Illegal Art Symposium

Along with the exceptional conference by musician Mark Hosler, representative of the brilliant Negativland - sound collage experts and alternative copyright activists (and notably sued by U2 for having stolen away some tracks) -, the LUFF organizes a symposium for the first time. For this premiere, numerous speakers and activists of the San Francisco Bay Area have been invited to speak about their adventures and their practice of hacking cultural codes and/or audio and visual messages surrounding us on an everyday basis (advertising, all kinds of propaganda, cinema, music, etc.). Firstly we will discuss obscenity censorship, then the hallucinogenic power of the "sound" and "image" medium used in some avant-garde as well as commercial cinema. Secondly two masters at the hijacking of existing objects will present their practice of a recycling that is subject to capitalistic laws. At a time when, for example, Julian Assange develops tools to prevent some of those in power to erase the past in digital archives through the use of 'page not found', it seems important to get an update from the pioneers of activist 'found footage' – collectors and recyclers of analog products of modern capitalistic culture.

Part 1: Bodies, transgression and altered states of consciousness

Hosted by Christian Indermuhle, Rip on / off,

13:30-14:00,V. Vale & Marian Wallace (+ videos).

With the censorship of Howl by Ginsberg as a backdrop, they will discuss the obscenity conviction incurred on issue #12 of their magazine RE/Search entitled MODERN PRIMITIVES (1989) that helped popularize practices and rituals of body modifications of sub- and extra-Western cultures (tattooing, piercing, scarification, etc.).
Discussion

14:10-14:40, Naut Humon (Rhythm & Noise, Recombinant Media Lab, CineChamber).

He will discuss techniques of altered states of consciousness through audio-visual technologies, with the help of slides documenting his experiences with participating audiences in the 70's, of the Sound Traffic Control in the 80's and 90's, of the CineChamber actions in the 2000's and of the great sound artist Maryanne Amacher!
14:45
Break with coffee and hot chocolate.

Part 2: Intellectual property issues

Hosted by Christian Indermuhle, Rip on/off

15:00-16:30, Mark Hosler. Adventures in Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistance and Negativland (Film/conference)

Invited to the LUFF exclusively for this notto-miss lecture, Mark Hosler will introduce the problems and techniques related to the hijacking of audio-visual mediums.
Discussion

16:35 -17:05, Craig Baldwin (+ videos).

Besides his workshop and movies sélection (see movie program), Baldwin will discuss his experiences and techniques of homemade subversions of the movie industry.

17:10, End - small group talk

The room needs to be cleared for 17:30 sharp (movie projection of the LUFF program at 17:45).
Mark Hosler will also host the screening of Sonic Outlaws about the U2/Negativland case and the series of shorts Our Favorite Things.