User:Kim/reading/Generous Practices

A fictional conversation, based on emails, physical encounters, IRC and a Skype session.
Femke Snelting [Constant]

with:

Guy van Belle

Nik Gaffney

Maja Kuzmanovic

Thomas Laureyssens

Laurence Rassel

A CULTURAL ECOSYSTEM

ecology?

workin with open source software exposes a network of relations between audience, community + tools

relations exceed Arts but as 'culture' are embedded in social, economical and technological structures

not static but process, interdependency

interaction with environment (always)

more literal ecological thoughts:

can we replace natural resources with information?

digital over print -> wider reach + lower environmental impact

software to visualize or regulate eco processes

COPYRIGHT ALTERNATIVES

Copyright today mostly about intellectual property

problem: traditional notion of 'property' is incompatible with (intangible) concepts of knowledge or creativity

Constant: licenses as performative act

even in Copyleft: starting point is individual Author

can/ should we refuse all copyright? (its always market driven)

position of author is never neutral - use this standpoint to enable use for others, highlight relations etc

"At what price can you reuse an image?"

ON COLLABORATION

(in Media Arts) complexity and multiplicity of technologies used makes collaboration a must or inherent, apparent

moment of "was that me or was that you?" merging (thinking) processes

"Its more a protocol than a language"

FREE TOOLS

"software can be a medium, but its usually a too for making connections flexible"

software as metaphorical instrument

becomes a tool to think with

each program programs in a figurative sense (defaults)

SHARING KNOWLEDGE

importance of feeding the ecology that keeps you going

misunderstanding that all free software is automatically open: who has access? who has ability and time to read/ edit?