I had my students read the paper by thor magnusson in FLOSS + Art and they loved. Its a wonderful introductory text to open source and how it may affect/pertain to the arts. On Apr 1, 2011 7:20 AM, "a bill miller" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > Since you're talking about FLOSS, I thought I'd mention a specific text I've > been using in some of my courses. > Digital Foundations - xtine burrough and Michael Mandiberg > http://digital-foundations.net/ > It's a physical book, but also a wiki. I think they worked closely with > FLOSS. All exercises and files are available on the wiki. I've found it to > be quite useful because in addition to introducing Art & Design software, > they also introduce ideas like Creative Commons, Opensource, and > Appropriation. > > Best, > A. Bill > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:59 AM, helen varley jamieson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> FLOSS+Art http://people.makeart.goto10.org/ >> >> FLOSS Manuals might also be a good place to look - it's a repository of >> open source software manuals a lot of which are artists tools, & there >> is quite a lot of material within various manuals about the communities >> & culture around the projects, e.g. "An Open Web" >> (http://en.flossmanuals.net/an-open-web/) & "Collaborative Futures" >> (http://www.booki.cc/collaborativefutures/) >> >> h : ) >> >> On 1/04/11 12:24 PM, Rob Myers wrote: >> > On 03/31/2011 10:40 PM, Antonio Roberts wrote: >> >> Do you have any more examples of artists writing about open source >> >> culture (e.g. the link you posted to Joy Garnett) >> > Open Source culture / Free Culture tends to get mixed up with >> > appropriation art, collaborative art and other ideas so it's hard to >> > find artists who are talking about it directly. >> > >> > There's more from the same sources ("open source", "gift", and "free >> > culture" are good phrases to search for in the following sites): >> > >> > http://www.salrandolph.com/ >> > http://opsound.org/info/free/ >> > >> > http://newsgrist.typepad.com/ >> > http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/joy-writings.html >> > http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/joy-lectures.html >> > >> > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4489 >> > >> > http://robmyers.org/weblog/ >> > >> > As for different artists: >> > >> > >> http://www.mtaa.net/mtaaRR/news/twhid/artificial_legal_add_ons_to_art.html >> > >> > http://www.blogher.com/free-culture >> > >> > http://theoverthrow.com/site/general/james-powderly-gets-open/ >> > >> > >> http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20051013055803/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/10/3/20856/7891 >> > >> > http://www.gwennseemel.com/index.php/blog/category/free_culture/ >> > >> > >> http://magazine.redhat.com/2008/08/26/open-source-for-the-future-art-music-and-sustainablity-at-monome/ >> > >> > http://graffitiresearchlab.com/projects/ars-electronica-exhibition/ >> > >> > And a study: >> > >> > http://www.openbusiness.cc/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/ACEReport.pd >> > >> > If anyone else on the list has written anything on this subject or knows >> > of anything that other people have written I'd be very interested to >> > hear about that as well! >> > >> > - Rob. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > NetBehaviour mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > >> >> >> -- >> ____________________________________________________________ >> >> helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst >> [email protected] >> http://www.creative-catalyst.com >> http://www.avatarbodycollision.org >> http://www.upstage.org.nz >> ____________________________________________________________ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > > -- > A. Bill Miller > ---------------------------------------------- > <SITE> http://www.master-list2000.com/abillmiller/ > ----------------------------------------------
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