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2 - 4 April 2009
Intersections, Manchester

AAH Association of Art Historians
35th Annual Conference
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester

Session: Networked Cultures: Politics of Connectivity

Against the background of global structural transformation, networks have become one of the most prominent concepts relating to the search for new forms of social cohesion and solidarity. The question as to what forms such connectivity should take is not only theoretical in nature but above all a question that points to the self-induced multiplicity of spaces that is continually generated by connectivities throughout the world. Networks both structure and constitute an operational field for these proliferating global entanglements of people, places and interests. They become incorporated in space in different ways: in the form of translocal zones of action, community support structures, expanded spheres of influence, spatial superimpositions and intensive contacts and contaminations.



The engagement with these developments on the part of art and architecture in recent years has resulted in a new form of praxis founded on collective production, process-guided work and transversal project platforms. Such a ‘disciplineless’ praxis of unsolicited intervention in spatial contexts renders legible the dysfunctional rules of planned spatial and cultural containment and creates an avenue for generating new forms of circulation amidst the political efforts to conceal this failure. It makes use of existing networks, expands and changes them, gives rise to new circuits and thereby sketches a mobile geography of self-determined utilisations of space and culture. Through practical and theoretical work involved in the parameters of networked art production, this session interrogates the meanings of this politico-aesthetic landscape together with the meanings of artistic, architectural and cultural engagement in these dynamics.

Saturday, 4 April 2009, 9:30 AM - 3.30 PM

Chairs:

Peter Mörtenböck, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
Helge Mooshammer, Institute of Art and Design, Vienna University of Technology

Speakers:

Lee Rodney (University of Windsor), Road Signs on the Border: Transnational Insecurity since 9/11.

Duncan Cook (Royal College of Art), From Eco-politics to Eco-aesthetics: Hybrid Collectives and Creative Connectivities.

Urduja Manaoag (Geneva University of Art and Design), Philippine Resources on the Web: Filipino Diaspora and Internet Participative Platforms.

Ayse N. Erek (Yeditepe University), Remixing the Landscape: New Technologies and Place.

Sophie Hope (Birkbeck, University of London), What ever happened to cultural democracy?
see also _texts: What Ever Happened to Cultural Democrazy

Marga van Mechelen (University of Amsterdam), New Babylon or a virtual house for the artworld citizen.
see also _texts: Survial Kits: Artistic Responses to Globalization


12.45 PM
Screening of the documentary Networked Cultures (dir. Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, 2008)

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