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 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?"

(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"

"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)

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?