Hi everyone, This year I served as the Susan B. Miller Fellow at the Berkeley Center for New Media at the University of California, Berkeley. My major project focused around my obsession with carillons..I created Hack the Bells, the world’s first carillon remix competition. The twist? All works submitted were required to be released under a Creative Commons Share-Alike 4.0 license.
I had judges from the Rijksmuseum, New Media Consortium, University of California, Berkeley, and yes, the carilloneur of Maastricht, Weert and Heerlen in the Netherlands (he also plays violin in the world famous Johann Strauss Orchestra with Andre Rieu). We had over 30 submissions, the majority (31) which are available on Wikimedia Commons. We awarded a grand prize of $700, which includes the acquisition of the piece at the University of California’s music library and the Anton Brees carillon library in Florida. Three runner-up prizes of $100 were awarded. Submissions came from 10 countries. I wrote a blog about the winners: http://wp.me/p1i5o1-5W I’m happy to talk with anyone off list if you are interested in logistics regarding the implementation of this type of contest/project. I have heard it time and time again - contemporary art and open licenses don’t mix (no pun intended) - but that is simply not true. If you make it accessible, with incentive, they will come, and as a former gallery director of a contemporary art gallery who received 200+ submitted works every time I announced a call for artists, I was really amazed at receiving 30 submissions for this competition. The works submitted are varied - we received poems, paintings, digital art, music, video, and epic installation pieces that utilize open source technology to make the campanile at Berkeley into a real interactive work of art. Thank you to everyone who spread the word and especially to the jury and artists. Sarah Stierch ----- Museumist specializing in open culture and grantwriting www.sarahstierch.com
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