KEYNOTE PANEL - 7PM

How do artists negotiate the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright — all rights reserved – and the public domain – no rights reserved? What is influence anyway? Who owns language and who should have access to it? How do countercultures challenge concepts of privacy rights? Kenneth Goldsmith, M. NourbeSe Philip, Alexis Muirhead, Sonja Ahlers and Michael Maranda engage with issues of copyright, collaboration and appropriation with each artist representing a unique perspective.

The panel will be moderated by In Praise of Copying author and contemporary scholar, Marcus Boon.

FAIR USE: A NIGHT OF APPROPRIATION ART - 9PM

The entirety of New York Sunday Times, retyped, bound as a book and sold as a work of literature. Moby Dick run through an auto-summary tool and reduced to 4% of its original length. An entire book composed of lines from other books with the word “edit” as an anchor. One person’s spam is another person’s poem. Textual excavators and conceptual pioneers Sonja Ahlers , M. NourbeSe Philip, Kenneth Goldsmith, Derek Beaulieu and Rob Read (with Jeremy McLeod) will perform derivative works that range from borrowed language to conceptual enclaves that will challenge and re-imagine (un)creativity.

IDENTITY THEFT

A chance meeting of James Last and Gyorgi Ligetti on an operating table. ECW author (I, Tania 2007) and long standing experimental and electronic musician Brian Joseph Davis performs sonic surgery throughout the night.