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.

Date 2.18 Sat. 15:30-17:30
Venue 1F Hall, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
(With Japanese-English Translation)

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

Cornelia SOLLFRANK, Giving What You Don’t Have, Installation view at Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 2014