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museum squatters....

eva — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:07:27 -0600

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Museum Squat

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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Museum Squat

eva — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:50:35 -0600

The idea of the museum squat originates in the feeling that museums are part of structure that indoctrinates and conditions individuals , rather then offering an interface where the individual sees his/hers ideas about culture reflected.

The goal of this group is to start a discussion about this issue, and, if possible organize an action that would call public attention to it.

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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