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Recapture the Debate...

"Rather than denouncing authorship as a concept of the past as some copyleft radicals do (just to big up their own status as "activists") cultural producers need to redevelop their various bonds with the social humus of their various arts. This means also to recapture the debate and bring it back to our home ground." Armin Medosch, 2008

On Exploitation (quoting Mark Andrejevic from IDC list, 11 jun 2009)

Howard's post got me thinking about the need to tighten up an understanding of what we might mean by the term "exploitation." The very broad sense in which it is often used -- to indicate that someone else benefits from our labor -- isn't a particularly useful one.

Reputation

Reputation is one of the things to be gained through free work, and is actually something many individuals manage to convert into monetary compensation. The following link is a document by the New Media Department, University of Maine, called "Promotion and Tenure Guidelines Addendum: Rationale for Redefined Criteria - New Criteria for New Media". It looks into the mechanisms that generate academic recognition in the realm of New Media and how those differ from traditional ones.

What value (and currencies to represent it) is involved?

Why does "free" work still pay? What alternative renumeration do we deal with? What values count?

Paid in Full: Copyright, piracy and the real currency of cultural production by Armin Medosch

Paid in Full: Copyright, piracy and the real currency of cultural production is an article where artist and writer Armin Medosch explains his position and concerns in the copyright-copyleft discussion.

http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/428

 

The Internet as Playground and Factory

"The Internet as Playground and Factory" is a to-come conference and until now a discussion thread on the iDC list (list by the institute for distributet creativity, http://distributedcreativity.org/).

Giving away labour

For a long time there has been a discussion going on about how individuals can make money with free/opensource/copyleft work. In this section you can find a collection of articles and links dealing with the issue.

Criticism of Open Collaboration

A collection of articles and links that look at open collaboration from a critical point of view

collective production

the most typical example is open source software. here are couple of examples of sites where collective production happens:

http://savannah.gnu.org/

http://sourceforge.net/

http://code.google.com/

collective authoring

the best known example is:

http://www.wikipedia.org/

The Point Fundraising Website

this website offers you the possibility to find others willing to donate on your project

http://www.thepoint.com/

there is a scetion specifically dedicated to fund artists and art related projects:

http://www.thepoint.com/campaign_channels/fund-an-artist

Money Sharing

Ways to share money

Studio exchange

A list of studio exchange sites:

http://www.artquest-artelier.com/

Time Sharing

examples of time sharing or time banking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Dollar

Space sharing

examples of sharing space

Knowledge Sharing

examples of knowledge sharing

sharing

sharing of resources

Us Now - a documentary about mass collaboration

this documentary introduces a number of projects (the majority functioning thanks over the web) that evolve around mass collaboration. there is everything from collective decision making to resource sharing, but since the all over focus of the film seems to be on democratic/decision making aspects, i put it in this section

collective decision making

examples and definitions

collaboration sites

collaboration sites, social networking tools, idea depositories, etc.

Documentation on Open Collaboration

collection of definitions and examples

Links

Texts

Josephine Barry 2002: Bar Code: Net Art and the free Software Movement.
http://netartcommons.walkerart.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/08/0615215&mode=...

Author

The artist subject rejects his claim of singular authorship in
favour of collective works based on multiple and plural forms of
authorship e.g. collectives, projects, alias or algorithm.

Artwork

Closed object based works of art and symbolic representations
transform to open and dynamic fields of action, “arenas of
activity”(Weibel), to happenings, projects and processes.

Artistic Fields of Action

With the spread of information and media technologies extensive
transformations in all operational systems of societies take place. How
do these technolgies as well as the principle of connection influence
the production, presentation and distribution of art? How does the
media intervene not as technological but as social, political and
cultural machine?

“Who’s doing the art of tomorrow?” (Ars Electronica 2001) - ‘How will it be done?’ - ‘What is doing the art of tomorrow?’

Glossary

Artistic Fields of Action (Handlungsfelder)

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Exhibition practise

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Notion of Art

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Open Source

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