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interfiction XV / 2008: RE/CYCLING INVENTION2008's interdiscplinary workshop-symposium for art, media and network cultures interfiction – Kassel, nov 14th to 16th, in the framework of Kassel's documentary and video festival – is dedicated to "RE/CYCLING INVENTION" Many rants about the so called culture of "copy, cut & paste" suggest that re-uses and re-mixes are, at best, rather old stuff in new cloth — or even worse, nothing but a patchwork of stolen ideas. Yet taking a closer look on cultures of recycling will easily reveal the short-sightedness of this perspective. In times of shrinking resources, strait budgets, and increasing skepticism against the promises of a consumer market driven economy "recycling" seems to gain importance and reputation in many fields of every day life. Together with new politics of recycling new aesthetics of recycling are developing and being developed; not only objects and materials are being recycled, but media, techniques and technologies, strategies and ideas as well. In fact recycling can offer more than ecological and economical alternatives: often recycling-strategies and recycling-products are rightly proven as inventive and innovative. With RE/CYCLING INVENTION this year's interfiction symposium will ask for the innovative potentials of digital and material strategies and practices of recycling in arts and culture. With lectures, project presentations, screenings, workshops and discussions by and with artists, video- and filmmakers, researchers, curators and researchers interfiction offers a broad spectrum of positions engaged with theories and practices of artistic and cultural recycling. projects: A2D2A, D.I.Y. CULTURES, interfiction, PHILOSOPHICAL TOYS, RE/CYCLING INVENTION, TOYS AND/AS TOOLS, TRANSFORMERS mainprojects: D.I.Y. CULTURES, TOYS AND/AS TOOLS related projects on www.under-construction.cc: Digital Dust Diaries, Transformers |