On 19th january at Tate Britain there was a really interesting conference about Art and Immaterial Labor. Art’s materiality has been the focus of fierce debate since claims about the ‘dematerialisation’ of art were made in New York at the end of the 1960s. More recently, in the very different context of libertarian political debates in Italy and France, claims have been made about the ‘immaterial’ character of labour processes based on information technology and the cultural and intellectual content of commodities.
Here you can listen to the speech of Maurizio Lazzarato, Antonio Negri and Bifo (Franco Berardi).