The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

In an interesting comment on Scienceblogs.com, Claire L. Evans writes: In his seminal 1991 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction,” the video artistDouglas Davis writes that digital bits “can be endlessly reproduced, without degradation, always the same, always perfect.” Digital Decay from universe on Vimeo. The statement follows the above video […]

The sharing economy as faciliated by Uniiverse // #commons

Uniiverse is a new portal devoted to harnessing the vast resources of unused commodities in each of our homes by linking people together to share these commodities either for free or for self-determined fees. Quite interesting idea, which – if the crew behind the site can manage to get enough people on board – could […]

Everything Is A Remix pt. 4 // #sharing #copyright #ip

The brilliant Everything Is A Remix-documentary series by New York-based filmmaker Kirby Ferguson has reached it’s fourth chapter, which carries the headline “System Failure” – and as usual it is highly worth a watch. One of the highlight quote goes: “Our system of law doesn’t acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded […]

The future of money // #futureofmoney

The emerging awareness that the way we today assess value – that is, through monetization – is becoming increasingly problematic is something that is incredibly interesting, I think. The below video (written by Gabriel Shalom, Venessa Miemis and Jay Cousins), uploaded to vimeo by Berlin studio KS12 and posted with a nice article on sharable.net […]

“Dead Drops” – an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space #art_activism #newyork #fatlabs

FAT Labs’ Aram Bartholl has launched a new inspiring project. He writes: ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in […]

FSCONS conference in Sweden this weekend // #freesoftware #freeculture

This forthcoming weekend is the time for this year’s FSCONS conference (Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit), the biggest annual Scandinavian gathering around free culture, free software and free society. Speakers include Erik de Bruijn, Glyn Moody, Alessandro Rubini and Karin Kosina – and usually attracts an audience of close to 300 people for the […]

Support and sign the ACTA-declaration from EFF! #eff #acta

I do not normally endorse causes with so little subtlety as in the headline above, but in this case I urge everyone to sign the petition to support the ACTA-declaration by EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Read why here (please do!) and sign here.

Big Content’s war on democracy / #acta

We’ve probably all been following the ACTA-case with our breath held back to some extent (if you haven’t really been paying close attention, check out this great video – it’s 40 minutes, but really worth it). In this post I will not deal with the ACTA details themselves, but rather point the attention towards one […]

Danish activists demand to know why their governments block ACTA transparency

My friend Henrik (@moltke) was on Danish national tv a couple of days ago (see video below) to talk about the major concern of open Internet proponent communities across the globe towards the closed nature of the ACTA (Anti-Countergeiting Trade Agreement) negotiations taking place right now – a measure lead by among other the Danish […]

Spanish activists issue manifesto on the rights of Internet users

Triggered by the huge debate about ao. the so-called three strikes legislation in Europe, Spanish web activists lead by Javier “Barrapunto” Candeira have formulated a manifesto that express the fundamental rights of Internet users and the principles of net neutrality that so many citizens and non-profit advocacy groups across the globe are fighting to preserve […]