☞ ◕‿◕ Notes about #ETINTERBRO on Verities Magazine

The ∞ INFINITE ◯ Webring of the Eternal Internet Brotherhood

The Eternal Internet Brotherhood website http://eternalinternetbrotherhood.com/ has a new mobile friendly interface designed by PWR Studio 

The new interface is called "The ∞ INFINITE ◯ Webring of the Eternal Internet Brotherhood" is neo-archaic, semi-random navigation ⎈ system hand-coded and chain-linked by PWR Studio in the €uro-zone in August 2013. A never-ending loop within the complex coils of the society of control. No Menu. No index.

Through this system you can navigate through extra interviews, essays, and projects done for the Mexico edition during April 2013. Projects by Andreas Angelidakis, Jacinto Astiazaran, Sotiris Bakagiannis, Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Harry Burke, Vincent Charlebois, Tyler Coburn, Birch Cooper, Rhys Coren, Petra Cortright, Jesse Darling, Zachary Davis, Apache-Theodore Darst, Brian Droitcour, Cecil B. Evans & Yuri Pattison, Rozsa Farkas, Manuel Fernandez, Paul Flannery, Attila Fattori Franchini, Marina Fokidis, Emilio Gomariz, Joe Hamilton, Marc Horowitz, JunkJet, Brian Khek, Mirko de Lisi, Anastasios Logothetis, Michael Manning, Ceci Moss, Theo Michael, Brenna Murphy, Angelo Plessas, PWR Studio, Eva Papamargariti, Rafael Rozendaal, Pascual Sisto, Jasper Spicero, Nicolas Sassoonn, Zak Stone, Hugo Scibetta, Panos Tsagaris, Johannes Thumfart, Priscilla Tea, Mai Ueda + Mike Calvert, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lance Wakeling, Krist Wood and many more.

Thoughts on the Eternal Internet Brotherhood (via Artribune)

When and how did The Eternal Internet Brotherhood came up?

 The Eternal Internet Brotherhood started last year when I was asked from a magazine interviewed by the artists LuckyPDF for Dazed and Confused magazine. They asked what would have been my dream project and I started describing a perfect situation, an ideal working and leisure environment.  It included artists, writers, poets, in a beautiful place, escaping  from the visual provincialism we all live in front from our screens.  For this I used as a reference the tiny greek island of Delos, off the coast of Mykonos, because it was the main cultural centre of ancient Greece. In Ancient times they would go to Delos once a year and perform rituals to glorify god Apollo, the god of Music and Visual Arts. These fairs were really radical in terms of entertainment, creation and sexual expression. It was a space of liberation, a collective hallucinatory experience, and it contained so many definitions of how I see the internet still. After the interview, I just thought, why not try to make this happen for real?  I changed the place because Delos is uninhabited and was more of a conceptual reference I chose the island of Anafi which still at our times is calm, isolated beautiful with a metaphysical vibe. Friends were already going there, and the island is framed by an enormous rock, the second biggest after Gibraltar, so it seemed the perfect place to perform this metaphysical portal.

How would you define the experience of first edition in Greece?

First of all I am very happy and grateful that many people came from all over the world. Artists always produced great stuff working in front of the same horizons, and so we replaced the horizon of the screen with that perfect horizon of Anafi, a true spiritual awakening.  The situation was really idyllic, easy, hard, the beach at night was like a virtualized reality, the whole thing felt like inside a video game. It was an intimate experience of collective space as we spent time together staying by the beach in tents  working, discussing, realizing stuff. There were people who were just only friends on Facebook who met physically at the first time. The vibe was very communal and collaborative, we were also very close with artists participating remotely. The experiment worked!

Why did you choose Mexico for the second edition?

I decided this project to happen every year in a different place which is warm, has a very strong ancient history and beautiful nature. Mexico has all these and I wanted to get in contact more with N. American and Latin American artists. For the next edition I already got invitations to do it in Spain, Portugal, Peru and in Malaysia.

What are your expections for this edition?

We will continue expand notions of distrubution, materiality, social interaction  all tied together with corporeal and mental well-being with or without the presence of technology using a wide range of media. This year there are more than 40 artists and still the list is growing. I am already receiving the ideas of each participant and it's an interesting specturm of media and disciplines. 

You opened a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo in order to realize the event. In recent months a lot of art initiatives were born thanks to this kind of support: do you think online fundraising is going to change the relationship between art and the wider public?

We live in times where the artist can become the producer, the promoter and the fund-raiser. The global economy is in a precarious state. Personally I live in a wrecked country with a decadent art scene. Funding for projects like this does not exist and never existed for projects outside the art market. God bless the internet and such platforms such as twitter, tumblr, instagram and indiegogo where we can reach out easily to supporters, peers and critics globally in the most transparent ways. In the case of the Eternal Internet Brotherhood our supporters are mostly young people from everywhere in the world of any gender and beyond any social class. This is why I strongly feel crowd-sourcing will really change how exisiting hierarchies function within the art world.

This is an interview I gave to Filippo Lorenzin published on the Italian Artribune

Fotorama: postcard editions for greek tourism (vol.2)

The fund-raising campaign of the upcoming Eternal Internet Brotherhood

VIEW CAMPAIGN

Athens 10/07/2012

The Eternal Internet Brotherhood is an initiative for a 5 day collaborative camp. It is a program of holidays featuring activities and events  that will take place between the 9th to the 15th of August 2012 on the greek island of Anafi. This aegean island is located on the south-east edge of the Cycladic cluster and can be reached only by boat.



This initiative will host artists, curators, writers and friends working on or dealing with the vast landscape of internet culture. This is an international group, coming from different parts of the world but collectively part of a compact online community who believe that the creative integration of the offline and online modes of well-being can spark a liberated intellectual evolution and reveal an all-union of disciplines. I invited people whose work expands notions of communication, distribution, dissemination, compression and simultaneity.



The participants will evaluate and activate ideas of deeper spiritual virtuality, explore and invent new visual codes and behavoural modes, using the island itself as an interface: a new consciousness of time and space. We aspire also to compare Internet social conventions to actual space, minimizing or maximizing the intervention of technology.



Participants are free to realize their projects in any medium: from a workshop to a lecture to a performance to an installation to a video to a website to an mp3, anywhere on the island: by the beach, by the bar, underwater, in the monastery.



The Eternal Internet Brotherhood will provide a “space” of total intellectual liberty and will act as a post-privacy outpost. We will escape from the visual provincialism of technology within which we now live in a meta-internet corporeal idyllic context.



Angelo Plessas, 2012

more info here

About This Campaign:

The Eternal Internet Brotherhood is an artist-run initiative. This means that we are doing this without the support of an institution or any state funding. This has to do with the specifics of the context [Greece in crisis as a microcosm or natural exemplar for the precarity of global hypercapitalism in liquid modernity] but also to do with a shared conviction that funding bodies carry their own agenda which often ends up curtailing artistic autonomy. Most of the artists taking part are not part of the object art economy, preferring to practice in more distributed ways: using our bodies or furnishing spaces or experimenting with new forms of image-making online. We build our community in the mould of Web 2.0; open source sharing, wikiesque knowledge distribution, an economy of affect; in this spirit, we seek assistance from our friends, peers and critics in helping us build an IRL model of the gift economy. 

The money is going towards food and accommodation for the artists while in Anafi. We are partially funding ourselves, as we see this as an important part of setting up an initiative - covering our own travel and a portion of our expenses. But to make it possible for this to work well, we need your help! Please donate generously for the good of post-internet generations to come. 

List of participants (list under construction)

Amalia Ulman
 (ES)
Amateurboyz (GR)
Andreas Angelidakis
 (GR/NO)
Angelo Plessas
 (GR/IT)
Billy Rennenkamp
 (US)
Dora Maja DM (DE)

Georges Jacotey (GR)
Harry Burke
 (UK)
Jesse Darling (UK)
Katerina Kana (CY)
Miltos Manetas
 (GR/IT)
Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest (Junk Jet magazine
) (TR/DE)
Paolo di Landro (IT)
Petros Moris (GR)
Pegy Zali
 (GR)
Priscilla Tea (IT)
Rafael Rozendaal (NL)
Rozsa Farkas (UK)
Travess Smalley (US)
Vincent Charlebois (CA)