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ARS ELECTRONICA 08
ARS ELECTRONICA | Festival for Art, Technology and Society | Linz, Austria
Under the banner of “A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY – The Limits of Intellectual Property”, the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival discussed the impact of a knowledge-based society. Since the Internet went global, structures that regulate and govern societies have radically changed. The festival dissects what’s at stake - “the interplay of freedom of information and copyright protection, big profit-making opportunities and the vision of an open knowledge-based society; and practical, workable regulations governing this new reality, rules whose formulation ought not to be left up to lawyers and MBAs alone”.
(From http://90.146.8.18/en/festival2008/)
The buzz surrounding the 2008 festival was a little lacking throughout the city. With the opening of the new Ars Centre in 2009, it seemed 2008 was a low key affair. However, the symposium curated by Joichi Ito - Activist, Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, was inspiring…
“Joichi Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization which provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. He is co-founder of and board member of Digital Garage in Japan. He is on the board of a number of non-profit organizations including WITNESS, The Mozilla Foundation and Global Voices. He has helped start or has been an angel investor in a number of Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Infoseek Japan, Flickr, Last.fm, Technorati, Six Apart, Dopplr,Twitter, Socialtext, Kongregate and Rupture.”
(From http://bit.ly/IdGKA)
We’re recommending the presentations we found most inspiring. Webcasts and podcasts are available from the Ars Electronica website:
Welcome and Introduction by Joichi Ito
Dicusses the radical shift in structure from cottage industry to the firm. How will society manage this shift?
Yochai Benkler
Discusses the shape of industry in more detail and looks at the shift in social action from the periphery to the core.
Ronaldo Lemos
Talks passionately about the shift in the music industry and discusses some particularly interesting open systems.
James Boyle
Discusses the tension between open and closed systems, and the inherent fear but boundless possibilities of the open system.
Elizabeth Stark
Introduces http://freeculture.org/ enabling people to access, share and re-work culture. Stark discusses the fight against DRM and YouTomb.
