FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. It provides a view onto the social, political and economic myths and realities linked to this phenomenon.

“Mansoux and de Valk remind us that the software industry no longer sells software: it sells licences. More than that, digital content consumption, once open to the free hack, is now increasingly limited to playback only mode. So, on the one hand, the new media producer is predetermined (from education to work) by the distribution and consumption of corporately defined creative tools. On the other hand, the user festers in the passivity of a range of ‘interactive’ experiences evermore linked to indirect consumption opportunities. FLOSS+Art therefore sets out an alternative vision intended to return production and consumption of digital art back to the values of the free software and open source movements: the principles of free use, free access to source code, and freedom to share, customise and distribute software.

The editors of FLOSS+Art are fully aware of how the corporatisation of software has turned the digital creative into a consumer. Propriety operating systems (Mac and PC), alongside the nurturing of user passions for the latest Adobe version updates, ostensibly monopolise and organise education and workplace environments. As Michael van Schaik’s contribution notes, most creatives seem not to care. Indeed, educators are often complicit in the production of obsessive Flash and Photoshop users. After the University, the Adobe tool-chain (as van Schaik calls it) stretches out to the ‘creative’ job market where specific skill requirements in certain applications determine future careers. FLOSS+Art is, in this context, a valid attempt to think through an escape route out of the confines of the Adobe Creative Penal Suite. (Turning Software Inside Out, Tony D. Sampson, 2009)”

With contributions by: Fabianne Balvedi, Florian Cramer, Sher Doruff, Nancy Mauro Flude, Olga Goriunova, Dave Griffiths, Ross Harley, Martin Howse, Shahee Ilyas, Ricardo Lafuente, Ivan Monroy Lopez, Thor Magnusson, Alex McLean, Rob Myers, Alejandra Maria Perez Nuñez, Eleonora Oreggia, oRx-qX, Julien Ottavi, Michael van Schaik, Femke Snelting, Pedro Soler, Hans Christoph Steiner, Prodromos Tsiavos, Simon Yuill

Compiled and edited by Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk.

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Table of Content:

Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk ...... Preface

Pedro Soler ........................... Artists and Free Software – an Introduction

Femke Snelting ........................ Generous Practices: A Fictional Conversation,
                                        Based on Emails, Physical Encounters, IRC
                                        and a Skype session

Julien Ottavi ......................... The ‘Free’ and New Creative Practices: Open
                                        Source Modular Art-efacts

oRx-qX ................................ Information Nomads and Community Surfing

Ivan Monroy Lopez ..................... Software Cult

Martin Howse .......................... Free Time

Simon Yuill ........................... All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by
                                        the Masses: Free Open Form Performance,
                                        Free/Libre Open Source Software, and
                                        Distributive Practice

Olga Goriunova ........................ Autocreativity: The Operation of Codes of
                                        Freedom in Art and Culture

Sher Doruff ........................... Who Done It? Ethico-Aesthetics, the
                                        Production of Subjectivity and Attribution

Florian Cramer ........................ The Creative Common Misunderstanding

Hans Christoph Steiner ................ Copyright is for Copying

Prodromos Tsiavos ..................... Common(s) Issues for Digital Art Libraries:
                                        From Open Licensing to Open Collaboration

Ross Harley ........................... From Open Circuits to Open Distribution:
                                        Can Video Artists Adopt FLOSS Strategies
                                        as their Own?

Michael van Schaik .................... The Shrink-Wrapped Design Process

Ricardo Lafuente ...................... Appropriation and Type – Before and Today

Nancy Mauro Flude ..................... Linux for Theatre Makers: Embodiment & Nix
                                        Modus Operandi

Alex McLean ........................... Live coding for free

Thor Magnusson ........................ Expression and Time: the question of strata
                                        and time management in creative practices
                                        using technology

Dave Griffiths ........................ On free software art, design, communities
                                        and committees

Eleonora Oreggia ...................... The Piksel Big Bang

Fabianne Balvedi ...................... Free Studios

Shahee Ilyas .......................... F/LOSS and the Computer Culture of the
                                        Maldives

Alejandra Maria Perez Nuñez ........... FLOSS Software, it’s Relation with Southern
                                        Time

Rob Myers ............................. Open Source Art Again

Published by ♥OpenMute♥, with the support of the ♥University of Huddersfield♥ and the ♥Willem de Kooning Academie♥.

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