copy-create-manipulate

Discrepancies and change in artistic practice and intellectual property

The panel focuses on the term and concept of ‚intellectual property’ in relation to art. It will explore the history of the term and discuss the current change in the way the concept is dealt with today legally, artisticly and publicly. Limited seating: free tickets are available at the Viper-ticket desk. Panel-participants - Séverine Dusolllier, Adjunct Professor, University of Namur and initiator of creative commons belgium. - Jamie King (tbc), author and editor of the media culture magazine Mute, London - Stella Rollig, curator and director of the Lentos museum in Linz. - Rolf Auf der Maur, attorney with specialty in communication law, intellectual property as well as legal aspects of the internet - Cornelia Sollfrank, artist, cyberfeminist, net art pioneer - Moderation: Patrick Tschudin (tbc), Radio DRS

The panel participants will come from different backgrounds: Lawyers, with specific knowledge in intellectual property; members of the resistance against the increased tightening of the respective laws; art historians / curators and artist with a cultural approach to the theme. They will give brief presentations regarding their viewpoints and then engage in a discussion.

The panel will offer the following:
- Give a comprehensible overview on the concept of ‚intellectual property and it’s history. The audience should be able to understand, what went wrong in the development from a sensible legal idea of protecting the artists to a law, which mainly protects distributors and stands in an increasing discrepancy with common artistic and everyday practice.
- convey information about resistance movements and their background.
- Point out the meaning of appropriating strategies in art and cultural history and discuss concretely the case of Andy Warhol and they way in which his artistic concept of adopting and reusing is perverted by the way his estate is currently dealt with.
- Make it as clear and as tangible as possible, what this debate has to do with the audience in the space, particularly regarding the current legal adjustments which are debated in Switzerland. Provide the information necessary for the audience to form their own opinion.
- Elaborate on the contradictory situation between the requirements of an artist, who’s definition is to question given settings and expand traditional concepts of art by re-evaluating the concepts of authorship and work - while at the same time having to function within an art world which is based on these two concepts.
- Discuss the limitations of artistic freedom and cultural development, which the legal system provides.

Out of Balance is part of copy-create-manipulate, a program part of the Viper Festival 04 curated by [plug.in].

See also:

copyleft

VIPER, Basel

Cornelia Sollfrank

Files:

ccm_outline_deutsch.pdf

ccm_outline_english.pdf