CALL FOR MATERIAL/ART PROJECTS The Art and Politics of Netporn Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6-7 October, 2005 WHAT IS NETPORN? Web-based media and environments that filter porn images and traffic between industries and art/indie cultures, corporations, ISP’s and net users; involving daily (female and male) activities such as blogging, webcamming, chatting, binging on porn portals, p2p porn, live journals, confession boards, mailing lists and zines. THEORY AND POLITICS: New waves of netporn censorship have a clear affect on artistic freedom and our sexual bodies. We would like to engage in discussions of globalization, freedom of speech, (self) censorhip and government/institutional surveillance of traffic, of sex cultures and networked minorities. Does netporn corroborate the image regimes of ‘cruelty,’ a wide-spread creation of appetite for violence, terrorism, war on innocence and sexual otherness, openness. What are the alternatives? ART PROJECTS: We are looking for new openings, new definitions and articulation of pornography, ‘art’ as solo path or collaborative wisdom, a tactical media approach to netporn for belly wisdom and processing media histories. As Matteo Pasquinelli ponders in ‘Warporn Warpunk! Autonomous Videopoesis in Wartime,’ we are grinning monkeys who seek war and torture news as a type of pornography, but can we use netporn to nurture our inner beasts and media intellects? DISCUSSIONS: Netporn is an intricate fabrication of desires and mechanisms of repression. Debate means recognizing and re-drawing the contours of hype and hysteria, of polemics and polarization, discussing netporn as local and global phantasms, or cross-fertilization between economies, desire and art/queer politics. Discussions will be opened February 2005 on a web-based mailinglist and will continue in plenary sessions at the conference. Please submit 250-word abstracts for papers/panels, or art/media projects about the following topics. In your abstracts indicate what type of media you need for your presentation, and please include an address where you can be reached. Censorship Representation Aesthetics Traffic Games P2p Economy Politics Queer/gender/gay Feminism War porn Punk Porn Media-archeology Geographies DEADLINE: March 15, 2005 PLEASE SEND YOUR ABSTRACTS to: netporn@networkcultures.org Katrien Jacobs Geert Lovink Sabine Niederer -=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- sabine niederer researcher and producer institute of network cultures sabine@networkcultures.org t: +31 (0)20 5951866 f: +31 (0)20 5951840 www.networkcultures.org