Rob Myers said : > On 03/04/11 09:17, Aymeric Mansoux wrote: > > > > @rob: "Open Source culture / Free Culture tends to get mixed up with > > appropriation art, collaborative art and other ideas". Can you point to > > a text that develop this specifically, > > Well there's my essay at the end of FLOSS+Art, the expanded "Open Source > Art Again". :-)
Oh? ;) > > or maybe elaborate a bit? > > I mean it in two senses: > > Firstly, artists tend to use philosophical and political ideas more as > inspiration or metaphors than as rigorous and binding definitions. If an > artist says that they're working in an Open Source way or they are > inspired by Free Software, they may just be intending to collaborate > with people or appropriate work in ways that don't fit the Open Source > Definition or the Free Software Definition. > > So in this way the ideas tend to get mixed up as they are not used > accurately, and so their meaning drifts into other areas. > > There's nothing wrong with that, artists must be free to work creatively > with concepts. It can be frustrating when people are *almost* there but > are using a non-free licence or saying that they are sharing or freeing > work when they are obviously not, though. Yes. > Secondly, artists who are interested in Open Source or Free Culture tend > to be also interested in more general ideas of collaboration, > appropriation, and free speech. When they talk or write about what Free > and Open culture mean to them, they tend to also talk about > appropriation, collaboration, anti-censorship and other vitally > important ideas. Yes. > So in this way the ideas tend to get mixed up as people have wider > interests and don't single out Free and Open culture as a single topic > of discussion. OK, this is all clear. But what I was more thinking of is in the case where people have a fairly good understanding of Free Culture, would you say it is possible, desirable, or even a necessity, to make a distinction between the technical and legal infrastructure that allow Free Culture, its usage and what is produced? And why? a. -- http://su.kuri.mu _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
