IO_lavoro immateriale
http://io.khm.de/lavoro/

IO_lavoro immateriale is a collaborative database generated for Venice
Biennale '99 by Maurizio Lazzarato, Luther Blisset, Michael Hardt
(philosopher), Hans Ulrich Reck, Enzo Rullani and Iaia Vantaggiato. The
database serves as an open discursive machine to question the current
conditions of creative action and production in society. Starting from
the analysis of 'immaterial labour' (all forms of creative, intellectual
and affective labour are fully integrated and essential factors in the
dominant economical production), the group collaboratively searches for
contemporary political forms and concepts of creative actions in the
public sphere. Each of the participants develops an individual map with
textual information (Italian, English), evolving it into a continuously
transforming discursive topology. The information of all maps of the
different participants self-organises on an extra map. Here the
relations between the information included and arranged by the different
participants will be visualized as movements and force fields. Visitors
in the Biennale exhibition (Austrian Pavillion) can physically
experience this collaborative database through an Interface developed by
Knowbotic Research via magnetic fields - all textual materials can be
browsed in the exhibition and via a native browser.