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From	pinna <pinna@autistici.org>
Date	Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:08:24 +0100
Subject	[hackmeeting] Fw: [cc-eyebeam] Welcome to Distributed Creativity

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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:34:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Joline_Blais@umit.maine.edu
To: cc-eyebeam@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [cc-eyebeam] Welcome to Distributed Creativity



Welcome to Distributed Creativity, a critical 
online forum co-organized by Still Water at 
UMaine and Eyebeam.

What do we mean by Distributed Creativity? In 
a word, creative practices and communities 
that challenge the single-artist, art-object 
paradigm. This is already happening all 
around us. Artists are organizing impromptu 
street actions by mobile phone, musicians are 
repurposing peer-to-peer applications for 
artistic ends, and programmers are 
distributing electronic toolkits to help 
artists leap from code to creation. 

Our task is to reflect on new paradigms 
for art making that take advantage of mobile 
and distributed technologies such as WiFi, 
Weblogs, Wikis, rich Internet applications, 
voice over IP and social software. With the 
support of our forum co-hosts Creative 
Commons, DATA, Fibreculture and Rhizome, we 
will be discussing the dynamics of this new 
kind of work that is both creative and 
distributed.

Each week, we’ll examine creative and 
distributed work that relies on legal, 
technical, ethical, authorial, or commercial 
innovations. We’ll ask how these innovations 
support “distributed creativity” and what 
they mean to our increasingly outmoded 
definitions of what constitutes art. And 
we’ll ask what implications these new ways of 
working have not only within, but also 
outside, the art worlds—both traditional and 
digital.


This week, November 12-19, the topic is:
 
<b>Copyleft, Right & Center: Innovations in 
Law</b>

w/ Creative Commons.

You can find more information about this, and 
later weeks at: <!-- @@a href="http://
cordova.asap.um.maine.edu/~blaisj/phpwiki/
index.php/
Distributed%20Creativity%20Wik"-->Distributed 
Creativity Wiki<!--
@@/a-->

I’d like to welcome our moderators for this 
week—Lawrence Lessig, Glenn Otis Brown, Neeru 
Paharia —, who will have some questions of 
their own, but in the meantime, I'd like to 
get the conversation going with this opening:

In a media landscape increasingly dominated 
by corporate monopolies, 
some netizens have abandoned hope that the 
legal system will support 
the commons of ideas and culture that gave 
rise to the early Internet. 

Instead they propose a distributed approach 
to legal innovation: open 
licenses, tools for community activism, and 
consciousness-raising exhibitions. 

Will these innovations suffice to ensure a 
creative commons for current and emerging 
culture? 

Joline Blais
Asst Prof New Media, UMaine
Co-Director, Still Water for network art and 
culture
<!-- @@a href="newmedia.umaine.edu/
stillwater"-->newmedia.umaine.edu/stillwater<!-- @@/
a-->
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This discussion runs 2003 November 12-19.  Submissions are licensed
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