Incubate press release,
To be published immediately
Tilburg (NL), July 10th 2012
Incubate DIY Conference expands to two days
Program complete with keynote by Robert Levine (ex-executive editor of Billboard)
For the first time the successful conference at Incubate festival will take place on two days. In
Theater De NWE Vorst, Tilburg (The Netherlands), an extensive program about Do It Yourself
culture will be hosted on Friday September 14th and Saturday September 15th. With the addition
of Robert Levine (who was executive editor of entertainment magazine Billboard) and Mark
Fisher (author of Capitalist Realism), besides speakers like Simon Reynolds and Roy
Wilkinson, the speakers program has been completed. Tickets are already available and the
visitor can name his or her own price.
Robert Levine about culture and digital parasites
Robert Levine is the author of Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business,
and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, which the New York Times Book Review called “a
book that should change the debate about the future of culture.” Levine has been covering pop
culture, technology and the awkward dance between them for 15 years. He has been the executive
editor of Billboard and has contributed to Wired, Rolling Stone and the New York Times, amongst
others.
More confirmed speakers
Simon Reynolds became famous for his books ‘Retromania’ and ‘Rip It Up and Start Again’, in which
he reflects on contemporary pop culture. At the DIY Conference Reynolds will not rehash these widely
discussed books but will speak about Do It Yourself within pop culture. This will be the first time that
Reynolds speaks about this topic. Furthermore, author Mark Fisher will talk about an alternative for
capitalism, Roy Wilkinson discusses the influence of bird spotting on music and the end of rock, Chis
Jones explains everything about guerilla film making, based on low budget successes like Saw and
The Blair Witch Project, and Damo Suzuki of the legendary krautrock band Can gets interviewed live
during the conference. Jasper Visser will talk about the museum of the future and Annette Dölle of
Keep It Clean Day will give an inspiring lecture about the organization of the biggest clean-up day The
Netherlands has ever seen.
Panels
The DIY Conference program also contains several panels in which international media, artists and
label bosses discuss with each other and the audience topics like running your own label, the news
selection of influential blogs, about selling-out, and the function of the avant-garde if you can’t fuck,
dance or take drugs to it. Freshheads, who has been aiding Incubate with their digital appearances
for years, will host its own program with guest speakers that focus on the specialty of Freshheads:
new internet and digital developments.
Pay What You Want tickets
Tickets to the DIY Conference are available through www.incubate-innovation.org. Each visitor gets to
decide for him or herself what to pay. Incubate has used this Pay What You Want principle for the
conference for several years. This gives the visitor a tool to value the extensive program of these two
days.
The Program:
Friday 14th of September:
DIY: an update with Simon Reynolds
Mark Fisher: Capitalism, Is There No Alternative?
The Biggest Band in the World: a Q&A with Damo Suzuki
The Avant Garde is Only Good If You Can Fuck, Dance or Take Drugs To It (panel hosted by The
Quietus, with Simon Reynolds and others)
Annette Dölle: How to change an Individual Dream into a Collective Act?
How internet changes the way Western and non-Western artists collaborate (panel)
DIY, independence... Do You Even Care? (panel hosted by Gonzo (circus))
It's The End of the Web As We Know It; Speakers program hosted by Freshheads.
Saturday 15th of September:
Robert Levine: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture
Business Can Fight Back
The Guerilla Filmmakers Guide with Chris Jones
A wunderbar prog-prose showcase: British Sea Power, Bird Watching and the End of Rock by Roy
Wilkinson
How To Run Your Record Label (panel with Sacred Bones, who have a label showcase at Incubate,
Holy Roar and Reflections Records)
What’s Wrong with Selling Out? (panel hosted by The Quietus, with John Robb and Mats Gustafsson
among others)
Jasper Visser: The Museum of the Future
New Kids on the Blog (panel with The 405, Disco Naïveté and No Fear Of Pop)
It's The End of the Web As We Know It; Speakers program hosted by Freshheads.
Incubate is the annual celebration of cutting edge culture in Tilburg, the Netherlands. It is a festival exhibiting a
diverse view on indie culture as a whole, including a lot of music, visual arts, debate, film and contemporary
dance. Driven by artistic development, Incubate brings more than 200 cutting edge artists in an intimate context to
an international audience. Black metal next to free folk. Refreshing art next to inspiring debate.
Incubate takes place on 10 to 16 September 2012 in the city of Tilburg in The Netherlands and its surroundings.
From pub to church. From pop venue to farm.
For more information visit the website www.incubate.org.
Note for the editorial staff (not for publication):
Do you want more information? Feel free to contact Jelle Agema via jelle@incubate.org or +31 (0)13- 590 4839.
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