Artists, activismand digital opennessNotes towards a methodology of teaching and promoting the use of

the collaborative web, FOSS and standards, applied to artistic, cultural and third sector promotion

by Jose Serralde(Mexico)

Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference. Barcelona, 2008

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MEPART(Teaching artists on web best practices

free software and digital openness since 2006)

The first workshop

· Public institution promoted.

· No emphasise on free software, free culture @ its promotional campaign.

1. Numeric systems and transmission of culture (computer history)

2. Art forms and digital respresentation

3. Media creation and Internet standards (best practices)

creationproduction

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we selected

transmissionfree software + standards

can't help much elsewhere now

1. Numeric systems and transmission of culture (computer history)

2. Art forms and digital respresentation

3. Media creation and Internet standards (best practices)

casestudies

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(coming soon: the story behind the failure of a project)

festivalsmuseums

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The FLOSS Campaign @ the Festival Internacional Cervantino

+ FLOSS =promotional

nodes

questionariesopen licences

artists were (more open | careless) than I expected

s/inaertia//g¿how?

proprietarysoftware / formats

interrupt the flow of cultural objects

forgetweb2.0> rm 'cultural_promotion'; rm 'marketing_buzzwords'

> touch 'web_best_practices'; touch 'knowledge_network'> touch 'metadata_at_artistic_audiovisual_files'> touch 'artforms_as_nodes_of_the_knowledge_network'

art + culturepromotes

itself@networks

THANK'S

(CC) AT 2.5 - José María Serralde Ruiz, ver. 1.2contact@joseserralde.org