CFP: The Art and Politics of Netporn (Netherlands) (3/15/05; 10/6/05-10/7/05)

CALL FOR PAPERS and ART PROJECTS

The Art and Politics of Netporn

Institute for Network Cultures,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
6-7 October 2005

WHAT IS NETPORN? Web-based media and environments that filter porn
images and traffic between industries and art/indie cultures,
corporations, ISP's and net users; involving daily (female and male)
activities such as blogging, webcamming, chatting, binging on porn
portals, p2p porn, live journals, confession boards, mailing lists
and zines.

THEORY AND POLITICS: New waves of netporn censorship have a clear
affect on artistic freedom and our sexual bodies. We would like to
engage in discussions of globalization, freedom of speech, (self)
censorhip and government/institutional surveillance of traffic, of
sex cultures and networked minorities. Does netporn corroborate the
image regimes of 'cruelty,' a wide-spread creation of appetite for
violence, terrorism, war on innocence and sexual otherness, openness.
What are the alternatives?

ART PROJECTS: We are looking for new openings, new definitions and
articulation of pornography, 'art' as solo path or collaborative
wisdom, a tactical media approach to netporn for belly wisdom and
processing media histories. As Matteo Pasquinelli ponders in 'Warporn
Warpunk! Autonomous Videopoesis in Wartime,' we are grinning monkeys
who seek war and torture news as a type of pornography, but can we
use netporn to nurture our inner beasts and media intellects?

DISCUSSIONS: Netporn is an intricate fabrication of desires and
mechanisms of repression. Debate means recognizing and re-drawing the
contours of hype and hysteria, of polemics and polarization,
discussing netporn as local and global phantasms, or
cross-fertilization between economies, desire and art/queer
politics. Discussions will be opened February 2005 on a web-based
mailinglist and will continue in plenary sessions at the conference.

Please submit 250-word abstracts for papers/panels, or art/media
projects about the following topics. In your abstracts indicate what
type of media you need for your presentation, and please include an
address where you can be reached.

Censorship
Representation
Aesthetics
Traffic
Games
P2p
Economy
Politics
Queer/gender/gay
Feminism
War porn
Punk Porn
Media-archeology
Geographies
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DEADLINE: March 15, 2005

PLEASE SEND YOUR ABSTRACTS to:

netporn_at_networkcultures.org

The Institute of Network Cultures (INC), which was set up in June
2004, caters to research, meetings and (online) initiatives in the
area of internet and new media. Not only will the INC facilitate, but
also initiate and produce a range of projects. Its goal is to create
an open organizational form with a strong focus on content, within
which ideas (emanating from both individuals and institutions) can be
given an institutional context at an early stage. Based on the fusion
of old and new media, the INC aims to organize both public and
internal meetings and to formulate new research.

Katrien Jacobs, guest scholar-curator for the Netporn Conference.
Jacobs is a scholar in the field of digital art and culture who has
published on netporn, sex art, censorhip and lectured widely on
related topics. She has a Ph.D. degree in comparative literature and
media from UMCP, with a thesis on dismemberment myths and rituals in
1960s/1970s art and media. She has worked as web presence(s) and
recently finished her book 'Libidoc: Journeys in the Performance of
Sex Art.' (Parlor Press) www.libidot.org

Geert Lovink, founder of the Institute of Network Cultures. Geert
Lovink is a Dutch-Australian media theorist and activist. Since
January 2004 appointed as senior researcher/associated professor at
Amsterdam University (HvA/UvA). He is organizer of conferences,
festivals and (online) publications and the founder of numerous
Internet projects such as www.nettime.org and www.fibreculture.org .
He recently published Dark Fiber (2002), Uncanny Networks (2002) and
My First Recession (2003).
Email: geert_at_xs4all.nl. For more information: www.laudanum.net/geert .

Sabine Niederer, producer and researcher Institute of Network
Cultures. Sabine Niederer graduated in 2003 as an art historian at
Utrecht University, with a thesis on manipulated art photography from
Dada - now. In 2003, she worked as producer of the international
games conference Level Up. From 2001-2004 she worked as curator of
Hoogt4, the platform of film-related arts at Filmtheatre 't Hoogt in
Utrecht. Until recently she taught (media) theory at the Willem de
Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Sabine Niederer is one of the editors
of the bimonthly film and video program 'Cinematiek'.
Email: sabine_at_networkcultures.org. For more information: www.niederer.info

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