched the "La Cura" project when I > was diagnosed with a brain cancer. The action turned out to become an > emergent, worldwide participatory performance aimed at redefining the word > "cure", bringing it out of hospitals, administrations, bureaucracies and the > ingenuities of e-health approaches, and bringing it back into society. > > > > Thousands participated (also many of you all, for which I thank you). > > We were all able to draw upon the rich culture of biopolitics, > antipsychiatry, feminism and gender studies to collectively build an active > reflection to confront with the separation, encoding, privatisation, access > and inequalities of current medical approaches, putting in place new models > and patterns in which health is a commons built upon an high-quality > relational environment which is inclusive, accessible, caring, cooperative. > > Dozens of publications have been produced, and thousands of artworks, texts, > poems, images, videos, artistic performances, articles on major news > headlines, and more, establishing a wide, active, trans-disciplinary action > which connected arts, design, sciences, humanities and the everyday life of > thousands of people in the search and enactment of new ways in which to > "cure" by considering people's health something which we all can actively > participate to, using everything from advanced technologies, knowledge, > relations, presence and hugs ;) > > All of this has enormous implications on the economies and power-schemes of > health. In the age of data, quantified self and of hyperconnectivity, this is > also a metaphor for processes which can happen elsewhere in society, to > confront with complex issues such as education, energy, finance, labour, and > more. > > To continue the process, we have transformed "La Cura" into a book: > > http://www.artisopensource.net/items/la-cura-the-book/ > > The book, for now, is only in Italian, and we're trying to get it translated > in other languages, as well (and please do propose if you want to collaborate > to the translation: it would be a great help) > > In the objective of the participative performance, the book also has a strong > online presence built through the fact that we're collaboratively designing > the ways in which this type of action could be replicated in many other forms > and in relation to multiple other domains. > > We're working with schools, universities, student groups, rural communities, > citizen groups, activists, children, elderly and, well, many other types of > people. In Italy, for now, but we are starting the process of momentum > building so that all of these efforts can lead to international, > interconnected results which we can all work with to provoke impact and > change. > > Here are just three of the many initiatives which are already going on: > http://www.artisopensource.net/2016/05/09/the-encounter-of-two-books-in-trieste-from-mental-asylums-to-la-cura/ > http://www.artisopensource.net/2016/04/23/la-cura-erbe-indisciplinate-the-report-from-the-workshop-at-ruralhub/ > http://www.artisopensource.net/2016/05/04/la-cura-and-the-festival-of-creativity-in-ariccia-to-study-the-biopolitics-of-interfaces/ > > > We've started from education. In the knowledge ("Conoscienza") section of the > website (http://www.la-cura.it) we are assembling the materials for the > education program which is being contributed by all participants to the > action. We currently have materials on interface politics; biopolitics; food; > energy; data; privacy; autobiography; self-representation; building > collaborative knowledge-bases; handling large-scale emergent p2p > communication processes; fighting cancer while maintaining autonomy, dignity > and self-determination; social networks strategy for activists; filter > bubbles; the evolution of medicine; information overload and health; open > data and medicine; open science; the implications of algorithmic patients. > And some more. > > All the materials and knowledge are currently hosted on GitHub (you can go to > the links from the website), as we're setting up alternatives which can be > more independent, sharable, replicable, and free. > > Why am I telling you all of this? > > For a number of reasons. The first of which is a call for participation. > > First: there are many of you on the list who do things which would be of > fundamental importance for the process. > > We ask you all: if all of this resonanates whith what you do and care about, > please get in touch! We will find a way to do things together. > > Second: let's figure out how to create momentum internationally. We are > working on translations (of the book, of the knowledge base, of the workshops > materials, of the software tools... ), and on getting people, organisations, > schools, universities, institutions, governments involved, in Europe and in > the rest of the world. There are no fixed models for this: we get in touch > and create something meaningful together, then we make it happen and release > the knowledge so that if it is useful of helpful for other people they can > repurpose, reuse, expand, change it as they please, as long as they share the > knowledge and tools in these accessible ways. > > If you are interested in creating any of the workshops, in creating one, in > creating some other kind of action: please, get in touch! > > Third: a festival in Bologna. > > An incredible thing is happening: a 3 day festival is forming practically > autonomously in Bologna on La Cura, and it will take place on July 8-10. > > When we decided to do a little participatory reading marathon of the La Cura > book in Bologna and we got in touch with the city administration and with > some of the local organisations to make it happen, momentum started building > up autonomously, so much that everything has grown into a full-blown festival > lasting 3 full days and which is gathering contributions in ways which are > completely emergent. > > This is truly a thing of beauty for us, as we don't have any control on it, > and we're just welcoming people in to make sure that their proposals fit into > the objectives and values of La Cura. A city based committee has formed for > this process, and this as well is an open collaboration, so that anyone is > welcome there, too. > > So, if you want to join in to that, as well, please do and get in touch. > > And, Fourth: a summer school. > > We have reached an agreement with Milan's Design Triennale and with the > "Condividi la Conoscenza" event to host an artistic production which will > reflect upon the idea of a "new sensibility": the possibility to imagine a > new sense, along Gregory Bateson's idea of art as that process which creates > the aesthetics, the sense of beauty, for what "interconnects", for > "difference". We will create the artwork collaboratively in a summer school > in Florence, with the collaboration of ISIA Design, the design university > where we teach, and the result will be exhibited in downtown Milan at the > Triennale's locations. > > More info about this will follow soon, but if you're interested already feel > free to get in touch. > > That's a lot of things: sorry for the long message. > > I hope this finds your interest and that you will consider participating in > any form you can. > > All the best to you all! > Salvatore > > > -- > [MUTATION] Art is Open Source - http://www.artisopensource.net > [CITIES] Human Ecosystems Ltd - http://human-ecosystems.com > [NEAR FUTURE DESIGN] Nefula Ltd - http://www.nefula.com > [RIGHTS] Ubiquitous Commons - http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org > --- > Professor of Near Future and Transmedia Design at ISIA Design Florence: > http://www.isiadesign.fi.it/ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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