Reports

FOREVER 9

FOReVER|9 – is an international 8bit Demoparty that is represented by Atari, ZX Specter and Commodore 64, hardware limited stations. All three days nobody sleeps, they write applications in computer code.

placeclub Somer – Merina
tags
cameraFrantišek Zachoval
soundFrantišek Zachoval
editingFrantišek Zachoval
interviewFrantišek Zachoval
categoryReports
published1. 7. 2008
languageČesky / English
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FOREVER 9
The 35m2 gallery presents two monumental works, two different environments. Both spaces are based on the same material context, the same material language. Yet each of these realizations appeals to different senses using different techniques and materials. These new spatial configurations, structures, and installations, which shape our spatial orientation and navigation through space, primarily appeal to our basic senses, our sensory memory, and our individual/private memory.
We hope that by combining a number of various artworks and projects, hints of possibility will begin to emerge, from which a way out of today’s situation, that is oppressive on many levels, can slowly be carved. When it seems there is nowhere to run, we can try running into the future – and from there, start to reshape the present.
We know and repeatedly analyze a host of issues with commercial social media and digital labour, but little attention is paid to efforts at building alternatives, such as community-run social media and other forms of de-platformization.
Against the totality of networks and corporately owned social media, what are workable strategies and ethical approaches that allow for alternative ways for our social life to emerge?