Re: <nettime> Has net-art lost political significance?

[tacira@riseup.net]

tredi digitofagico~ estao capturados pela ubiquidade das ferramentas,
estao cada vez mais nas ruas, estao de maos dadas com o software livre
chorando pitombas, estao germinando apos digeridas :)


Em 2019-06-27 07:27, Rachel O' Dwyer escreveu:
> What characterises media art interventions in the context of
> ‘surveillance capitalism’, platforms and the gig economy? Are
> these practices still meaningful or, as F.A.T. Lab claimed in 2015, 
> have they lost political significance in the face of global platforms?
> 
>  Can we still speak about ‘tactical media’ or ‘the exploit’,
> and if not is this because 
> 
> a) network activism has transformed so that these older descriptions
> no longer accurately describe net art and ‘hacktivist’ practices,
> or 
> 
> b) these art practices have stayed much the same, but they are no
> longer effective in the current political and economic context?
> 
> I’m wondering if anyone knows of any writing that attempts to
> theorise/frame media art activist work post 2012? Perhaps to speak
> about it as a set of practices discrete from theories of ‘tactical
> media’ or ‘the exploit’ that go before? Perhaps something on
> post-internet art and activism?
> 
> Or is it a case of looking at writing about activism in the face of
> defeat and what seems like a hopeless cause?
> 
> If you've read or written anything that you think might be interesting
> I'd love to hear about it,
> 
> Best,
> 
> Rachel
> 
> A bit more detail about why I'm asking this question: 
> 
> I’m currently writing about various tactical and activist practices
> in the wireless space, including artistic interventions,
> software-defined radio communities who are reverse-engineering,
> hacking, sniffing and jamming signals, communities and activists who
> are building communal Wi-Fi and cellular networks and artists making
> work in or about the politics of the wireless spectrum – who owns
> it, how it’s controlled and so on. 
> 
> But I’m feeling a bit paralysed. 
> 
> I love these works; I love their inventive materiality and the ways
> that they exploit and reverse-engineer existing systems, but I don’t
> know what claims I can make for their political impact. And yet I feel
> that this work is still very worthwhile. 
> 
> -- 
> 
> http://www.rachelodwyer.com/
> 
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