By Magnus Eriksson
TRIAL Networks Artworks Content Context Links in the Forest Coins in the Soda machine Piratbyrån s23k FRA From sewers to public Post-digital Welfare begins at 100 mbit Kopimi Signalspaning Epidemics (dont form parties) Insert Deploy Magnetism More bandwidth More connectivity More info More Data Peak Super-abundance Saturation De-valuation Of Connectivity Of Information Of meaning On the margin In the future Under the radar Go Digital Post-digital Analog Enemies Digital Enemies Spec 2003............................2009 Space Time A community that was neither private, nor a part of the welfare apparatus. Plundering pirate vs. Pirate radio pirate. Unlicenced user of technology and information. As if technology in laboratory we could choose to have or not have in the future. File-sharing is both a technological fact and a social fact that is already changing culture today. Create a community of people, objects and ideas. Best way is to spend time without being able to get out of it Politics begin with the dirty desire. Show the trace from the local to the global. Someone turned on a huge magnet and the entire internet just swooshed over there. The copying is already too distributed, too complex to monitor. Anti-piracy efforts therefore focus on the more abstract, less complicated level or infrastructure and service providers where they can use one sweeping motion. This is why the trial against the pirate bay became a political trial. We called it a Spectrial, a performance. It was also very revealing in terms of how artworks and networks were portaited. Copyright is not just repressive, it's also productive: it's producing certain kind of interaction with cultural artifacts. And in that sense copyright more materializes in the city, it affects like what kinds of spaces that we use for this things, so it goes back to the material. And also not only in the architecture of the city, but in the architecture of the computer networks – right now the fight is very much about what kind of communities sharing technologies will be allowed. So it is not enough to remove the repression, but it's also necessary to change the prodution of networks and artworks. Forget the difference between analog and digital, objects and humans. this is about how people and objects are connected; the constellations. You need to open up the definitions. Not view artworks as containers that travel through networks, but something that happen inbetween the humans, object and machines that are affected. Embassy of Piracy Ontopolitics Publishers Book stores paper digital Pirates / anti-pirates