---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Krystian Woznicki via Commoning <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 3:06 PM Subject: [commoning] SNOWDEN FILES AS ART + COMMONS > new BG book out now! To: [email protected] Dear commoners, four years ago the very first news about the @snowden files broke. The new Berliner Gazette book shows how artists have been working with them, transforming them into commons. More details below. Please re-tweet this: https://twitter.com/berlinergazette/status/871673242074968064 Please share this info on other social networks incl. the link: http://diamondpaper.net/title_26 --- A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SNOWDEN FILES Media, Arts, Archives 2013-2017 Ed. Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki 168 pages, including images 21 × 29.7 cm, paperback, English Diamondpaper 2017 | ISBN 978-3-9817925-1-5 | 35 € A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SNOWDEN FILES is the first book to critically engage with artists responding to the NSA-files leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Considering the most relevant contexts in which the files have 'surfaced' (including media and archives), it reflects on how artists are deploying the files as raw material. Contributors include Zeljko Blace, Andrew Clement, Colnate Group, Naomi Colvin, Simon Denny, Corinna Haas, Christoph Hochhäusler, Evan Light, Geert Lovink, M.C. McGrath, Henrik Moltke, Deborah Natsios, Julian Oliver, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras, Norman Posselt, SAZAE bot, Stefan Tiron, University of the Phoenix, Andi Weiland, Maria Xynou and John Young. The book looks at the various civil society actors who have been appropriating the historic leak and orders their responses according to contexts in which the Snowden documents have been published: media, art and archives. The different approaches share the common goal of rendering the documents accessible – to both present and future audiences. Reaching out to the general public, they have also tasked themselves with reflecting on the complex political, social and technological realities that the Snowden documents have helped to uncover. The Snowden disclosures have triggered debates on democracy, civil rights, the internet and intelligence agencies all around the world. These debates have led to a number of political changes, including negative ones: e.g., consolidating the delusion of cyber-security. Meanwhile, the documents that triggered the debates remain arcane for the general public, as well as for many experts. And it is not ensured that the documents will be preserved for posterity or for those writing our history. The book takes this problem as its starting point and situates the historic leak in the context of civic appropriation. Foregrounded are artists who test the files as material and, by creating works, transform them into commons. A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SNOWDEN FILES has been conceived in the context of SIGNALS, a project by Berliner Gazette e. V. which was funded by the Capital Cultural Fund. The book is published in conjunction with SIGNALS. AN EXHIBITION OF THE SNOWDEN FILES IN ART, MEDIA AND ARCHIVES, September 12-26, 2017, at Diamondpaper Studio, curated by Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki. More info: http://berlinergazette.de/signals You can buy the book here: http://diamondpaper.de/title_26 We are thanking everybody who has been working with us on this book as well as everybody who has been collaborating with us on the Snowden files in the past four years! We are looking forward to your feedback! Stay tuned, Krystian -- -------------------------------------------------------------- BG – Berliner Gazette | since 1999 | http://berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- LATEST BG BOOK: AFTER THE PLANES | http://diamondpaper.net/title_25 -------------------------------------------------------------- SIGNALS. An Exhibition of the Snowden Files – in Art, Media and Archives Curated by Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki (BG) DIAMONDPAPER Studio | Köpenicker Straße 96, Berlin | September 12-26 -------------------------------------------------------------- Failed Citizens or Failed States? Friendly Fire | BG Annual Conference 2017 ZK/U | Siemensstraße 27-49, Berlin| November 2-4 -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commons-Institut e.V. Germany [email protected] https://lists.schokokeks.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/commoning -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/