Fwd: The .art TLD again: E-Flux are soliciting support for their bid

[Andreas Broeckmann]

 Original-Nachricht 
Betreff:The Art domain
Datum:  Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:02:40 -0400
Von:Art-Agenda 

*e-flux applies to develop the new .art internet domain*


Dear Colleagues,

We are writing to inform you about a new development that will have a
serious impact for art practitioners, institutions of art, and art
publics world wide.

The structure of the internet is about to shift in such a way that most
information pertaining to food will be found in a .food domain, while
most information on cars will likely be found in a .car domain, and so
forth. While at the moment this may appear to be a small technical
modification, it may have very significant consequences in the long run.
For many people, the internet has already become a major educational
tool. And while the internet is the first place we look to when we seek
to learn something, it also has a capacity that goes beyond this: as
millions of people around the world use the internet to find answers to
questions about art, the results they get will, over time, shape their
conception of art.

The authority that controls the internet by managing the database of
addresses of every website and webpage (ICANN), has accepted
applications and announced the list of companies who have applied to
open and manage new top-level domain names—what comes after the dot in
the web address: .com, .org, .uk and so forth. The application process
is now closed; nearly 2000 applications were submitted and more than 500 
new internet domains will be approved within a year, ranging from .baby 
to .berlin and .art.


A full list of new domains that will come into existence in a few months 
can be viewed _here

_.

It is incredibly important for all of us that the Art domain on the
internet be developed by a knowledgeable and responsible party, and in a 
focused and accessible way. e-flux has applied for the rights to develop 
and administer the .art domain, with the hopes of maintaining and 
distributing such a domain in a way that emphasizes the quality,

content, and educational and ethical values of the art
community—something we have been able to achieve with the e-flux
announcement service for over a decade. Should we get the rights to
develop the Art domain, an advisory board of artists, art historians,
and curators will be formed to oversee the policies of this important
resource. We have also pledged to return a significant part of the
income produced by this service back to the art community, in the form
of grants and funding for art institutions and projects in places where
art funding is insufficient or entirely lacking.

Beginning in 1999 as an informal mailing list, e-flux is an artist-run
organization that has grown tremendously over the past ten years,
largely due to your involvement. In 2008 we were able to start a free
monthly journal whose readership now extends to many parts of the world.
We have published books and realized many projects, exhibitions,
lectures, and seminars, all of which were made available to audiences
internationally. Most importantly, we have been able to develop and
maintain a truly independent resource for information on contemporary
art that is trusted, highly regarded, and accessible to readers for
free. We envision the Art domain as an important resource for art
professionals, educators, institutions, and especially the public at large.

e-flux is the only applicant from the art community and we feel that
it's extremely important that the Art domain be managed from within our
community. The process of evaluating our application has started and we
are up against corporate investors and commercial interests, some of
whom have many millions to spend, and who have secured high power law
firms, etc.

For those of you who would like to learn more about e-flux's plans and
commitment to the art community as it regards to .ART TLD, please review 
our application at _here

_.

We need your support to keep the domain of Art in the community of
people who make, study, present, and love art. ICANN is now accepting
public comments, which can be made via _this link
_. The
comments will be considered by independent evaluators and will make a
difference, and your endorsement would be deeply appreciated.

Sincerely,
e-flux


A draft endorsement comment could look like this:

Dear ICANN,

Our organization/individual practitioner, (insert name), is an active
member of the art community since (insert date / year). Our activities
consist of (briefly describe your organization or your professional
activity), as can be seen on our website (insert URL).

We fully support and endorse e-flux's application for the .ART TLD, and
share their forward-looking vision for this innovative name space.

Sincerely,
(insert name of representa

Artpolitik Site Launch

[Stevphen Shukaitis]

Inspired by the Institute for the Future of the Book, Minor Compositions 
is launching a digital form for the forthcoming book Artpolitik: Social 
Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation by Neala Schleuning.


Over the next month the entirety of the draft manuscript will be posted 
here: http://artpolitik.digress.it.


Comments and discussions will be integrated into revisions of the book 
before it is printed later this year (which will, as with all other 
Minor Compositions titles, be available for free download).


Cheers, stevphen


More information

Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation
Neala Schleuning

Artpolitik examines the relationship between art and politics, focusing 
on radical political aesthetics in western culture since the end of the 
nineteenth century. Drawing from Surrealism, Socialist Realism, the 
Situationist International, capitalist consumer aesthetics, and critical 
theory, Neala Schleuning elaborates a social anarchist approach to 
aesthetics.


Artpolitik is not a history of radical art production but an exploration 
of the core ideas inspiring radical art. This provocative book is 
guaranteed to both challenge and inform, reframing radical aesthetics 
for the challenges of the present. It features an exploration of ideas 
and techniques employed by artists for more effective communication of 
radical political ideas. Art has played a central role in revolutionary 
change throughout history, and our own times call for a revitalization 
of art in the service of liberatory politics. This book is an effort to 
understand how new ideas seeking to position themselves vis a vis the 
aesthetic tradition while simultaneously reflecting the transformation 
of political and social movement cultures in new directions.



Bio: Neala Schleuning is a writer and educator. She received her PhD in 
American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1978 with an 
emphasis in political philosophy and intellectual history. Fulbright 
Scholar to the Russian Federation, she is the author of many articles, 
higher education policy papers, films and radio productions, and several 
books, including America: Song We Sang Without Knowing (1983); Idle 
Hands and Empty Hearts: Work and Freedom in the United States (1990); 
Women, Community, and the Hormel Strike of 1985-86 (1994); and To Have 
and to Hold: the Meaning of Ownership in the United States (1997).


Minor Compositions, Wivenhoe / Brooklyn / Port Watson
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing 
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of 
everyday life.


Requisite fb page: http://www.facebook.com/artpolitikthebook

Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia: 
http://www.minorcompositions.info



--
Stevphen Shukaitis
Autonomedia Editorial Collective
http://www.autonomedia.org
http://www.minorcompositions.info

"Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created through 
its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political practice. To become autonomous is 
to refuse authoritarian and compulsory cultures of separation and hierarchy through 
embodied practices of welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position 
for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, 
and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which these depend with a politics of 
skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing these with others creates a 
common wealth of knowledge and power that subverts the domination and hegemony of the 
master’s rule." - subRosa Collective


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