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From: Gediminas Urbonas <urbonas at mit.edu>
Date: Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:53 AM
Subject: disobedience archive
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

   feel free to forward this further:

  disobedience: *
*an ongoing video archive*
*December 9, 2011–February 3, 2012
 E14 Media Lab Complex Lobby

MIT program in Art, Culture, and Technology

 Schedule of events:

 Exhibition Talk:
 Mel King, Julie K Stone,
 Marco Scotini, Glorianna Davenport
 Friday *
*December 9, 4–5 PM
 E15-001 ACT Cube
 20 Ames Street
 Cambridge, MA, USA

 Opening Reception:
 Friday
 December 9, 5-8 PM
 E14 Media Lab Complex Lobby

75 Amherst Street*
*Cambridge, MA, USA

 Curated by: Marco Scotini together with Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas*
*Assistant curator: Andris Brinkmanis
 Display System by US: Urbonas Studio

 Disobedience Archive brings together a series of practices and forms of
individual self-representation just as they are finding the key to their
strength in an alliance of art and activism: a transformation in the
languages that society produces as a political subject and as a media
object. What matters in Disobedience is not so much an ‘alliance’ between
activist demands and artistic practices in order to achieve common goals:
it is more that of a common space or a common base that is emerging. This
space is not clearly defined, thus making it impossible to draw a precise
line between forces and signs, between language and labor, between
intellectual production and political action. It functions through a
display of the archive format, in which all the materials on show share the
same level of equivalence – without hierarchies and without exhibiting any
preordained set of institutional rules. It is up to the public to choose
and to organize their vision of the available material: turning the archive
into a toolkit ready for use.

 The Disobedience Archive has been organized and exhibited in many
different venues across the World since 2005. In the installation at the
Lobby of the Media Lab Complex at MIT the Disobedience will expand to
include cases of political and artistic action that have manifested in
the geographic and historical terrain of Boston. In addition to this, new
student works that critically interrogate concepts of Disobedience
(produced in the research seminars, Art, Architecture, and Urbanism in
Dialogue and Introduction to Networked Cultures and Participatory Media),
will be exhibited in conversation with the pre-existing body of works that
comprise the archive.

 Here, the archive itself will take the form of a garden
“corridor” arranged on an axis that disrupts the traditional logic of the
existing space and makes an allusion to the spatial and urban politics,
from community gardens to self-reliant tent cities, that have characterized
many instances of activism in the Boston area.

 Material provided to the archive by:
 16beaver group, Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée (AAA), Gianfranco
Baruchello, Bernardette Corporation, Black Audio Film Collective,
Copenhagen Free University, Critical Art Ensemble, Dodo Brothers (Andrea
Ruggeri and Giancarlo Vitali Ambrogio), Etcètera, Marcelo Exposito, Harun
Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Grupo de Arte Callejero (GAC), Alberto Grifi,
Ashley Hunt, Kanal B, Margit Czencki/Park Fiction, Radio Alice, Oliver
Ressler with Zanny Begg, Joanne Richardson, Eyal Sivan, Hito Steyerl, The
Department of Space and Land Reclamation (with StreetRec., The Institute
for Applied Autonomy, Las Agencias and AffectTech/BikeWriters), Mariette
Schiltz and Bert Theis, Ultra Red, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, James
Wentzy, Dmitry Vilensky and Chto delat / What is to be done?

 Additional contributions and material from:
 Hans Guggenheim, Mel King, Juliet Stone, Richard Leacock, Sylvère
Lotringer, MIT Museum, Paul Summit, Urbano platform, ACT UP and Food not
Bombs amongst others.

 For more information see:
 disobedience.mit.edu

 Directions:

MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology*
*The Media Lab Complex Lobby (E14)*
*75 Amherst Street*
*Cambridge, MA, USA

whereis.mit.edu
 Contact:
 617.253.5229
 act at mit.edu

 Disobedience Archive is produced in collaboration with ACT and NABA⎯Nuova
Accademia di Belle Arti Milano.

 About ACT*
*The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology operates as a critical
studies and production based laboratory, connecting the arts with an
advanced technological community.
(visualarts.mit.edu<http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/events.html>
)

About NABA*
*NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano), founded in 1980, is an
innovative Arts and Design Academy, the largest private Academy in Italy,
and at the same time a dynamic artistic and cultural center. (www.naba.it)
 The Disobedience Archive research and exhibition project is produced in
collaboration with the students from the ACT courses Art, Architecture and
Urbanism in Dialogue (TA: Sung Woo Jang) and Introduction to Networked
Cultures and Participatory Media (TA: Slobodon Radoman):

 Alex Auriema
 Sofia Berinstein
 Giacomo Bruno Castagnola Chaparro
 Sumona Chakravarty
 Joan Chen
 Caleb Benjamin Harper
 Ali Khalid Qureshi
 Summer Stephanie Sutton
 Hailong Wu

 As well as with the assistance of  Anna Caterina Bleuler (NABA, Milano,
Italy), Anastasia Yakovleva, Catherine McMahon, Sarah Witt, Emily Katrencik.
 Technical support: Martin Seymour, Chris Clepper, David Constanza, Craig
Boney.

 This exhibition would not have been possible without the help of many
dedicated individuals and with the generous support from our sponsors.
 Many thanks to:
 The Office of the Dean at MIT SA+P
 Council for the Arts at MIT
 MIT's Program in Art, Culture and Technology
 NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano
 Deborah Douglas and the MIT Museum
 Julian Bonder
 Mel King
 Juliet K Stone
 Paul Summit
 Glorianna Davenport
 Hans Guggenheim
 Farming Turtles
 Vladas Lasas and UPS Lietuva

 Funded by a Director's Grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT.

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