Festival of Free Culture No 2 Creative Commons Salon (7th - 10th of March 2008) http://creativecommons.org.yu http://slobodnakultura.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The first local Creative Commons Salon will consist of series of talks about intellectual property and the politics of ownership and distribution within the context of contemporary production of "content", and will present current local production relevant for the topic. Guests from Brazil, Sweden and Croatia will share experiences and opinions connected with their own activistic approach towards the issues. This time we focus more on popular "content" such are music, video games and movies. Connected with the recent launch of CC licenses in Serbia, will also present CCBit, first Creative Commons-licensed music CD compilation in Serbia, and Freedom Toaster, a device/interface for individual file-sharing in public spaces. Welcome! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FRIDAY 7th of March, Dom omladine Beograd, Cultural center Rex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18:00 Panel room of Dom omladine Beograd Great album - can you burn it for me? Alternative economies and creative industries Themes of the talks and presentations will be focused towards alternative economies and creative industries in the surroundings outside of legal regulations of intellectual property. Among other topics, we want to present the case of Techno Brega music scene of northern Brazil, Croatian EgoBooBits music label, and to talk about exitfest.org/CC <http://exitfest.org/CC> stage at EXIT festival. We will also present CCBit, our first Creative Commons licensed electronic music CD compilation. participants: Ronaldo Lemos (Brazil, chairman of the board of iCommons International), Marcell Mars (Zagreb, egoboobits.net <http://egoboobits.net>, Mi2.hr <http://Mi2.hr>), Vladan Joler (EXITfest.org, Novi Sad), Edi Bon (CreativeCommons.org.yu <http://CreativeCommons.org.yu>). 20:00 Rex, Jevrejska 16 CCBit Promotion of the first CC licensed CD music compilation. Artists: Mistakemistake, Wolfgang S, Zvukbroda, Mkdsl, Flip, The Good Guys, Tron, Evidence, Shazalakazoo, Shazz, Luka Toyboy, Atomska sarma, Boom Tschak, Margita Je Mrtva, Casper, Diagramm, Proggy & Bass. live: Zvukbroda, Tron, Luka Toyboy Feedback Loop Overview of the recent production published under CC and other open & free licenses. In the framework of a display we present the artworks, printed publications and multimedia content produced by following artists, creative collectives and institutions of culture: Ana Hus(man, Biro Beograd, Dubravka Sekulic', Dejan Grba, KONTEKST galerija, Ivan Bon, Ivan Kucina, kuda.org <http://kuda.org>, Mis(ko S(uvakovic' - MSLU Novi Sad, MSU Beograd, slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>, TKH, Queer Beograd, Vladan Jeremic'. exhibition setup: Ana Knez(evic' i Milica Gudovic'. Most of the content and material presented at Feedback Loop visitors can take away - Freedom Toaster is the device-interface project to serve for individual and independent file exchange in public spaces. Freedom Toaster mashed up by homoludens at slobodnakultura dot org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SATURDAY 8th of March, Gallery of MOCAB, Pariska 14a ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17:00 in collaboration with the Institute for flexible technologies -- NAPON presenting the project Playground @Play Cultures The exhibition Play Cultures is an international exhibition that presents contemporary artistic production that uses the language of digital games and shows one possible view of how the genre of digital games can be used in a creative and engaging way. The curator and the editor of the Play Cultures conference Kristian Lukic' wili talk about the exhibition and accompanying events and discussions related to the positions and questions problematized by this project, with a special focus on the issues of licensing, participation in contemporary gaming and virtual platforms. 18:00 discussion: After copyright Who is curating the archives, who uses the archives, and in how? Do we enter the times in which the politics will be conducted trough the culture of interface and control of meta-data? participants: Rasmus Fleischer, Magnus Eriksson (piratbyran.org <http://piratbyran.org>), Tom Medak, Marcell Mars (mi2.hr <http://mi2.hr>), Ronaldo Lemos (icommons.org <http://icommons.org>). intro: Vlidi (slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUNDAY 9th of March, Panel room of Dom omladine Beograd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18:00 in collaboration with Wikimedia Serbia panel Creative Commons licenses and Wikipedia in Serbian speakers: Nevenka Antic' (Legal Lead, Creative Commons Serbia), Dragan Sataric', Nikola Smolenski (Wikimedia Serbia) The transition of the Wikipedia project to Creative Commons licenses on the global and local level. Presentations of the less known Wikimedia projects: Wikisource. 21:00 Star Wreck, screening directed and produced by: Timo Vuorensola, Samuli Torssonen and 300 of volunteers and collaborators Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a science-fiction parody, a result of collaborative work of the small Finnish team and more of 300 of fans, assistants, volunteers and collaborators worldwide. This is the first projection of Star Wreck in Serbia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MONDAY 10th of March, CK13, Vojvode Bojovic'a 13, Novi Sad ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19:00 in the collaboration with cultural center CK13 presentation and discussion Piratbyran and Pirate Bay - activsm and service economy Is theory today irrelevant if not offering it's own models of the ideas it contemplates, applied in material practice? On the history of the organization Piratbyran and the project of PirateBay.org. Is hyper-production of activistic initiatives presents a step further towards the economy of content and services? Self-organization as the model of organizing collectives and societies... participants: Rasmus Fleischer, Magnus Eriksson (piratbyran.org <http://piratbyran.org>), Milica Gudovic', Vladan Jeremic', Vlidi (slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the events are free of charge and open for the public. Welcome! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MORE DETAILS ON THE PROGRAM: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Festival of Free Culture No 2 Creative Commons Salon (7th - 10th of March 2008) http://creativecommons.org.yu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FRIDAY 7th of March, Dom omladine Beograd, Cultural center Rex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18:00 Panel room of Dom omladine Beograd http://www.domomladine.org/?hl=en_US Great album - can you burn it for me? Alternative economies and creative industries participants: Ronaldo Lemos (Brazil, chairman of the board of iCommons International), Marcell Mars (Zagreb, egoboobits.net <http://egoboobits.net>, Mi2.hr <http://Mi2.hr>), Vladan Joler (EXITfest.org, Novi Sad), Edi Bon (CreativeCommons.org.yu <http://CreativeCommons.org.yu>). A talk by the special guest of Creative Commons Serbia, Ronaldo Lemos da Silva Junior, the representative of iCommons.org, the international organization led by the vision to develop a unite global cultural front for production and distribution of common goods within the fields of culture and science, trough the collaboration with communities which support open content approach, the right to access to knowledge, free software, open approach towards education and free culture. Themes of the talks and presentations will be focused towards alternative economies and creative industries in the surroundings outside of legal regulations of intellectual property. Among other topics, we want to present the case of Techno Brega music scene of northern Brazil, Croatian EgoBooBits music label, and to talk about exitfest.org/CC <http://exitfest.org/CC> stage at EXIT festival. We will also present CCBit, our first Creative Commons licensed electronic music CD compilation. <language of the presentations: local, english> 20:00 Rex, Jevrejska 16 http://www.rex.b92.net CCBit http://creativecommons.org.yu/lounge/CCBit http://indietronic.org Promotion of the first CC licensed CD music compilation. Artists: Mistakemistake, Wolfgang S, Zvukbroda, Mkdsl, Flip, The Good Guys, Tron, Evidence, Shazalakazoo, Shazz, Luka Toyboy, Atomska sarma, Boom Tschak, Margita Je Mrtva, Casper, Diagramm, Proggy & Bass. live: Zvuk broda, Tron, Luka Toyboy Feedback Loop Overview of the recent production published under CC and other open & free licenses. Feedback Loop presents different local production published under Creative Commons and other open content licenses, in the new and electronic media as well as in traditional formats such are printed publications or documentary and feature movies. Works presented either deal with the notion of intellectual property and multiple potentials of sharing of artistic and critical content today, or trough the system of the distribution of their choice are establishing a different-then-traditional positions on the issue. Feedback Loop consists of two segments. In the framework of a display we present the artworks, printed publications and multimedia content produced by following artists, creative collectives and institutions of culture: Ana Hus(man, Biro Beograd, Dubravka Sekulic', galerija KONTEKST, Ivan Bon, Ivan Kucina, kuda.org <http://kuda.org>, Mis(ko S(uvakovic' - MSLU Novi Sad, MSU Beograd, slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>, TKH, Queer Beograd, Vladan Jeremic'. exhibition setup: Ana Knez(evic' i Milica Gudovic'. Most of the content and material presented at Feedback Loop visitors can take away - Freedom Toaster is the device-interface project to serve for individual and independent file exchange in public spaces. Freedom Toaster mashed up by homoludens at slobodnakultura dot org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SATURDAY 8th of March, Gallery of MOCAB, Pariska 14a ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17:00 in collaboration with the Institute for flexible technologies -- NAPON http://napon.org presenting the project Playground @Play Cultures http://napon.org/content/view/17/9 The exhibition Play Cultures is an international exhibition that presents contemporary artistic production that uses the language of digital games and shows one possible view of how the genre of digital games can be used in a creative and engaging way. The exhibition consists of standalone games, mods, video works, multiplayer games and interactive storytelling. The curator and the editor of the Play Cultures conference Kristian Lukic' wili talk about the exhibition and accompanying events and discussions related to the positions and questions problematized by this project, with a special focus on the issues of licensing, participation in contemporary gaming and virtual platforms. What is the position of the class of "gamers" in today's culture and society? Could game culture be used for emancipatory purposes and education? Is the militarization of game culture something that can be deconstructed or does it represent a highly customizable recruitment and ideological tool of the war culture? 18:00 discussion: After copyright Sooner or later, the changes within traditional models of economy and ownership are inevitable. What will happen with billions of texts, images, music and video on offer? How all this material will be organized, and how we are going to navigate trough it? Who is curating the archives, who uses the archives, and in how? Do we enter the times in which the politics will be conducted trough the culture of interface and control of meta-data? participants: Rasmus Fleischer, Magnus Eriksson (piratbyran.org <http://piratbyran.org>), Tom Medak, Marcell Mars (mi2.hr <http://mi2.hr>), Ronaldo Lemos (icommons.org <http://icommons.org>). intro: Vlidi (slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>) <language of the discussion: english> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUNDAY 9th of March, Panel room of Dom omladine Beograd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18:00 in collaboration with Wikimedia Serbia panel Creative Commons licenses and Wikipedia in Serbian speakers: Nevenka Antic' (Legal Lead, Creative Commons Serbia), Dragan Sataric', Nikola Smolenski (Wikimedia Serbia) Which licenses are being used for Wikimedia projects, and why? The transition of the Wikipedia project to Creative Commons licenses on the global and local level. Presentations of the less known Wikimedia projects: Wikisource - what it is the purpose of Wikisource, how it works, the history of Wikisource ... And, ofcourse, the issues of licensing on Wikisource. <language of the panel: serbian> 21:00 Star Wreck, screening http://www.starwreck.com directed and produced by: Timo Vuorensola, Samuli Torssonen and 300 of volunteers and collaborators Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a science-fiction parody, a result of collaborative work of the small Finnish team and more of 300 of fans, assistants, volunteers and collaborators worldwide. The driving force behind this demanding production was the enthusiasm of this group of SF fans, especially their love and respect towards the Star Treck series. The work on this full-featured movie full of stunning special effects lasted for almost 7 years. This is the first projection of Star Wreck in Serbia. <film is in english and klingon. no subtitles :-) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MONDAY 10th of March, CK13, Vojvode Bojovic'a 13, Novi Sad ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19:00 in the collaboration with cultural center CK13 http://ck13.org presentation and discussion Piratbyran and Pirate Bay - activsm and service economy Is realaktivism the realpolitik of the present? Is theory today irrelevant if not offering it's own models of the ideas it contemplates, applied in material practice? But does activism turns to real-activism, and is there an ideology blurred by particular and fragmented short-term goals of myriad of activistic initiatives? On the history of the organization Piratbyran and the project of PirateBay.org. Is hyper-production of activistic initiatives presents a step further towards the economy of content and services? Self-organization as the model of organizing collectives and societies... participants: Rasmus Fleischer, Magnus Eriksson (piratbyran.org <http://piratbyran.org>), Milica Gudovic', Vladan Jeremic', Vlidi (slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>) <language of the discussion: english> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ this is a joint project by: Creative Commons Serbia, slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>, Bureau for culture and communication, Dom omladine Belgrade, Cultural center Rex, NAPON.org, Wikimedia Serbia, CK13.org, indietronic.org <http://indietronic.org> support: Fund for an Open Society ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Play Cultures: Artist: AES + F (RU), Afkar Media (SY), Alon Tzarafi (IL), Fiambrera (ES), Gonzalo Frasca (UY), Jodi (BE, NL), Molleindustria (IT), Personal Cinema (GR), Persuasive Games (US), Robert Praxmarer (AT), Serious Games Interactive (DK), Tale of Tales (BE), Vladan Joler (RS), Vladimir Todorovic' (RS, SG), Urtica (RS) Production Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies - NAPON www.napon.org <http://www.napon.org> Coproduction Musem of Contemporary Art Vojvodina www.msuv.org <http://www.msuv.org> New Media Center_kuda.org www.kuda.org <http://www.kuda.org> Patron: Executive Council of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina Sponsors: Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade, BS Procesor, Neobee.net <http://Neobee.net>, Fund for an Open Society Belgrade, MagicBoxMultimedia, Student Cultural Center <enditem>