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Recapture the Debate...

birte — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:34:33 -0600

"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

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

eva — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:17:36 -0600

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.
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Reputation

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:39:05 -0600

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.

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

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:35:57 -0600

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

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

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:34:35 -0600

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

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The Internet as Playground and Factory

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:16:28 -0600

"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/).

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Giving away labour

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:12:55 -0600

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.

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Criticism of Open Collaboration

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:09:31 -0600

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

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collective production

eva — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:27:38 -0600

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/

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collective authoring

eva — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:23:51 -0600

the best known example is:

http://www.wikipedia.org/

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The Point Fundraising Website

eva — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:03:12 -0600

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

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Money Sharing

eva — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:59:34 -0600

Ways to share money

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Studio exchange

eva — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:58:22 -0600

A list of studio exchange sites:

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

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Time Sharing

eva — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:50:59 -0600

examples of time sharing or time banking

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

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Space sharing

eva — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:48:57 -0600

examples of sharing space

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Knowledge Sharing

eva — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:47:38 -0600

examples of knowledge sharing

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sharing

eva — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:46:48 -0600

sharing of resources

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Us Now - a documentary about mass collaboration

eva — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:28:40 -0600

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

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collective decision making

eva — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:27:31 -0600

examples and definitions

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collaboration sites

eva — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:25:30 -0600

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

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Documentation on Open Collaboration

eva — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:22:06 -0600

collection of definitions and examples

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Author

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:32:46 -0600

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.

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Artwork

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:31:26 -0600

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.

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Artistic Fields of Action

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:29:34 -0600

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?’