User:Kim/reading/Problems of Notation

All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses: Free Open Form Performance, Free/Libre Open Source Software, and Distributive Practice

Simon Yuill

• recent valorization of 'collaboration' omits basic condition of collaboration - that all forms of production ultimately rely on various degrees and arrangements
• 'collaboration' becomes commodified (art, consumer as worker)
• can FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) counteract?
• problems with FLOSS:
  • issue of collaboration and legislation (and how these relate to medium code)
  • FLOSS emerging cultural practices fail to relate to outside (non-FLOSS art/ culture)
    • these practices are not collaborative but distributive
• article outlines relation between notational production and distributive practice

Livecoding

• embodies FLOSS key principles (code - algorithms - music)

1. continual re-writing of code as primary mode of artistic production
2. presentation of the work as open ended, mutable rather than static artefact

Livecoding Aesthetics

• production is 'live' and living
• workshops / pedagogic aspect important

Hacklabs + Hackmeets

• First Hacklabs developed in Europe - emerging from squatting movements
• FLOSS + Hacklabs share principle of 'enabling the possibility of production by others'

HAKMEM Tortoises?