THE PIRATE CINEMA
A CINEMATIC COLLAGE GENERATED BY PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK ACTIVITY
“The Pirate Cinema Read Me” is a work in progress planned for fall 2015.
This publication offers a critical view on piracy wars and multiple feedbacks between contemporary issues and historical piracy facts. This book structured in three parts, starts with “The Pirate Cinema” art piece and expands on broader issues raised by the project (historical and modern anti-piracy technologies + anti-piracy trials, geo-specific issues, piracy sub-scenes, main releasing standards, warez release procedure, suppliers methods, online piracy in numbers...).
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Nicolas Maigret exposes the internal workings of media, through an exploration of their dysfunctions, limitations or failure thresholds which he develops sensory and immersive audio visual experiences. As a curator, he initiated the disnovation.net research, a critique of the innovation propaganda. He teaches at Parsons Paris and cofounded the Art of Failure collective in 2006. His work has been presented in international exhibitions and festivals: Transmediale (Berlin) - File (Sao Paulo) - Museum of Art and Design (New York) - 30th Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg) - NWFF (Seattle) - SAIC (Chicago) - China Museum of Digital Arts (Beijing) - The Pirate Bay 10th Anniversary (Stockholm) - Palais de Tokyo (Paris) - Eastern Bloc (Montreal) - Gli.tc/h (Birmingham)…
Conception: Nicolas Maigret - 2012-2015
Research, coordination and graphic design: Maria Roszkowska
Editor: Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art