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UMEDE FESTIVAL / ALL SOURCES ARE BROKEN / WORKSHOP

ALL SOURCES ARE BROKEN / WORKSHOP AT UMEDE FESTIVAL
Post-media and related matters festival in Vilnius

A workshop navigates the fragile delay between offline books and online hyperlinks, where texts unravel and fragment in digital flux.

Where does the networking purpose of hyperlinks actually starts in offline texts? What happens to the text when we decide to explore the hyperlinks and the online media resources which are there referenced? We all use the Internet every day to retrieve tons of information, without paying too much attention to the sources. In this workshop we will try to radically connect research with reading strategies. Participants will receive a quick overview of digital archival best practices and dive into ASAB, a web-based application and an artist experiment about books, hyperlinks obsolescence and reading strategies developed by Labor Neunzehn. The project considers how hypertext and print already coexist (as opposed to one superseding the other), through a navigable archive of collected reference material that visitors can both navigate and shape themselves. Participants will learn how to create a profile and use ASAB’s main backend features to cross-reference book citations and online media sources. We will be reading books together, just like in a reading group, but gradually shifting from the material to the digital world, in order to explore the deferred space between offline and online, its delay and decay.

books
offline texts
online media resources
internet
reading strategies
hyperlinks
obsolescence
book citations
parallel narratives
offline and online
delay and decay

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Ūmėdė* (lietuviškai žemiau)
x⬳disciplinary festival for emerging art & related matters What happened after the meteorite of the anthropocene has hit contemporary art, and bioactivists together with AI and XR* have exploded the discourse formerly known as media art?
The umede.lt festival and symposium will begin on the morning of October 16 and end late on the evening of October 18. Performances, installations, conceptual coffee breaks, open artists studios, smell of grass and trees, book presentations, hybrid discussions, chilling in the garden, sauna & bonfire trips, concerts, imaginary presence and unexpected meetings. The third festival ūmėdė 2025 welcomes us down to earth to question why we are so awkwardly placed here.

After media and screen fatigueness and sensory overload we invite you down to earth, down to body, down to roots to exchange on what we have learned out there and was it worth the trip?
New media integration into art and society was done in a happy-go-lucky way, now we would like to rewind and freeze some of the best moments. Lets watch and listen to them in slow motion all together around the real bonfire.

Third edition of umede.lt festival will happen on October 16-19th at SODAS 2123 (Vilnius, LT) site and invites you to experience all four festival stages (strands): sodas (garden), krūsnis (heap of stones), laboratory and ether.

CURATORS: Vytautas Michelkevičius, Gailė Griciūtė, Ignas Pavliukevičius, Nazare Soares and others.

"All Sources Are Broken" guest for Occulto temporary BookShop and Meeting at Fracto

As part of FRACTO 2022 program, Occulto will set up in the ACUD backyard a temporary bookshop and meeting point featuring their diverse positions around the materialities of publishing, between analog and digital, photocopied and offset-printed, handmade and automated. We invite you to participate in an informal, in-depth conversation accompanied by music, drinks and snacks.

Labor Neunzehn will be present as guest with two projects:
“All Sources are Broken”
https://allsourcesarebroken.net

and

“Kamera Series” (in collaboration with Avarie Publishing)
https://kamera-series.com

Together with us:

Future Ethics
http://futureethics.net/

New Age Rage
https://newageraaage.bigcartel.com

Occulto
https://www.occultomagazine.com

Avarie Publishing
https://avariepublishing.cargo.site

FREE ENTRANCE

WHERE:
ACUD MACHT NEU
https://acudmachtneu.de
VETERANENSTRASSE 2
10119 BERLIN MITTE
U8 ROSENTHALER PLATZ

WHEN:
SAT 28 JUNE FROM 1 PM
SUN 29 JUNE FROM 1 PM

ABOUT FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter
Growing in the lively Berlin scene, Fracto aims to offer a novel and unique focal point dedicated to experimental and avant-garde film, gathering a worldwide community interested in art film-based research processes. Fracto is conceived as an encounter for intersubjective exchanges, merging multiple perspectives into an embodied and shared experience where the primordial and the critical actively unfold in the enjoyment of unorthodox interpretation.

The 2022 Selection spans thirty films curated into four programs and two film performances, including works from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, the UK and the USA.
The assembling and proposing of the programme reflects a certain degree of film aestheticism, on the threshold between nonexistence and historical presence, opacity and materiality, personal and collective débordement.

The Focus session, curated by Federico Rossin, will present the complete filmography of Paris-based filmmaker Emmanuel Lefrant, along with a homage to the 40th Anniversary of Light Cone, in a two-night all-analog screening.

More infos:
https://fractofilm.com

Reframe the Network

We wrote an essay, almost a year ago for APRIA, has now been published.
https://apria.artez.nl/reframe-the-network/

In this article, we try to outline the philosophical and technical background that informs the architecture of our web-based project ‘All Sources Are Broken,’ an online publishing platform that enables cross-referencing media, as well as an artistic experiment about the archive and hyperlink obsolescence (https://allsourcesarebroken.net). We also address the artistic practices that contribute to defining the project as a decelerated post-digital strategy, in order to frame it within the context of what we feel like is the main urgency in the scope of information systems today: media and self-education and cultural activism.

Keywords: book, hypertext, online, offline, obsolescence.

ABOUT APRIA ISSUE / URGENT PUBLISHING

the new issue of APRIA Journal, Urgent Publishing, is edited by Miriam Rasch and Nishant Shah, with contributions by Florian Cramer, Labor Neunzehn, Miriam Rasch and Paul Soulellis.
Read the full issue, or download a pdf here: apria.artez.nl/issue/urgent-publishing/
Urgent Publishing delves into the question of how publishers can keep up standards of quality and care for their audiences in a sphere that is increasingly dominated by breaking news, hype cycles and metrics. How can a different approach to the timeframes or tempo of publishing help in building relevant publics for content? Beyond the commodified practices of publishing one-off objects, how can publishing be a tool for critical community building?

ABOUT APRIA
ON ART (RESEARCH), DIVERSE
THINKING AND FUTURE SCENARIO’S
ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions of the Arts

APRIA (ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions of the Arts) is an online platform that curates a peer-reviewed journal (APRIA journal) and publishes high-impact essays, image and sound contributions that examine art and interventions of the arts in relation to science and society, and that encourage dialogue around themes that are critical and urgent to the futures that we will live in.

APRIA is an online publication to support art interventions which aim to build a fair and equitable society through research in artistic practice. APRIA believes that the non-conformist way in which the arts shape their practice and research and harness its innovative and disruptive power has a special quality and helps to build scenarios for a future. Hence, the premise of the arts is their possibility to be connected, collective, and creative in intersections of knowledge, skills, speculation, and critique. The promise of the arts is in making, changing, transforming, and creating new possibilities and alternatives that challenge the scripts of the status quo.

At the heart of APRIA is an encounter with the Other – the other discipline, pedagogy, school, framework, subjectivity, practice, knowledge, discourse, perspective, culture and experience. APRIA believes that the ideas and methods of staging, creating, performing, and understanding encounters that open dialogue and build common knowledges are intrinsic in art practice and research. APRIA is a platform that showcases these encounters through scientific inquiries, artistic contributions, and knowledge movements, encouraging dialogue both globally and at the local specificity of Dutch society around themes that are critical and urgent to the futures that we will live in.

Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2021 #Burn____

Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2021 #Burn____
“All Sources are Broken” A Post-digital Reading Group

Workshop

:: June 8, 16:00-18:00 CET ::
“We create parallel narratives starting from the reading and rereading paths contributed by the users”.
Labor Neunzehn is glad to announce our participation at Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2021 #Burn____, the transdisciplinary platform for emerging art, design, research and activism, with the workshop “All Sources Are Broken. A Post-digital Reading Group“.

The workshop is open to all! You can subscribe at the following link and join remotely https://bit.ly/3w0JHqv

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Where does the networking purpose of hyperlinks actually starts in offline texts? What happens to the text when we decide to explore the hyperlinks and the online media resources which are there referenced? We all use the Internet every day to retrieve tons of information, without paying too much attention to the sources. In this workshop we will try to radically connect web-search with reading strategies. All Sources Are Broken is an internet-based-project developed by Labor Neunzehn: an artistic experiment and a collaborative re-archival practice, which presents itself as an open access WCMS for the investigation of the hypertext space in post-digital books. By exploring the text through multimedia content, the website enables a contextual cross-referencing between books, citations and online data. This way, ASAB aims at expanding books content while keeping track, at the same time, of hyperlinks obsolescence.

www.allsourcesarebroken.net

Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2021 #Burn____ will be live radio broadcasted. Tune in on Festival’s website at festival.pixelache.ac

About Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2021

Soon 20-year-old Pixelache Helsinki, a transdisciplinary platform for emerging art, design, research and activism, explores this summer collapse from psychological, social and environmental perspective as well as developing resilience. Week-long festival consists of localised FM radio, online streams, media art, lectures, haircuts, experimental home cooking, among many others.

Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2021 #Burn____, co-directed by artist-organiser Andrew Gryf Paterson and author Laura Gustafsson, takes place this year with limited access in selected spaces inside Oodi Central Library in Helsinki and outside the front canopy of Oodi, as well as online, from the 6th to the 13th of June 2021. The theme of the festival #Burn____, anticipated in late summer 2019, sets the context of the festival contributions, reflecting on mental health, social solidarity and struggle as well as on ecological crisis.

After a year of excessive screen-based meetings, the festival re-adopts one of the oldest media forms at physical distance from another – radio – seems to be the idea of making a festival event with local and international contributors in consideration of mobility and gathering restrictions. With the established experience of hybrid radio, Pixelache brings a localised listening mix of audio works from two open calls, a live radio stream of festival events especially made or adapted for radio, emerging sound artists, podcasts, and interviews with festival artists and contributors. During the festival, the public can interact with a local FM radio broadcasting around Oodi. Bring Your Own Radio (BYOR) to listen, and if you like a blanket or picnic!

All Sources are Broken” A Post-digital Reading Group Workshop at Transmediale Vorspiel

After the first workshop about the project “All Sources Are Broken” in the context of the conference “Urgent Publishing”, organized by Institute of Network Cultures, ArtEz University of the Arts and Willem de Kooning Academy in Holland, Labor Neunzehn will re-propose the workshop “All Sources are Broken: A Post-Digital Reading Group” for Transmediale Vorspiel.

DATE: 25 Januar 2020 // WORKSHOP SCHEDULE: 3-7 PM

Where does the networking purpose of hyperlinks actually starts in offline texts? What happens to the text when we decide to explore the hyperlinks and the online media resources which are there referenced? We all use the Internet every day to retrieve tons of information, without paying too much attention to the sources. In this workshop we will try to radically connect research with reading strategies. Participants will receive a quick overview of digital archival best practices and dive into ASAB, a web-based application and an artist experiment about books, hyperlinks obsolescence and reading strategies developed by Labor Neunzehn. The project considers how hypertext and print already coexist (as opposed to one superseding the other), through a navigable archive of collected reference material that visitors can both navigate and shape themselves. Participants will learn how to create a profile and use ASAB’s main backend features to cross-reference book citations and online media sources. We will be reading books together, just like in a reading group, but gradually shifting from the material to the digital world, in order to explore the deferred space between offline and online, its delay and decay.

Labor Neunzehn is an artist and curator duo engaged in a multidisciplinary discourse that involves expanded cinema, music composition, publishing, and critical reflection in media art, with a specific reference to the migration of these languages between the online and the offline domain. Labor Neunzehn is run by Valentina Besegher and Alessandro Massobrio, and based in the homonym project space in Berlin since 2015.

Project link: https://www.allsourcesarebroken.net

Report about the workshop by Silvio Lorusso: https://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/2019/05/22/all-sources-are-broken/ target

Materials and requirements: Participants are required to bring their own laptops with Chrome or Firefox browsers installed in advance.

For whom: students, designers, developers, artists, writers, publishers and researchers who want to experiment with new forms of hybrid publishing.

DATE: 25 Januar 2020 // WORKSHOP SCHEDULE: 3-7 PM

Attendance limit: 15.
Price: € 5
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/all-sources-are-broken-a-post-digital-reading-group-tickets-89462979179

Location:
Labor Neunzehn
Kiefholzstr.19/20
12435
Berlin

Labor Neunzehn At Simultan Festival XIV

We are glad to inform you that Labor Neunzehn has been invited to take part this weekend at the new edition of Simultan Festival in Timișoara. Alessandro will be attending with a talk about post-digital reading strategies and parallel narratives, and introducing our web based project “All Sources Are Broken”.

All Sources Are Broken: Post-digital reading strategies and parallel narratives.
Talk at Simultan Festival XIV in Timișoara, Romania – November 10 2019

In occasion of Simultan Festival XIV Alessandro Massobrio will browse through All Sources Are Broken, a web based application developed with Valentina Besegher as a creative coding experiment about books, hyperlinks obsolescence, reading strategies, which considers how hypertext and print already coexist (as opposed to one superseding the other), through a navigable archive of collected reference material that visitors can both navigate and shape themselves. He will look into offline networking models and explore the deferred space that emerges in-between text and hypertext, offline and online.

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SIMULTAN FESTIVAL XIV.
8—10 NOV. 2019,
CORNELIU MIKLOSI MUSEUM, Timișoara

“There Will Be a Time When It Will Not Be”
The world as we know it will soon cease to exist. Although science and technology fuel change at a remarkably fast pace, it often goes unnoticed, since the deepest structural changes happen imperceptibly and morphs quickly into norms. We have entered a period of incredible instability, and many of our certainties and assumptions are systematically blown away. Every day our predictions and expectations are transposed.

In 2019, SIMULTAN festival carries the theme “There will be a time when it will not be“, which aims to question technology’s influence on the different aspects of individual and social life, to explore speculative situations, and to disturb the standardized image of the future as a cult of infinite progress and development. The festival delves into the realms of personal, political, social, philosophical and existential aspects of our day and age, by pointing out the various ways in which the artists respond to and how they record those changes, and how they imagine the future.

SIMULTAN 2019 proposes alternative narratives and confluence approaches by aiming at creating a general status, which brings local identity into a wider context, providing new opportunities for artists that wish to experiment with different media or interdisciplinary methods.

The festival’s perspective has shifted over the years – going from challenging our audiovisual comprehension experience to exploring the human-machine interactions and experimenting with various tools and technologies to question their social implications and overall impact on our daily lives.

SIMULTAN festival approaches new aesthetics and showcases video art and live events whose main themes include: stylistic eclecticism, the relationship between humans and machine, recycle-environmental themes, dry lyricism, acoustic and electronic instrumental fusion, expanded cinema, jovial live sound collages, and the reflection on the political valences of sonic practice.

WEBSITE

“Media and Participation” - New Book added.

During the workshop that we run in the context of the “Urgent Publishing” conference at ArtEz University of the Arts we added to our library and started to “explode” the book by Nico Carpentier “Media and Participation. A site of ideological democratic struggle” published by Intellect Books in 2011.

Report by Silvio Lorusso about “All Sources Are Broken” at Urgent Publishing conference

Silvio Lorusso wrote a very accurate report on the “All Sources Are Broken” project that we presented during our workshop in Urgent Publishing conference organized by Institute of Network Cultures in Holland.

If you want to know more here you can find the link:

http://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/2019/05/22/all-sources-are-broken/

All Sources are Broken” A Post-digital Reading Group Workshop at “Urgent Publishing” conference

Labor Neunzehn will taught a workshop about the project “All Sources Are Broken” in the context of the conference publishing strategies in post-truth times. Organized by Institute of Network Cultures, ArtEz University of the Arts and Willem de Koonig Academy : “Urgent Publishing” will take place from 15 to 17 May in Amsterdam and in Arhenm

Students, designers, developers, artists, writers, publishers and researchers who want to experiment with new forms of hybrid publishing are warmly invited to participate.

More detail are available here: http://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/conference

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

ALL SOURCES ARE BROKEN: A POST-DIGITAL READING GROUP
Where does the networking purpose of hyperlinks actually starts in offline texts? What happens to the text when we decide to explore the hyperlinks and the online media resources which are there referenced? We all use the Internet every day to retrieve tons of information, without paying too much attention to the sources. In this workshop we will try to radically connect research with reading strategies. Participants will receive a quick overview of digital archival best practices and dive into ASAB, a web-based application and an artist experiment about books, hyperlinks obsolescence and reading strategies developed by Labor Neunzehn. The project considers how hypertext and print already coexist (as opposed to one superseding the other), through a navigable archive of collected reference material that visitors can both navigate and shape themselves. Participants will learn how to create a profile and use ASAB’s main backend features to cross-reference book citations and online media sources. We will be reading books together, just like in a reading group, but gradually shifting from the material to the digital world, in order to explore the deferred space between offline and online, its delay and decay.

Materials and requirements: Participants are required to bring their own laptops with Chrome or Firefox browsers installed in advance.

Date: 17.05.2019
Where: ArtEZ University of the Arts / Utrechtsestraat 85, 6811 LW, Arnhem
Main language: English
Admission = free > registration required.
REGISTER HERE

#urgentpublishing

Respublika! - Experiments in the Performance of Participation and Democracy (2019)

Labor Neunzehn is very pleased to be a part with our project "All Sources are Broken" of the first edition of “Respublika! - Experiments in the Performance of Participation and Democracy" (2019)”, a publication by NeMe edited by Nico Carpentier, with an interview by Olga Yegorova.

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"Respublika! - Experiments in the Performance of Participation and Democracy" (2019) reports on the Respublika! project, initiated and curated by Nico Carpentier and co-organised with NeMe and CCMC. The catalogue reports on the 18 Respublika! art projects, through project narratives, artist interviews and more than 200 photographs. The catalogue also contains 12 reflexive articles, written by Bart Cammaerts, Nico Carpentier, Vaia Doudaki, Pascal Gielen, Helen Hahmann, Nicos Trimikliniotis, Olga Yegorova and Hazal Yolga.

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The 361-page book is open access, and can be downloaded from here:
http://www.neme.org/publications
http://nicocarpentier.net/respublika

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Respublika! - Experiments in the Performance of Participation and Democracy
Nico Carpentier (ed.)
Published by NeMe, Limassol
2019, 361 pages, ISBN 978-9963-9695-8-6
Open access at http://nicocarpentier.net/respublika
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About Respublika!

Respublika! was a cluster of an arts Festival, three Exhibitions and several Seminars, initiated and curated by Nico Carpentier and co-organised with NeMe and CCMC. Respublika! translated the principles of community media in creative practice, in order to reflect on media, democracy and its participatory component, to analyze the (de)centralization of power in contemporary societies, and to showcase art projects that use participatory mechanisms to produce art projects, working with, and empowering members of one or more communities. Respublika! was multi-sited and multi-genre, and aimed to tap into the creative reservoirs of community media, civil society organizations and social collectives (and their members); but also of artists that are committed to the basic principles of participatory (community) communication.

Respublika! incorporated 18 art projects that relate to (at least) one of the following two objectives, which translate the principles of community media in creative practice:

1/to reflect on media, democracy and its participatory component, analysing the (de)centralization of power in contemporary societies,
2/to use participatory mechanisms to produce art projects, working with, and empowering members of one or more communities.

Respublika! consisted of three exhibitions, a festival and a seminar series. The first main exhibition, Open Community – Open Networks, took place from 4 November 2017 to 2 December 2017. The second main exhibition, Participation Matters, took place from 8 December 2017 to 19 January 2018. The Festival ran in parallel with the first week of the second main exhibition, from 8 to 16 December 2017.

FILE São Paulo 2018: The body is the message / Electronic Language International Festival

All Sources are Broken has been selected by the curators of FILE Festival in Brazil to partecipate in the new exhibition programme online.

FILE Electronic Language International Festival’s theme for FILE SÃO PAULO 2018 is “The Body is the Message“. Despite the apparent allusion to the world of the cyborg in the title, it refers to a different connection between technology and the body – to the aesthetic and artistic connection that is formed, which operates separately from the communicative flow of information and data – the appreciation of a work of art and of the way in which it is made.

EXHIBITION OPENING
03 july, Tuesday, 7h30pm

VISITATION
Art Galery
04 July to 12 August 2018
Tuesday to Saturday, from 10h to 22h
Sundays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

FREE ENTRANCE

FIESP Cultural Center
Av. Paulista, 1313
São Paulo - SP
Brazil
centroculturalfiesp.com.br
file.org.br

All Sources Are Broken / Exhibition and lecture performance at “Respublika!”

“All Sources Are Broken” will exhibit at “Participation Matters”, in the context of Respublika! in Cyprus, from December 8 2017 to January 19 2018, and on December 13 at NeMe Arts Centre, with the lecture performance.

Respublika! is a cluster of an arts festival, two exhibitions and several seminars that translates the principles of community media in creative practice, in order to reflect on media, democracy and its participatory component, to analyze the (de)centralisation of power in contemporary societies, and to showcase art projects that use participatory mechanisms to produce art projects, working with, and empowering members of one or more communities.

All Sources are Broken: new interview about the project

On the occasion of our participation to “Respublika!” we have discussed with Olga Yegerova about ASAB, participatory empowerment, online and offline cycle and creative archival practices.

Here the link to the full article: respublika.neme.org/art-projects/labor-neunzehn

"Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost" an article about "All Sources Are Broken" on Transmediale Journal

"Berlin-based artist duo Alessandro Massobrio and Valentina Besegher, working under the name Atelier Labor Neunzehn, created the sprawling digital archival project All Sources Are Broken in playful response to the disjointed and dysfunctional web of sources and citations criss-crossing digital and print realms. Analyzing this project by tracing her own network of associations and reference points, in this essay writer Fiona Shipwright finds space for creativity, collective action, and recontextualization within the platform Labor Neunzehn has created."

Link below to the full article: transmediale.de/content/everything-not-saved-will-be-lost

Lecture performance at Libros Mutantes in Madrid

Labor Neunzehn has been invited to present the new internet based project “All Sources Are Broken” in a lecture performance, in the context of Libros Mutantes Madrid Art Book Fair. Libros Mutantes is a Spain-based independent project focused on the relation between publishing and Visual Arts, that will be hosted at La Casa Encendida from April 21 to 23.

The lecture performance will start on April 21 at 8.00 pm o’clock!

Besides our lecture performance, the festival Libros Mutantes will be hosting the great talks and presentations by Kenneth Goldsmith, Groupe CCC, Javier Mariscal, Astrid Vorstermans and Heavyweight.

We are almost there, see you in Madrid.

Streaming website launch

Recorded broadcast at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpImxUxuNVY&feature=youtu.be

Friday the 3rd of March at 6PM GMT+1

Labor Neunzehn is glad to present www.allsourcesarebroken.net – beta release, officially online from the 3rd of March 2017 at 7.30PM UTC+1.
Before the website launch a live mixing video presentation will be streamed on www.laborneunzehn.org as a part of the Transmediale and CTM Vorspiel programme.

Tune in at 5GMT+1 (Berlin Time). The streaming starts around 6PM.