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dublab & Creative Commons Launch "Into Infinity"
Ready-to-Remix Art and Music Exhibit Online Now; Physical
Installations to Follow

San Francisco, CA, USA and Los Angeles, CA, USA — August 26, 2008

Today, dublab and Creative Commons announced the launch of Into
Infinity, an art and music exhibit jointly produced by the two
nonprofit organizations. The online version of the exhibit is online
now at http://intoinfinity.org/; physical installations are being
planned for Winter 2008 and throughout 2009.

Into Infinity comprises a collection of ready-to-remix 12-inch
circular artworks and 8-second music loops created by a vast array of
artists from around the world. Contributors include world-renowned
graffiti artist Kofie, 2008 Whitney Biennial alumni Lucky Dragons,
Anticon collective member Odd Nosdam, and electronic musicians Flying
Lotus and DNTEL (AKA Jimmy Tamborello of The Postal Service). New
submissions will be added to the exhibit regularly.

All of Into Infinity's works are available for download under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial copyright license. This
license gives the public the legal right to share, remix, and reuse
all of the pieces of Into Infinity for noncommercial purposes. For the
full terms of this Creative Commons license, visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/.

Into Infinity's producers invite people to download the exhibit's
works and use them as source material for their own creations.

"Into Infinity is all about embracing the infinite possibilities of
art and music," says Mark McNeill, dublab's founder. "These works are
available to everyone in the world to reshape, remix, and redesign as
many times over as possible. We can't wait to see all of the creative
ways people use them."

"Sampling, remixing, and repurposing other people's work has resulted
in some of the greatest art of our times," says Eric Steuer, Creative
Commons' creative director. "With this project, we want to make the
statement that this sort of creativity should not only be legal, but
also explicitly encouraged."

Into Infinity's producers add that new works made from assets offered
online will be eligible for submission to the exhibit.

"As the show regenerates and expands, we'll incorporate the best
remixes into the show for display online and in our real-world
exhibitions," says McNeill.


About dublab

dublab is a nonprofit creative collective devoted to the growth of
positive music, arts, and culture. At the core of the organization's
operations is a web radio station that broadcasts several streams of
dublab's signature "future roots" music. dublab has been broadcasting
online since 1999 and now reaches more than 300,000 international
listeners monthly. dublab's creative actions include art exhibits,
film projects, event production, and record releases.  Into Infinity
follows along the vibrant conceptual curve of dublab's previous art
projects: Up Our Sleeve, The Dream Scene, and Patchwork. Information
about all of these projects is available at
http://dublab.com/artaction.

About Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001,
that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works,
whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright
licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and
educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms
that build upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional
copyright to enable a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach.
Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous
support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain,
Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative
Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.

Contact

Eric Steuer
Creative Director, Creative Commons
eric AT creativecommons.org

Mark McNeill
Founder, dublab
frosty AT dublab.com

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