implicit art

Howdy y’all. Am at the commons sense conference, and was just on a panel discussion with Megan Knight (PhD Wits), Vincent Maher (New Media Lab, Rhodes/Grahamstown) and Matthew Buckland (Mail & Guardian online).

It was a pretty cool panel, tho admittedly a lot was centered around the debate of “what gets to be journalism” (this, which often gets confused for value - like the old “what gets to be art” debate - doesn’t interest me much) - still, there was plenty of provocation around freedoms, positive connotations to the amateur, helping creative economies through the creative commons, and even a few jokes (gasp!). I have to say that everyone I saw and met at the whole conference was excitable, and exciting - some super interesting and smart people who want to add something to the world!

My own presentation was a re-mix of one I found here by our keynote, Larry Lessig. It was pretty much a hit, if I do say so myself, and I promised Lessig et al I’d put it online.

Download it (3.3 MB powerpoint presentation + quicktime movie that you may need to point to the first time you open it - slide no. 32)

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