[dorkbotnyc-blabber] In Brooklyn, Piratbyran (Pirate Bay) Artist Talk + Guerilla Music Swap Party

[noel hidalgo]

Sorry about the late notice, but I'm sure of few of you will be  
interested in this artist talk.

noneck

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> Please join us this Sunday evening for an artist talk and  
> presentation by Sara Sajjad, a founding member of Swedish arts  
> collective Piratbyran (the Bureau of Piracy).
>
> Sajjad will discuss their popular project The Pirate Bay, the  
> world's largest bit torrent file-sharing service on the internet.  A  
> landmark trial pitting the Svandanavian pirates vs. Hollywood  
> privateers made international headlines this week when four defiant  
> Swedes were found guilty of violating copyright law. It's a mild  
> blow to the buccaneers, but more like cutting heads off hydras or  
> hitting hornets nests. Like an international game of whac-a-mole,  
> the file-sharing community keeps popping up to promote new modes of  
> connecting. A discussion about intellectual property and the free  
> culture movement will be joined by special guests, including folks  
> from MuxTape, a US-based music sharing site that was shut down last  
> year.  Sajjad will also screen footage from related Piratbyran  
> projects and performances, includingKopimiTV (CopyMeTV), the  
> CopyRiot ritual, and the Pirate Bus art tour.
>
> The talk will be followed by a guerilla music swap, so bring your  
> laptop, USB stick or hard drive, and share, swap, and propagate like  
> the pirate you arrrrrrr!  As Piratbyran says, multiplication can  
> produce powerful numbers.  And great music collections.
>
> The Change You Want To See Gallery
> http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org
> Sunday, April 26, 7pm - 10pm (free!)
> 84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Ave
> Brooklyn NY 11211
> L to Bedford; G to Metropolitan; J/M/Z to Marcy
>
> P.S. -- Don't forget Monday's event on Subversive Tech in Burma!
>
>
>
> ABOUT PIRATBYRAN
> We are a Swedish group that has been around for four years.  
> Piratbyrån explores how file-sharing and other copying technologies  
> interact with creativity and change how people relate to everyday  
> culture. We analyze tendencies and cases and discuss possible future  
> scenarios and opportunities.
> Internationally we are mostly known for starting up the The Pirate  
> Bay. By this and many other projects, campaigns, performances, talks  
> and media appearances, we have intervened in the discussion known as  
> "the file-sharing debate".
>
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> FROM THE PIRATE BUS TOUR
> Copying can express itself in multiple ways, of which P2P networks  
> only make up a few. That was one message established in Piratbyråns  
> famous Walpurgis ritual of 2007.
>
> The S23M project is very clustered with The Pirate Bay, the world’s  
> largest torrent tracker for file-sharing, On the bus there is no  
> internet connection, but there are 100 mix tape cassettes, 23 spcial  
> fanzines, a mystical barometer and a game of go, just to name a few  
> things. Thus the project evolves themes from the Walpurgis ritual by  
> transferring them from one mountain to another, from spring to  
> summer, from the melting of winter to the flowering richness of  
> summer. Eyeball the media!
>
> At the same time, Piratbyrån sums up the five years that has passed  
> since the initiation of the clustering in 2003.  Finally, the bus  
> trip is an experiment: what will happen when an online-based  
> community is enacted within a delimited physical space, where  
> participants must somehow spend over a week together?
>
> The opening party on July 18th is also laborating with how the the  
> digital abundance can be interconnected with time and space - more  
> specifically how large subwoofers can be used for this purpose. As a  
> guest performer, Piratbyrån has invited Jem Noble from the Bristol- 
> based Blackout Arts Collective. He is presenting a sound sculpture,  
> built by recycled loops, which he calls “generative piracy” and DJ  
> some bass-heavy dubstep. Other DJ’s representing Pirabyrån,  
> including Nine Inch Nils from the dubstep diaspora, and Brokep, more  
> known to the world as the populous of The Pirate Bay.
> The S23M project is financed mainly by a grant from the Manifesta  
> foundation. Piratbyrån has added all their available money, coming  
> from t-shirt sales. The Swedish state’s Arts Grants Committee  
> refused to contribute, as would otherwise be the case when Swedish  
> artists are invited to prestige biennals of this kind. Seemingly,  
> futurehawkers like Piratbyrån are way too murky for Swedish art  
> discourse.
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