<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Gediminas Urbonas</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:urbonas@mit.edu">urbonas@mit.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:53 AM<br>
Subject: disobedience archive<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>
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disobedience: <span style="font:36px 'Lucida Grande'"><b><br>
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E14 Media Lab Complex Lobby </div>
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Exhibition Talk:</div>
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Mel King, Julie K Stone, </div>
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Marco Scotini, Glorianna Davenport</div>
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Friday<span style="font:14px Superla-Bold"> </span><span style="font:11px 'Lucida Grande'"><b><br>
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E15-001 ACT Cube </div>
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Cambridge, MA, USA</div>
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Opening Reception:</div>
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December 9, 5-8 PM </div>
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E14 Media Lab Complex Lobby</div>
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75 Amherst Street<span style="font:14px 'Lucida Grande'"><b><br>
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Curated by: Marco Scotini together with Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas<span style="font:14px 'Lucida Grande'"><b><br>
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Display System by US: Urbonas Studio</div>
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<span style="font:13px Superla-Bold">Disobedience Archive</span> 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.</p>
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<span style="font:12px Superla-Book">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</span> 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.</div>
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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.</div>
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Material provided to the archive by:<span style="color:rgb(41,41,41)"> </span></div>
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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?</div>
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Additional contributions and material from:<span style="color:rgb(41,41,41)"> </span></div>
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Hans Guggenheim, Mel King, Juliet Stone, Richard Leacock, Sylvère Lotringer, MIT Museum, Paul Summit, Urbano platform, ACT UP and Food not Bombs amongst others.</div>
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For more information see:<span style="font:13px Superla-Book;color:rgb(255,30,24)"> </span></div>
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<a href="http://disobedience.mit.edu/" target="_blank">disobedience.mit.edu</a> </div>
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Directions: </div>
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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology<span style="font:13px 'Lucida Grande'"><b><br>
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<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/" target="_blank">whereis.mit.edu</a> </p>
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Contact: </div>
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<a href="tel:617.253.5229" value="+16172535229" target="_blank">617.253.5229</a> </div>
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<a href="mailto:act@mit.edu" target="_blank">act@mit.edu</a> </div>
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Disobedience Archive is produced in collaboration with <span style="font:12px Superla-Bold">ACT </span>and <span style="font:12px Superla-Bold">NABA</span><span style="font:12px Symbol">⎯</span><span style="font:12px Superla-Bold">Nuova
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<span style="font:12px Superla-Bold">About ACT</span><span style="font:12px 'Lucida Grande'"><b><br>
</b></span>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. (<a href="http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/events.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">visualarts.mit.edu</span></a><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">) </span></p>
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<span style="font:12px Superla-Bold">About NABA</span><span style="font:12px 'Lucida Grande'"><b><br>
</b></span>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. (<a href="http://www.naba.it/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(85,85,85)">www.naba.it</span></a>)</p>
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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
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Alex Auriema</div>
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Sofia Berinstein</div>
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Giacomo Bruno Castagnola Chaparro</div>
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Sumona Chakravarty</div>
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Joan Chen</div>
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Caleb Benjamin Harper</div>
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Ali Khalid Qureshi</div>
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Summer Stephanie Sutton</div>
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Hailong Wu</div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">As well as with the assistance of </span> Anna Caterina Bleuler (NABA, Milano, Italy), Anastasia Yakovleva, Catherine McMahon, Sarah Witt, Emily Katrencik.</div>
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Technical support: Martin Seymour, Chris Clepper, David Constanza, Craig Boney.</div>
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<span style="font-size:12px">This exhibition would not have been possible without the help of many dedicated individuals and with the generous support from our sponsors. </span></p>
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Many thanks to: </div>
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The Office of the Dean at MIT SA+P</div>
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Council for the Arts at MIT</div>
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MIT's Program in Art, Culture and Technology </div>
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NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano</div>
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Deborah Douglas and the MIT Museum </div>
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Julian Bonder </div>
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Mel King </div>
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Juliet K Stone </div>
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Paul Summit</div>
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Glorianna Davenport</div>
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Hans Guggenheim</div>
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Farming Turtles</div>
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<span style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:Helvetica">Funded by a Director's Grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT. </span></div>
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