agf, andreas - thank you for forwarding! good to read this letter and the names on the list. best, carsten
> Am 05.05.2023 um 07:48 schrieb AGF <a...@poemproducer.com>: > > engl version pls spread > https://artwashing-leipzig.de/open-letter/ > > AGF: @poemproducer 🔎 rec-on.org > >> On 5. May 2023, at 7.49, Andreas Broeckmann <andreas.broeckm...@leuphana.de> >> wrote: >> >> Carsten, man hat in Leipzig diskutiert: >> >> >> -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- >> Betreff: artwashing >> Datum: Fri, 5 May 2023 10:07:12 +0800 >> Von: Yuhsin Su <agnesyuhsi...@gmail.com> >> An: Andreas Broeckmann <abro...@hgb-leipzig.de> >> >> Dear Andreas, >> >> <snip> >> >> I would like to share with you the Open Letter regarding the involvement of >> the surveillance company Palantir with the digital art exhibition >> 'Dimensions' at Pittlerwerke Leipzig. Francis, our colleagues and I >> initiated this letter. >> >> The letter is online in German and English here: >> https://artwashing-leipzig.de/ >> >> There you can also sign the letter. >> >> <snip> >> >> warmly, >> Yuhsin >> >> -- >> Su Yu Hsin >> >> >> >> Am 04.05.23 um 08:36 schrieb Andreas Broeckmann: >>> Dear Carsten, >>> thank you for pointing this out. I'm also not aware of any "discussion" >>> about this case (though I have heard that some people based in Leipzig >>> explicitly did not want to go to the opening). I wonder whether some of the >>> participating artists who are listed on the website (but who are probably >>> not on this mailing list), would have something to say about the ethics of >>> this particular sponsorship... (Who else would sponsor a digital art show >>> like this? Do you think it would be better if it didn't take place at all? >>> etc.) >>> These moral questions are similar for everybody involved, organisers, >>> curators, artists, visitors. My guess is that for some of them it is a >>> matter of 'pecunia non olet' ("money does not stink"), and the opportunity >>> to show artworks in a (formally, spatially) generous context. >>> In the absence of a collective (what I think you disappointedly refer to as >>> "this list"), decisions and actions are taken individually, especially when >>> it comes to issues that affect us individually, like paying the bills, or >>> getting a job, or having a name. >>> Just my two cents worth... >>> -a >>> Am 29.04.23 um 18:06 schrieb Carsten Stabenow: >>>> dear list, >>>> sorry for beeing maybe too cryptic. >>>> >>>> but for those who might not have heard about this - there is a big media >>>> art show running in leipzig at this moment - >>>> https://www.dimensions-digital-art.de/ >>>> 50 artists, some iconic works i was looking forward seeing again until i >>>> learned, that the main sponsor of this show -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
