*infomercial*
The unexpected happened: artist Constant Dullaart is very close to reaching his
30.000 euro goal on kickstarter. He is now at about 25.000 with only 20 hours
to go. Dullaart has developed a video player for art installations under the
name Dulltech. Apart from the player being a solution to issues in syncing
video's in art installations however, this project highlights some critical
issues in media art itself.
You can help realize this work by pledging anything from 30 to 6000 euros, the
latter for the gold pledge I wish I could make myself. This project is
particularly interesting for institutions that present video art.
If you want to read more about this project here are some links and some quotes:
Interview for the ICA:
"How does this model work for institutional critique, or works that can’t be
explained in the preferred two and a half minute pitch video? "Explain the
value of your work in this elevator pitch so my uninterested uncle can
understand it." In the meantime I am getting emails from Kickstarter to sharpen
up my video, to keep tweeting happy tweets, to thank my backers with personal
emails, to clarify my project, to pay large sums to get onto mailing lists with
guaranteed interested backers and investors. Between my research of starting a
company—to which this Kickstarter campaign belongs—and riding the neoliberal
snake, this happy corporate optimising bullshit is getting to me."
https://www.ica.org.uk/blog/neoliberal-hardware-lulz-constant-dullaart
Article on Rhizome:
"For Dullaart gaining access even to view the conditions of labor means
operating within its stratification as a business. Similar to other migrant
laborers in the region, those who Dullaart and his colleagues interviewed prior
to contracting the O.E.M. came from rural areas in China to Shenzhen because of
their desire to be middle class, the higher wages available compared with local
agricultural labor in their hometowns and the factory's provision of room and
board as well as some benefits. Despite the unsettling reaction to Chinese
factories, when one criticizes the product for using the labor in Shenzhen, one
also criticizes the products that form the infrastructure of the web."
Link to the kickstarter page of Dulltech:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1271076119/dulltechtm-straightforward-technology-for-you-and
I invite you to help this project along in any way possible, this includes any
criticism you might have.
best,
J
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