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This is forwarded from Jon Ippolito, apologies for delay. Begin forwarded message: > From: Jon Ippolito <[log in to unmask]> > Date: 27 April 2008 00:22:29 BST > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Which came first, open source or open art? > > Hi all, > > I agree with Armin that the relationship between open software and art > goes way back: > > "Computers are bringing about a situation that's like the invention of > harmony. Subroutines are like chords. No one would think of keeping a > chord to himself. You'd give it to anyone who wanted it. You'd welcome > alterations of it. Subroutines > are altered by a single punch. We're getting music made by man > himself, not just one man." > > John Cage said this in 1969--14 years before Richard Stallman founded > the Gnu project and 29 years before the term "open source" was coined. > > My self-conscious engagement with open art began in 2000 with the > development of the Open Art Network, a predecessor of Creative Commons > that looked at a different set of freedoms (notably access to source > media). The site offered the code > underlying projects by artists like Alex Galloway, Mark Napier, jodi, > and others as a free download: > > http://three.org/openart/ > > From 2002 to the present I've been co-developing The Pool, an online > architecture for sharing art and code, with collaborators John Bell, > Joline Blais, Matt James, Justin Russell, and Jerome Knope. The Pool > tracks the evolution of projects submitted > by its members as they rise or fall according to reviews by other > users. It currently tracks 600 projects rated according to over 2000 > reviews, and offers contributors a wide variety of open licensing > terms: > > http://pool.newmedia.umaine.edu/ > > Some years back when The Pool was in beta, Margaretha Haughwout > published a study of patterns in Pool users of adoption and resistance > to open licensing of creative works: > > http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_4/haughwout/ > > Up to now The Pool has been available only to students at the > University of Maine and UC-Berkeley, but we are planning to open the > project to other universities soon; please email me if you would like > to dive in with a free account. > > Cheers! > > jon > ______________________________ > Still Water--what networks need to thrive. > http://newmedia.umaine.edu/stillwater/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland Ashburne House, Ryhope Road Sunderland SR2 7EE Tel: +44 191 515 2896 [log in to unmask] CRUMB web resource for new media art curators http://www.crumbweb.org