Generous Practices
aka why (special issue #25)
Generous Practices
Also in Floss+ART, alongside Yuill's Distributive Practices, Femke Snelting: Generous Practices (also here).
A fictional conversation, based on emails, physical encounters, IRC and a Skype session.
Why this form?
I'm not sure I would use the term ‘ecology’ literally, but we like to work with open source software for example, because it exposes a network of relations between communities, tools and audiences. Of course, these relations go much further than art, literature, theatre or dance. Culture is embedded in social, economical and technological structures.
- Example of Annemieke van der Hoek's Epicpedia... Exposing the wiki as conversation. A form Snelting would re-use in Conversations.
- Parallel with things like RFCs and discussions on mailinglists such as the proposal for an IMG tag.
Based on citations from a number of influences, a "fictional conversation" that represents Snelting reflections and inspirations from colleagues inspired by models of Free Software working in the cultural / artistic work.
Read through the introduction (Cultural Ecosystem)
Reflections from Strasbourg
Marie Verdeil's work: Low-tech magazine and Kris de Decker.
Becoming Sponge + Reparative Reading.
Why make Radio?
- How to give back to an audience?
- Idea to post recordings back to Radio Aporee, yes! Look into the community aspect.
Return to Yuill's idea of distributive practice. (Example such as HAKMEM, and Scratch/Cardew). But... also Cardew's later regrets?