[EMS-NEWS]
16.xi.2004
Dear All,
Greetings!
For your info, and participation.
May require a rather 'fast' inter-web connection.
Details as follow...
Best regards
Chuan
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BURN by Shu Lea Cheang
a KOP project
http://kop.fact.co.uk/burn
http://kop.fact.co.uk
Physical site at Singapore Art Museum
27 October - 28 November
CALLING sound artists, musicians and DJs for BURN-MP3 upload
Shu Lea Cheang presents a recent online experience 'BURN' as a generous
interactive social gesture. The work celebrates the file sharing practice of
P2P (peer to peer), while creating a browser based public upload and
download mp3 sharing space on the web. The act of sharing music files is the
focus of this online project, which calls for public music upload and
download. A pile of blank BURN CD is made available in the gallery space for
the 'burning' act - download and burn. The BURN interface further allows
users to encode the uploaded MP3 music files in assorted color (i.e. juice,
baby blue, acid yellow....) that explores system/theories of colour and
music.
During BURN's exhibition at Singapore Art Museum, we call for Singaporean
and inter-continental sound artists, musicians and Djs to join us for music
upload. The participation of music upload helps to create a a rich archive
of public domain MP3s, By allowing the user free access to this archive,
BURN is a celebration of digital abundance and an act of defiance against
the legal and techno-cratic enforcement of artificial scarcity online.
BURN was commissioned by the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology and
the VirtualCentreMedia.net with the support of the Culture 2000 programme.
BURN was first presented at FACT, Liverpool and 2003 Venice Biennale's Zone
of Urgency curated by Hou Hanru.
Taken from the website:
BURN, a web interface and installation, adresses the collateral damage of
the international copyright regime, recalls the burning of pirated CDs in
China and celebrates the act of BURN (CDs) as common cultural practice in
the age of digital reproduction. BURN acknowledges the file sharing practice
of P2P (peer to peer) and the abundance of MP3 files on the net, while
creating a browser based public upload and download sharing space on the
web. The BURN interface further encodes MP3 music files uploaded in assorted
colors. Free for download and burn, the media lounge installation consists
of piled up CDs available for free public consumption.
URL: http://kop.fact.co.uk/burn/html/about.html
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