On 03/04/11 09:17, Aymeric Mansoux wrote: > > @rob: "Open Source culture / Free Culture tends to get mixed up with > appropriation art, collaborative art and other ideas". Can you point to > a text that develop this specifically,
Well there's my essay at the end of FLOSS+Art, the expanded "Open Source Art Again". :-) > or maybe elaborate a bit? I mean it in two senses: Firstly, artists tend to use philosophical and political ideas more as inspiration or metaphors than as rigorous and binding definitions. If an artist says that they're working in an Open Source way or they are inspired by Free Software, they may just be intending to collaborate with people or appropriate work in ways that don't fit the Open Source Definition or the Free Software Definition. So in this way the ideas tend to get mixed up as they are not used accurately, and so their meaning drifts into other areas. There's nothing wrong with that, artists must be free to work creatively with concepts. It can be frustrating when people are *almost* there but are using a non-free licence or saying that they are sharing or freeing work when they are obviously not, though. Secondly, artists who are interested in Open Source or Free Culture tend to be also interested in more general ideas of collaboration, appropriation, and free speech. When they talk or write about what Free and Open culture mean to them, they tend to also talk about appropriation, collaboration, anti-censorship and other vitally important ideas. So in this way the ideas tend to get mixed up as people have wider interests and don't single out Free and Open culture as a single topic of discussion. There's nothing wrong with that, indeed to promote Free Culture it would be very silly to limit ourselves to copyright and licencing issues. Those are important, more so than people generally realise, but chilling effects on free speech come from many more sources. - Rob.
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