hi Rob,
>If more and more artists could turn to Free Software strategies, that
is to a
language of rights and freedoms rather than to the fetishisation of
downstream
economic effects of those rights and freedoms, we might get somewhere.
Good point, I suppose if applied to life and not just as product or
tech-based desire; with more socially related experiences and mutually
shared experiences that are more self-initiated rather than just
technology as a means to an end, or authoritarian structures. With the
individual or group claiming agency by using strategies to help
themselves and others out in this tough world.
I think that to go too far in any one direction smacks of absolutism, in
the singular sense. Sometimes a pragmatist approach, regardinguse of
software can be rewarding for those whomreceive the benefits, whether
culturally or engaged in the artwork itself...
marc
> ? Why are more and more artists turning to open source strategies?
The phrase "Open Source" is a deliberately meaningless term. Time and
again I
see artists decide that Open Source is 1337 cool and they want to apply Open
Source principles to their work. They then spend ages trying to work out
what
Open Source principles are.
The lucky ones get fed up at this point. The unlucky ones discover Eric
Raymond
and decide that Open Source is a more efficient means of production.
Which is
an empty and exploitative "set of principles" on which to base art, unless
you're going to ironise it. They then spend some more time trying to
understand
how they can apply this to their work. The lucky ones decide that they
cannot,
and get on with their art while volunteering for community projects
where they
can help out. The unlucky ones try to keep their authorial oversight while
getting some of that Open Source secret sauce, and end up as robber barons
creating toy "Open" projects that read much better in conference notes than
they look to the free labour that doesn't get to share in the value.
If more and more artists could turn to Free Software strategies, that is
to a
language of rights and freedoms rather than to the fetishisation of
downstream
economic effects of those rights and freedoms, we might get somewhere.
- Rob.
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