Move photons! Not people!

Peter Hagerty of e-space lab has come up with this one!

This post introduces a particular e-space lab streaming video link in the lobby of John Moores University Arts and Design Academy, Liverpool and a group of artists and designers in am space, a gallery in Shanghai run by Lam and Jam.

Thanks to Sean Harvey for the design of this invite and mobilizing fellow students

The presentation for the upcoming International Disciplines ELIA Nantes Conference, will offer a brief analysis and commentary of the situation exemplified by this bit of video documentation. The intention is to offer a few clues as to how this type of context can provide learners in art education with a new type of public space where the travel not books! (Foucault) injunction can be juxtaposed with the move photons not people! appeal to a digital community to please save our planet!

Thanks to Xu Zhifeng (Shaw) for the design of this flyer

Watch live streaming video from espacelab at livestream.com

The presentation intends to raise a number of questions.

These questions will be posed over the next few weeks in posts that will invite comments and discussion.

The agenda will include; 

• the value of actor network theory in thinking about new possible roles for art in this digital international exchange environment;
• the problem of international re-adjustments in the moving target of just what is the role of the artist and art these days?;
• the role of time, slowtime, in the interactivity of e-dialogue; 
• sustainability and digital communities;
• a discussion of the Wikipedia page on Post-autonomous art, now it is not there anymore.