Issue 2/2004
Rip-off Culture
Issues of cultural appropriation have recently gained in urgency and relevance. Ideational claims to ownership collide ever more frequently with the actual, existing distribution of property – and in an increasingly drastic fashion, as is shown not only by the current battles for a share in cultural goods, but also the legistic measures that accompany them. A new set-up seems to be emerging here, with the advocates of »copy, rip and burn« on the one side, and those who champion copy protection and anti-filesharing campaigns on the other. In the appropriative procedures of art, the problems of original and copy, of reference and borrowing, have always been articulated in a complex way. In his article, Daniel Pies examines what forms the intertextual treatment of »extra-artistic« knowledge takes on today and what view of things is promoted... » read more
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The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Production and consumption of music in the era of its digital reproducibility
Hias Wrba
Mixburnrip and the consequences
An interview with Janko Röttgers on the future of digital music distribution
Kito Nedo
Globalization Is Right Nearby, and It Is Now
Bazaars as a gauge of the transformation to a free market economy
Krystian Woznicki
Confirmation of the Crisis
The Munich festival »NEURO – networking europe«
Vera Tollmann
Programmed Anti-Form
The DVD »auto_generation_DC« by reMI has recently been released by Edition Medienturm
Marc Ries
Twenty-Five Years of Video Aesthetics
The exhibition »Video« in the NRW- Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft in Düsseldorf
Cosima Rainer
Lost & Found (IV)
The retrospective »A Different History« at the 50th Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Christian Höller
Rip-off Culture
Staged Knowledge
Two paradigms for the aesthetic appropriation of cultural discourses: Gitte Villesen and Cerith Wyn Evans
Daniel Pies
Creative Collecting - For Beginners
Luchezar Boyadjiev
Osteuropäische ©opymanie
Ana Peraica
Hard-Disk Parties, Backpack Libraries and Open CD-Archives
Rip-off dynamics in Bucharest
Stefan Tiron
Hunters and (Sample-)Gatherers
The problems of trans-cultural borrowing in contemporary music
Christian Höller
DIY-NORM
The boom of creativity and non-conformity
Thomas Edlinger
Who Owns the Formula for a High?
A contribution to the debate about patent rights and the legalization of drugs
Hans-Christian Dany
Stolen Architecture
The New York architect Michael Rakowitz constructs easily assembled mobile shelters for the homeless
Noah Chasin
Public Brands – Bordeaux, 2004
Text und Bilder: Andreas Fogarasi
ExArgentina
An exhibition in the Ludwig Museum in Cologne investigates the symmetry of crisis, new solidarities and artistic procedures in Argentina in 2001
Roger M. Buergel, Gregor Jansen, Sophia Prinz
Memórias Íntimas Marcas
An interview with the artist Fernando Alvim about building up an African art network
Christian Hanussek
A Historical Corset
A large-scale anthology attempts to trace the Yugoslavian avant-garde movements of the twentieth century
Suzana Milevska
Politically Correct Trauma
»The Hidden Holocaust«
Katalin Timár
Artscribe
»20/20 Vision«
Hedwig Saxenhuber
»Documentary ›Fictions‹«
Katharina Gsöllpointner
Yael Bartana
Melanie Ohnemus
Jiri Kovanda – »I am not against«
David Kulhanek
»Call me ISTANBUL ist mein Name«
Dietrich Heißenbüttel
Helena Almeida: »Pés no chão, cabeça no céu«
Miguel von Hafe Pérez
Roman Ondák: »Spirit and Opportunity«
Frank Frangenberg
Bernard Bazile: »Ein Maß für alle«
Gislind Nabakowski
»Atelier Europa – A Small Post-Fordian Drama«
Doro Wiese
Valérie Favre: »Schiesserei im Schlafwald«
Jens Kastner
»Infame Bilder«
Christa Benzer
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha:
Jens Kastner
Wiener Linien
Nicola Hirner
Zupancic/Zivadinov: Mehatron Noordung
Herwig G. Höller
Books
Gareth James, Florian Zeyfang (Hg.):
I said I love. That is the promise.
Axel John Wieder
David Harvey:
The New Imperialism
Anette Baldauf
Jutta Weber & Corinna Bath (Hg.):
Turbulente Körper, soziale Maschinen.
Nanna Lüth
Büro trafo.K/Renate Höllwart, Charlotte Martinz-Turek, Nora Sternfeld und Alexander Pollak (Hg.):
In einer Wehrmachtsausstellung
Jo Schmeiser