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August 28th, 2012Conference
The Incubate DIY Conference 2012 will take place on Friday September 14 & 15 at De NWE Vorst in Tilburg. Besides providing a lot of kicks during the festival, Incubate also offers contemplation with our DIY Conference. Speakers include Simon Reynolds (Retromania), Mark Fisher (Capitalist Realism), Robert Levine (Free Ride), Chris Jones (The Guerilla Filmmakers Guide) and Damo Suzuki (ex-Can).
The time schedule for these two days is available now and downloadable below as pdf. A more expansive explanation of the different talks, panels, masterclasses and presentations can be found here. if you want to be sure to get in du
ring the conference, we would advise you to buy a ticket in pre-sale. Tickets are available on this page. We want the event to be accessible for everyone. That’s why we chose to
make use of the Pay What You Want-pricing mechanism. This way, our visitors have the
control to determine the value of the conference and
the discussion involved.
Download the full time schedule for the Incubate DIY Conference here. See you in September!
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August 13th, 2012Conference<
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On September 14, author and music critic Simon Reynolds will do a keynote speech on the topic of Do It Yourself in pop culture, looking at the history as well as current times and even to the future. Earlier this year, the author of a.o. Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania did an extensive interviewfor a profile in The Guardian with another heavyweight in music journalism: Greil Marcus, or, as Reynolds writes: widely considered the greatest living rock writer. Marcus wrote such classics as Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century and Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession.
The lengthy talk, Reynolds talked to Marcus during the course an entire afternoon about his entire career, has now been made available as a transcript on The Los Angeles Review of Books. Greil talks about his childhood
and his father, about how & when he started as a music writer and that his wife has 'an absolute bullshit detector'. An interesting part about his book Mystery Train: “[The book] grew out of my dropping out of graduate school in 1973 and realizing that I wasn't going to write my dissertation and deciding, “Well, I'll write a book about rock 'n' roll.” I wrote a book proposal and it wasn't a whole lot more than “I will answer all your questions about rock 'n' roll.” It was totally incoherent! But at the end of the book proposal it said that — after I had gone all over the map, and got totally lost probably — there would be a chapter consisting of five- to ten-page essays on a few performers, as a demonstration of how you could write in depth about specific performers. And of course that became the whole book, once I got the rest of the garbage out of my system. Mystery Train is a group of essays on a few performers who seemed to me linked, to be struggling with the same kind of storytelling challenge.”
The full interview will be posted in four parts on the website of the LA Review of Books. Find Part 1 can be found here, part 2 is here.
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October 24th, 2011Conference
At the Incubate DIY conference 2011, English punk legend Steve Ignorant was interviewed by writer and BBC commentator John Robb. John Robb writes for The Observer, The Guardian and The Independent and will interview Ignorant about DIY, Crass’ and Ignorant’s aesthetic and his autobiography The Rest is Propaganda.
In 1977 Ignorant co-founded, together with Penny Rimbaud, the anarcho-punk band Crass. With Crass,
Steve Ignorant was one of the driving forces of the Do-it-yourself movement, and therefore a major influence on the punk movement. Crass was one of the first bands to arrange their own concerts and
record sales without interference from the music industry and asked fans to make their own merchandise.
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October 24th, 2011Conference
The third videoof the DIY conference can be seen and it’s a presentation from Slava Rubin. He is the CEO and co-founder of IndieGoGo, a funding platform, which
provides anyone with passion the opportunity to fulfill their dreams and fund creative, entrepreneurial, or cause campaigns. Their services has been used for over 35,000 campaigns and distributed millions of dollars in 200 countries, even millions of dollars every month! 2011 was a great year for IndieGoGo because they were named one of the partner companies for Startup America, President Obama’s initiative to
stimulate entrepreneurship in America.
Slava Rubin discussed topics like ‘Crowdfunding as Market Validation’, ‘The
tips and tricks of raising money on the internet’ and ‘how to fund your business, project, or cause’ in his presentation. An interesting presentation filled with tips, tricks and full of DIY stimulance!
Slava Rubin also gave a masterclass at the BKKC, Tilburg. You can watch it here.
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October 24th, 2011Conference
The DIY conference had the Dutch premiere of the PressPausePlay documentary, a film about hope, fear and d
igital culture. A while back we posted that the documentary was downloadable at their website in two versions,
the normal one and the interactive version. It has interviews with Moby, Seth Godin, Andrew Keen and Bill Drummond (who also gave a lecture and performance at the DIY
conference).
During the DIY conference we first showed the documentary and afterwards there was a panel. The members of the panel were Philip Marthinsen (producer of PressPausePlay), Dwight Witherspoon of Ericsson Sweden, who made the film possible, hip-hop and electronica producer Daedelus (a.o. Ninja Tune, Stones Throw, Brainfeeder and Warp) and Arnold de Boer, since long the guy behind Zea and since two and a half years singer and guitarist in The Ex. The panel was moderated by Erwin Blom.
The discussion involves the digital revolution of the last decade, which
has unleashed unlimited creative opportunities. Main questions of this panel are: Does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature? Is it cultural democracy or medicrity? Watch the panel below and give us your opinion about it!
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October 18th, 2011Conference
We can’t thank our good friend Michael Azerrad enough. His keynote speech at this years conference was inspiring to say the least. Probably the most talked-about, after the succesfull conference. Now you can watch it as well. In our best Ted.tv fashion, here’sMichael Azerrad. Don’t forget to buy his book!
(NB: We apologize for the small audio hiccup between 8:00 and 10:30 minutes)
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