Friday June 15

18.00 Opening of the exhibition Money

Saturday June 16

11.00 Object-Form and Commodity Form

Lecture by Sven-Olof Wallenstien, Philosopher, Art critic and teacher at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and at the University College of Södertörn

Contemporary art has a strange, often implicit and yet highly charged relationship to economy. Art and money - this connection triggers of many feelings: disgust, critical reflection, but also the idea that news ways could be forged to include economical sub- or infrastructures in the works and the artistic processes themselves. Whether this really means a loss of critical potential, a surrender to commodity fetishism, or quite simply a way to redefine practice in the light of current society, remains to be seen. The proximity between artistic manipulations of signs and what is referred to as the "new economy" is so striking, however, that the issue necessarily arises.

12.00 The participant artists of the exhibition Money present their work

14.30-17.20 Monetary Life (open seminare)

A discussion on the theme:
Money — A Commentary On the New Economy

Keynote Speaches:
Monetary Life, Thomas Bay and Per Bäckius, School of Business, Stockholm University
Emperor’s New Interfaces: Old Economy, Old Media and the Rhetoric of the New, Tapio Mäkelä, M-cult, Finland
Tulipomania, Eric Kluitenberg, De Balie, Netherlands

Panel Discussion where artists and cultural workers give their commentaries;
Rasa Smite (Latvia), Mare Tralla (Estonia), Nomeda and Gedeminas Urbonas (Lithuania), Nils Claesson and Karin Hansson (Sweden), Tanja Gorucheva (Russia), Katia Stukalova and Natalia Manzhali (Ukraine), Eric Kluitenberg, (Netherlands), Tapio Mäkelä (Finland), Goran Stefanovski (Macedonia), Joseph Backstein (Russia)

Inconclusions by Thomas Bay and Per Bäckius

21.00 – 03.00 Live & Love Party

Live music, DJ and Bar at Konstakuten
Nackagatan 11 (buss 46 from Slussen to Spårvägsmuseet)
Tel: 08- 641-7790, www.konstakuten.com, info@konstakuten.com

Söndag 17 juni

11.00-16.00 NICE meeting (internt)

All day meeting, discussions and workshop at CRAC. Participants from NICE only.
Karlavägen 108, Stockholm

11.00 The participants from NICE present themselves, projects and ideas.

13.00 Erik Klutenberg and Rasa Smite talks about the ideas of Interfund

The Interfund should be a co-operative, decentralised, non-located, virtual but real, self-support structure for small and independent initiatives in the field of culture and digital media. The Interfund proposes to become a shared resource pool, a "Bureaucracy Protection Shield", a forum for the critique of (the inefficiency of) large institutions, a pool of shared skills.
First ideas about the Interfund emerged during the Art Servers Unlimited conference in London, July 1998. The first Interfund meeting took place during the Art+Communication festival "Xchange Unlimited" in Riga, November 1998. The Interfund was envisioned in Riga as a co-operative, decentralised, non-located, virtual but real, self-support structure for small and independent initiatives in the field of culture and digital media.
The second Interfund meeting took place in Amsterdam, March 1999, during the "Next 5 Minutes" conference. The meeting identified various urgent issues, related to the sustainability of small-scale media initiatives and the projects of individuals. NICE Network participants present in Riga [NICE] Training Programme, which took place in April 2-8, 2001, were introduced briefly with the ideas about the Interfund. It was proposed to start a regional Interfund using the NICE Network as a platform.

14.00 Workshop in minor discussiongroups about the idea of Interfund, how to finance medialabs and collaborating projects.

 


For more information contact Nils Claesson or Karin Hansson.

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