[Open Design + Hardware] FREE?! A one-day journey into the cultures of sharing - 29/11/13 - Rotterdam

[Kat Braybrooke]

...."free culture operates as a nested territory, in which  different
forms of cooperation and collaboration establish working environments
and modes of production that are based on sharing and exchanging
knowledge. This requires a new approach to the production, financing,
distribution, and appreciation of culture. It is in this particular
context that FREE?! explores the potential and limits of this
alternative."

Love this premise.

Hope it's a great event -- if only I was closer to its location, I would
most certainly make the time to go!

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Aymeric Mansoux <aymeric at kuri.mu> wrote:

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> FREE?!
> A One-day Journey into the Cultures of Sharing
> Rotterdam, The Netherlands
> Het Nieuwe Instituut
> 29th November 2013
> 13:00-00:00
>
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> FREE?! investigates one of the great paradoxes of our times: While the
> fast paced development  of digital media and the Internet has made the
> sharing and reuse of cultural products, like movies, music, books as
> well as their tools of creation, extremely easy. Yet at the same time,
> this same technological development allows intellectual property law to
> increasingly enclose culture behind privileged walls, thus tightly
> controlling and policing its access.  Meanwhile, the debate that opposes
> the rights of authors and file sharing has been stifled into a virtual
> trench warfare.
>
> Is there a way out?
>
> FREE?! attempts to answer this question by looking at the alternative
> offered by the free culture movement, both exploring its potential and
> the obstacles it encounters.
>
> The concept free culture refers to all forms of cultural expressions
> that have been deliberately ‘freed’ by their legitimate authors from the
> limitations that current intellectual property law, such as copyright,
> impose on them. Free culture promotes the free distribution of works and
> tools to create the lowest threshold possible for the access and
> transformation of culture  for an audience as broad as possible. To do
> so, free culture operates as a nested territory, in which  different
> forms of  cooperation and collaboration establish working environments
> and modes of production that are based on sharing and exchanging
> knowledge. This requires a new approach to the production, financing,
> distribution, and appreciation of culture. It is in this particular
> context that FREE?! explores the potential and limits of this
> alternative.
>
> The program divides into four sections:
>
> The Free Culture Brunch Club: a series of roundtable discussions around
> key themes that affect free culture: transaction systems,
> entrepreneurship, copyright reform, publishing, documentation and
> archives, as well as tools ownership and appropriation.
>
> A public debate about the position of creative entrepreneurs in the
> context of free culture and the fast paced development of digital media
> communication. With Timo Vuorensola (Iron Sky), Bruno Felix (Submarine),
> Ton Roosendaal (Blender), Jamie King (VODO), moderated by Felix Stalder
> (World Information Institute, Vienna).
>
> A multifaceted public evening program where the domain of free culture
> is explored guided by a Winter Night’s Copyright Fairytale featuring
> Dušan Barok, Andre Castro, Florian Cramer, Annet Dekker, Jan-Kees van
> Kampen, Gülşen Emre, Gijs Gieskes, Eleanor Greenhalgh, Paul Keller,
> Marcell Mars, Nikita Mazurov, Rob Myers, Luc Nagel, Manuel Schmalstieg,
> Femke Snelting, Nan Wang and Dave Young.
>
> Accompanied by the (Mis)Interpreting Free Culture exhibition of FREE?!,
> in which students and alumni of the Willem de Kooning Academie, the Piet
> Zwart Institute and WORM’s Parallel University are both reflecting and
> inviting you to interpret, as well misinterpret, what free culture is
> about.
>
> FREE?! is organised by Kennisland in cooperation with the Willem de
> Kooning Academy, the Piet Zwart Institute, WORM, Creating 010, V2_ and
> The New Institute. FREE?! Is made possible with support by the Culture
> Programme of the European Union and the Stimuleringsfonds Creative
> Industrie.
>
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> Friday November 29th
> Free Culture Brunch Club: 13.00 hrs
> Plenary debate: 16.00 hrs
> Evening program: 19.30 hrs
> Location: The New Institute, Rotterdam
> FREE?! Tickets: http://freeculture.eventbrite.nl
>
> More information:
> http://freeculture.info
>
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