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twhid (8)
New York City, United States


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member since:   13/6/2007
birth date:   01/1/1970
Aim/Yahoo/Msn/ICG/Gtalk:   AIM - twh1d
Website:   http://mtaa.net
languages:   English
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  articles · Hip to be CC-ed
by Alek Tarkowski · voted on 16/8/2007 22:12 · 30 votes · no comments

A friend of mine sent me a link to a message about copyright infringement involving Creative Commons (CC) licences at Buzznet, a community website that allows photo, video and text sharing.

"Buzznet.com - serious theft, beware," writes kmye-chan, a French graphic artist who found her works copied without permission by Buzznet's users. Kmye-chan is angered, not just by people...

articles · Art Intercom: Featuring Cao Fei
by Paddy Johnson · voted on 3/8/2007 11:05 · 19 votes · 2 comments

A veteran documentarian at only 29, artist Cao Fei continuously blends the line between fantasy and the real. iMirror, her recent video series exploring this idea, shown at icommons and the Venice Biennial records her experience as the avatar China Tracy in Second Life, (a virtual world built and maintained by its users) and reveals the effect of the immersive environment on the...

   
 
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  articles · Why don't artists use open source software?
by Karen · commented on 21/6/2007 23:10 · 48 votes · 8 comments

By Karen Rustad and Nelson Pavlosky

The topic of the Saturday noon peer production stream session was "Why don't artists use open source software?" However, as was quickly established by the panel, there was also an important companion question: "Why don't developers make free art?"

Artists feel pressured to use open software for ideological reasons, but when they try it typically...

articles · Defining Moments at the Artist in Residence Panel
by Paddy Johnson · commented on 20/6/2007 00:04 · 2 comments

Frankly, with a title like “Building Sustainability for Peer Produced Free Culture” I was surprised that anyone at showed up to the Artist in Residence panel discussion yesterday afternoon. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like we were packing any rooms, but we did manage to solicit the interest of at least 15 icommoners, which was more than I had thought would show. Fine Artists...

   
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