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Tag: Free Culture
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Links From Liquid Culture
A selection of links from the Liquid Culture launch, discussion and handouts.
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Notes Towards Free Culture n
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On The Commons On Collage
On The Commons on collage and creativity:
“The real lesson, for me, is that collage is not just an interesting sideshow in the creative process; it is a central element.”
Conference referenced form the blog entry:
Sampling and remixing are indexical collage. Mash-ups are atomic indexical collage.
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Viki
A proposal for a project I’m unlikely ever to do. A hyper-image Wiki based on SVG.
The interface is SVG and JavaScript. Any element of any object is selectable. Groups get selected first.
You can select any art and make a link to a new image, taking the art as the basis for the new image, uploading a new image, or starting with a blank image.
You can make any selected art into a re-usable symbol.
You can annotate, tag and externally link any art.
Each image or symbol has its own history, diff and discussion page.
Ideally, the interface would eventually be a full vector art editor, or at least allow for external vector art editors through an open API.
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Liquid Culture
Liquid Culture 5.06 was a well-organised and very engaging event. Concentrating on Free Software and Free Culture together is absolutely what is needed. Overviews of Free Software, software patents and Creative Commons licenses were given, with case studies of “Open Source” software from Goldsmiths and free culture from Remix Reading. Siva’s dissenting response at the end was excellent, and nobody really disagreed with him. 🙂
The speakers were all good, the discussion was heated, and I met Tom and Ed from Remix Reading. Who are cool.
One person who knew me from a mailing list said that they expected me to have a big beard. I must change my net presence. I don’t even have a goatee.
I handed out some CDs of my work that I’d made and grabbed lots of flyers and leaflets.
Video of the event was recorded but that doesn’t seem to be online yet. Various people had materials that I think should end up online but the only URL I have to hand is:
http://www.alexhudson.com/talks/intro-free-software
for Alex’s talk.
Liquid Culture is definitely a project to watch.
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A Motherlode Of Free Art
10,000 Paintings From Directmedia at Wikimedia Commons. High resolution, public domain. Lots of German art, much of it wonderful.
I hope this sets a precedent, and I applaud Directmedia and Wikimedia. Hopefully this will provide a challenge to the hoarders of art who won’t share. If you shut your culture away, those who don’t shut their own culture away will be the foundation of future culture…
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New Ward Video To Sample at archive.org
See the entry “New Ward Video” on Loca Records’s news page:
Low and high resolution versions available, and a full-resolution version at archive.org for remixing and sampling. It’s licensed CC-BY-SA. Perfect.