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

Fri Nov 29 11:29:28 UTC 2013

Thanks for the kind words Kat! We'll be recording everything. A
documentary, as well as the whole evening Copyright Fairytale will be
released sometimes early next year.

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Kat Braybrooke said :
> ...."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:
> 
> > Sorry for ><, please >>
> >
> > ///
> >
> > FREE?!
> > A One-day Journey into the Cultures of Sharing
> > Rotterdam, The Netherlands
> > Het Nieuwe Instituut
> > 29th November 2013
> > 13:00-00:00
> >
> > ///
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ///
> >
> > 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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