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


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://
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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
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