Installation/performance/demo of the First Internet Pavilion that was part of the 53rd Venice Biennial in 2009 as well as the iamgonnacopy project that opened at MAXXI_MUSEO NAZIONALE DELLE ARTI DEL XXI SECOLO in Rome this year.
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PIRACY MANIFESTO, 2009
Pirates of the Internet Unite!
“A man was stopped yesterday at the boarder of Italy and France, his computer was scanned and pirated material was found, mostly Adobe software and songs by Beatles. The man was arrested at the spot”
From a poem to a drug, from an piece of software to a music record and from a film to a book, everything that’s famous and profitable, owns much of its economic value to the manipulation of the Multitudes. People haven’t asked to know what the Coca Cola logo looks like, neither have they asked for the melody of “Like a Virgin”. Education, Media and Propaganda teach it the hard way; by either hammer it our brains or by speculating over our thirst, our hunger, our need for communication and fun and most of all our loneliness and despair. In the days of Internet, what can be copied can be also shared. When it comes to content, we can give everything with everyone at once. Around this realisation, a new social class is awaking.
This is not a working class but a class of Producers. Producers are pirates and hackers by default, they recycle the images, the sounds and the concepts of the World. Some of it they invent but most they borrow from others. Because information occupies a physical part of our bodies, because it is literary “installed” in our brain and can’t be erased at wish, people have the right to own what is projected on them. They have the right to own themselves. Because this is a global World based on inequality and profit, because the contents of a song, a movie and a book are points of advantage in a vicious fight for survival, any global citizen has the moral right to appropriate a digital copy of a song, a movie or a book. Because software is an international language, the secrets of the World are written in Adobe and Microsoft: We should try hack them. Finally, because poverty is the field of experimentation for all global medicine, no patents should apply.
Today every man with a computer is a Producer and a Pirate. We all live in the Internet; this is our new country, the only territory that makes sense to defend and protect . The land of the Internet is one of information. Men should be able to use this land freely, corporations should pay for use - a company is definitely not a person. The Internet is now producing “internets”, situations that exist not only online but also in real space, governed and influenced by what is happening online. This is the time for the foundation of an global Movement of Piracy. The freedom of infringing copyright, the freedom of sharing information and drugs, are our new Commons, they are Global Rights and as such, Authorities will not be allow them without a battle. But that will be a strange battle as its the first time the multitudes is disrespecting the Law instinctively and on a global scale.
Today, an army of teenagers is copying. Adults are copying, senior citizens are copying, everyone with a computer is copying something. Like a novel Goddess Athena, Information wants to break free from Technology, so it assists us on our enterprise.
Pirates of the Internet Unite!
