diskussionen

October 20th, 2006, 4pm, No fee, Galerie Tristesse Deluxe(Panel in English)
How Porn Did Me
Art and revolution in times of alt porn
Panel with Katrien Jacobs, Hong Kong, Matteo Pasquinelli, Barcelona, Marije Janssen, Amsterdam

In this panel we would like to discuss and criticize the development of alt porn online as a revolution for the consumer in his personal sexual experience and identity. Alt porn has become a broad genre where all kinds of sexual preferences and gender types can create and consume the porn they feel is satisfactory. This individual approach has created a completely new interpretation of what porn is and has profoundly effected the creation of commercial porn, like the gonzo genre or the movies by Eon McKai.
Because we all come from different backgrounds (as you can read in the bio's) we think it would be interesting to approach this subject each from our own perspectives and answer a series of questions and discuss this with the audience and ask them about their online alt porn experiences. With these answers we can create a "dirty notebook" that we can present as a result of the panel discussion.

Katrien Jacobs is a scholar, curator and artist and works as assistant professor at City University of Hong Kong. She was born in Belgium and received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, with a thesis on dismemberment myths and rituals in 1960s/1970s body art and performance media. She has lectured widely and co-organized several conferences and events, such as the Institute of Network Cultures' "Art and Politics of Netporn." http://networkcultures.org/netporn. She recently finished a book entitled Libi_doc: Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art. (2005, Maska Publications) www.libidot.org. Her new book 'The Sexual Chemistry of Internet Pornography" analyzes the boom of indie porn sex on the Internet is forthcoming with Rowman and Littlefield, USA.

Matteo Pasquinelli has been based in Bologna, Italy, for a long time. After dealing with several media activism projects (from Luther Blissett to Telestreet), he is now a London-based free lance curator and critic, focusing on media philosophy. He is the author of *Media Activism* (Derive Approdi, Rome 2002) and editor of Rekombinant (www.rekombinant.org), an influential italian-speaking webzine and forum about media activism, culture jamming, and radical philosophy.

Marije Janssen earned her MA title in January 2006 with her thesis about cyberfeminist perspectives on the representation of the female sexual identity in on-line communities. She has worked as a research assistant with the Institute of Network Cultures for the 'Art & Politcs of Netporn' conference which was held in October 2005. Currently she is working as a producer/researcher on the follow-up of the conference, as well as a publication that will be presented at the next edition of 'Art & Politics of Netporn' in Amsterdam.