Sources workshop

The workshop is designed for the Public Library of Trikala in Greece around the topic of use of sources in the media lab of the library for teachers, librarians and artists.

Its designed on a tripple basis= collaboration, appropriation and creative use of information.

It is structured in 3 sections. Free culture(big media and monopolies, intellectual property, from copyright to copyfarleft), remix&appropriation(aura, trajectory,footage,personal collections, dj and remix), and tools, sources and creativity in the media lab(online tools, free software, content providers, net art collaborative works)

 Bibliography=    

L. Liang. Guide to open content licences.PZi,2004. D. Kleiner. The telekommunist manifesto. INC, 2010. L. Lessig. Free culture : how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity. Penguin Press, 2004. Latour and Lowe. The migration of the aura or how to explore the original through its fac similes. University of Chicago press, 2010. W. Benjamin. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.1936. M.Bauens. The political economy of peer production. J. Gay (ed). Free Software, Free Society:Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman.GNU press, 2002. L. Hyde. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. (thnx to Michaela for contributing in these sources! :):) )

Activities= visible thinking routines,online research, mapping trajectories, audiovisual narration with found footage, collaborative online narration with found footage+ online tools and media lab equipment, livestreaming, design simple HTML page to embed live streaming/embed in personal or libraries blog.

Learning outcomes= introduction in the discussion around free culture, understanding of types of licences and new discussions around intellectual property, awareness of trajectories of works of art, understanding or remix culture, introduction to online tools, ability to design a (collaborative) audiovisual narration in the media lab, ability to design self directed educational projects in the media lab.

• The free culture thematic is inspired by the Free Culture workshop in Worm by David and Eleanor.
• The remix and appropriation thematic is inspired by Annet's classes on Testing the shelf life.

GENERAL STRUCTURE

FREE CULTURE

REMIX