#Mz. Baltazars Laboratory

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🔌 💎 5.12 - performative instalation: Sounds Queer? Final Presentation! at Semperdepot  💎

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OPEN LETTER FROM ARTISTS, CREATIVE AND CULTURAL WORKERS

OPEN LETTER FROM ARTISTS, CREATIVE AND CULTURAL WORKERS

* Self-expression is a human right * * Internet censorship does not create a fair income *

Dear Members of the Parliament, We as artists, creative and cultural workers appeal to you as representatives of the European Parliament:

The proposed Copyright Directive is not in our interests. We will gain no significant revenue from it, but it will reduce our ability to create new cultural works and find audiences for it.

Take responsibility for an internet that works for cultural producers and is free from censorship, and do not agree to the EU Copyright Directive in this form. Article 11 and 13 are fundamentally against our interests.

Currently open letters are circulating that are claiming that the new directive would enable a „free“ internet by strengthening the copyright holders in relation to commercial providers and thus promote a „fairer“ form of „participation“ and „renumeration“. None of this will happen.

The directive will not lead to:

higher incomes for artists

guarantee of non-reproducibility of one’s own work

protection from theft of ideas

protection from piracy

reduce the monopoly position of the dominant group of social media companies

What it will lead to:

censorship on the internet

containment of creative exchange

transfer of the judicial sovereignty to private decision-makers

wrongful decisions due to algorithmic bias

impediment of fair procedures which then will be neither open nor individual

enablement of abuse of power through non-public decision-making processes

abusive interpretation for the own benefit of the commissioned platforms

exclusion of self-uploaded material that even meets the criteria of copyright law but categorizes as further prohibited content such as pornography, insult, depiction of violence, terrorism etc.

uncertainty and self-censorship instead of motivation to creativity and self-expression

We also want to point out that we are highly critical of how platforms cash in on unpaid labour by countless contributors – not just artists – and that we must find new models for how the revenue of these value-added processes can be redistributed more equally.

We therefore appeal to you: Say NO – vote against the Copyright Directive!

Signatories

Nora Al-Badri, artist, Berlin https://www.nora-al-badri.de/

Fahim Amir, writer, curator, artist, senior lecturer, University of the Arts, Linz

Clemens Apprich, PhD, Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University, Lüneburg https://www.leuphana.de/en/university/staff-members/clemens-apprich.html

Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory, art, technology & feminism www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/

Gerald Bast, president, University of Applied Arts, Vienna https://www.dieangewandte.at/en/

Aram Bartholl, artist, Berlin www.arambartholl.com

Konrad Becker, hyper media researcher and interdisciplinary content developer, initiator of Public Netbase and World Information Institute, Vienna https://world-information.net/en/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Becker

Ulrike Bergermann, professor for media studies, University of Art, Braunschweig http://www.hbk-bs.de/hochschule/personen/ulrike-bergermann/

Željko Blaće, co-founder of MaMa (Zagreb) and ccSPORT (Berlin), Europe http://Blace.name/

Sebastian Bodirsky, filmmaker, Berlin http://sb.paqc.net/

Candice Breitz, artist, professor at University of Art Braunschweig, Berlin http://candicebreitz.net/

Andreas Broeckmann, art theorist, Leipzig/Berlin http://www.mikro.in-berlin.de/

Alina Buchberger, Dramaturgie, Kampnagel, Hamburg

Nadja Buttendorf, visual artist, founding member of Cyborgs e.V., Berlin http://www.nadjabuttendorf.com

Constant Dullaart, artist, WerkplaatsTypografie, Arnhem https://constantdullaart.com

Constant vzw, artist-run art, media and technology organisation, Brussels http://www.constantvzw.org

Karl-Heinz Dellwo, filmmaker and publisher, Hamburg http://www.bellastoria.de

Carola Dertnig, visual artist, professor at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carola_Dertnig

Detlef Diederichsen, divisional director music and performing arts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin https://www.hkw.de/en/hkw/organigramm/musik_tanz_theater/musik_tanz_theater.php

Diedrich Diederichsen, cultural theorist, professor at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna/ Berlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diedrich_Diederichsen

Paul Feigelfeld, researcher, curator, Vienna „UNCANNY : Artificial Intelligence & You“, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna http://www.viennabiennale.org/en/exhibitions/detail/uncanny-values-artificial-intelligence-you/

Andreas Fogarasi, artist, writer, co-editor of dérive, magazine for urban research, Vienna https://derive.at/autoren/andreas-fogarasi/

FORUM STADTPARK, interdisciplinary space for art and culture, Graz http://www.forumstadtpark.at

Günter Friesinger, writer, curator, member of monochrom, Vienna https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Friesinger http://monochrom.at

Matthias Fritsch, visual artist, Technoviking Archiv, Berlin http://subrealic.net

Kristoffer Gansing, artistic director, transmediale festival for art and digital culture, Berlin https://transmediale.de/

Johannes Grenzfurthner, artist, filmmaker, curator, writer, member of monochrom, Vienna https://about.me/grenzfurthner http://monochrom.at

Marina Gržinić, PhD, artist, philosopher, professor at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, researcher advisor at ZRC-SAZU Institute of philosophy, Ljubljana, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Gr%C5%BEini%C4%87 http://grzinic-smid.si/

Adnan Hadziselimovic, PhD, head of department of digital arts, University of Malta https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/adnanhadziselimovic

Karin Harrasser, media theorist, curator, editor of ZfK – Magazine For Cultural Studies, professor for cultural theory, University of Art and Design, Linz http://www.ufg.at/Kulturwissenschaft.1401.0.html

Joan Heemskerk, artist, member of the artist collective JODI http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/

Reni Hofmüller, artist, musician, curator, founding member of mur.at, founding member and artistic director of esc media art laboratory, Graz   https://esc.mur.at/

Jogi Hofmüller, artist and IT-consultant, founding member of Radio Helsinki and mur.at association for the promotion of network art, Graz https://mur.at/

Tom Holert, writer, researcher, curator, Harun Farocki Institut, Berlin http://harun-farocki-institut.org

Susanne Holschbach, PhD, art and media scientist, curator, lecturer, Berlin

Endy Hupperich, painter and lecturer, Art Academy Bad Reichenhall, Mexico City/ Germany http://www.endy-hupperich.com/

IG Kultur Vienna, representation of cultural workers & institutions, Vienna https://igkulturwien.net/

Thomas J. Jelinek, conceptual artist, director, dramaturge, curator nomad.theatre, Vienna http://nomad-theatre.eu/

Rebekka Kiesewetter, Lic. phil., art historian, economist, writer, curator, founding member of DA Institute of Applied Knowledge, Berlin https://www.rebekkakiesewetter.com/ http://www.da-institut.org

Angela Koch, Pprofessor for aesthetics and pragmatics of audiovisual media, director of MA studies in media culture and art theory, University of Art and Design, Linz http://blog.mkkt.ufg.ac.at/angelakoch/

Hubertus Kohle, professor of art history, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus_Kohle

Olia Lialina, internet artist, theorist, curator, director at the New Media Pathway programme at Merz Akademie of Art, Design and Media, Stuttgart   http://art.teleportacia.org/

Johann Lurf, artist, Vienna http://johannlurf.net/

Tomislav Medak, media theorist and amateur librarian, member of Multimedia Institute/MAMA (Zagreb) and Centre for Postdigital Cultures (Coventry University) http://www.mi2.hr/ http://www.memoryoftheworld.org http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/

Suzana Milevska, visual culture theorist, curator, principal investigator Politecnico di Milano TRACES http://www.traces.polimi.it/event/contentious-object-ashamed-subjects-exhibition/

monochrom, art-technology-philosophy-group, Vienna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrom

Gabriel Ben Moshe (S Moses), digital-based artist, Weimar/ Tel Aviv http://www.gabsmoses.com  

Michael Murtaugh, Senior Lecturer, Experimental Publishing Master, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam http://xpub.nl/

Stefanos Pavlakis, artist/ director, Berlin http://www.stefanos-pavlakis.com/

Oliver Pietsch, artist, Berlin http://www.oliverpietsch.com

p.m.k, Cultural Life Support System, Innsbruck http://www.pmk.or.at

Paul Poet, film director, journalist, media scientist, project manager, Vienna https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1301724/

qujOchÖ, art collective, Linz https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/QujOch%C3%96

Ursula Maria Probst, curator, writer, artist, lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna https://www.fluc.at/kunstimfluc/

Magdalena Reiter, open design & open knowledge activist https://www.magdalenareiter.at/  

Roel Roscam Abbing, artist, researcher, member of https://vvvvvvaria.org/ https://roelof.info

Robert Sakrowski, curator, Panke gallery, Berlin http://www.panke.gallery/

Marius Schebella, artist and developer, head of subnet, platform for media art and experimental technologies Salzburg http://www.subnet.at

Ashley Hans Scheirl, Mag. MA, artist, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Berlin/Vienna http://www.ashleyhansscheirl.com

Georg Schelbert, Head of Media Library/ Department of Art and Visual History, Humboldt University, Berlin http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/personen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/georg-schelbert/

Elisabeth Schimana, artistic director of IMA Institute for Media Archology, St. Poelten http://ima.or.at

Nora Sdun, publisher, Textem Verlag, Hamburg http://www.textem.de/

Judith Siegmund, professor for contemporary aesthetics, State University of Music and the Performing Arts, Stuttgart http://www.judithsiegmund.de

Sumugan Sivanesan, researcher/ writer/ anti-disciplinary artist, Berlin/ Sydney http://sivanesan.net/

Domagoj Smoljo, artist, !Mediengruppe Bitnik https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/

Cornelia Sollfrank, PhD, artist and researcher, Berlin http://artwarez.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Sollfrank

Felix Stalder, writer and researcher, member of the technopolitics group Vienna, professor for digital cultures and network theories at the University of the Arts, Zurich http://felix.openflows.com

Hito Steyerl, filmmaker, writer, Berlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hito_Steyerl

Axel Stockburger, PhD, artist, assoc. prof. for art and cultural theory, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna http://stockburger.at/

Nina Stuhldreher, visual artist, reality researcher, neurodiversity activist, Vienna/ Berlin http://blog.mkkt.ufg.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/netzaktivismus_LV-2.jpg

Kathrin Stumreich, visual artist, Vienna http://www.kathrinstumreich.com/

Winnie Soon, MA, MSc, Ph.D, Assistant Professor Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University http://aestheticprogramming.siusoon.net/

Peggy Sylopp, artist and computer scientist, Berlin http://peggy-sylopp.net

Tamiko Thiel, freelance media artist, Munich http://www.tamikothiel.com

Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver, Assistant Professor in Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University

Wolfgang Ullrich, art theorist, writer, Leipzig https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Ullrich_(Kunsthistoriker) https://www.digitale-bildkulturen.de/ ideenfreiheit.de

Yvonne Volkart, researcher, lecturerer, Academy of Art and Design, Basel https://www.fhnw.ch/de/personen/yvonne-volkart

Carmen Weisskopf, artist, !Mediengruppe Bitnik,Berlin https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/

Thomas Willmann, author, Munich

Mick Wilson Artist/Educator, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Sweden

Marlies Wirth, Curator Digital Culture & Design Collection, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna http://mak.at/

Florian Wüst, film curator, publisher, curatorial team of transmediale, Berlin https://transmediale.de/

Martin Zellerhoff, photographer, fair pay activist, Berlin http://www.ich-krieg-weniger.de

http://fairpaynotfilters.eu/