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Online Event Duration: 2 days x 6 hours
Venue: Tate Britain
This event has now been archived
in both narrowband 56k and broadband 256k.
Please Note!
Open Congress has multiple simultaneous sessions. Not all aspects will
be webcast live, and there will be breaks in the programme. Notification of breaks
will be indicated by a slide with the time of the next speaker to be webcast. During breaks
you may wish to contribute to the Common Ground online discussion forum or review live aspects on the
Open Congress wiki, by following the navigation below.
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.
This innovative Congress will explore, through
its structure and content, how Open Source inspired methods
can 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 –
will shape Open Congress through presentations, discussion,
workshops and events. The event will be structured around
three ecologies: Governance, Creativity and Knowledge.
Due to many simultaneous presentations, Online Events are unable to stream all of the presentations live. All speakers featured in the auditorium will be webcast. Additional aspects of the congress will be post-produced and uploaded in conjunction with the webcast archives.
Please see the programme schedule on the Open Congress wiki for up to date information.
Friday Webcast Schedule:
- Tiziana Terranova 11.30 - 12.30
- Cyber Salon - Lewis Stokes 15.30 - 16.00
- McKenzie Wark 16.00 - 17.00
* We apologise for difficulties experienced during Friday's 11.30 - 12.30 presentation. The streaming server had a fatal collapse and temporarily
disabled the stream. The session was archived locally and will be available within two weeks with the rest of the archived presentations. The issue appears to have been resolved
and the programme will return to normal for the afternoon sessions.
Saturday Webcast Schedule:
- Trebor Sholz 12.00 - 13.00
- Ben White - out of copyright DJ set 15.00 - 15.30
- Loca Records - presentation and DVD 15.30 - 16.00
- General Discussion 16.00 - 17.00
Open Congress will include contributions from: Cory Doctorow - from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demos,
Johanna Gibson, The Libre Society, McKenzie Wark author of 'A Hacker Manifesto'
Trebor Scholz – The Institute of Distributed Creativity, Tony Pruig of Open Organizations,
Bronac Ferran, Richard Barbrook, Ben White with Eileen Simpson, Locarecords,
Kelli Dipple, Monika Ross, Tiziana Terranova, Julian Priest, Constant, Christian Ahlert
– Open Business, Jamie King, Saul Albert, Armin Medosch with Shu lea Cheang,
Paul B Davies, Seeds for Change, Joasia Krysa with Grzesiek Sedek Ilze Black,
Julian Priest, Part Art, Constant, Jennifer Rigby - BBC Creative Archives,
Linda Drew, Felix Stalder, Simon Yuill, Simon Pope, chelsea2005.com, Simon Worthington and
Francis McKee among many others.
Initiated by Critical Practice in collaboration with Chelsea College of Art and Design, NODE.London Season of Media Arts, Wireless London, Mute, Tate and Tate Online.
Online Events are hosting a forum discussion in conjunction with Open Congress
on the topic of property, knowledge and value, as well as a range of live and archived media under
an umbrella season titled, Common Ground.
The Common Ground forum discussion is live September 26 - October 21 2005!
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 will be moderated by Danny Butt - Independent Consultant and Researcher in Culture and Technology. The panel will include contributions by Florian Schneider - Writer, Filmmkaker and Activist, 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.
