| Open Congress: Creativity and the public domain
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Graph from the CIA Open Source Notification System http://cia.navi.cx With thanks to Micah Dowty
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Date: October 7 + 8 2005
Duration: 2 days x 6 hours
Venue: Tate Britain
The extraordinary development of Free and
Open Source Software – software that anyone is free
to use, modify and redistribute – has revitalized wider
interest in collaborative creativity, the public domain
and the ‘openness’ of public institutions.
Structured around three ecologies: Governance, Creativity and Knowledge,
this innovative Congress explored, through
its structure and content, how Open Source inspired methods
may transform art and its institutions – by challenging
conventional practices of authorship, ownership and distribution.
An array of international and UK participants
– artists, theorists, academics and activists –
shaped Open Congress through presentations, discussion,
workshops and events.
Initiated by Critical Practice in collaboration with Chelsea College of Art and Design, NODE.London Season of Media Arts, Wireless London, Mute and Tate.
Due to many simultaneous sessions and a range of presentation
contexts, Online Events were unable to stream all of the contributions
live. A selection of presentations, workshops and discussions have
been post-produced and are available as archives below. The level and quality
of audio does vary between sessions, due to acoustics,
amplification and electronic interference.
For sessions not archived here, please see The Open Congress wiki for further documentation.
| Friday |
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| Neil Cummings
(Auditorium) 10min |
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| Introduction to Open Congress |
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| Tiziana Terranova (Auditorium) 20min |
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| Self-organization and knowledge: the translation of open practices |
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| McKenzie Wark
Author of 'A Hacker Manifesto' (Auditorium) 55min |
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| Knowledge hacking and 'Class' |
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| Simon Yuill
(Duffield Room - Knowledge) 50min |
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| Extreme programming practice |
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| Armin Medosch
with Shu lea Cheang (Art Room - Creativity) 1hr |
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| Open practice workshop |
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| Simon Pope
(Art Room - Creativity) 20min |
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| Private View: Particpation and broadcast |
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| Jamie King Mute Magazine
(Duffield Room - Knowledge) 40min |
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| The language of open source |
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| Ilze Black
(Duffield Room - Knowledge) 20min |
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| Open curatorial practices |
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| Trebor Scholz The Institute of Distributed Creativity
(Auditorium) 1hr 20min |
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| Artistic practices and distributed knowledge sharing |
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| Johanna Gibson
(Art Room - Creativity) 50min |
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| Copyright and licensing infrastructures / value and branding |
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| Felix Stalder
(Duffield Room - Knowledge) 50min |
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| Is open source a good model for cultural production? - form and function |
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| The Libre Society
(Foyer - Governance) 50min |
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| Debating the commons |
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| Christian Ahlert
Open Business (Foyer - Governance) 50min |
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| Open business models and free content |
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| Kelli Dipple
(Duffield Room - Knowledge) 30min |
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| Hybrid distribution models and the archive |
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| General Discussion
with all participants (Auditorium) 35min |
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| Overview with Congress organisers Neil Cummings, Ian Drysdale, Mary Anne Francis, and Corrado Morgana, Congress facilitators, and all participants. |
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| Licensing |
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All contributions have been made to Open Congress, under an Attribution-Non-Commercial Share-Alike 2.0 (UK - England and Wales) Creative Commons Licence. As licenced via a contributors agreement with the original author.
Terms of the Licence: You are free to copy and distribute the work in conjunction with this licence. You must give the original author credit. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. See here for further information on Creative Commons.
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Sound archives
| Common Ground _ Online Forum |
Online Events hosted a forum discussion in conjunction with Open Congress
on the topic of property, knowledge and value, under the titled of Common Ground - collective practice and shared knowledge.
The Common Ground forum discussion was live September 26 - October 21 2005, including contributions from both invited guests and online audiences.
Common Ground _ collective practice & shared knowledge
Reviewing intellectual property in light of a variety of cultural relationships to notions of property, collaboration, and circulation. Reflecting on case studies which elucidate both traditional indigenous and contemporary media practices, that are innately shared, distributed, time-based, seasonal or nomadic concepts. Considering the value of aural histories, performative and media practices; which embody themselves in both private and collective knowledge/s.
This 4 week panel discussion was moderated by Danny Butt - Independent Consultant and Researcher in Culture and Technology. The panel will include contributions by Dr. Jane Anderson - Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, the Raqs Media Collective: Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta - Artists and Co-founders of The Sarai Media Lab in Delhi, Cheryl L'Hirondelle - net.artist, performance artist and storyteller, Florian Cramer - Writer and one of the working group for runme.org repository for Software Art and Yuwei Lin - Sociologist and Research Fellow based at the Department of Information Systems, Marketing and Logistics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
| NODE.London Further Documentation |
Open Congress was part of a consortium of events that happened across London in October 2005. The consortium was co-ordinated under the umbrella of NODE.London
Season of Media Arts, who have produced and are distributing, a print on demand publication documenting all three events. For further information on Node.London and the consortium publication see the nodel.org website.
Supported by Arts Council England
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