Upgrade! Paris: Economie 0 :: February 15, 2008; 8 pm (CET) - February 17; 8 pm (CET) For 48 hours non stop! :: La Menagerie de Verre, 12-14 rue Lechevin, Paris 11 and Ars Longa, 67 avenue Parmentier, Paris 11 M° Parmentier :: Free admission.

This special issue of Upgrade! Paris aims to question the relations between Art and Economy: the value of the work of art; the autonomy of the practices, of the artistic production and diffusion; the emerging alternative models; the notions of expense and loss, with a litmus test of the idea of neutralizing the artistic economy. This Upgrade special issue does not follow the classical transmitter-receiver exhibition system. It is a multiple process, a communal space for cohabitation and interference, and a platform where various actors from the artistic, research & science scene meet. This think-tank is a critical space, which accepts and feed on its contradictions. Economie 0 is a concept by Gregory Chatonsky that describes artistic and social phenomenon, which are not outside neither inside the economy, but neutralizes it.

Within its 48h of lectures, it gathers 500m2 of installations, 3 workshops, a “Noplacard” concert, and a publishing & documentation space. Admission to all the workshops is free. Please sign in at this address: upgrade [at] incident.net.
All lectures will be streamed here.

With contributions by: Christophe Atabekian, Crystelle Bédard, Maurice Benayoun, Hans Bernhard, Pierre Bongiovanni, Christophe Bruno, Carl.Y, Grégory Chatonsky, Alexis Chazard, Katerina Chryssanthopoulou, Serge Comte, Cosmin Costinas, Sylviane Diop, Disposition, Dorkbot Paris, Benoît Durandin, la Cantine, N’Goné Fall, la Fédération Culture-Multimedia, la FING, Jean-Paul Fourmentraux, Gawlab, David Guignebert, Sohpie Gosselin, Renée Green, Gal Kirn, laboiteblanche, Philippe Langlois, Matthieu Laurette, Geert Lovink*, Nathalie Magnan, les éditions MF, Antoine Moreau, Yann Moulier-Boutang, Multitudes-Icônes, Noplacard (Nomusic et Placard), Mathieu Perona, Annick Rivoire, Radiolist, Vincent Robert, Cyrille Le Rolland, RYBN, Antoine Schmitt, Michaël Sellam, Société Réaliste, Marc Partouche, Syndicat Potentiel, UBERMORGEN, Nicolas Thély, Gwenola Wagon, and other participants from elsewhere: Upgrade! Boston, Montreal, New York, Scotland, Skopje, SL, Vancouver…

Events: The first release of “NoPlacard” (a cross between Nomusic and Le Placard), the inauguration of “Télévision Zero” on FreeTVPerso by Christophe Atabekian, and a prototype of the Upgrade! International stream session, which allows 25 nodes of the Upgrade Network to meet and share 48h of lectures on Giss.tv.

*Geert Lovink will also take part in Troisieme Oeil, Sunday 17 feb 2008 (6 pm to 8 pm) at the Centre Pompidou. His lecture at Economie 0: Sunday 17 feb (3pm to 4pm CET)

Upgrade! Paris is organised by Incident.net.
We would like to thank: The Menagerie de Verre & Ars Longa.
With founding from: The “Culture & Communication Ministry”, Arcadi (Action régionale pour la création artistique et la diffusion en Île-de-France), Ponzi’s Parasite 360°.
With the help from: RYBN, Sklunk.net, Cela-Etant, Free, Maecia, G.I.S.S., CITU, Mains d’Oeuvres, Actes’If Network, and Florence Brissard (Teletota).