Authorship

Is the concept of the author still relevant today? How can the freedom of artistic expression be ensured opposite the capitalist-neoliberal impact on this creation? How can the innovation potential of the Internet be implemented fair for all?

Copyright

Perspectives on »Free Libraries«

by Dennis Yi Tenen

American researcher Dennis Yi Tenen gives insight into different perspectives on »free libraries« reporting his personal experiences from the »Custodians.online« discussion.

Google

Trapped in the Presence

by Andrew Norman Wilson

Yellow-badged scanner workers, questions on copyright, and Google »anomalies«: An interview with the artist A. N. Wilson on the lecture collage »Movement Materials and What We Can Do«

Copyright

Death and Survival of Dead Labor

by Tomislav Medak

The nexus author–work–copyright has transformed in fundamental ways – but opposite to what the recurrent claims of the death of the author have suggested.

Lecture

Témoin Considérable

by Tomislav Medak

Tomislav Medak, témoin considérable himself, responds from his own perspective to Hans Blumenberg’s question: »What was it that we from the outset wanted to know?«

Lecture Performance

Story on Copy: Jelena Vesić, Lecture Performance

by Vladimir Jerić Vlidi & Jelena Vesić

»In historical perspective of art, copy is something completely senseless…« A sophisticated and humorous »Story on Copy« with Mondrian and Duchamp by curator Jelena Vesić

Jurisprudence/Law

Pattern Recognition

by Martin Zeilinger

With a background in digital culture and intellectual property law, Martin Zeilinger explores questions of »authorship« and »creating,« concerning algorithm-generated artworks.

Author*ity

Performed Bodies

When I Sign My Name

by Elisa Band

»What part of my body is mine when the last layer of my atoms is mixed with the atoms around?« – A search for the distinctive self in our repetition of gestures.

Collective Performance

Aboard the Kafkamachine

by Cássio Diniz Santiago

Three groups traced the movement of Kafka’s main character from »Amerika« by doing a boat trip and working on a collective performance.

Status of Authorship

by Elisa Band

What happens when authorship gets caught in stormy weather? Elisa Band takes us on a journey through the heavy swell into a vortex of stories that sound somehow familiar.

Music/Sound

(Re-)Transcribing Composition

by G Douglas Barrett

»Two Transcriptions/Ode to Schoenberg« (2013) by artist, musician, and theorist G Douglas Barrett addresses debates around musical authorship, transgender politics, and identity.

Studio Providence

File, Drawing, Plopp

with Kai Franz

Investigating notions of authorship, Kai Franz built a machine that fabricates art objects based on CAD drawings, 3D models, and algorithmic behaviors.

Tools

Let’s First Get Things Done

by The Darmstadt Delegation

A collective analysis of political practice and the tools that are used in moments of crisis. Results of a workshop by The Darmstadt Delegation.

Statement & Authorship

Dynamic Statement

by Florian Goldmann

A notification concerning the exhibition piece »Sokhraneniye Pogloshchennogo« (Russian: Сохренение Поглащенного, Survival of the Absorbed).

Performance

Let’s Be Dragonflies

by Anna Gschnitzer

What if you were to invite Austrian playwright Anna Gschnitzer and she were to stage an entire performance in the subjunctive tense?

Cryptography

Automatic Merge Failed

by Femke Snelting

»Automatic Merge Failed« is a close reading of the way »difference« is encoded into software, and insists on its centripetal potential.

Appropriation

Architectural Practice

The Grammar of Copy

by Fabrizio Gallanti

Former Akademie juror Fabrizio Gallanti illustrates the cyclical return in architectural culture and the debate of the »problem of the copy.«

Creating Identity

Omaha Uninitiated

by Theodore Wheeler

Through historical photographs, film, and music from the World War I era, the presentation investigates the celebration of certain identities during this time.

Visual Representation

Inappropriate

by Amie Siegel

Video-artist Amy Siegel on »Quotes and Appropriation« in her work.

Forms of Knowledge

Embodying Cultural Memory

by David Quigley

Embodying Cultural Memory between Symbolic Forms, Dynamograms and Dance: Ernst Cassirer, Aby Warburg

Lecture

Light and Color

by Denis Grünemeier & Jens Meinreken

Light and Color as Symbolic Forms in Transgressive Art. – A lecture by the art historians Denis Grünemeier & Jens Meinrenken.