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Eduardo Navas - Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling

Springer Vienna Architecture, ISBN: 9783709112625, 230 pages, 2012, English The act of remixing, enabled by the technical possibility of sampling, innate in the structural definition of digital technologies, has a seminal contemporary importance. But despite its ubiquitous use, there are very few books that engage with "remix" as a paradigm, beyond its music composition applications and/or copyright consequences ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:22 AM - Jan 10/2013
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copyright . music . performance

Compro Auri, the time value of listening

Compro Auri, Giuliano Obici, compro_auri.jpg

The debate over the value of intellectual property has been conducted along more or less similar lines since digital file sharing came to the fore in the late 90s. While the industry attempts to equate immaterial products with traditional goods, activists and disobedient consumers struggle to maintain free access to information. A project by Brazilian artist Giuliano Obici proposes a refreshing and radical ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:41 AM - Oct 4/2012
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art . book . copyright . net

Cornelia Sollfrank - Expanded Original

Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775723909, Germany, 2009, English, German
The work of Cornelia Sollfrank is one of the most enlightening attempts to describe the consequences of immateriality in art. She consistently points to the obsolescence of concepts such as "original" and "copyrighted", developing a full spectrum of perspectives. Even if the core of her work comes out of the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:57 PM - Jan 6/2010
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Pirate Kiosk, pirating the Internet in off-line mode

As the availability of copyrighted files online increases exponentially worldwide, artists and hackers are finding ways of distributing and making this data available without intentionally breaking international copyright laws. The "Pirate Kiosk", based at the Sophienstiftsplatz in Weimar, Germany, attempts to make a copy of the famous torrent tracker site, "The ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:52 PM - Sep 29/2009
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activism . copyright . hacking . hacktivism . net

deadSwap, clandestine offline filesharing

deadSwap, Dymitri Kleiner, Telekommunisten, dead_swap.jpg

deadSwap is a clandestine offline filesharing system that uses secret local anonymous SMS gateways to route a USB memory stick among participants. Using independently operated SMS gateways means that the system does not require Internet availability. This also implies, if certain precautions are taken, that the system can be very private and difficult to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:59 AM - Jul 13/2009
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Musopen, building a free classical music library

If there's one intended victim of the decaying copyrighted music game it is classical music. A great amount of classic music should be totally free, because its copyright expired a long time ago, but very few recordings of this kind of music are in the public domain. The founders of Musopen want to achieve the goal of recording and eventually also ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:32 PM - Jun 24/2009
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copyright . hacktivism . media . net . performance

Internet-avgift, a torrent of payments

Internet-avgift, Pirate Bay, internet_avgift.jpg

Pirate Bay owners Gottfrid Svartholm (aka anakata), Peter Sunde (aka brokep), Fredrik Neij (aka TiAMO), and Carl Lundstrom recently were given prison sentences for their roles in running a BitTorrent torrent aggregator that centralises free music, film and software trading. Ordered to pay 30 million Swedish ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:31 PM - Jun 18/2009
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copyright . dvd . hacktivism . media . video

Gomorra fake dvd, Camorra’s piracy

The beginning of December saw the release of the DVD version of the Italian film ‘Gomorrah’, based on the best selling book by Roberto Saviano. This piece of news wouldn't be that extraordinary, if it wasn't for the fact that, if you walked through the centre of Naples several days previously, you could already ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:34 PM - Feb 27/2009
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copyright . music . sound

Love Songs, mashup visualized

Mashup has been one of the innovative techniques to take over the massive pop productions, breaking the borders established by the industry around every song released. "Love Songs" by Chris Han is an online "compilation of songs with 'love' in the title" where the flow of sounds is accompanied by the flow of the sequencing interface. It may seem banal, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:42 PM - Jan 21/2009
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art . copyright . hacktivism . net

P2P Art, making scarcity a thing of the past.

P2P Art, The aesthetics of ephemerality, Anders Weberg, p2p_art.jpg

With the advent of efficient peer-to-peer protocols and applications that support them (such as BitTorrent) becoming a more prevalent means of distributing copyrighted and non-copyrighted content on the Internet, it's not surprising that this phenomenon is spreading into the art world as well. Taking ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:26 PM - Apr 22/2008
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activism . art . copyright

Intellectual Property Donor, let ideas outlive the body

Intellectual Property Donor, ni9e, intellectual_property_donor.jpg

The term "intellectual property" (IP) denotes the specific legal rights which authors, inventors and other IP holders may hold and exercise, not the intellectual work itself. Under the intellectual property laws, the holder of one of these abstract "properties" has certain exclusive rights concerning the creative work, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:36 PM - Mar 17/2008
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Tarleton Gillespie - Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture

book - The MIT Press - ISBN 9780262072823
In a "neutral" more than activist analysis this book tries to outline how the U.S. culture industry lobbyist have tried to build a "trusted system" for their digital contents, generating different bad side effects on their own market. One of the industry postulates (sharing=piracy) is here questioned also in terms of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:45 AM - Jan 11/2008
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Deptford.TV Diaries

Book - OpenMute - ISBN 9780955479601
Public space is a "common" and "common" has to be its representation / interpretation. This seems to be the the inspired ground rule of the Depford.TV unique initiative here extensively documented in a printed book format. At the core there are different implementations and visions of the sharing concept, applied ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:20 AM - Jan 10/2008
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copyright . hacking . hacktivism . media . net

Hackmeeting 2007, ten years nerdcore

There are only a few events (in the range of thousands of participants) completely self-organized and self funded that can boast a decade of yearly editions, all very well attended and never in the same city. It's the Italian Hackmeeting, a unique meeting of hackers at large that is quite different from the US/North Europe based similar meetings. It'll take place in Pisa 28-30 September, in the nth hosting squatted place called Rebeldia and will sport the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:21 PM - Sep 28/2007
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OpenSourceCinema, documentary mash up

Open Source Cinema, Brett Gaylor, open_source_cinema.jpg

Do we really need to mash up films to prove that they are 'open texts'? As Umberto Eco wrote almost fifty years ago: artworks are texts, open to infinite interpretations and re-editions. However digital technologies, and its related copyright debate, have increased the need for open source ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:00 PM - May 23/2007
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copyright . hacktivism . media . net . video

KeepVid, freeing web video from the streaming corporations.

'Broadband' basically was implemented to bring video on the web. The pioneer stamp-sized quicktime shorts and the uncertainty of compression that often corrupted the frames reproduction was suddenly something of the past. YouTube was the successfull repository of choice, winning the bet for the most ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:19 AM - May 18/2007
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art . copyright . hacktivism . media . net . visual

Logo.Hallucination, pattern recognition of hidden logos

After investigating on 'semantic capitalism' and 'taylorisation of speech' with the project 'Google Adwords', Christophe Bruno reflects on the economic dynamics of collective hallucination. According to the French net artist "The Web, specifically in its version 2.0, is an implementation of control ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:45 AM - Mar 19/2007
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Steal This Film: BitTorrent Culture Sharing documentary

Steal This Film, The League of Noble Peers, steal_this_film.jpg

According to Armin Medosch, in an interconnected environment, individuality or expression are neither important. What's important are the new forms of sharing, spreading and planning the digital work. With collective actions this cultural domain progresses in its entirety, because sharing and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:58 AM - Nov 10/2006
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activism . code . copyright . hacking . hacktivism

Hackmeeting 2006: Building a different net

The Italian Hackmeeting is a very special kind of event. It's very different from the other European or American hacker meetings because it's compeltely self organized and decided through a public mailing list. The 8th edition will take place in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:09 AM - Sep 1/2006
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art . copyright . dvd . hacktivism . media

Tester

dvd + dvd rom - Arteleku / Fundacion Rodriguez - ISBN 8479074868
Tester is a network emboding the very meaning of being a cultural network nowadays. Not caring too much about the infrastructure, always dynamic and open, the different members are establishing relationships that interconnect very different backgrounds and locations. The strenght of a network ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:27 PM - Jun 19/2006
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Charade, oral tradition in the electronic era

Imagine that your most precious book is about to be wiped out. Will you be able to memorize a paragraph, a chapter or the whole text? This is the statement in the call for joining Charade, the last effort by Simon Pope (a member of the historical I/O/D ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:30 PM - May 13/2006
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art . book . copyright . magazine . media

Mag.net reader, experiences in Electronic Cultural Publishing

Buy this book!

edited by: Miren Eraso, Alessandro Ludovico, Slavo Krekovic
Arteleku-Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
ISBN 8479075082
The relationships between paper and pixel are really strategic for the publishers, even more if they're among the independent ones, and definitely more if their products deal with the digital culture. Mag.net is just this: a network of five magazines whose slogan ("collaboration is better than ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:25 PM - May 11/2006
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Monolith, copyright hacking

Home taping has always been a common and private practice, almost ignored by copyright because of its domestic attitude. However, with the Internet, home taping has moved into the public realm, becoming victim of copyright defenders who has never stopped investigating since the Napster trial. ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:43 AM - Apr 14/2006
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X Reloaded, Don Chisciotte, (net)art remix

The spanish group Santofile lugs the meme concept in the discourse about the creative potential of digital technologies, being in favor of the content and public sources appropriation. The meme is the cultural factor that transmits itself in time replicating its own data through an imitation process. Some ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:31 PM - Mar 23/2006
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