Disclosures Library
31st March 2008 - 31st March 2011
Disclosures library originated as a research archive informing Dislcosures' seminar, and was presented at Gasworks in reading and screening spaces. It has constantly expanded since its inception and has now been relocated to the lobby area as a permanent and open resource. The library is edited Gasworks with Mia Jankowicz (formerly residency curator at Gasworks).
Content is added to the following catalogue on a regular basis and according to four different categories. More texts are also available through Pipeline, Gasworks' online research tool. The library is open to advice and submissions; for more information email: info@gasworks.org.uk
The library is open to the public from Wednesday to Sunday from 12-6pm or by appointment.
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FROM THE GROUND UP | CATEGORY 1
The lived and situated realities of networked information culture, embodied resistance to globalisation, activism in the network era.
Keywords: activism, anarchism, anti-capitalism, leftism, community media, consensus, counter-publics, ethics, feminism, globalisation, guerrilla research, idealism, informal practices, interventionist practice, labour conditions, land enclosure, manifestoes, networked practice, non-communicative media, participation, the political, precariousness, the public, radicalism, radio, self-organisation, theory/practice crossover.
Anand, Shaina. 2007: Notes on Micro Media Ecologies. "Discussing the Unesco Declaration on Cultural Diversity"
Online: http://www.chitrakarkhana.net/text/micromedia_ecologies.pdf
Bradley, Will; Esche, Charles, (eds.) 2008: Art & Social Change: A critical Reader. London: Afterall and Tate publishing
Brand, Ulrich. 2004: Biopolitics. Conflicts over Bioprospection and Indigenous Knowledge
Online: http://www.werkleitz.de/events/biennale2004
Curlin, Ivet; Devic, Ana; Ilic; Nataša & Sabina Sabolovic (What, How and for Whom / WHW) 2005: Collective Creativity. Germany: Kunsthalle Fridericianum and Revolver
Dasgupta, Rana, "Beyond the Apocalypse: An Unfinished Meditation on Ethics", in Sarai Editorial Collective, (eds.) 2003: Shaping Technologies Sarai Reader 03. Delhi: Sarai
Online: http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0302/msg00086.html
Dasgupta, Rana. 2008: Surviving Globalization
Online: http://www.25bychannel4.com/chapter_16/article_3
Davies, Anthony; Dillemuth, Stephan & Jakobsen, Jakob "There is no Alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED Part 1", in Möntmann, N., (ed.) 2007: Art and its Institutions: Current Conflicts, Critique and Collaborations. London: Black Dog Publishing, p.176
Fleischer, Rasmus. 2008: Response to Armin Medosch "Paid in Full", Piratbyrån
Online: http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/429
Ford, Simon. 2005: The Situationist International: A User’s Guide. London: Black Dog Publishing
Hardin, Garrett. 1968: The Tragedy of the Commons, in Science (162), p. 1243-1248
Online: http://dieoff.org/page95.htm
Holmes, Brian. 2003: The Revenge of the Concept
Online: http://www.mail-archive.com/nettime-l@bbs.thing.net/msg00280.html
Holmes, Brian. 2005: Three Proposals for a Real Democracy, Information-Sharing to a Different Tune
Online: http://www.geocities.com/immateriallabour/holmes-three-proposals
Iles, Anthony; Roberts, Tom. 2007: All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal
Online: http://caughtlearning.org/all_knees_and_elbows/
King, Jamie. 2008: 'The future doesn't care about your bank balance'...but the 1/1000 do!, in Deptford.TV diaries volume II: Pirate Strategies. 2008. London, p. 66 - 73
Krysa, Joasia; Cox, Geoff (eds.) 2005: Engineering Culture: On ‘The Author as (Digital) Producer. New York: Autonomedia (DATA browser 02)
Online: http://www.data-browser.net/02/DB02/Intro02.pdf
Medosch, Armin. 2008: 2.2. Paid in Full: Copyright, piracy and the real currency of cultural production
Online: http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/428
Prug ,Toni. 2006: The Mirror’s Gonna Steal Your Soul
Online: http://publication.nodel.org/The-Mirrors-Gonna-Steal-Your-Soul
Prug, Toni. 2007: Free Software
Online: http://gold.socialtools.net/FreeSoftware.ToniPrug.Aug2007.html
Raqs Media Collective. 2004: The Impostor in the Waiting Room. New York: Bose Pacia
Raymond, Eric S..1996 – present: How to Become a Hacker
Online: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Raymond, Eric S..2001: The Cathedral & The Bazar, Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. Sebastopol/CA: Tim O' Reilly
Ressler, Oliver. 1999: The global 500. Vienna: Edition Selene
Selman, Brianne. 2008. Pirate Heterotopias, in: Deptford.TV diaries volume II: Pirate Strategies. 2008. London, p. 19 - 34
Sukumaran, Ashok, "Electric Fences, Human Sheep", in Bansal L.; Keller, P. & Lovink, G., (eds.) In the Shade of the Commons: Toward a Culture of Open Networks. Amsterdam: Waag Society, p.70
Mulgan, Geoff ; Salem Omar & Steinberg, Tom, (eds.) 2005: Wide Open, Open source methods and their future potential. London: Demos
Online: http://www.demos.co.uk/files/wideopen.pdf
Ressler, Oliver; Szylak, Aneta. 2004: Alternative Economies, Alternative Societies. Gdansk: Wyspa Institute of Art
Singh, Yashoda; Rai, Suraj; Shamsher, Ali. 2002: Galiyon Se / by lanes. Delhi: Sarai
Stalder, Felix. 2006: On the Differences Between Open Source and Open Culture
Online: http://publication.nodel.org/node/104/print
The Deptford TV Diaries. 2005 - ongoing: Deptford TV
Online: http:// www.deptford.tv/about/diaries/DeptfordTV-diaries1.pdf
Camp I & Camp II
Anand, Shaina; Sukumaran, Ashok
2008
Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran are the organisers of CAMP, a collective project linking and discussing independent artistic and media projects across the city of Mumbai. Their activities offer a critical point of view on the notions of access, participation and collaboration and the potential of open-source cultures both within media arts and visual arts practices. Projects documented include Glow Work Positioning Systems (2005) and Changes of State (2005).
Online: http://www.camputer.org
ChitraKarkhana
Anand, Shaina
2004-08
Documentation of four projects by Shaina Anand whose practice explores the informal use and appropriation of popular and localised media such as cable TV, community TV making, and popular music. Works documented are: Khirkeeyaan, Rustle TV, W1CTV, and Unstruck Sound.
Online: http://www.chitrakarkhana.net
n for negri
Carles Guerra
2000
Toni Negri in conversation with Carles Guerra.
Social Hacking
KURATOR
2007 DVD project documentation, 60' 45
Social Hacking presents documentation of various public art commissions and a seminar, responding to the methodologies of hacking as a social practice in the context of urban regeneration. Featuring contributions from Institute of Applied Economy, C6, Ludic Society, Mikro Orchestra Project, Pirate University, Tetine, Saul Albert and McKenzie Wark
Online: http://www.kurator.org
Talkaoke, On young Camden
The People Speak
2007
Documentation of the mobile talkshow 'Talkaoke' at Camden Town Hall. Developed by 'The People Speak', 'Talkaoke' encourages people to express themselves, discuss and share ideas in an experimental and open way.
Online: http://www.theps.net
Talkaoke and the Mothership Collective
The People Speak
2007
'Talkaoke' as part of the 'Mothership Collective', set to find out what Peckham residents of all ages and backgrounds think could improve Peckham Square. The range of suggestions spanned from filling the square with police to planting trees and building tree houses. The idea where digitally visualised so pundits could see how the square would look like.
Online: http://www.theps.net
To live Outside the Law You must be Honest
Nicoline van Harskamp
2005-06, 38'
Initiated during a research project in the Danish free town of Christiania, these three short video works use a single actor to narrate the perspective of citizens of the town, and of left wing libertarians. In all three works the issue of freedom and participatory democracy are addressed, each drawing very different conclusions.
Online: http://www.vanharskamp.net
Ressler, Oliver
2006, 23'
The film follows the participants of a course called 'Surviving Hostile Regions' taken up by businessmen who are preparing for business in dangerous regions, government officials and mainstream journalists, as they experience the staged reality of live shell bombardments, an assault by armed guerrillas, the rescue of accident victims, and moving through mine fields.
Theps DVD
The People Speak
2007
The People Speak (systems for enjoying the public domain) develops ideas, technologies and strategies for bringing people together to have discussions and conversations in an open-ended and experimental way. The DVD presents a documentation of the mobile talk show 'Talkaoke', the direct-democracy show 'Who Wants to Be?' and of 'One Night Grandstand' which infuses a normal kick-about with the media-glamour of a football stadium.
Online: http://www.theps.net
What Would It Mean To Win?
Begg, Zany; Ressler, Oliver.
2008, 40'
Filmed on the blockades at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany in June 2007. In their first collaborative film Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler focus on the current state of the counter-globalisation movement in a project which grows out of both artists' preoccupation with globalisation and its discontents.
Online: http://www.ressler.at
Who wants to be?
The People Speak
2008
Documentation of the direct democracy show 'Who wants to be' at the Albany Theatre. Developed by 'The People Speak' , 'Who wants to Be?' bases on the ask-the-audience game show 'Who wants to be a millionaire?'. Using a simple voting system helps large groups of people to make suggestions and discuss an issue and then to vote on each step in a decision making process.
Online: http://www.theps.net
THE POLITICS OF INFORMATION AND ITS FORMS | CATEGORY 2
The politics of organising forms of information and its cultural corollaries; corporate ownership, file sharing, intellectual property; enclosure of information; regulatory, party, political and governmental instrumentalisation and control of information.
Keywords: information, the archive, profiling, co-optation, creative commons, documentary, GNU GPL, information politics, profiling, property, surveillance.
Anand, Shaina. 2007: KhirkeeYaan
Online: http://www.copperwiki.org/index.php/KhirkeeYaan
Anand, Shaina. 2006: WICTV in Bansal, L.; Keller, P. & Lovink, G., (eds.) In the Shade of the Commons: Toward a Culture of Open Networks. Amsterdam: Waag Society, p.88
Online: http//:www.waag.org/download/16813
Blissett, Leutha. 2008: Twilight of the SWAMPOID
Online: http://%20http//www.metamute.org/en/Twilight-of-the-Swampoid
Online: http://pipeline.gasworks.org.uk/2008/07/01/chitrakarkhana-picture-factory-artist-food/
Liang, Lawrence "Porous Legalities and Avenues of Participation", in Sarai Editorial Collective, (eds.) 2005: Bare Acts Sarai Reader 05. Delhi: Sarai, p.6
Online: http:// www.sarai.net/publications/readers/05-bare-acts/02_lawrence.pdf
Liang, Lawrence. 2004: Guide to Open Content Licences. Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute
Liang, Lawrence "The Ghost in the Machine. The Legal Capture of Technology", in Sarai Editorial Collective, (eds.) 2003: Shaping Technologies Sarai Reader 03. Delhi: Sarai, p. 303
Online: http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/03-shaping-technologies/303_312_lliang.pdf
Sarai Editorial Collective (eds.) 2005: Bare Acts Sarai Reader 05. Delhi: Sarai
Sarai Editorial Collective (eds.) 2003: Shaping Technologies Sarai Reader 03. Delhi: Sarai
Films
Steal This Film I
League of Noble Peers
2007, 32'
The first in this wildly popular documentary series presents the case of file sharing in the face of the regular criticism by 'old' media, by interviews with Pirate Bay members Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Peter Sunde as well as with Piratbyran members Rasmus Fleischer, Johan and Sara Andersson.
Online: http://www.stealthisfilm.com/part1/
Steal This Film II
League of Noble Peers
Part Two examines the technological and cultural aspects of the copyright wars, and the implications of the internet for copying. It includes an exploration of Mark Getty's infamous statement that 'intellectual property is the oil of the 21st Century'.
Online: http://www.stealthisfilm.com/part2/
Cummings, Neil; Lewandowska, Marysia; Simpson, Eileen & White, Ben
2006, 60' 10
Commissioned as part of the British Art Show 6, the artists identified a regional public film and media archive in each of the four host cities. They negotiated with each archive but one which refused to give access to its resources, to produce three new films using the archival material as well as distributing the source files they were made from.
NEW AND NON AUTHORSHIP | CATEGORY 3
The diffused author, platforms for collaboration in networked media.
Keywords: diffusion of authorship, the archive, collaborative practice, community media, contemporary art, counter-publics, creative commons, crossover in media/practices, curating, digital editorial, digital organisation, fiction, FLOSS transfer to culture, hacker culture, immaterial labour, intellectual property, networked practice, open networks, old/new media forms, participation, post-production, post-documentary, web 2.0.
Aerial Waller, Mark; Chong, Heman; Costinas, Cosmin; Heather, Rosemary; McKee, Francis; Reinfurt, David; Rushton, Steve & Magne Tangen, Leif. 2006: Philip. A Novel (curated by Mai Abu El Dahab). Dublin: Projects Arts Centre
Online: http://www.lulu.com/items/volume37/571000/6/print/phillip_v4b.pdf
Barlow, John. 2008: Travel Journal. Nassau, Bahamas. Sweden (commissioned by Goldin+Senneby)
Online: http://www.travelblog.org/bloggers/johnbarlow
Online: http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-quixote.html
Forster, E.M. 1909: The Machine Stops
Online: http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/prajlich/forster.html
Online: http://www.mahmoudkhaled.com
Kleiner, Dmytri. 2007: Copyfarleft and Copyjustright
Online: http://www.metamute.org/en/Copyfarleft-and-Copyjustright
Krysa, Joasia; Cox, Geoff (eds.) 2005: Engineering Culture: On ‘The Author as (Digital) Producer. New York: Autonomedia (DATA browser 02)
Online: http://www.data-browser.net/02/DB02/Intro02.pdf
Lessing, Lawrence. 2004: Free Culture. New York: The Pinguin Press (not available in library)
Online: http://www.free-culture.cc
Nimus, Anna; Kleiner, Dmytri. 2006: Copyright, Copyleft, and the Creative Anti-Commons
Online: http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/nimustext.html
Werkleitz Biennale (ed.). 2004: Allgemeingut/Common Property. Germany: Halle an der Saale
Online: http://www.werkleitz.de/events/biennale2004/download/ausstellung.pdf
ART, NEW MEDIA AND THEIR INSTITUTIONS | CATEGORY 4
Cultural Institutions reaction/co-optation; problematics of hosting potentially and structurally incommensurable practices; adapting form according to FLOSS, labour conditions and art world precarity.
Keywords: the archive, centre-left, institutional practice, collaborative practice, contemporary art, co-optation, crossover in media/practices, curating, digital organisation, FLOSS transfer to culture, immaterial labour, instrumentalisation, labour conditions, networked practice, new institutionalism, old/new media forms, open networks, participation, precariousness, the public, self-organisation, self-reflexivity, theory/practice crossover.
Billing, Johanna; Lind, Maria & Nilsson, Lars, (eds.) 2005: Taking the Matter into Common Hands: On Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practices. London: Blackdog Publishing
Cummings, Neil, "Welcome to Open Congress… And Its Legacy", in Vishmidt, M., (ed.) with Francis Mary Anne; Walsh Jo & Lewis Sykes. 2006: Media Mutandis a NODE.London Reader. A Survey of Media Arts, Technologies and Politics. London: NODE.London
Dowling, Emma; Rodrigo, Nunes & Trott, Ben. 2008: Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored
Online: http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/7-1/7-1index.htm
Francis, Mary Ann. 2006: Open Source Fine Art – Infinities of Meaning for and Age of Finite Means
Online: http://publication.nodel.org/Open-Source-Fine-Art
Goldin+Senneby. 2005-06: Flack Attack. Issue 1: Flack Attack on Autonomy
Online: www.flackattack.org.
Goldin+Senneby. 2007: Looking for Headless (ongoing project)
Holmes, Brian. 2004: Liars Poker, in Springerin #1
Online: http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/holmestext.html
Holmkvist, Saskia. 2007: Self-Reflexive History, conversations taken from the year-long collaborative process of organising WMAOYW
Online: http://www.whomakesandownsyourwork.org
Krysa, Joasia, (ed.) 2006: Curating Immateriality: The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems. New York: Autonomedia (Data Browser 03)
Online: http://www.data-browser.net/03/DB03introduction.pdf
Lind, Maria; Grammel, Søren; Schlieben, Katharina; Schwarzbart, Judith; Cohen, Ana Paula; Lorz, Julienne & Praun, Tessa, (eds.) 2004: Collected Newsletters (Collaborative Practices
Colloquium). Germany: Revolver and Kunstverein München, p. 481
Lovinck, G., & Rossiter, N., (eds) 2007: MyCreativity Reader A Critique of
Creative Industries. Online: http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/32.pdf, last accessed 18/02/09
Maleve, Nicolas; Rassel, Lawrence; Snelting, Femke. 2006: Constant Jaarverslag.
Constant Mertens, Nathalie; Hadj, Nedjma; Mertens, Kathleen; Rival; Deuxant, Benoit. 2000: Cartes Subjectives d' interventions, Bruxelles
Medosch, Armin. 2006-2007:The Next Layer or The Emergence of Open Source Culture, draft text for Pixelache publication. London/Vienna (modified by Geert Lovink)
Online: http://www.oekonux.org/list-en/archive/msg03718.html
Medosch, Armin. 2003: LONDON.ZIP Digital Media Art In London mapped and compressed by Armin Medosch
Online: http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0311/msg00042.html
Mertens, An; DeJaeger, Pierre; Maleve, Nicolas. 2006: Verbindingen, Junctions 9. Bruessels: Constant Verlag
Sheikh, Simon, "The Trouble With Institutions, or, Art and Its Publics", in Möntmann, N., (ed.) 2007: Art and its Institutions: Current Conflicts, Critique and Collaborations. London: Black Dog Publishing, p. 142-150
Van Wynsberghe, Wendy; Rassel, Laurence. 2007 Verbindingen: Junctions 7. Brussels: Colofon
Films
Art Servers Unlimited
Luksch, Manu; Medosch, Armin, 30'
Video Documentary of the ASU Conference/Meeting/Party in London, 2 - 4 July, 1998
Online: http://www.asu.sil.at
Between
Critical Practice
2007
Documentation of event with O+I in South London Gallery.
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Further bibliography (not currently in the library)
Frederici, Silvia. 2004: Caliban and the Witch Woman, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. New York: Autonomedia
Raunig, Gerald. 2007: Art and Revolution - Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century. Translated by Aileen Derieg. Cambridge: MIT Press
Rossiter, Ned. 2006: Organised Networks Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions. Rotterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, NAi Publishers
