Creating in a Commons, plus: new opportunities
In this email: our new episode, plus: artist opportunities...
Creating in a Commons: Conversations with Creative Commons and Disquiet Junto
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In our latest episode we're joined by Kat Walsh from Creative Commons to talk about the history of Creative Commons as a 'hack on copyright.' Then Marc Weidenbaum speaks on the history of the Disquiet Junto, a long-running online distributed community creating new music in response to a weekly online composition challenge.
In this season of the podcast we’re working with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU Law. In addition to our usual crop of artists and programmers we’re adding in legal scholars to help us unpack some of the thorny issues for those working in art and code as they unleash their work into the world. We’ll also talk to communities aiming to alter the context of how their cultural work is presented. Who can remix? What does the law have to do with cultural appropriation? How are artists hacking copyright? Those are a few of the area we’ll get into.
In this episode we dive into the world of Creative Commons, which is now over 20 years old. It is both an organization as well as a collection of copyright licenses used by artists, musicians, writers, directors and creators worldwide to communicate to the world how they want their work shared and potentially to be used as a source to build upon.
Marc Weidenbaum is founder and steward of the Disquiet Junto, an online “community of practice.” Each week Marc sends out an email newsletter with a creative prompt, consisting of a title, and instructions. These instructions may read like a Fluxus event score, a recipe in sound, a concept or technical description. Those who choose to participate create a single piece of music, then post it online, to be shared, listened to and potentially discussed by the online community. Marc has been leading Disquiet Junto since 2012, and from the beginning has encouraged participants to share their work with Creative Commons licenses. In fact the creative re-use of Creative Commons licensed sound and music has often been an integral part of Disquiet Junto creative prompts.
You can find more episodes, full transcripts, and links to find out about our guests and topics on our website artistsandhackers.org You can find us on instagram at artistandhackers, twitter at artistshacking (though we're really trying to wind down there!), and mastodon (our fave) at artistsandhackers at post.lurk.org You can always write to us on our website, and please leave us feedback wherever you get your podcast.
Opportunities
AMRO24 – Dancing at the Crossroads
8th-11th May 2024, Linz (AT)
We are looking for experimental, critical approaches to the uses of technology; combining performative and artistic research methods; and works open for feedback and further development.
Formats: Lectures or Panels, Workshops, Artwork presentations & Showcases, Video works, Performances
DEADLINE: 23rd February 2024, 20:24 CET EXTENDED TO Friday, March 1st, 20:00 CET
Declarations - Call for web-artisans and declarative artists - 1st-5pth April 2024, Belgium
An open call for a worksession in Bruxelles of 5 days. Together we'll tell web stories and experiment with declarative design. Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard.
Deadline: February 29th
Creative Commons - An Invitation for Creators, Activists, and Stewards of the Open Movement
Between 13 February and 15 March, Open Future will host an asynchronous, virtual alignment assembly for the open movement to explore principles and considerations for regulating generative AI. We hope to reach participants spread across different fields of open and coming from different regions of the world.
Have an idea for an episode, or a response to anything we've covered? Want to let us know of artist opportunities that our community may be interested in? Drop us a line.
Thanks for listening.
