Gespräch zwischen Cornelia Sollfrank und Marisells Ouma, Juristin und Experting für gesitiges Eigentum, Nairobi, Kenia.

Die Publikation 100 Jahre Copyright untersucht die Entwicklung des Copyrights seit Entstehung der Kulturindustrie und diskutiert Konzepte zum Schutz und zur Förderung künstlerischer Kreativität.

Mit Beiträgen von Monika Dommann, Mat Dryhurst, Martin Kretschmer, Larisa K. Mann, Aram Sinnreich, Cornelia Sollfrank u.a. Hrsg. von Detlef Diederichsen und Lina Brion. Verlag Matthes & Seitz. Online bestellen

–or How to Create an Alternative (Art School), When “There Is No Alternative,”

the contribution by Cornelia Sollfrank, brings the notion of the commons into an educational framework and discusses it with the example of ERG (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) referring to an interview with its current director Laurence Rassel.

Available in print or online in OnCurating, issue 43: "Revisiting Black Mountain: Cross-Disciplinary Experiments and Their Potential for Democratization", edited by Ronald Kolb and Dorothee Richter.

Free download

 
A Chronus Art Center (CAC) exhibition
November 21, 2020 – May 23, 2021
Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, BLDG.18, No. 50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai
Curated by ZHANG Ga
 
Participating Artists：
Mike Bennett, Wafaa Bilal, CHEN Pengpeng, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Matthieu Cherubini, Paolo Cirio,  Leon Eckert, Ursula Endlicher, exonemo, Hervé Graumann, GUO Cheng, Vytas Jankauskas, Knowbotic Research, LAN, LIANG Yuhong, LIU Xing, Jonas Lund, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Kyle McDonald, Haroon Mirza, Everest Pipkin, Cornelia Sollfrank, Wolfgang Staehle, Ubermorgen, Maciej Wisniewski, XU Haomin, ZHAO Hua and ZHOU Pengan.

Blockseminar/Workshop, Universität der Künste Berlin

Studium Generale – Interdisziplinäre künstlerische Praxis und Theorie (WS 2019/2010)

Dr. Cornelia Sollfrank

#studiumgeneraleberlin

Hardenbergstr. 33, Raum 110 (Ausnahme: Samstag, 7.12. in Raum 004)

Deutsch/English, 2 SWS, 2 ECTS

Samstags, 10-18 Uhr, am 7.12. und 14.12.2019, sowie Samstag/Sonntag, 10-18 Uhr, 18./19.1.2020,

Symposium at Einstein Center for Digital Future, organized by Michelle Christensen /Stefanie Wuschitz /Florian Conrad (Weizenbaum Institut, Berlin)

TRANS/ FEMINIST HACKING. Spaces, Communities, Practices

Thursday, 12 and Friday 13 of December 2019

Wilhelmstr. 67, 10117 BERLIN

I AM NOT A LOCAL GIRL: Looking Back at More Than 20 Years of Expanded Originals and Other Art World Nuisances. Lecture by Cornelia Sollfrank, Thursday: 13:15.Full program: https://bit.ly/2LMm5kl

Expertengespräch

Mittwoch, 5.12.2019, 18:00

Kulturforum Berlin, Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin

Mit Cornelia Sollfrank

Die Künstlerin, Forscherin und Lehrende Cornelia Sollfrank wird aus der Perspektive der Medienkunst über die Werke der Ausstellung sprechen. Sie interessiert sich für die kunsthistorischen, technischen und politischen Kontexte der Werke.

Cornelia Sollfrank ist Mitbegründerin der Kollektive frauen•und•technik, -Innen und Old Boys Network und ist zurzeit als Forscherin im Projekt Creating Commons an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste tätig.

Anmeldung empfohlen. Teilnahme frei.

Netzwerktreffen der medienwerkstatt des bbk berlin

Mittwoch, 4.12.2019, 19:00

Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, Medienwerkstatt

Die Künstlerin und Medienforscherin Cornelia Sollfrank geht der Frage nach, wie ästhetische Praxis zur Herstellung und dem Erhalt (digitaler) Commons beitragen kann. Grundlage sind ausgewählte künstlerische Arbeiten. Diese werden anhand von Künstlerinterviews vorgestellt und diskutiert. https://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch

as part of the DIGIFEM Festival in Hamburg

Thursday, 28 November – Saturday 30 November 2019

opening hours 18.00 –22:30

Kampnagel K4, Westflügel, Jarrestr.20, Hamburg

I AM NOT A LOCAL GIRL (Cornelia Sollfrank & #purplenoise)

 is a participative online theatre, based on true events.The installation consists of two screens facing each other: On one screen there is a video with dreamlike sequences from various locations in Hamburg, in which the protagonist reflects from a great distance on past events. Opposite is the projection of a "social wall" on which flashbacks in the form of images, animations, text pieces, slogans, concepts, names, faces and places flood the social media channels of #purplenoise. The fragments create a narrative that will never be complete and yet brings hidden stories back to light. What we remember does not depend on what actually happened, but on what we can later tell a story about. What is remembered from the past and what is not ultimately depends on who needs the story and for what purpose. Aleida Assmann

The installation was created in collaboration with #purplenoise, an interdisciplinary technofeminist research group that uses real events as an opportunity to explore and use social media as a venue for political manipulation: Facebook: @violetpurplenoise | Twitter: @Purplenoise1 | Instagram: @PurplenoiseUP Under the following hashtags everyone can take part in the collective historiography: #purplenoise #purpletruth #digifem #iamnotalocalgirl

as part of DIGIFEM festival Hamburg

Freitag, 29.11.2019, 20:30

Kampnagel, K4, Jarrestr. 20, Hamburg

Die Künstlerin Cornelia Sollfrank lebte über 20 Jahre in Hamburg und engagierte sich aktiv in der Kulturpolitik der Stadt. Ihr besonderes Interesse galt dem Einsatz digitaler, vernetzter Technologien zur Erprobung neuer Formen von Organisierung sowie der Möglichkeit, mit vergleichsweise geringen Ressourcen einflussreiche Online-Plattformen für künstlerisch-kritisches Engagement zu entwickeln. In ihrem Vortrag unternimmt sie eine Rückschau auf diverse Projekte, bewertet sie aus heutiger Sicht und denkt darüber nach, wie Künstler*innen durch den Einsatz neuer ästhetischer Praktiken ihrer gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung jenseits von Kunstmarkt und Stadtmarketing gerecht werden können. #iamnotalocalgirl #purpletruth #purplenoise #digifem

im Rahmen von Schattenwelten der documenta

Freitag, 15.11.2019, 11:00 Uhr

Bali Kino, Rainer-Dierichs-Platz 1, 34117 Kassel

In ihrem Vortrag reflektiert Cornelia Sollfrank über den Geist des Cyberfeminismus der 90er Jahre und stellt Verbindungen zu zeitgenössischen Konzepten und Praxen des Technofeminismus her.

Cornelia Sollfrank (PhD) gilt als Pionierin des Cyberfeminismus und der Netzkunst in Deutschland. Sie ist Mitbegründerin der Kollektive Old Boys Network, -Innen und frauen-und-technik und arbeitet derzeit als Forscherin an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.

ecm diskurs 40

Freitag, 8.11.2019, 19:00 Uhr

Akademie für Angewandte Kunst Wien

Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, Flux 1

In her talk Cornelia Sollfrank will give an introduction to the idea of "shadow libraries“ in general and put a special emphasis on digital archival projects that have been initiated by artists. While these artistic shadow libraries all provide functional solutions to problems of access and preservation, they can also be discussed as discursive projects that address a variety of problems in times of increasing enclosures.

BR 2: Zündfunk Generator

Sonntag, 20.10.2019, 22:05 bis 23:00 Uhr

Eine Sendung von Markus Metz

Früher versprach das Internet, allen Menschen Zugang zum kollektiven Weltwissen zu verschaffen. Heute verdient Google Milliarden mit der Internetsuche - was nicht google-bar ist, existiert nicht - und mit YouTube als audiovisuellem Netzarchiv. Und die EU-Urheberrechtsreform droht, die Macht der Netzoligopole noch zu vergrößern. Wider diese fortschreitende digitale Privatisierung und Einhegung arbeiten Künstler und Aktivisten daran, Zugang zu kulturellen Gütern zu schaffen bzw. zu bewahren, indem sie Web-Archive und Netz-Plattformen betreiben: Beispielsweise das Kunst-Wiki Monoskop, die Online-Bibliothek Aaaaarg, das Archiv für Avantgarde UbuWeb oder die experimentelle Filmdatenbank 0xDB. Sie schaffen die technischen Infrastrukturen, bilden Communities und handeln gemeinsam die Nutzungsbedingungen aus. Autonom, kollaborativ und kostenlos stellen die Projekte kulturelles Gedächtnis her und bieten der Allgemeinheit einen Zugang: ein Netz von file sharing-Technologien und Schattenbibliotheken jenseits von Social Media-Plattformen und Kulturindustrie. An der Züricher Hochschule der Künste untersuchen der Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftler Felix Stalder und die Künstlerin und Netzforscherin Cornelia Sollfrank im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts "Creating Commons" die Web-Archive als ästhetische Commons-Praxis: Welche Aufgaben und Verantwortlichkeiten ergeben sich für Archive wie für Archiv-Remixer? Wie wird Archivarbeit im Spannungsfeld von Zugänglichkeit und Urheberrecht zur Gemeingut bildenden Praxis? Diese Sendung zum Nachhören unter: www.bayern2.de/zuendfunk Als Podcast und in der Bayern 2 App verfügbar

springerin Heft 4/2019, Digital Unconscious

What can we learn from the (digital) Commons?
Ästhetische Praxen des Lernens und Verlernens

Beitrag von Cornelia Sollfrank

Ausgehend von der Arbeit im Forschungsprojekt Creating Commons, worin ästhetische Praxen untersucht werden, die sich für die Herstellung oder den Erhalt digitaler Commons engagieren, reflektiert Sollfrank in ihrem Text über einige ausgewählte Projekte, bei denen edukatorische Aspekte eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Dabei handelt es sich um unterschiedliche Formate, die zum Großteil außerhalb traditioneller Institutionen angesiedelt sind. In den Projekten verschränkt sich das, was Philip Agre „Critical Technical Practice“ genannt hat, mit Selbstorganisation im erweiterten künstlerischen Umfeld und emanzipatorischen pädagogischen Ansätzen. (zum Text)

Saturday, 5 October 2019, 17:45

New Suns Literary Festival, Barbican Centre London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS

Revisiting the Future. Technofeminism in the 21st Century.

On the occasion of the publication of Beautiful Warriors in English translation, edited by Cornelia Sollfrank, Mindy Seu, Judy Wajcman and chair Marie Thompson explore contemporary theories and practices of technofeminism. Incorporating ecological, decentralized, economic and intersectional perspectives, they look at how today’s forms of discrimination and exploitation are being responded to by feminist hackers, techno-eco-feminists and others.

Thursday, 26th of September 2019, 10:00

State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart, Urbanstrasse 25, Stuttgart.

The theme of the 9th ELIA Academy is digitalisation. Many students (and teachers) are embracing new forms of digital arts and digital practices — these new, blended practices stretch our conceptions of creativity. This topic offers the chance to debate, analyse and reflect on the challenges and opportunities across all artistic disciplines and teaching approaches.

Dienstag, 24 September 2019

BR 2 Nachtstudio – Wildes Denken

Postdigital meint nicht die Überwindung des Digitalen, sondern sein Selbstverständlich-Werden. Im postdigitalen Zeitalter wird nicht die An-, sondern die Abwesenheit des Digitalen auffallen. Aber welche Freiheit liegt in dieser Vorstellung? Und sollten wir bei allem nicht doch festhalten an der Lust an der Störung? Mit der Künstlerin Cornelia Sollfrank und dem #purplenoise.

Eine Sendung von Joanna Ortmann

Saturday, 21 September – Saturday 12 October 2019

panke.gallery, Hof V, Gerichtstraße 23, 13347 Berlin

OPEN SCORES brings together 16 practices through which artists articulate their own forms of (digital) commons. From online archives, to digital tools/infrastructure and educational formats, the projects envision a (post-)digital culture in which notions of collaboration, free access to knowledge, sustainable use of shared resources and data privacy are central.

Participants: Dušan Barok (monoskop.org), Marcell Mars & Tomislav Medak (memoryoftheworld.org), Sebastian Lütgert & Jan Gerber (0xdb.org), Sean Dockray (aaaaarg.fail), Ruth Catlow & Marc Garrett (furtherfield.org), Constant (Michael Murtaugh, Femke Snelting & Peter Westenberg), Laurence Rassel (erg.be), Stefanie Wuschitz (Mz* Baltazar’s Lab), Panayotis Antoniadis (nethood.org), Mario Purakthofer (www.dock18.ch), Alessandro Ludovico (neural.it), Eva Weinmayr (andpublishing.org), Kenneth Goldsmith (ubu.com), Zeljko Blace (#QUEERingNETWORKing), Sakrowski (curatingyoutube.net), Spideralex, Tactical Tech, Creating Commons. The exhibition is part of the research project Creating Commons (Shusha Niederberger, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder).

Wednesday, 29 Mai 2019, 18:00

Galerie Kate Vass, FELDEGGSTRASSE 88, CH-8008 ZÜRICH 

The Automat und Mensch exhibition is, above all, an opportunity to put important work by generative artists spanning the last 70 years into context by showing it in a single location. By juxtaposing important works like the 1956/’57 oscillograms by Herbert W. Franke (age 91) with the 2018 AI Generated Nude Portrait #1 by contemporary artist Robbie Barrat (age 19), we can see the full history and spectrum of generative art as has never been shown before.

Participants: Herbert W. Franke, Robbie Barrat, Cornelia Sollfrank and others

Dienstag, 28. Mai 2019, 20:00

Akademie der bildenen Künste, Akademiestraße 2 - 4, 80799 München

Vortrag im Rahmen der Reihe Feminist Invasion.

Das Buch Die schönen Kriegerinnen wird vorgestellt sowie Hintergründe seiner Entstehung und der aktuelle Kontext von Gender and Technology.

Ein Gespräch über die Utopie einer solidarischen Zukunft.

Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2019, 18:30 – 20:00

Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Bornemann

Welche Möglichkeiten bieten utopisch-künstlerische Entwürfe, den sozialen Raum zu verändern? Und wo entstehen Utopien, die nicht nur den Diskurs beflügeln, sondern Methoden und Strategien zur Gesellschaftstransformation bieten und wie können wir dazu beitragen, diese Utopien sichtbar und fruchtbar zu machen?

Teilnehmerinnen: Isabelle Frémeaux (Aktivistin, Künstlerin), Maria Reimer (Gründerin Jugend hackt, Politikwissenschaftlerin), Cornelia Sollfrank (Künstlerin, Forscherin) und Christine Watty Moderation – Redaktionsleiterin, Redakteurin und Moderatorin bei Deutschlandfunk Kultur in Berlin

Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2019, 11:00 - 13:00

Hafencity Univeristy Hamburg, Überseeallee 16 , Hamburg

Vortrag im Rahmen des Studierenden-Projektes Commons Hamburgbei Prof.Dr. Kathrin Wildner über urbane Interventionen in der Stadt Hamburg von 2004-2014. 

Dienstag, 7. Mai 2019, 20:00 – 21:30

Universität Tübingen, Kupferbau, Hörsaal1, Hölderlinstr. 5, 72074 Tübingen

Die Einführung neuer Technologien geht oft einher mit dem Versprechen für eine bessere Zukunft, doch in welchem Interesse werden diese wirklich entwickelt und für wessen Profit? In ihrem Vortrag unternimmt die Künstlerin einen Streifzug durch technologie-kritische Disziplinen wie den Science and Technology Studies (STS) und verschiedenen Technofeminismen und möchte dazu anregen, einen Blick hinter die glatten Fassaden der milliardenschweren Konzerne zu werfen.

Der Vortrag findet statt im Rahmen einer Reihe, die sich kritik mitdem in Tübingen geplanten Cyber Valley auseinandersetzt und von der Fachschaft Politik organisiert wird.

Weitere Informationen zur Reihe und dem AK Cybervalley und dem Bündnis No CyberValley:https://nocybervalley.de/

Dienstag, 29. April 2019, 11:30-13.00

Medienhaus der Universität der Künste Berlin, Grunewaldstr. 2

Podiumsdiskussion: ES GIBT NICHTS GUTES AUSSER MAN TUT ES ODER: POLITISCH KUNST UND KUNST POLITISCH MACHEN.

Mit: Alisa von Peng!, Faraz Shariat, Zey-nep Tuna, Nora Al-Badri & Cornelia Sollfrank

Moderation: Susanne Heinrich

Künstler*innen im Gespräch , die nicht nur politische Inhalte produzieren, sondern in den Arbeitsstrukturen selbst politisch agieren – zum Beispiel, indem sie Kollektive bilden, ihre Privilegien als sichtbare Künstler*innen für Institutionskritik nutzen oder mit staatlichem Geld und den Mitteln der Kunst den Staat kritisieren.

Weitere Informationen zum Programm und den ReferentInnen sowie zur Anmeldung finden sich unter: https://bit.ly/2J5oHcw

Mittwoch, 24. April 2019, 18:30

Volksbühne Berlin, Grüner Salon, Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin

Der Salon versammelt Künstlerinnen, Hackerinnen, Aktivistinnen und Wissenschaftlerinnen in der Volksbühne Berlin, um den Fragen nachzugehen: „Wie ist der feministische, weibliche Cyberkörper geformt?“ und: „Wer formt den weiblichen Cyberkörper?“ Denn anhand der Figuren der weiblichen Cyborg als Servicefigur in Science- Fiction und Wirtschaft, von den 1940er bis hin zu Amazons Alexa, von den „Lenas“ des Binary Codes der 1970er bis hin zu Microsofts jugendlicher (und rassistischer) AI Tay wird eine Geschichte des Technobodies erzählt, auf den Weibliches projiziert wird.

"The Revolution of Digital Languages or When Cyber Turns to Sound of Poetry. A Symposium on Post-Cyber-Feminisms"

Freitag, 12. April 2019, 10:00 – 18:00

Mit: Heike Munder, Julianne Pierce (VNS Matrix), Dorothee Richter, Isabel de Sena, Cornelia Sollfrank, Yvonne Volkart, Joanna Walsh u.a.

Gemeinsam mit dem MAS in Curating der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste und dem 
PhD in Practice in Curating (www.curating.org)

20-24th of March 2019, House of the Cultures of the World (HKW), Berlin

A discursive music festival on the questions: How is music collected, preserved, selected and reactivated today? What do collections and archives represent? And what can be found in them?

Concerts with Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, Dur-Dur Band International, DJ Raph, Baba Commandant, Tellavision & Derya Yıldırım, DJ /rupture (a.k.a. Jace Clayton), Bernadette La Hengst, Stella Chiweshe, The Zonke Family & Stefan Franke, Aérea Negrot, Olith Ratego & Chor der Kulturen der Welt, Alan Bishop, Hayvanlar Alemi and many more

Talks with Jace Clayton, Diane Thram, Simon Reynolds, Cornelia Sollfrank and many more

Curated by Detlef Diederichsen. Part of The New Alphabet

Panel discussion: "Enter and Revive: Conditions for Accessibility and Reuse"

Sunday, 24th of March 2019, 17:00

House of the Cultures of the World (HKW), Berlin

Archive und Sammlungen sind zunehmend darum bemüht, die Vergangenheit nicht nur zu dokumentieren, sondern auch er- und wiederbelebbar zu machen; die Bestände zum Zweck der Wissensbildung und Kunst zu reaktivieren. Doch der Zugang zu Archivmaterial ist rechtlich wie historisch nicht unproblematisch. Welche Aufgaben und Verantwortlichkeiten ergeben sich daraus für Archive wie für Archiv-Remixer*innen hinsichtlich Herkunftsforschung, Beteiligung und Zugänglichkeit? Welche Praxisbeispiele gibt es dafür, wie die Spannung zwischen Wiederbelebung und Ursprungskontext, Wiederverwendung und Urheberrechten gelöst werden kann? Welche Rolle spielt dabei der immaterielle Charakter von Musik und Sound? Wie wird Archivarbeit zur Gemeingut bildenden Praxis?

Mit Diane Thram (Musikethnologin, Rhodes University), Marisella Ouma (Beraterin für geistiges Eigentum), Cornelia Sollfrank (Künstlerin und Forscherin), Gregory Markus (RE:VIVE, The Netherland Institute for Sound and Vision) Moderation: Florian Sievers (Journalist)

Donnerstag, 14. März 2019, 13:00 – 18:00

Im Rahmen der Tagung «Digitale Kunst – künstliche und künstlerische Intelligenzen» diskutieren am Nachmittag des 14. März 2019 ExpertInnen und Experten aus dem Feld der Kunst, des Kuratierens und des Kunsthandels mit Rechtswissenschaftlern über künstlerische Autorenschaft im Zusammenhang mit (autonomem) maschinellem Handeln.

Es diskutieren und moderieren:
Swetlana Heger (ZHdK), Sabine Himmelsbach (Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel), Philip Kübler (ProLitteris, Universität Zürich), Bertold Müller (Christie’s), Andrea Raschèr (Raschèr Consulting), Christian Ritter (Collegium Helveticum), Mischa Senn (ZHdK), Cornelia Sollfrank (ZHdK, Künstlerin), Felix Stalder (ZHdK), Florent Thouvenin (Universität Zürich, Collegium Helveticum)

Weitere Informationen zum Programm und den ReferentInnen sowie zur Anmeldung finden sich unter: https://bit.ly/2SIoYav

Cornelia Sollfrank (ed.), Yvonne Volkart, Isabel de Sena, Christina Grammatikopoulou

Friday, 1st February 2019, 17:00 – 18:00

House of the Cultures of the World (HKW) - Café Stage

Die schönen Kriegerinnen (“The beautiful warriors”), published by transversal texts in 2018, brings together seven current techno-feminist positions from art and activism. In very different ways, they expand the cyberfeminist approaches of the 1990s and thus react to new forms of discrimination and exploitation. Gender politics are negotiated with reference to technology, and questions of technology are combined with questions of ecology and economy. Those taking different positions around this new techno-eco-feminism see their practice as an invitation to continue their social and aesthetic interventions.

Free download of German version

English translation of preface

Creating Commons at transmediale 2019

Friday, 1 February 2019, 13:00 - 14:30

House of the Cultures of the World (HKW)

The commons have become a powerful vehicle for conceptualizing and experimenting with ways of being, becoming, and working together, within and across conflicting settings. As they are based on a careful handling of resources, they are mostly discussed within the framework of alternative economies, leaving aside the affective drive that shapes their multiple forms. Focusing on concrete practices, this panel brings together concepts of affect with structural definitions of the (digital) commons and addresses a number of questions: What kind of aesthetic can contribute to a practice of commoning? How to create conditions for the production of free resources? What can the focus on affect add to the fostering of the commons?

Guests: Jeremy Gilbert, Gary Hall and Laurence Rassel

#purplenoise at transmediale 2019

 Thursday, 31 January 2019, 19:00 -22:00

House of the Cultures of the World (HKW) - opening

#purplenoise is a new global phenomenon that made its first appearance as fake news in September 2018 when it hijacked a feminist demonstration in order to noisify the situation. Since then, #purplenoise manifests itself at various real-life events and vanishes again—only to reappear in ever new manifestations. At the heart of #purplenoise there is techno-feminist propaganda: the desire to fuck over social media, to bring down platform capitalism, to reconquer public space, to escape the social control exercised by monopolies, to refine political manipulation, to use affect in order to build the common, to turn power into care, to produce more just realities, to win the battle over Donna Haraway, and to create new narratives about the future. The explosive mix of #purplenoise consists of real anger, ruthless action, social (dis-)information, technical intelligence, political radicalism, and true love.

Use these hashtags:
#purplenoise #algorithmicdespotism #iusemyfeelers #imakenoise

#purplenoise at transmediale 2019

#iusemyfeelers – How to Grow and Use Your Feelers
Wednesday, 30 January 2019, 11:00 - 14:00

House of the Cultures of the World, HKW, room K1 (no registration required)
Inspired by Donna Haraway, biology, and wireless technology equally, the interdisciplinary techno-feminist research group #purplenoise gives an introduction to the use of “feelers” as symbols for an extended human sensorium, as alternative communication channels, as vehicles for creating new stories about the future, and as memes to infiltrate and burst narrow patriarchal-capitalist narratives. Real feelers will be produced during the workshop. Participants will be invited to wear them during the festival and report back their experiences afterwards.

Chaos Communication Congress #35C3 @ ELIZA

Lecture performance by Cornelia Sollfrank

Sound design: Malte Steiner

Thursday, 27 December 2018, 8:50pm

In her text assemblage the artist takes us on an adventurous trip into the realm of zeros and ones, of data and pure information, of ciphers, signifiers and figures. On the other side of reality, we encounter suspected heroes, leaks and phreaks, engineers of escape who control our secret desires. Rape can be performed in many ways. In a state of total transparency: what shall we eat, when society feeds upon the repressed? Knowing yourself means knowing what to look for.

Video documentation

Mit Cornelia Sollfrank (artist and researcher, Berlin) und Isabel de Sena (Kunsttheoretikerin und Kuratorin, Berlin)

Montag, 10.Dezember 2018, 20.30–22.30 Uhr

Thematische Buchhandlung Pro qm, Almstadtstr.48, 10119 Berlin

Moderation: Isabell Lorey, transversal texts

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Die schönen Kriegerinnen versammelt sieben aktuelle technofeministische Positionen aus Kunst und Aktivismus. Auf höchst unterschiedliche Weise erweitern diese die Denk- und Handlungsansätze des Cyberfeminismus der 1990er Jahre und reagieren damit auf neue Formen von Diskriminierung und Ausbeutung. Geschlechterpolitik wird unter Bezugnahme auf Technologie verhandelt, und Fragen der Technik verbinden sich mit Fragen von Ökologie und Ökonomie. Die unterschiedlichen Positionen um diesen neuen Techno-Öko-Feminismus verstehen ihre Praxis als Einladung, an ihre sozialen und ästhetischen Interventionen anzuknüpfen, dazuzukommen, weiterzumachen.

Mit Beiträgen von Christina Grammatikopoulou, Isabel de Sena, Femke Snelting, Cornelia Sollfrank, Spideralex, Sophie Toupin, hvale vale, Yvonne Volkart.

transversal texts 2018
ISBN 978-3-903046-16-0
225 Seiten, broschiert, 15,-- €

Mit Cornelia Sollfrank (artist and researcher, Berlin) und Yvonne Volkart (Kunsttheoretikerin und Kuratorin, Zürich/Basel)

Dienstag, 4.Dezember 2018, 20–22 Uhr

Raum*Station, Stationsstrasse 21, 8003 Zürich

Moderation: Gerald Raunig, Philosoph, transversal texts

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Die schönen Kriegerinnen versammelt sieben aktuelle technofeministische Positionen aus Kunst und Aktivismus. Auf höchst unterschiedliche Weise erweitern diese die Denk- und Handlungsansätze des Cyberfeminismus der 1990er Jahre und reagieren damit auf neue Formen von Diskriminierung und Ausbeutung. Geschlechterpolitik wird unter Bezugnahme auf Technologie verhandelt, und Fragen der Technik verbinden sich mit Fragen von Ökologie und Ökonomie. Die unterschiedlichen Positionen um diesen neuen Techno-Öko-Feminismus verstehen ihre Praxis als Einladung, an ihre sozialen und ästhetischen Interventionen anzuknüpfen, dazuzukommen, weiterzumachen.

Mit Beiträgen von Christina Grammatikopoulou, Isabel de Sena, Femke Snelting, Cornelia Sollfrank, Spideralex, Sophie Toupin, hvale vale, Yvonne Volkart.

transversal texts 2018
ISBN 978-3-903046-16-0
225 Seiten, broschiert, 15,-- €

WORKSHOP ON ARCHIVES in BEIRUT, Nov 28th - 29th 2018

Goethe Institut Libanon

AMAR Foundation for Arab Music

Für die zweite Ausgabe von ART & ALGORITHMS ist die Künstlerin Cornelia Sollfrank zu Gast, die ihre Arbeit in einem Vortrag präsentieren und zusammen mit Michael Seemann (Kulturwissenschaftler, Berlin) diskutieren wird. Es moderiert Manuel Zahn (Universität zu Köln). 

Freitag, 16.November 2018, 18 Uhr

Forum NRW, Ehrenhof 2, 40479 Düsseldorf

Die wachsende Menge an Daten und Informationen erfordert Strategien diese sinnvoll zugänglich zu machen. Während standardisierte und monopolisierte Verfahren der Suche täglich ihre Vorstellung von Welt hervorbringen, entwickeln Künstler*innen ihre eigenen Kriterien und Methoden, um in der digitalen Kultur Bedeutung zu produzieren und Handlungsfähigkeit zu erproben. Dabei kommen sowohl experimentelle Algorithmen zum Einsatz als auch kontingente Praktiken gemeinschaftlicher Entwicklung, Pflege und Nutzung informationeller Ressourcen.

Video-Dokumentation

Lab Meeting with Cornelia Sollfrank at Gender/Diversity in Informatics Systems (GeDIS) at University Kassel

Thursday, 8 November 2018, 14–17.00

Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Elektrotechnik/Informatik, Wilhelmshöher Allee 71 - 73, 34121 Kassel

This first meeting is dedicated to exploring cyberfeminist legacies and technofeminist as well as computational practices today. The lab meeting will start with a contribution by cyberfeminist pioneer, conceptual artist, interdisciplinary researcher and educator Cornelia Sollfrank (PhD). 

The second part of the meeting will take form of an in-depth networking workshop the goal of which will be to share ideas and flesh out critical questions for further investigation and lay grounds for the network consolidation.

Salon zu geistigem Eigentum und kollektiver Autor*innenschaft

Mittwoch, 31.Oktober 2018, 19–21 Uhr

Aquarium (neben Südblock), Skalitzerstr. 6, 10997 Berlin

Im Format eines politischen Salons möchten wir uns der Frage nach ‚geistigem Eigentum‘ im Kontext künstlerischer (Zusammen-)Arbeit unter den Bedingungen des gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus widmen. Dabei soll es um die ambivalenten Gefühle und Ökonomien von Autor*innenschaft gehen, die mit dem Prinzip des geistigen Eigentums verknüpft sind. Aber auch um verschiedene individuelle und kollektive, künstlerische und politische Konzepte, mit geistigem Eigentum, Kopie, Zitat und den vielfältigen Formen der Aneignung solidarisch umzugehen.

Gastgeber*innen: Janine Eisenächer, Karolina Dreit und Felicita Reuschling. Gäste: Cornelia Sollfrank, Lydia Hamann & Kaj Osteroth und Freja Bäckman. Die Gruppe Precarious Workers Brigade wird in Form eines Videobeitrags präsent sein.

Buchmessenprogramm Freitagsküche. Barabend mit Büchern, digitalen Publikationen und Lesungen mit EECLECTIC, Merve, Textem, transversal texts und Spector Books

Donnerstag, 11.Oktober 2018, 21–24 Uhr

Frankfurt Freitagsküche, Mainzer Landstr. 105 (HH) 60329 Frankfurt/Main

Performance-Lecture von Monique Ulrich und Tabea Nixdorff und Lesung aus dem Essay »Fehler lesen. Korrektur als Textproduktion« (Spector Books), mit Tom Lamberty über die beiden Merve-Bände zum Ausstellungsprojekt »The Most Dangerous Game«, mit Janine Sack zum Projekt »#purplenoise - Feminist Noisification of Social Media« (EECLECTIC), mit Cornelia Sollfrank zum Reader »Die schönen Kriegerinnen. Technofeministische Praxis im 21. Jahrhundert« (transversal texts) sowie mit Nora Sdun von Textem und dem Herausgeber Karl-Josef Pazzini zum neuen Gewand von »Riss, Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse«.

Die Künstlerin Cornelia Sollfrank unternimmt einen Streifzug durch die Science and Technology Studies (STS) und will damit ein Bewusstsein schaffen für die Naivität, die wir im täglichen Umgang mit Technik an den Tag legen.

Dienstag, 9.Oktober 2018, 18:00 Uhr. Der Eintritt ist frei.

Hochschule Esslingen, Gebäude 1, Raum S 01.021 (Senatssaal im EG), Kanalstraße 33.

Der Vortrag ist Teil von "Drehmoment", dem Produktionskunst-Festival vom 4. bis zum 28. Oktober 2018 in der Region Stuttgart. Das Projekt "Drehmoment" der KulturRegion Stuttgart öffnet der Kunst den Zugang zu industriellen Ressourcen in der wirtschaftsstarken Region.

Group Show  @ panke.gallery, Gerichtstr. 23, Hof 5, 13347 Berlin

4 October – 23 November 2018 | Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 3 pm - 7 pm

1990s Berlin was one of the centres of net art. In the new spaces of possibility of the reunited city, the first works of net art were techno(logical) and artistic experiments that grew out of the proximity of club and lab, in terms of both protagonists and locations. Inspired by what was then the subcultural movement of techno, artists formed collectives perceiving the net as a medium in which utopias and dystopias of the transition into a digital network society could find artistic expression. The exhibition sets up a dialogue between the net art activities of the 90s – exemplary reconstructed works as well as re-interpretations – and the net art works of the current generation of Berlin-based artists. Many post-digital artists have their roots in the work of the preceding generation’s, and this exhibition seeks to establish that link through its protagonists as well as aesthetically. In this way, the show hopes to experimentally test the thesis that the questions addressed by these artistic investigations have remained the same, although the medium of the net itself is always changing. More on netzkunst.berlin 

Digitalisierung und soziale Medien markieren einen großen Einschnitt in der Entwicklung von Protestbewegungen. Durch das Zusammenspiel verschiedener Medien werden völlig neue Formen von Protest möglich. Die Ausstellung dokumentiert die vorangegangene Aktion Purple Noise, die im Rahmen des Festivals Stadt der Frauen stattfand.

Eröffnung: Freitag, 5. Oktober 2018

Die Ausstellung läuft vom 8. bis 28. Oktober und ist jeweils von 08:00 bis 18:00 Uhr zu sehen.

Ort: Hochschulgebäude 1, Erdgeschoss, Kanalstraße 33, Hochschule Esslingen.

Die Ausstellung ist Teil des Projektes "Drehmoment" der KulturRegion Stuttgart. Diese öffnet der Kunst den Zugang zu industriellen Ressourcen in der wirtschaftsstarken Region.

Anne Roth und Cornelia Sollfrank @ Festival Stadt der Frauen, Esslingen

Sonntag, 30.09.2018, 14:00–18:00 Uhr
Altes Rathaus, Lempp-Zimmer, Rathausplatz 1, Esslingen

Es reicht! Zu viele Apps, Messages, E-Mails, Accounts, Passwörter? Wir produzieren Daten ohne Ende und wissen nicht, wie bzw. wo sie landen. Daten werden über alle unsere Geräte, Dienste und Konten hinweg gesammelt, analysiert, geteilt und verkauft. Es entstehen intime digitale Muster: Unsere Gewohnheiten, Bewegungen, Beziehungen, Vorlieben, Überzeugungen und Geheimnisse werden denen offenbart, die unsere Daten sammeln und nutzen. Der Workshop zeigt einfache Methoden zur Reduzierung der „Datenblähung“ und Wege zu einem gesünderen und kontrollierteren digitalen Selbst.

Festival Stadt der Frauen, Esslingen

Samstag, 29.09.2018, 16:00 – 17.30 Uhr
Altes Rathaus, Lempp-Zimmer, Rathausplatz 1, Esslingen

In ihrem Vortrag beleuchtet die Künstlerin das unentspannte Verhältnis von Technologie und Geschlecht anhand ihrer eigenen langjährigen Praxis sowie ausgwählten theoretishen Positionen.

Festival Stadt der Frauen, Esslingen: Frauen*Bibliothek

Samstag, 29.09.2018, 15:00 – 16.00 Uhr

Altes Rathaus, Lempp-Zimmer, Rathausplatz 1, Esslingen  

Cornelia Sollfrank (Hg.) stellt ihr neues Buch "Die schönen Kriegerinnen" vor. Mit Beträgen von Christina Grammatikopoulou, Isabel de Sena, Femke Snelting, Cornelia Sollfrank, Spideralex, Sophie Toupin, hvale vale, Yvonne Volkart.

Festival Stadt der Frauen, Esslingen.

Friday, 28 September 2018, 5pm, demonstration

Purple Noise started in September 2018 as an experiment to explore the dynamics of social media. The new global feminist movement, which calls itself Fake News, calls for mass postings of certain hashtags to prepared social media accounts. The action plays with references from Dada and current feminist theory and experimentally investigates the reality-producing effect of fake news, the manipulability of relevance through purchased likes and followers, and works with the use of memes and an iconographic visual language. The starting point is the affective quality of contemporary politics, which is deliberately exploited by different players to generate profit and gain political power.

Video documentation on youtube.

Technofeministische Praxis im 21. Jahrhundert.

Die schönen Kriegerinnen versammelt sieben aktuelle technofeministische Positionen aus Kunst und Aktivismus. Auf höchst unterschiedliche Weise erweitern diese die Denk- und Handlungsansätze des Cyberfeminismus der 1990er Jahre und reagieren damit auf neue Formen von Diskriminierung und Ausbeutung. Geschlechterpolitik wird unter Bezugnahme auf Technologie verhandelt, und Fragen der Technik verbinden sich mit Fragen von Ökologie und Ökonomie. Die unterschiedlichen Positionen um diesen neuen Techno-Öko-Feminismus verstehen ihre Praxis als Einladung, an ihre sozialen und ästhetischen Interventionen anzuknüpfen, dazuzukommen, weiterzumachen, nicht aufzugeben.

Mit Beträgen von Christina Grammatikopoulou, Isabel de Sena, Femke Snelting, Cornelia Sollfrank, Spideralex, Sophie Toupin, hvale vale, Yvonne Volkart.

 
Samstag, 28 July 2018, 16.00

Venue: Haus am Lützowplatz, Lützowplatz 9, 10785 Berlin

Vorträge von der Künstlerin und Forscherin Cornelia Sollfrank und der Kunsthistorikerin und Kunsttheoretikerin Kerstin Stakemeier im Rahmen der Ausstellung Pirating Presence – Eine Aneignung der Aneignung.

Moderation: Stefan Römer

Lecture performance by Cornelia Sollfrank

Saturday 7 July 2018, 7pm

Kling & Bang | Grandagarður 20 - 101 Reykjavík

In her text assemblage the artist takes us on an adventurous trip into the realm of zeros and ones, of data and pure information, of ciphers, signifiers and figures. On the other side of reality, we encounter suspected heroes, leaks and phreaks, engineers of escape who control our secret desires. Rape can be performed in many ways. In a state of total transparency: what shall we eat, when society feeds upon the repressed? Knowing yourself means knowing what to look for.

Sound design: Malte Steiner

Special Interest Group des GWK-Studiengangs

Friday, 7 June 2018, 18.30

Venue: UdK Berlin, Medienhaus, Grunewaldstr.5-7

 In her talk, cyberfeminist pioneer and co-founder of Old Boys Network Cornelia Sollfrank (PhD), reflects on the spirit of the 1990s cyberfeminism and draws connections to contemporary forms of technofeminism. Terms represent strategies as well as territories. Who has the power to define? What happened to the imaginaries of a cyberfeminist collectivity? How do we organize after the network?
Let’s leave nostalgia behind and talk about the future! She is ours!
 

Symposium Revisiting Black Mountain College, programmed by Dorothee Richter, Head of MAS Curating, WB, ZHdK (www.curating.org)

Friday, 25 May 2018, 19.00

Venue: ZHdK, Zürich, Room 1 (3.K01), Toni Areal, Pfingstweidstr.

Cross-disciplinary Experiments and Their Potential for Democratization
(in Times of Post–Democracy), with Bernard Stiegler (philosopher), Alfredo Jaar (artist),  Hongjohn Lin (curator), Susanne Kennedy (Choreographer), Steven Henry Madoff (author and curator), Lisette Smit (curator), Raqs Media Collective (artists, curators), Cornelia Sollfrank (artist), Jeanne van Heeswijk (artist, activist) with lecturers (artists, designers, musicians, theoreticians, curators) of the ZHdK, to mention a few: Swetlana Heger, Dorothee Richter, Gerald Raunig, Nina Bandi, Sabine Harbeke, Brandon Farnsworth, Annemarie Bucher, Daniel Späti, and more. 

Symposium <Interrupted = Cyfem and Queer>, organised by Creamcake Collective

Saturday, 28 April 2018, 11.00 am till late

Venue: Aquarium, Skalitzerstr. 6, Berlin (U-Bahn Kottbuser Tor)

This first experimental symposium of <Interrupted = “Cyfem and Queer"> is a day and night-long series of conversations, brainstorming sessions, panels, lectures and performances dedicated to broadening the discourse around the digital space. A place for reflection and action at the intersection of media, technology, gender and sexuality, the event aims to formulate strategies for queering the blurred line between science, music and art.

Top Tens Exhibition: Ten invited curators make a selection of their ten favorite pieces on UbuWeb.

Friday, 16 March – Sunday 18 March 2018

Venue: Onassis Cultural Center, 107 Syngrou Avenue, 11745 Athens, Greece

A standard feature of UbuWeb is its Top Tens, where invited guests get to recommend their cherry-picking selection of the archive. UbuWeb in Athens invites ten contributors living in Greece to share and spatialise their collection by tracing their own path through the colossal mass of UbuWeb’s available works. Curated by: Elpida Karaba. Guest curators: Konstantinos Dagritzikos, Maria F. Dolores, Daphne Dragona, Enterprise Projects, Sozita Goudouna, hiboux architecture & Alkis Hadjiandreou, Marika Konstantinidou, Jenni Kountouri Tsiami, Galini Notti, Danae Stefanou. Click here to see the Top Tens lists.

Lecture as part of the symposium Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens
organized by Onassis Cultural Center Athens

Saturday,  17 March 2018,  6-9pm

Venue: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) | Kallirrois Ave. & Amvr. Frantzi Street (former FIX factory)

What is UbuWeb? Is an archive capable to propose a different sort of art history? 3 days of talks and workshops in order to explore this and other shadow libraries.

The symposium explores the conceptual consistency and the ethics of digital preservation and distribution from the practitioners’ perspective.

 Participants: Dusan Barok, Marcell Mars, PEOPLE LIKE US (Vicki Bennett), Kenneth Goldsmith, Cornelia Sollfrank, Peter Sunde, Prodromos Tsiavos

Curated by: Ilan Manouach, Kenneth Goldsmith

LAUNCH OF THE CENTRE FOR POSTDIGITAL CULTURES (CPC), a new Faculty Research Centre at Coventry University, UK.

Wednesday, 7 February 2018,  4pm

The launch will include keynote talks by 3 internationally esteemed speakers:

3:00-3:15pm – Opening introduction
3:15-4:00pm – Keynote Monika Bakke: '(Non)life force in Postdigital Cultures 200 years after Frankenstein'
4:00-4:45pm – Keynote Cornelia Sollfrank: 'Learning from … {= Shadow Library}'
5:15-6:00pm – Keynote Mark Amerika: 'Composing the 21st Century Art School: Misfits, Anartists, and Remixologists'
6:00-8:00pm –Wine reception and performance by the Sound Book Project

with Cornelia Sollfrank, Winnie Soon, Morgane Stricot and Matthieu Vlaminck

Thursday, 14 December 2017,  10am - 6pm

ZKM Center for Art & Media, Lorenzstr. 19, Karlsruhe, Atrium 8 + 9

The workshop will address questions related to the conservation of media art by analysing a classic work of the net art domain: Cornelia Sollfrank’s »net.art generator«, a piece from 1999 that generates image clusters from image and text information. The work, whose data access is based on the Google API, operates on system changes and search restrictions which Google has been practicing for years, only in a limited manner (more info).

with Cornelia Sollfrank, Winnie Soon, Morgane Stricot and Matthieu Vlaminck

Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 6 pm

Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG); Großes Studio

The discussion will address questions related to the conservation of media art by analysing a classic work of the net art domain: Cornelia Sollfrank’s »net.art generator«, a piece from 1999 that generates image clusters from image and text information. The work, whose data access is based on the Google API, operates on system changes and search restrictions which Google has been practicing for years, only in a limited manner (more info).

 SARN::Swiss Artistic Research Network - Annual Conference

Friday, 8 December & Saturday, 9 December 2017

University of the Arts, Zurich, Kaskadenhalle

Art Research Work
When do you work? What are you paid for? How do infrastructures, apparatuses, and forms of life influence our work? How do we influence them? What don’t you capitalize in your life? Who determines funding policies? Does a PhD make one happy? Who is allowed to do research? How white is your research community? Where does your work stop? What goes into your CV? Which currencies does our work circulate in? How is your enterprise doing? How many projects can one pursue at the same time? Can «work done out of love» be paid for? How do we change our working conditions by talking about them? (more info).

Lecture performance by Cornelia Sollfrank

Post-Cyberfeminist International

ICA London, Institute of Contemporary Arts

Saturday 18 November 2017, 5.30pm

In her text assemblage the artist takes us on an adventurous trip into the realm of zeros and ones, of data and pure information, of ciphers, signifiers and figures. On the other side of reality, we encounter suspected heroes, leaks and phreaks, engineers of escape who control our secret desires. Rape can be performed in many ways. In a state of total transparency: what shall we eat, when society feeds upon the repressed? Knowing yourself means knowing what to look for.

In her lecture, German artist Cornelia Sollfrank gave an introduction to the concept of the commons. In the center of her deliberations is the question of what artists can contribute to digital commons. The lecture introduced Sollfrank’s ongoing research on art and commons and discussed specific artworks as examples. Art here functions as a speculative tool; it thrives on imagination and aims to create spaces for discussion and debate about alternative ways of being, and to inspire and encourage people’s imaginations.

The talk took place on 27th of March 2017 at Concordia University in Montréal in relation to Sollfrank’s exhibition commons lab at Studio XX. Link to vimeo at the bottom of the page.

McGill University and Studio XX have the pleasure of presenting an artist talk with Cornelia Sollfrank (Germany). Cornelia Sollfrank (PhD) is artist, researcher and university lecturer. She has studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the University of the Arts Hamburg and got her PhD from University of Dundee (UK). Recurring subjects in her artistic work in and about digital media are authorship, new forms of political organization, feminism and copyright.

The talk takes place in relation to Sollfrank’s exhibition commons lab at Studio XX.

Wednesday April 5th, 2017, 6PM

McGill University, Montréal, IGSF seminar room | Location: 2nd floor, 3487 Peel St.

resources / people \ process

The exhibition commons lab is an experimental setting created by German artist Cornelia Sollfrank. The gallery of Studio XX hosts an open and usable structure that makes various formats for a collective research process available. The idea of the Commons provides the central speculative tool for the investigation of the present as well as for the creation of future scenarios.

March 30 – April 22, 2017

Studio XX, 4001 Rue Berri, Montréal, Québec, Canada H2L 4H2

In her lecture, German artist Cornelia Sollfrank will give an introduction to the concept of the commons, however, putting an emphasis on digital commons. In the center of her investigations is the question of what artists can contribute to digital commons. The lecture will introduce Sollfrank’s ongoing research on art and commons and discuss specific artworks as examples. Each of the works addresses specific questions and embodies experimental and fragmentary solutions to the questions posed by neoliberal enclosures. Art here functions as a speculative tool; it thrives on imagination and aims to create spaces for discussion and debate about alternative ways of being, and to inspire and encourage people’s imaginations.

The talk takes place in relation to Sollfrank’s exhibition commons lab at Studio XX.

Monday March 27th, 2017, 5PM

Université Concordia, 1515, Rue Sainte Catherine Ouest, 11é etage, local EV 11.705

On the occasion of our exhibition 404.NOT FOUND at Den Frie in Copenhagen, the Danish collective Artnode is excited to present an international event focusing on historical and contemporary critical practices on the Internet with a specific attention to the gendered aspects of those practices. Our three invited guests have all made significant contributions to the intersecting field of art, Internet and sexual politics and we very much look forward to hear them discuss their practices and their involvement with current debates and tendencies in online culture.

 Participants: Tatiana Bazzichelli (artistic director, "Disruption Network Lab", Berlin), Maja Malou Lyse (artist, Copenhagen) and Cornelia Sollfrank (artist&researcher, Berlin). Moderator: Jacob Lillemose (curator, Copenhagen) 

3 March 2017, 5-8pm 
 
Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art Oslo Plads 1 DK - 2100 Copenhagen

For more info on the event see: https://denfrie.dk/en

Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2017

A series of multiple images, the body grasped through visual mediation of images, a variety of shared forms, the emergence of a global network...This diverse selection of works, spanning all of the galleries in the newly renovated Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, will explore the festival's overarching theme: "Multiple Future."

Artists in the show: MORIMURA Yasumasa, LEI Lei, SAWADA Tomoko, KANEUJI Teppei, SASAMOTO Aki, Gabriella & Silvana MANGANO, Étienne-Jules MAREY, Zbig RYBCZYNSKI, ISHIKAWA Takuma, OpenEndedGroup & Bill T. JONES, TAKASHI Toshiko, TOYOSHIMA Yasuko, Lucy RAVEN, Cornelia SOLLFRANK, Forensic Architecture, Robert KNOTH & Antoinette DE JONG, Fiona TAN, Manu LUKSCH, Yvonne RAINER and others.

10 - 26 February 2017

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 3F exhibition room.

〒153-0062 Tokyo, Meguro, 三田1−13−3 恵比寿ガーデンプレイス内

Reproduction technologies have been made use of by avant-gardists, who focus on originality and authorship in their artistic practices. Digital technology is essentially an extension of this, but conflicts have arisen with intellectual property and related systems. Moreover, despite its links to free thought, today’s technology has reached a stage that is far from idyllic. The panelists will undertake a crosscutting discussion of topics including design and free software, with a primary focus on the problem of the commons, as raised in SOLLFRANK’s project Giving What You Don’t Have.

Panelists: Cornelia SOLLFRANK (artist), KUBOTA Akihiro (Professor of Art & Media Course, Tama Art University), HATTA Masayuki (Assistant Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Surugadai University, Research Fellow, Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan). Moderator: TADA Kaori, Curator, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions.

Saturday 18 February 2017, 15:30–17:30

The panel is part of the conference program of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions in Tokyo. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Venue 1F Hall. (With Japanese-English Translation)

— 1990s Berlin Net Art — Towards a Critical Evaluation. performative sociogrammatic

In February 2017, panke.gallery begins a critical evaluation of 1990s Berlin net art. Numerous early net art activities originated before the invention of graphic browser interfaces and mediating their innovative power has become increasingly difficult. Historical revision of the genre is lacking and many works have either disappeared from the Internet or become obsolete. The project initiates a series of exhibitions, talks, and lectures, taking first steps towards an evaluation and contextualization of 90s net art works for the long term.

A project by Sakrowski with Joachim Blank, Tilman Baumgärtel, Valie Djordjevic, Holger Friese, Karl Heinz Jeron, Pit Schultz and Cornelia Sollfrank.

Opening: Thursday 9 February 2017, 19:00

panke.gallery, Gerichtstr.23 Hof V, 13347 Berlin

Tracing Information Society - A Timeline

On the occasion and in collaboration with transmediale 2017 "technopolitics," the Vienna-based technopolitics working group presents the exhibition “Tracing Information Society – a Timeline,” shown at neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) from 27 January to 5 February 2017. 
The exhibition is accompanied by a series of workshops, lectures, and salons. Among the participants are Wolfgang Ernst, Anselm Franke, Verina Gfader, Margarete Jahrmann, Jacob Lund and Cornelia Sollfrank.

Workshop with Cornelia Sollfrank: TITLE

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 15:00–17:30

Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (ngbk), Oranienstr. 25, 10999 Berlin

Women in the Field of Digital Art

On the occasion of the touring exhibition Technology is Not Neutral, this symposium addresses the causes and effects of the ongoing under-representation of the achievements of women in the field of digital art, and opens up a space for challenging the status quo and the presumptions on which the history of digital art is written.

Curated by Gordana Novakovic, Anna Dumitriu and Irini Papadimitriou/Watermans.

Saturday 3 December 2016, 11:00–18:00

Watermans Art Centre, 40 High St, Brentford TW8 0DS

Cultural Heritage: Reuse, Remake, Reimagine

The international research project Europeana Space holds its 3rd conference in Berlin. Under the title Cultural Heritage: Reuse, Remake, Reimagine it will "showcase the myriad ways that cultural heritage can be used and enriched through new technologies, innovation and the ingenuity of the creative industries." My contribution will shed light on the copyright issues involved for artists and critically point to new forms of exploitation involved in the "Sharing Economy."

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 10:00–11:00

Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart Berlin

Taipeh Digital Arts Festival

The workshop Preserving and Distributing Knowledge as Artistic Practice will focus on two collaborative artist archives as a way to preserve and disseminate knowledge. Filmed interviews from the GWYDH project will be the basis for approaching the projects and discussing the various aspects they represent.

Sunday 13 November 2016, 12:00–17:00

Songshan Cultural and Creative Park No.5 Storage

No.133 Guangfu South Road, Taipei, Taiwan

Taipeh Digital Arts Festival

In her lecture Creating Commons German artist Cornelia Sollfrank will give a basic introduction to the concept of the commons, however, putting an emphasis on digital commons. In the center of her investigations is the question of what artists can contribute to digital commons. The lecture will introduce and discuss specific examples and contextualize them within larger social movements.

Saturday 12 November 2016, 16:00

Songshan Cultural and Creative Park No.5 Storage

No.133 Guangfu South Road, Taipei, Taiwan

Taipeh Digital Arts Festival

Giving What You Don't Have artistic research project by Cornelia Sollfrank
Video installation with Chinese translation.

Opening: Friday 11 November 2016, 19:00

Songshan Cultural and Creative Park No.5 Storage

No.133 Guangfu South Road, Taipei, Taiwan

metroZones school for urban practices

salon#4: Circulating Knowledge – Collaborative archives in digital and local communities

Guests: Cornelia Sollfrank and Lorenzo Tripodi

Berlin: Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 6pm–10pm
Café Südblock, Admiralstraße 1-2, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Hamburg, Friday, 7 October 2016, 6pm–10pm
dock europe, fux/Kaserne, Bodenstedtstr. 16

Metrozones – Center for Urban Affairs

UNREST #13

Lecture performance by Cornelia Sollfrank

Sound design: Malte Steiner

Tuesday 6 September 2016, 8pm

Bergen Kunsthall Landmark stage, Rasmus Meyers Allé 5, 5015 Bergen (NO)

In her text assemblage the artist takes us on an adventurous trip into the realm of zeros and ones, of data and pure information, of ciphers, signifiers and figures. On the other side of reality, we encounter suspected heroes, leaks and phreaks, engineers of escape who control our secret desires. Rape can be performed in many ways. In a state of total transparency: what shall we eat, when society feeds upon the repressed? Knowing yourself means knowing what to look for.

Vortrag jetzt als Text online:

The Art of Getting Organized mit Cornelia Sollfrank

im Rahmen von FEMINIST STORIES – Strategien der Wiederaneignung, eine Vortragsreihe kuratiert von Felicitas Reuschling.

In ihrem Vortrag am 24.11.2015 zeichnete Cornelia Sollfrank nachträglich die Organisationsformen des Old Boys Network nach und lässt sich dabei von Jo Freemans Klassiker zur Selbstorganisation leiten: The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1971)

International Symposium of Electronic Arts: Cultural R>volution

Work-in-Progress Talks – TechnoSex, Porn, and Intimancy

Session Chair: Katrien Jacobs

Lecture: Wednesday, 18 May 2016, 13.30 - 15.00

Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, CMC Room 6

What are the aesthetics of the commons?

Lecture: Monday, 2 May 2016, 15:15

re:publica conference in Berlin

Station Berlin, Luckenwalder Str. 4-6, 10963 Berlin

How artists can contribute to building and maintaining commons.

An introduction to the project Giving What You Don't Have.

Lecture: Thursday, 14 APRIL 2016, 18.30

Workshop: Wednesday 13 April + Thursday 14 April 2106.

HEAD – Geneva School of Art and Design

5 Boulevard Helvétique. Salle S01

transmediale 2016: Conversation Piece

Thursday 4 February 2016, 2pm – 6pm

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Panic Room Session: Imbalanced Technology

The goal of this Panic Room session is to explore the basis on which technological solutions, in the broadest sense of the phrase, are applied to complex political and cultural processes such as border, migration, and crisis management as well as identity politics.

transmediale 2016: Conversation Piece

Thursday 4 February 2016, 12pm – 2pm

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Excessive Research presents a stream of interventions based on a workshop that took place in November 2015, the outcomes of which are included in a peer-reviewed newspaper and online academic journal (www.APRJA.net), both to be launched during transmediale.

A Lunch Bytes anthology. Edited by Melanie Bühler

By opening up the often narrowly-defined discursive field of “post-internet,” artistic practices are examined thematically within the larger context of digital culture. As such, this anthology offers valuable new contributions to the fields of art history, media studies, philosophy, curatorial studies, and design.

This book includes my text "Nothing New Needs to be Created. Kenneth Goldsmith's Claim to Uncreativity."

With contributions by: Aram Bartholl, Natalie Bookchin, Raffael Dörig, Geert Lovink, Christiane Paul, Domenico Quaranta, Mark Tribe, Peter Weibel and others. ISBN 978-94-91677-35-9

Materialien zur aktuellen Debatte um Künstlerische Forschung

Hrsg: Jens Badura, Selma Dubach, Anke Haarmann, Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey,
Christoph Schenker, Germán Toro Pére.

Ziel des Bandes ist es nicht nur, eine Bestandsaufnahme der unterschiedlichen Frage- und Themenstellungen der künsterlischen Forschung zu erstellen, sondern auch jene Kontroversen abzubilden, aufgrund derer man den Prozess einer vorschnellen »Disziplinierung« der künstlerischen Forschung kritisch betrachten mag.

S. 299–302 Cornelia Sollfrank: Internet.  

ISBN 978-3-03734-880-2

Part III  «Hacking Social Reality»

Friday, 8 JANUARY 2016, 19.30
HAUS DER ELEKTRONISCHEN KÜNSTE BASEL

Together with actors from the Basel Theatre, net art pioneer Cornelia Sollfrank provides insight into the community of hackers with her text performance The Artist as Hacker as Artist. Mathias Jud and Christoph Wachter give an introduction to free networks and animate the audience to hack with them. Gordan Savicic, Selena Savic and Philip Lammer contribute a mysterious light installation which reminds us of the uncanny aspects of technology.

Produced by Theatre Basel in collaboration with House for Electronic Arts Basel.

Director: Kevin Rittberger

FEMINIST STORIES – Strategien der Wiederaneignung

eine Vortragsreihe kuratiert von Felicitas Reuschling

[#3] The Art of Getting Organized mit Cornelia Sollfrank

 24 November 2015, 19.30 Uhr

In ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit einem länger zurückliegenden künstlerischen Projekt, versucht die Künstlerin Cornelia Sollfrank eine Art Aufarbeitung ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit. Die Lecture 'The Art of Getting Organized' widmet sich rückblickend der Struktur des kollektiven Netzwerkes von Cyberfeministinnen Old Boys Network sowie der eigenen Rolle darin.

 Ort: Vierte Welt, Adalberstr. 96, Berlin Kreuzberg, Galerie 1.OG (in German!!)

3 - 5 November 2015

John Lennon Art and Design Building
Liverpool John Moores University
Duckinfield Street, Liverpool L3 5RD

The research/Ph.D. workshop EXCESSIVE RESEARCH relates to the announcement of transmediale 2016, ‘Conversation Piece‘ which highlights the compulsive actions of digital culture, and how we are constantly encouraged to stay active, to make, to share and to secure. A culture of sharing, for instance, is evidently one of the most noticeable idealized activities of a networked society and how value is created. 

Kristiansand, Norway

19–21 October 2015

Artistic Research Forum (ARF) was established by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme as a yearly conference to promote the understanding of artistic research in a national and international perspective. This year the forum will have 20 parallel sessions with presentations of research fellowship projects and projects financed by the Project Programme.

Program Artistic Research Forum 2015

The exhibition PORN TO PIZZA — Domestic Clichés presents varied ways of artistic production in the age of the Internet, dealing with its features and its impact on every day culture. Here, domesticity is a very pervasive topic, because it reveals how private daily life has changed with the Internet and how the conflict of the “real vs. virtual” invades our personal comfort zones.

PREVIEW PIZZA PARTY: Friday, 4th of September 2015, 7 - 10 PM

ARTIST TALK: Sunday, 6th of September 2015, 3 PM

CURATOR´S TOUR & TALK: Friday, 18th of September 2015, 4 PM

EXHIBITION: 5 September - 24 October 2015

LOCATION: DAM GALLERY, Neue Jakobstr. 6, 10179 Berlin

Anthony Antonellis (US), Kim Asendorf and Ole Fach (DE), Domenico Barra (IT), Petra Cortright (US), Kate Durbin (US), Carla Gannis (US), Laurence Gartel (US), Emilie Gervais (FR), Claudia Hart (US), Paul Hertz (US), Faith Holland (US), Lindsay Lawson (US/DE), Jessica Lichtenstein (US), Patrick Lichty (US), Mark Napier (US), Eva Papamargariti (GR/UK), Angelo Plessas (GR), Hayley Aviva Silverman (US), Cornelia Sollfrank (DE), Jonny Star (DE)

Dundee Commons Festival

In recent years the concept of the commons has won broad appeal. One of the reasons for reviving this alternative economic model in manifold social contexts was its success in the realm of digital culture. Free software and collaborative platforms such as Wikipedia have shown its contemporaneity as well as sustainability, and inspired experimentation with various new forms of sharing and collaboration. More details.

Thursday, 27 August 2015, 12:30 – 13.30

Roseangle Commons, Dundee West Church, Lower Hall, 132 Perth Road, DD1 4JW

Dundee Commons Festival

As part of her practice-research, Cornelia has identified and mapped various art projects whose aim is to contribute to the production and preservation of the commons over recent years. She has conducted interviews with the artists involved in which they describe their work, talk about their motivation, and explain how they see their projects related to the art field. More details.

Thursday, 27 August 2015, 14:30 – 17.30

Dundee MakerSpace, Unit 5, Vision Building, 20 Greenmarket, Dundee, DD1 4QB

Vortrag und Gespräche über Projekte, Perspektiven und Funktionen künstlerischer Forschung mit Ulrike Möntmann und Cornelia Sollfrank. Eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Transdisziplinären Kolloquien des Instituts für Künstlerische Forschung (IKF) der Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. Moderation: Hanne Seitz (FH Potsdam)

04. Juni 2015, 17:00 Uhr

Filmuniversität Babelsberg, Großes Kino 1104

Die bildenden Künstlerinnen Ulrike Möntmann und Cornelia Sollfrank, die selbst längjährige Erfahrung im Bereich künstlerischer Forschung auch im institutionellen Kontext haben, diskutieren auf dieser Grundlage und anhand eigener Projekte über mögliche Formen der Wissensproduktion, gehen der Methodenfrage als kreativen Kern der künstlerischen Forschung nach und verorten sie als subversive und institutionskritische Praxis am Beispiel ihrer eigenen Arbeit. http://www.filmuniversitaet.

Workshop on Free Licenses @ SUPERCOPY Festival in Mannheim with Cornelia Sollfrank. 

8 March 2015, 17.00 - 20.00

zeitraumexit, Hafenstraße 68, 68159 Mannheim.

For description of workshop pls. click here.

Within the framework of an international activist day on Saturday 23 May in memory of Sabeen Mahmud who has been shot in Pakistan on 24 April 2015, we are holding a Queer Feminist Hack-a-thon in Dundee. Pls join us at DJCAD Research studio (next to the hub). No preparation required, but bring your computer!

Hackathon @ DJCAD Research Studio with Cornelia Sollfrank. 

23 March 2015, 11.00-17.00

The FemHack will focus on doing just that: triggering this desire towards feminist and post-colonial approaches to technology that foster differences, autonomy, liberation and social resistance. To start this process of liberating ourselves from patriarchal technologies, we will need to push a bit more the boundaries of technologies.

CHAOS COLOGNE: Edge of Control. Conference organised cooperatively by Academy of Media Arts Cologne and Chaos Computer Club Cologne.

15-17 May 2015

For hackers, makers and artists. Opens on 15 May with a keynote by net-art pioneer Cornelia Sollfrank: "Hacking and Art in the Post-Snowden Era", followed by a concert by KHM's Klanglabor. After that two days full of workshops, talks, installations and a gameshow. Free admission. Full program see chaos.cologne

A project by Goethe Institut, curated by Melanie Bühler.

20 +21 March 2015

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Lunch Bytes examines the consequences of the increasing ubiquity of digital technologues in the art world by addressing the role of the internet in artistic practice from a wide range of perspectives. The series consists of events, each dedicated to a different topic and bringing together artists, media scholars, designers, curators and intellectuals. The conference marks the conclusion of the discussion series.

Participants: David Joselit, Ilja Karilampi, Ben Vickers, Diedrich Diederichsen, Kerstin Stakemeier, Christoper Kulendran Thomas, Stephan Dillemuth, Constant Dullart, Hito Steyerl, Maria Lind, Jesse Darling, Cecile B. Evans, Cornelia Sollfrank and others.

Conference website with full programme.

Post-IP Aesthetics, Dr. Cornelia Sollfrank (Dundee)

Keynote 2.10.2014, 14 Uhr @

Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaften

Medien & Recht

2.-4.Oktober 2014, Philipps-Universität Marburg

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Programm-Flyer

As online platforms increasingly dominate publishing, distribution and research, what impact does this have on theory? A debate on how theory changes within the digital landscape featuring critical theorist Gary Hall and artist and theorist Cornelia Sollfrank.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 7-9pm

In collaboration with the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster and University for the Creative Arts.

SYNSMASKINEN: A group of artists and thinkers are invited to collaborate on establishing an ‘abstract machine’. This machine treats the contents at hand and produces a new performance. TONIGHT:-) is a collective machine including various text-passages, a lecture, live internet commentary feed, sound and movement. (Read more).

Friday May 23rd from 16-20 (CET).

Bergen Academy of Fine Art, Rom8. Rom8 is a conduit for development, discussion and presentation of artistic research at Bergen Academy of Art and Design.

New issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanach "Red Art" includes a text co-authored by Cornelia Sollfrank, Rahel Puffert and Michel Chevalier.

"THE THING Hamburg. A Temporary Democratization of the Local Art Field" describes, analyses and contextualizes the 'THE THING Hamburg', a collective experimental Internet platform which was active between 2006 and 2009.

(All texts available online.)

Kunstbulletin 1-2 2014

Urheberrecht - Wenn das Recht kunstfeindlich wird

von Felix Stalder

Das Gros der Kunstschaffenden konnte es sich lange leisten, sich nur am Rande mit dem Urheberrecht zu beschäftigen. Dennoch, das Thema ist auch im Kunstbereich virulent, wenn auch vielleicht subtiler als anderswo. Drei Probleme stechen hervor: (Selbst-)Zensur, die Behinderung etablierter Kulturinstitutionen und Kunstschaffende als Propaganda­figuren. [mehr]

Tuesday 28 January 2014

Visual Research Centre, University of Dundee

organised by Dr Donna Leishman.

This day symposium will explore and expand on the issues contained within the newly launched Leonardo Online Special Issue titled Without Sin: Freedom and Taboo in Digital Media. Confirmed speakers include: Heath Bunting (Irational.org), Leonardo Online’s Editor in Chief Lanfranco Aceti, Director of the Centre for Fine Art Research at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design Prof Johnny Golding, Sheena Calvert (University of Westminster), Dundee based researchers - Zoë Irvine, Cornelia Sollfrank, Ashley Woodward (Editor of Parrhesia), Sandra Wilson, Simone O’Callaghan and the volume Editor Donna Leishman.

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15 – 18 January 2014

Postmedia Lab, Leuphana University Lüneburg

in collaboration with Stadtarchiv Lüneburg.

'Taking Care of Things!' focuses on the transformation of things – analog and digital – into life-cycles and specific practices of care. This will be done in different thematic groups dealing with topics, like Mesh Media!, Civil Archaeology, Measure Drones, Unearthing the Archive, Translating Ontologies and Extinction in Context.

Wednesday 18 December 2013, 2-4pm

Leuphana College Lectures, Fall Semester 2013 – 2014

Leuphana University Lueneburg Campus Hs 4

"Science in the (Art) Laboratory"

LECTURE + WORKSHOP

Cornelia Sollfrank (D/UK): Copyright-Monster, politische Piraten und ratlose Genies. Warum Netzkultur und Kunst nicht zusammenpassen.

Saturday 7 December 2013, 11am-1pm

Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham

PRESENTATION + DISCUSSION

This panel brings together artists Eva Weinmayr and Andrea Francke, creators of the Piracy Project, with Dr Cornelia Sollfrank. The speakers will explore the political and social implications of cultural piracy through examples from The Piracy Project collection.

Saturday 26 October 2013, 2-5pm

Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, London (Subway stop Finsbury Park)

FILM PRESENTATION + DISCUSSION

Cornelia Sollfrank will present her latest project Giving What You Don't Have. It features interviews with individuals Kenneth Goldsmith, Marcell Mars, Sean Dockray, Dmitry Kleiner, discussing with Sollfrank their projects and ideas on peer-to-peer production and distribution as art practice. It includes the projects ubu.com or aaaaarg.org, which combine social, technical and aesthetic innovation; they promote open access to information and knowledge and make creative contributions to the advancement and the reinvention of the idea of the commons.

The post-screening discussion will be led by Cornelia Sollfrank, Joss Hands & Rachel Baker.

Monday 21 October 2013, 8pm GMT

Online performance session based on an excerpt from A Hacker Manifesto [version 4.0] by McKenzie Wark – with Aileen Derieg, Cornelia Sollfrank, Dmytri Kleiner and Marc Garrett.

Drawing in equal measure on Guy Debord and Gilles Deleuze, A Hacker Manifesto offers a systematic restatement of Marxist thought for the age of cyberspace and globalization. In the widespread revolt against commodified information, McKenzie Wark sees a utopian promise, beyond the property form, and a new progressive class, the hacker class, who voice a shared interest in a new information commons.

Live Link: http://readingclub.fr/

I'm very glad to announce the latest issue of

CULTURE MACHINE: Platform Politics, eds. Joss Hands, Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois.

The massive issue includes amongst a range of very good articles on the topic of networks & politics two of the interviews I have conducted within my current research Giving What You Don't Have.

Performance art of the 1960s and 70s today

Akademie der Künste Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin

Opening: Friday, 18 June 2013 at 7pm

re.act.feminism #2 presents feminist, gendercritical and queer performance art by over 120 artists and artist collectives from the 1960s to the beginning of the 1980s, as well as contemporary positions. The research focus is on Eastern and Western Europe, the Mediterranean and Middle East, the US and several countries in Latin America. On its route through Europe this temporary archive will continue to expand through local research and cooperation with art academies and universities. It will also be ‘animated’ through exhibitions, screenings, performances and discussions along the way, which will continuously contribute to the archive.

The web page is designed as a research tool providing information about all artists and activities in short summaries, pictures, texts and tags. It will continue to grow in sync with the ongoing exhibition and archive programme.

transmediale 2013, Berlin

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Opening: Tuesday, 29 January 2013, 19:00

Through a selection of 13 artists, Tools of Distorted Creativity questions the notion of creativity that has been instrumental to the development of the personal computer, from its first stationary instantiations in the 1980s to today’s mobile devices.

http://www.transmediale.de/content/tools-distorted-creativity

transmediale 2013, Berlin

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Thursday, 31 January 2013, 15:00

By openly asking what the user was, rather than attempting to define what s/he is, this panel looks beyond current trends in user culture in an attempt to reimagine the user as continuous potential both vulnerable to exploitation and a visionary force of invention.

Panelists include Pär Thörn, Olia Lialina and Cornelia Sollfrank. Chair: Jacob Lillemose

http://www.transmediale.de/content/what-was-user

ART, SCIENCE & BUSINESS SYMPOSIUM initiated by Dr. Roberto Yanguas Gómez

 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

Opening: Thursday, 24 January 2013

Symposium: Friday, 25 January 2013

The symposium »Curated by Law«, within the art, science & business program of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, opens up a stage for dialog between art and law. The symposium is designed to help artists improve their knowledge of legal frameworks and to offer jurists insight into artistic practice. It provides the opportunity to discuss the above-mentioned crucial issues, such as the legal limits of artistic expression, the dangers of derivative work, and the moral rights of the author. The audience is strongly invited to participate in the discussion.

http://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/welcome/events/3545/

Performance art of the 1960s and 70s today

 Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, Spain.

Opening: Thursday, 15 November 2012 at 7:30pm

During its stay at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, the archive will be accompanied by a series of lectures & talks initiated in collaboration with Centre de Cultura de Dones Francesca Bonnemaison, the Goethe-Institut Barcelona, the Mercat de les Flors. Irregular Section and the Càtedra d’Art i Cultura Contemporanis de la Universitat de Girona, among others. An Activity Space for educational and research activities in the form of workshops, screenings and presentations will allow the audience to further engage in current questions on performance art and feminism.

Several artists and the curators Bettina Knaup and Beatrice Ellen Stammer will be present!

For further details and confirmed dates please visit http://reactfeminism.de

or

http://www.fundaciotapies.org/blogs/activitatsreactfeminism

ZKM | Media Museum
17 March 2012 – 6 January 2013.

Private view/Eröffnung: 16 March 2012. 

The exhibition "Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art" presents for the first time the development of sound art in the 21th century. From Futurism to Fluxus, through to Twitter sonifications, the ZKM charts the history of Sound Art. However, focus is placed on contemporary practices: with works from 90 artists from which approximately 30 new productions from recent years will be represented, the visitor gains insights into the unique sound cosmos of contemporary art. The sound world visualizes its own exhibition architecture, and the exhibition visitor himself becomes the generator of sounds.

Including works by John Cage, La Monte Young, Iannis Xenakis, Carsten Nicolai, Gary Hill, Georg Klein, Alison Knowles, Ryoji Ikeda, Cory Arcangel, Cornelia Sollfrank and more.
Curated by Peter Weibel and Julia Gerlach

More information: Press release.pdf

Künstlerhaus, Wien (Vienna), Austria
15 June – 7 October 2012

The research training module 'interview' gives an overview of the different uses of interview techniques and designs, depending on the particular contexts. The focus will be on the possible uses of the interview format within the art research context. Besides the theoretical overview, there will be practical/technical training along with presentations of examples. The participants are asked to bring along their own interviews or prepare relevant material that can be discussed and further developed within the workshop.

Knowledge Leaks offers research training modules specializing in the needs of art and design researchers. Each of the two-day workshops is run by at least two experienced professionals of different disciplinary backgrounds, and focuses on a different subject matter, starting with a general overview of research methods.

Workshop leaders: Dr. Cornelia Sollfrank (artist), Dr. Kathrin Wildner (urban ethnographer).

Location: DJCAD Dundee University at DCA

Date: 17th and 18th of May, 2012

performance art of the 1960s and 70s today.

Galerija Miroslav Kraljević in Zagreb, Croatia.

The research training module 'interview' gives an overview of the different uses of interview techniques and designs, depending on the particular contexts. The focus will be on the possible uses of the interview format within the art research context. Besides the theoretical overview, there will be practical/technical training along with presentations of examples. The participants are asked to bring along their own interviews or prepare relevant material that can be discussed and further developed within the workshop.

Knowledge Leaks offers research training modules specializing in the needs of art and design researchers. Each of the two-day workshops is run by at least two experienced professionals of different disciplinary backgrounds, and focuses on a different subject matter, starting with a general overview of research methods.

Workshop leaders: Dr. Cornelia Sollfrank (artist), Dr. Kathrin Wildner (urban ethnographer).

Location: Academy of Fine Arts, Barcelona

Date: 17th and 18th of April, 2012

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Launch of the thematic publication "World of the News - The world's greatest peer-reviewed newspaper of in/compatible research."

transmediale Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Wednesday, 1 February 2012, 5pm.

With Christian Ulrik Andersen (dk), Morten Breinbjerg (dk), Geoff Cox (uk/dk) and Cornelia Sollfrank (uk/de).

This is the launch event of "World of the News", the publication that grew out of the PhD workshop + conference in/compatible research (November 16-18, 2011, UdK, http://darc.imv.au.dk/incompatible/).

Presentation of Sollfrank's PhD thesis that explores the paradoxes of intellectual property from a practicing artistic perspective. The thesis is the outcome of a practice-led interdisciplinary research that was conducted as a response to an act of copyright-related censorship.

Open Media Research Seminars, Series 4

Tuesday 6 March 2012, 1:45-2:45pm

Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE)
Coventry University Enterprises
Parkside, Coventry, CV1 2NE

PODCAST of the Open Media Talk

Visual Research Centre, Dundee University.

152, Nethergate, DUNDEE @ Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA)

Universität der Künste/Vilèm Flusser Archiv, Berlin.

Netherland's Media Art Institute, Amsterdam

10th September – 12th November 2011

Opening: 9th September, 18.00 Performance: Nancy Mauro-Flude and mez

‘The art of Hacking’ focuses on the artistic side of hacking. The artists in this exhibition highlight the imperfections of our surroundings and daily lives. The projects subvert, improve on or circumnavigate ‘official’ systems and practices and offer alternatives.

Participating artists: Heath Bunting, Harmen de Hoop, Moddr, Cornelia Sollfrank, ÜBERMORGEN.COM, The Yes Men

Goethe-Institut Washington, FotoGalerie

in cooperation with the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Wednesday, 14 September 2011, 12 - 2 pm

Kicking off the series is an event centered on questions about copyright and authorship. What does ‘copyright’ mean in today's context and how does it affect artistic practice? Is it an outdated legal construct that cannot adequately deal with the internet as a playground of free floating artistic content? Does it still make sense to link a work exclusively to its producer and an original idea when web content is constantly changing in an age in which an increasing number of people upload, distribute and modify films, images and text? What is the role of the artist in this new setting?

Expert panelists include:
Michael Bell-Smith (New York-based artist), Lauren Cornell (Executive Director, Rhizome, and Adjunct Curator, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York), Jeffrey Cunard (copyright and cyber law expert at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Washington, DC), and Cornelia Sollfrank (Berlin and Dundee-based artist and researcher).

La première session du cycle Side Effects prend la forme d’une exposition collective sur la question de l’anonymat et de l’identité comme phénomène instable. 19 projets et 16 artistes : 0100101110101101.ORG, Anonymous, La Barbe, Aram Bartholl, Luther Blissett, Heath Bunting, Dick head man Records, Etoy, Iocose, Julien Levesque, Les Liens Invisibles, Michael Mandiberg, Moddr_, Mouchette, Cornelia Sollfrank, Yes Men.

Idenités Précaires au espace virtuel, Musée Jeu de Paume, Paris

10 mars 2011 — 15 septembre 2011. Commissaire: Christophe Bruno

anonymous_warhol-flowers in Slovakia!

'Sculpture and object-XVI' Festival
Galerie 'Z', Bratislava, Slovakia

June 23 – September 8, 2011

Participating artists: Kyungwoo Chun, Ken Furudate, Wolf Kahlen, Christina Kubisch, Katia Liebmann, Olaf Metzel, Mariella Mosler, Ulrike Rosenbach, Corinna Schnitt, Cornelia Sollfrank, Timm Ulrichs et al.

Curated by: Eugenia Gortchakova and Farida Burejewa

Supported  by Goethe Institut Bratislava

Knowledge Leaks offers research training modules specializing in the needs of art and design researchers. Each of the two-day workshops is run by at least two experienced professionals of different disciplinary backgrounds, and focuses on a different subject matter, starting with a general overview of research methods.

The training module 'interview' gives an overview of the different uses of interview techniques and designs, depending on the particular contexts. The focus will be on the possible uses of the interview format within the art research context. Besides the theoretical overview, there will be practical/technical training along with presentations of examples. The participants are asked to bring along their own interviews or prepare relevant material that can be discussed and further developed within the workshop.

Workshop leaders: Cornelia Sollfrank (artist), Dr. Kathrin Wildner (urban ethnographer).

Center for Art/Knowledge, Akademie der bild. Künste Wien

Date: 14th and 15th May, 2011

Rencontre avec Christophe Bruno, commissaire de l’exposition "Identités précaires", Emmanuel Guez, philosophe et chef de projet à La Chartreuse – Centre national des écritures du spectacle de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, Inès Sapin, critique d’art, et Cornelia Sollfrank, artiste.

Panel as part of CAA's (College Art Association) 99th Annual Conference in New York.

12th February 2011, New York, 2:30-5:00pm (8:30-11:00 pm, CET)

Participants: Ayah Bdeir (Beirut), Cornelia Sollfrank (Germany), Eva and Franco Mattes (NY), George Lewis (NY), Julia Scher (Köln), Kelly Dobson (Providence), Manu Luksh (Kerala), Mary Flanagan (NY), Natalie Jeremijenko (NY), Ntone Edjabe (Capetown), Paula Perissinotto (Sao Paulo), Peter Weibel (Karlsruhe), Raqs Media Collective (Delhi), Regine Debatty (Turin, Brussels), Sara Diamond (Toronto), The ghost of Alan Kaprow (San Diego/Nirvana), Trevor Paglen (NY/San Francisco), Harun Farocki (Beirut)

Event stream: web.media.mit.edu/~csik/atgs

The new issue of TRANSVERSAL - the multi-lingual webjournal of eipcp (european institute for progressive cultural policiesis) is titled "an-academy" and includes contributions by Tom Holert, Dan S. Wang, Lina Dokuzović, Eduard Freudmann, Gerald Raunig, conversations between Boris Buden and Cornelia Sollfrank, Dmitry Vilensky and David Riff, as well as a conversation between Cornelia Sollfrank and Gavin Renwick.

http://eipcp.net/transversal/1210

BR2 Radio – Bayerischer Rundfunk

19. November 2010, 21.30 - 22.10

artmix.gespräch*

In der Reihe "Kunst, Technologie, Feminismus" (3)
Ania Mauruschat im Gespräch mit Cornelia Sollfrank, (Netz-)Künstlerin/Forscherin

* Als Podcast verfügbar

Another Originality @ Edith-Ruß-Site for Media Art

Conceptual Paradise – Artistic Practice in the Age of the Social Web

Public discussion between Cornelia Sollfrank and Stefan Römer

Kunstraum der Leuphana Universitaet Lueneburg, Halle 25

Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 6 pm

The Internet artist Cornelia Sollfrank and the de-conceptual artist and theorist Stefan Roemer will meet to engage in a staged, public conversation. First, Cornelia Sollfrank will review her own practice as a net artist and address issues resulting from her engagement with Conceptual art. Questions having to do with “genealogy” will lead to a direct overlapping with Stefan Roemer’s film and Wiki »Conceptual Paradise«, which will then serve as a starting point for a conversation on the possiblility and impossibility of updating the notion of the Conceptual.

Dog Is my co-pilot uses the theme of dogs as an excuse to present a series of works that actually rather deals with the human psyche and perception than with dogs. The works have in common that dogs figure in them all somehow or other. Besides forming a thematic structure, the choice of works represents a wide range of historical perspectives as well as varied experimental approaches to the media. [Read more]

Spinderihallerne i Vejle. Spinderigade 11, Vejle, Denmark
11 November – 3 December 2010. Ons - fre 10 - 17 og lør - søn 11 – 17

Participating artists: Luis Buñuel (FR), Katarzyna Kozyras (PL), Hung Chih Peng (TAIWAN), Ulrik Heltoft (DK), Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen (DK), Cornelia Sollfrank (DE), Lisa Strömbeck (SE), William Wegmann (USA)

Curated by:  Hanne Nielsen and Birgit Johnsen

October/November 2010, Shanghai

The exhibition forum Shanghai-Hamburg (urban public) Space addresses the issue of city development and public space in Hamburg and Shanghai presenting new artistic strategies such as "New Genre Public Art" or "Art in the Public Interest.” The artistic practices transcend the common understanding of art as representation to an understanding of art as a cultural investigation and intervention.
Due to the pressure of the local authorities the opening on the 8th of October 2010 had to be cancelled and the exhibition could not take place as originally planed. As a response to the prohibition, the website is converted into an alternative exhibition space to document the urban interventions and to offer a download section—the URBAN TOOLBOX. Sound-documents and posters and postcards can be downloaded for further usage, distribution and dispersed interventions.

intercool 3.0: Youth-Image-Media

Exhibition of the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund and Kulturbüro Stadt Dortmund at the Dortmunder U – Center for Art and Creativity

September 17 – November 28, 2010

Opening: Friday, September 17, 2010, 18:00, free admission [read more]

anonymous_warhol-flowers in Russia!

Festival of Contemporary German Art

Video, Photography, Graphic Arts, Installation, Performance
Museum of Fine Art, Omsk, Russia

September 28 – October 12, 2010

Participating artists: Kyungwoo Chun, Ken Furudate, Wolf Kahlen, Christina Kubisch, Katia Liebmann, Olaf Metzel, Mariella Mosler, Ulrike Rosenbach, Corinna Schnitt, Cornelia Sollfrank, Timm Ulrichs et al.

Curated by: Eugenia Gortchakova and Farida Burejewa

target: autonopop presents: «unlimited liability», multiples from over one hundred collectives, writers, artists, filmmakers, music labels, and publishers

August 15 - October 17, 2010; Th-Fr: 3-8pm; Sa-Su: 1-7pm
Norderstr. 71 ug; 20097 Hamburg

The art-collecting upperclass is unwelcome!

100 international artists and groups in an art-political subversion of the status quo. [read more]

OPAK #06 widmet sich dem Thema 'Diebstahl'. In einem Interview mit Jesper Petzke berichtet die Künstlerin Cornelia Sollfrank von Zensurerfahrung und ihr Konzept, keine Originale zu produzieren. ... [Interview lesen]

anonymous_Warhol-flowers in Hongkong

Goethe-Gallery, Goethe-Institut and Hong Kong Film Archive

I DON'T KNOW @ Live Performers Meeting

Brancaleone, Via Levanna 13, 00141 - Rome, Italy – 27 May, 2010

Cease & Desist Art by Simono Lodi: For some years now, it has become common among digital artists to focus on illegal art practices. Countless Cease & Desist letters have been sent out by companies to pirates, plagiarists, hackers and disturbers, which are shown off as trophies in exhibitions, web communities and mailing lists. Action artists promote controversial forms of art, using guerilla tactics to protest against the fairness of copyright and intellectual property laws.

Receiving a Cease & Desist letter has become the latest badge in championing the freedom to create in the Corporation Age. Any artist interested in taking part in the movement chooses a good lawyer rather than a good gallery owner. What is happening to the future of art? What rights and freedoms are these artists championing? Does all this have something to do with the end of techno-utopias?In what way has business co-opted the values of hackers, exploiting open source initiatives, web freedom and on-line equality and sparking the use of these practices?

HMKV Medienkunstverein Dortmund, U-Turm

14. Mai – 18. Juli 2010, Eröffnung: 14. Mai, 18 Uhr

Agents & Provocateurs — eine Ausstellung mit über 30 internationalen Künstlern — untersucht bestimmte Formen der Konfrontation: Engagement und Provokation, die als künstlerische Ausdrucksmittel des anders Denkens verstanden werden.

Mit dabei die Aktion TammTamm – Künstler informieren Politiker, Hamburg (2005-2008).

Die Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung und iRights.info präsentieren einen Reader zum Thema, mit Texten von Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Till Kreutzer, Cornelia Sollfrank und anderen.

Das geltende Urheberrechtsregime reibt sich zunehmend an der digitalen Alltagswirklichkeit. Während es ursprünglich als ein auf den „genialen” Schöpfer zugeschnittenes Schutzrecht gegen Missbrauch konzipiert war, verstoßen wir, ob gewollt oder unbeabsichtigt, täglich gegen bestehendes Recht. Verlustfreies Kopieren gilt den einen als Zugewinn an Freiheit, den anderen als Einschränkung von künstlerischer Verfügungsgewalt und drohender Einnahmenverlust. Ein Ende der „Copyright Wars“ erfordert ein politisches und rechtstheoretisches Neudenken.

Download des Readers (unter CC-Lizenz) auf der Website der Heinrich Boell Stiftung.

Felix Stalder, in: Kunstforum International, Bd. 201, März 2010

" ... Seit mehr als 10 Jahren untersucht Cornelia Sollfrank die konzeptuellen Grundlagen des Urheberrechts, in dem sie dessen Bausteine aus konsequent künstlerischer Sicht befragt. In ihrer ersten Arbeit in diesem Großprojekt, dem Netzkunstgenerator (1999), ließ sie ein Computerprogramm schreiben, dass nach Stichworten Bilder aus dem Internet sucht und diese dann zu neuen Bildern verarbeitet... Er dient ihr allerdings weniger als „Bildmaschine“ sondern als eine konzeptuelle Anlage, um anhand eines konkreten Beispiels eine einfache Frage zu stellen, die für die Konzeption des Urheberrechts zentral ist ..."

Shehalle Zürich, in der Reihe Ästhetik@Subversion

Mittwoch, 14. April 2010, 19 Uhr

Um immaterielle Güter vermarkten zu können, müssen sie über Urheber-, Marken- und Patentrecht abgesichert werden. Kein Wunder also, dass das Konzept des «geistigen Eigentums» sich als zentrale Kategorie der Knowledge Economy etabliert hat. Doch mit der Forcierung der geistigen Eigentumsrechte in den letzten 15 Jahren sind auch die Paradoxe, die dieses Konzept hervorbringt, deutlich geworden: Während der Eigentumsbegriff einerseits dazu dient, sich Legitimität zu borgen von dem quasi «natürlichen» Recht auf materielles Eigentum, gerät seine konsequente Durchsetzung zunehmend in Konflikt mit einer anderen zentralen Kategorie der Knowledge Economy: Kreativität.

Ästhetik@Subversion ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe der Vertiefung Theorie an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste und findet jeweils an verschiedenen Orten in Zürich statt. Details unter: www.zhdk.ch

Dr. Anja Mohr berichtet über das Vermittlungskonzept ‚ Seitenwechsel im Museumshop’, das anlässlich Cornelia Sollfranks Ausstellung ‚Originale und andere Fälschungen’ (2009) als Kooperationsprojekt zwischen der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg und der Kunstvermittlung des Edith-Ruß-Hauses erarbeitet wurde.

Fachzeitschrift des BDK Fachverband für Kunstpädagogik, 4/2010

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Expanded ORIGINAL, Hatje Cantz, 2009
in: neural no. 34, page 4
The work of Cornelia Sollfrank is one of the most enlightening attempts to describe the consequences of immateriality in art. She consistently points to the absolescence of concepts such as ‘original’ and ‘copyrighted’, developing a full spectrum of perspectives…

To read the complete review pls. go to the neural website:

www.neural.it/art/2010/01/cornelia_sollfrank_expanded_or.phtml

Creating Worlds is a multi-annual research project that investigates the relationship between art production and knowledge production in the context of the transformations and crises of contemporary capitalism. Creativity becomes an ambivalent term here, “creating worlds” meaning a modulating procedure in cognitive capitalism and societies of control, but also an emerging political dimension of creativity as political imagination and invention of new lines of flight, new struggles, new worlds.

Creating Worlds is a project of Vienna-based European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp), and funded by WWTF, the Vienna Science and Technology Fund. The project is a collaboration of eight artist researchers and involves research, publication and artistic projects. It will be developed in the years 2009 to 2012.

Creating Worlds

Cornelia Sollfrank ist deutsche Netzkünstlerin und Vertreterin des Cyberfeminismus. Außerdem ist sie als Journalistin tätig und veröffentlicht kunsttheoretische Arbeiten. [more ...]

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sollfrank

CCA Lagos is the first African contemporary art venue to host the full version of the Old News Project conceived and developed by Danish curator Jacob Fabricius. Old News #1, #2,#3, #4,#5 solo by Jens Haaning and #6  Lagos-Malmo featuring 62 artist based in Lagos and Malmo.

Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos

5 December – 9 January, 2010

http://www.ccalagos.org
http://artspeakafrica.blogspot.com/
http://www.konsthall.malmo.se

Gespräch am 29.10.2009 mit der Netzkunstaktivistin und Cyberfeministin Cornelia Sollfrank anlässlich ihrer Ausstellung "Calculemus, lasst uns rechnen!" in der Landesvertretung Niedersachsen, Berlin.

Der Kunstmaschine von Sollfrank steht eine Replik der Rechenmaschine sowie der Briefwechsel von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz gegenüber. Während Leibniz´ Rechenmaschine, dem Menschen einfache Denkaufgaben abnehmen sollte, um so Raum für Kreativität zu schaffen, übernimmt bei Sollfrank die Maschine selbst den kreativen Akt, um so das Konzept Kunst weiter zu entwickeln. Im Gespräch erläutert die Künstlerin die theoretischen Grundlagen ihrer Arbeit.

Cornelia Sollfrank im Dialog mit Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

"Es ist ausgezeichneter Menschen unwürdig, gleich Sklaven Stunden zu verlieren mit Berechnungen." (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)

 "A smart artist makes the machine to the work!" (Cornelia Sollfrank)

Ausstellung: 28. Oktober – 8. November 2009

Vertretung des Landes Niedersachsen beim Bund, In den Ministergärten 10, 10117 Berlin. [more]...

Lecture by Cornelia Sollfrank

Facultad de Bellas Artes Universitat de Barcelona, Pau Gargallo 4

20 October 2009,  4-7pm, Sala de Actos

Cornelia Sollfrank frames the context of artistic research, gives an overview of different national programmes, as well as ideological constructions of art and research; she discusses paramaters of the discourse such as concepts of knowledge, the (alledegly) different epistemologies of art and sciene, speaks about notions of 'process' and the seemingly problematic relationship of theory and practice. Starting point and continuous reference for her approach to artistc research are her own experiences as artist researcher.

Agents & Provocateurs, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary.

October 16 – November 20, 2009; Opening: October 16, 2009, 18-21 h

I am pleased to announce that our project "TammTamm - Künstler informieren Politiker" (Artists informing Politicians)” will be part of the exhibition “Agents & Provocateurs“. In 2005 the initiative brought together 121 Hamburg-based artists who struggled against the state-funded (30 mio euro) private militaria museum owned by a well-known right-wing media mogul, Peter Tamm, in Hamburg’s HafenCity. The museum has been realised despite of our protest and is called now International Maritime Museum. [more…]

Expanded ORIGINAL, Hatje Cantz, 2009

By: Susana Zaragoza

in: Masters of Media, Univeristy of Amsterdam

German artist Cornelia Sollfrank’s career has been linked to hacking, conceptual art, cyberfeminism and net.art. Since the nineties, she examines the digital cultural techniques of copying and the machine-supported production in order to question the traditional models of authorship through methods like appropriation, repetition or plagiarism...

To read the complete review pls. go to the neural website:

http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2009/09/16/review-of-expanded-original-cornelia-sollfrank/

GirlGeek Scotland presents special guest: Cornelia Sollfrank

Tuesday 29 September, 2009, 6.30 for 7pm

Screen Academy, Edinburgh Napier University

2a Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh EH10 4NU [more]...

Ausstellungsprojekt, hub:kunst.diskurs

18. September bis 01. November 2009

EISFABRIK Hannover, Blaue Halle

Künstlerinnen und Künstler: Vera Burmester, Lilibeth Cuenca, Dirk Dietrich Hennig, Jan Holtmann, Doris Koch, Michael Lingner, Silke Peters, Cornelia Sollfrank, Till Steinbrenner & Lotte Lindner, Georg Winter

Screening of “Das maximal Einmalige und seine Transformation ins Gleichartige”, a portrait of the museum photographer Christoph Irrgang, by Cornelia Sollfrank

Midsummer Event at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam

Wiki Loves Art, Netherlands

One-day symposium about the epistemology and context of practice-based research

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Nethergate 152 - Dundee DD1 4DX

 Friday 8th May, 2009, 10.00am – 4.30pm

Organised by: DoJ PhD Forum, Lindsay Brown and Cornelia Sollfrank [more]...

Documentation of the conference papers of "Who is afraid of Artistic Research?" (1)

organised by Lindsay Brown and Cornelia Sollfrank, May 2008

in: ART & RESEARCH, the Journal of Ideas, Contexts and Methods

Volume 2, No. 2, Spring 2009 (Glasgow School of Art)

When Artists Have to Inform Politicians – An Artistic Intervention to Stop the Hamburg-based International Maritime Museum

Lecture by Cornelia Sollfrank at the conference "Myths, Gender, and the Military Conquest of Air and Sea", 22.-25. April 2009, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

An Interdisciplinary Conference of the Universities of Oldenburg, Braunscheig, Salford, and Reading.

Expanded ORIGINAL, Cornelia Sollfrank, artist monograph

Ed. Sabine Himmelsbach, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg 2009

Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany

ISBN 978-3-7757-2390-9

29 March, 2009, 4pm, Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany

15 April, 2009, 7pm, Cooper Gallery, Dundee University [more]...

Lecture by Cornelia Sollfrank at the festival Re-*RECYCLING_SAMPLING_JAMMING 

Akademie der Künste Berlin, 28.02.2009, 11:00 Uhr

Anhand einer Reihe von Arbeiten der letzten Jahre erläutert die Künstlerin ihre Strategien der Aneignung und Weiterverarbeitung vorhandenen Materials. Dabei reicht das Spektrum von einer vernetzten Bilderproduktionsmaschine über den Einsaz von ready aesthetics bis zur Wiederholung politisch brisanter Werke und Performances. Im Zentrum ihres Interesses steht die Frage nach einem neuen Künstlerbild, das sich aus den Fängen der Ästhetik des 18. Jahrhunderts ebenso befreit wie von den Zwängen des Kunstmarktes im 21. Jahrhundert.

Audio documentation of the lecture (in German)

Vortrag und Künstlergespräch | Lecture and Artist Talk
Cornelia Sollfrank und/ and Dr. Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer Institut Sichere
InfomationsTechnologie (SIT), Darmstadt

Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009, 19 Uhr | Thursday, 26 February 2009, 7 p.m.

Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst in Oldenburg | at Edith-Russ-Site for
Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany

Solo-exhibition by Cornelia Sollfrank

Mejan Labs, Stockholm

29 January – 15 March, 2009

Announcement at Mejan Labs website

performance art of the 1960s and 70s today

Exhibition – Videoarchive – Live Performances – Conference

Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 13.12.2008 bis 8.02.2009

Opening, 12 December 2008, 19 uhr

Live performances by:

Colette: i can’t tell you what i don’t know
Carolee Schneemann: Disruptive Consciousness
Cornelia Sollfrank: TroubleShooting

http://www.reactfeminism.org/

Live Performance by Cornelia Sollfrank
Opening of 're.act feminism': 12 December 2008, 7 pm

Akademie der Künste Berlin, Hanseatenweg

In her action TroubleShooting, the German artist Cornelia Sollfrank takes up the almost forgotten shooting actions by Niki de Saint Phalle–who is known today mainly for her Nanas–and repeats it. Sollfrank who has had an interest in firearms for many years, and who has gleaned a vast collection of images of women with guns, used the repetition of this performance as an opportunity to finally learn shooting herself ...

Video clip: TroubleShooting

Solo-exhibition by Cornelia Sollfrank

Edith Russ Site for Media Art

24 January – 19 April 2009

The exbition is a continuation of the project MuseumShop (2007) and centres on the question of "intellectual property" as related to art works that are public property. It is part to reflect the whole process of commodificiation of art works, including their reproduction and distribution.

http://www.edith-russ-haus.de/index.php/Programm/Sollfrank?userlang=en

Photos of the opening night

«No tengo una alternativa, pero desde luego la solución no es el copyright», afirma

Arteleku dedica esta semana el taller Procesando la copia a mostrar el trabajo de los artistas Fran Illich, mexicano, y de la alemana Cornelia Sollfrank -ambos muy vinculados a los nuevos medios- y a reflexionar con ellos, tanto desde el punto de vista práctico como teórico, sobre los nuevos retos que plantean desde distintas perspectivas los espacios de creación que han propiciado las nuevas tecnologías.

more: http://www.diariovasco.com

Location: Arteleku, San Sebatian, Spain

Date: 7th and 8th of May, 2008

In a 2-day workshop German net.artist and cyberfeminist Cornelia Sollfrank introduces theoretical and practical approaches to the deconstruction and re-invention of authorship.

Art in the Age of Intellectual Property

PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, July 19 - October 19, 2008

presented by Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund.

The exhibition is part of the project "Work 2.0 – Copyright and Creative Work in the Digital Age". In the framework of "Work 2.0", HMKV – together with the Berlin-based collaborative partner iRights.info/mikro e.V. – explores the relationships between creative work, intellectual property law, and technology.

Pls. visit the HMKV website for details

Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt: 18 October 2007 – 27 January 2008

Museum Tinguely, Basel, CH: 5 March – 29 June, 2008

In general we presume that artists make art, but what happens when machines produce art? Do artists then become engineers? What does the apparent withdrawal of the artist from the creative act mean, and what consequences for the originality and the uniqueness of the work of art result from it? What is a work of art in the first place in such cases: the machine, the product, or the act of production? What role is granted the viewer in the course of production: interaction or exclusion?

Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/ Main

Museum Tinguely, Basel, CH

www.youtube.com/watch

Interview with Cornelia Sollfrank, by Alessandro Ludovico

First published in neural (issue 27), the Italian magazine for hacktivism, e-music and new media art (2007).

Click here to read the interview: Copyright Guerilla

Electronic Art Festival, Basel, CH

25 –28 October, 2007

The exhibition presents positions that throw light on this year’s festival theme, Access, from very different perspectives. Playful, sensual and ironic means of access stand alongside intellectual, conceptual and also political or action-oriented interpretations. Older works demonstrate this issue’s long, important history and younger works its unabated relevance today.
Further projects will take place outdoors on the festival site and throughout the city.

SHIFT talk by Cornelia Sollfrank, 27 October 2007

Gespräch zu "Originalität und Urheberschaft in der zeitgenössischen Kunst"

Es diskutieren: Cornelia Sollfrank, Eberhard Ortland, Klaus Staeck und Alexandra Strüven.
Moderation: Pascal Decker

Akademie der Künste Berlin, Pariser Platz, 17. November 2006

Download: Audio-Mitschnitt als mp3 (1:39h)

Hinweis: Beim offiziellen Mitschnitt der Akademie fehlten große Teile der Diskussion am Ende. Da sie inhaltlich sehr interessant war, wurden die 30 Minuten durch einen Mitschnitt aus dem Publikum ergänzt. Wir bitten geringe Qualitätseinbußen zu entschuldigen.

Hildesheim – Manila – New York

 Solo-exhibition by Cornelia Sollfrank

Mag:net Gallery Katipunan
Agcor Building, 335 Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City

Opening: 25 November 2006, Saturday, 6PM

curated by Tilman Baumgärtel [more...]

Conference on Media Piracy and Intellectual Property in South East Asia

Speakers: Roberto Verzola, Raul Pertiera, Dr. Volker Grassmuck, Dr. Rolando B. Tolentino, Khavn de la Cruz, Fátima Lasay, Cornelia Sollfrank

http://www.asian-edition.org/

Sponsored by the Goethe Institut, Manila, and the UP Film Institute

Hildesheim – Manila – New York

Solo-exhibition by Cornelia Sollfrank

29. Oktober – 18. November 2006
ERÖFFNUNG IM KEHRWIEDERTURM
mit einer Einführung durch Kurator Thomas Kaestle und der Künstlerin

Galerie im Kehrwiederturm | Am Kehrwieder 2 | 31134 Hildesheim

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