Dear aacorners,

this is the first time that i poste a project we are running to the aacorn network. i do it, cause everyone where ever she or he is right now, can paticipate, preconditioning you have an internet connection and a skype-account.... probably it also can give some impulse to the wiki discussion... ;-))

the GfKFB is a network for artistic research in berlin. we started in mai 2007 with an ongoing program about different structures in artistic practice and inter-, transdisciplinary, or probably better: non- or extradisciplinary collaborations. some of you know the space/spot where it physical takes place, cause of the project "product and vision" in 2005. 

so please feel cordially invited to join in our 48 hours >symposium for readers< it will start at 0:00 this night our time (MEZ/CET). for more details, for the schedule of the different reading-sessions and texts please have a look to >www.reading.department.cc<, to join the sessions and reading-group please contact me or soenke hallmann <[log in to unmask]<. would be a favour to have you with us...if you are in berlin right now just come over with your laptop under your arm...we start in about 3 hours ;-))

all the best

mari brellochs

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GfKFB presents:

Symposium for Readers 				
Hosted by the Department of Reading 

November 25 – December 02, 2007
Symposium: December 01/02, 2007
Opening hours: 48 hours, from Friday Nov 30, 12:00 pm to Sunday Dec 02, 12:00 pm 
Location: GfKFB, Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin


The Department of Reading (DoR) invites for the Symposium for Readers, to take place on 1/2 December at GfKB (network for artistic research). During the course of forty-eight hours six online sessions will assemble, specify and perform different modes of reading – each with their own temporality and degree of publicness. The formats of these reading sessions are determined by the current practice of the DoR. Thus the Symposium for Readers aims to bring the duration of reading, its spatialization and the facilitating technologies into such a proximity that will allow for addressing the act of reading both in its collaborative as well as individual modality.

The Department of Reading is an online-based project displayed in different spatial configurations and designed to promote new forms of reading. In order to expose the act of reading in its potentiality the Department of Reading investigates, how the disposition of readers to comment and interfere with text can be made public as well as a mode to open texts towards their intricate textures. Thus one of the most crucial questions of the Department of Reading concerns the collectiveness of reading and asks, in how far such a collectivity is potentially implied within the very texture of a given text. Examining the mechanisms of reading through reading, the labour reading takes, its time and space, the Department of Reading attempts to redraw the concept of reading and expose other textures of predication that allow for new collective forms of expression.

The Symposium for Readers invites:

Tanja Widmann on an essay by Giorgio Agamben
Paul Gangloff on excerpts from the Department of Reading
Tim Stüttgen on an essay by Terre Thaemlitz
Marina Vishmidt on an essay by Steve Rushton
Karolin Meunier on a work by Mary Kelly
Stephan Geene on an essay by Maurizio Lazzarato

In order to participate online in the Symposium for Readers, all you need is an account on Skype and a connection to the Internet for the time of each session. Please, let us know your Skype-name (contact: [log in to unmask]) in advance. Alongside the online reading you can attend the Symposium for Readers in Berlin, in the space of the GfKFB.

Concept and moderation: Sönke Hallmann and Inga Zimprich
Text, information and infrastructure design implementations: Tsila Hassine, Michael Murtaugh and Gon Zifroni

The Department of Reading is an initiative by Sönke Hallmann and was founded in 2006. The Symposium for Readers is supported by the Jan van Eyck Academie (http://www.janvaneyck.nl/), Maastricht, The Netherlands. 

www.kunstfabrik.org
www.reading.department.cc 
www.janvaneyck.nl 

The Project IRRTUMsFORSCHUNG – ERROR-RESEARCH is generously supported by the Department for Cultural Affairs, Berlin


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mari brellochs
GfKFB (Gesellschaft für künstlerische Forschung Berlin)
network for artistic research
künstlerische leitung
office: ++49(0)3053211592 // ++49(0)3053013280 
[log in to unmask]
www.kunstfabrik.org
www.produktundvision.com