Fluxus is an amazing realtime coding enviroment that uses Scheme and OpenGL. Like a 3D Minara for livecoding, only much more highly developed.
Month: April 2006
Notes Towards Free Culture
Prominent VC: Abolish software patents!
When even venture capitalists start attacking software patents, and Paul Graham starts defending them, you know something is wrong.
How Sun’s “open DRM” dooms them and all they touch
The important part is the truth of the “DRM”, not the lie of the “open”. Finding the middle ground between DRM and freedom is like finding the most palatable mix of excrement and ice cream.
Copyright maximalist troll gets screwed by DRM
Losing all your course materials thanks to DRM should give you some kind of hint that DRM is not entirely benign.
REVIEW: Lev Manovich on Remix Culture, by Trebor Scholz
Wasn’t Lev big on new media art a little while back? More people seem to be making the jump (although I still get more Art Computing gigs than Free Culture gigs).
Tom Chance on free culture meetups in the UK. Things are definitely picking up here now.
CC travel sites acquired | Creative Commons
Can I just echo what Mike says, I couldn’t put any of it better myself.
Notes…
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Calcutta’s colourless campaignThe social and economic impact of banning political art.
Boing Boing: GW Bush’s iPod contains
Boing Boing: GW Bush’s iPod contains “illegal” (according to RIAA) music
Will they tell him to drop out of college to pay for the fines? Oh, wait…
Rhizome.org: Diagram, Procedure, Algorithm But Processing is still a tough swallow apparently for many that have an artistic past steeped in other environments. There is also a (somewhat justified) fear of visually (and procedurally) formatting the art to a specific school of thought.
On TV
When I was in Belgrade last year I appeared on an arts program to talk about my work, Creative Commons, and Free Software. I gave a lecture on the same topics, which was recorded and ended up being used in the program as well. MANIK also very kindly talked about my work, but I haven’t screengrabbed them.
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Complements
Complicit art is radicalism to radicalism (two lefts make a right). It is a way of shocking the bourgeoisie when the chattering classes are all as radical as fuck. The complicity of shocking the complicit bourgeoisie with radicalism (modernism) simply swapped for the complicity of shocking the radical bourgeoisie with complicity (relational aesthetics). This is as naive a negativity as that alleged for modernism. Nothing to see here, move along.
But be careful what you wish for. The managerial aura of Relational Aesthetics, like the still life of fruit on a merchant’s wall, is a presentation of what is absent. And what is absent in the age of Complicit Art is a unified masses that is an unreflective market for the mass media that CA desperately aurates. In real life it is winter, the fruit is gone. The flesh has withered on the face that remains youthful in the portrait. There is a riot on the other side of the wall on which the gridded canvas hangs. We all have weblogs.
Complicit Art is the Venetian landscape for those unwilling or unable to take the grand tour, the pr0n site for the Slashdotter. This is not a reassuring lullaby, a harmless deathbead lie, this is a snuff movie. You don’t have to do criticism to be critique. There is something wrong about a world with Paris Hilton in it.
What would be unforgivable would be to abandon reflexive awareness, to fail to animate the world of references created in the work (is this managerial?). Sometimes careerist opportunism is just careerist opportunism. But sometimes it is Jeff Koons.
Ro-co-co.
I comment on “We-Make-Open-Source-Not-Money” at MAzine
This is related to the “How To Make Money Off Copyleft Art” wiki entry.
And moft fyne it is. Feer Chaucer’s 1337 middel English skylls!