Festival of Free Culture No 2

Posted March 1st, 2008 by homoludens

Creative Commons Salon
(7th - 10th of March 2008)
http://creativecommons.org.yu
http://slobodnakultura.org
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The first local Creative Commons Salon will consist of series of talks about intellectual property
and the politics of ownership and distribution within the context of contemporary production of
"content", and will present current local production relevant for the topic. Guests from Brazil,
Sweden and Croatia will share experiences and opinions connected with their own activistic
approach towards the issues. This time we focus more on popular "content" such are music,
video games and movies.

Connected with the recent launch of CC licenses in Serbia, will also present CCBit, first Creative
Commons-licensed music CD compilation in Serbia, and Freedom Toaster, a device/interface for
individual file-sharing in public spaces.

Welcome!
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FRIDAY 7th of March, Dom omladine Beograd, Cultural center Rex
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18:00
Panel room of Dom omladine Beograd
http://www.domomladine.org/?hl=en_US

Great album - can you burn it for me?
Alternative economies and creative industries

participants:
Ronaldo Lemos (Brazil, chairman of the board of iCommons International),
Marcell Mars (Zagreb, egoboobits.net, Mi2.hr),
Vladan Joler (EXITfest.org, Novi Sad),
Edi Bon (CreativeCommons.org.yu).

A talk by the special guest of Creative Commons Serbia, Ronaldo Lemos da Silva Junior,
the representative of iCommons.org, the international organization led by the vision to
develop a unite global cultural front for production and distribution of common goods within
the fields of culture and science, trough the collaboration with communities which support
open content approach, the right to access to knowledge, free software, open approach
towards education and free culture.

Themes of the talks and presentations will be focused towards alternative economies and
creative industries in the surroundings outside of legal regulations of intellectual property.
Among other topics, we want to present the case of Techno Brega music scene of northern
Brazil, Croatian EgoBooBits music label, and to talk about exitfest.org/CC stage at
EXIT festival.

We will also present CCBit, our first Creative Commons licensed electronic music CD compilation.

20:00
Rex, Jevrejska 16
http://www.rex.b92.net

CCBit
http://creativecommons.org.yu/lounge/CCBit
http://indietronic.org

Promotion of the first CC licensed CD music compilation. Artists:

Mistakemistake, Wolfgang S, Zvukbroda, Mkdsl, Flip, The Good Guys, Tron, Evidence,
Shazalakazoo, Shazz, Luka Toyboy, Atomska sarma, Boom Tschak, Margita Je Mrtva,
Casper, Diagramm, Proggy & Bass.

live: Zvuk broda, Tron, Luka Toyboy

Feedback Loop
Overview of the recent production published under CC and other open & free licenses.

Feedback Loop presents different local production published under Creative Commons and
other open content licenses, in the new and electronic media as well as in traditional formats
such are printed publications or documentary and feature movies. Works presented either
deal with the notion of intellectual property and multiple potentials of sharing of artistic and
critical content today, or trough the system of the distribution of their choice are establishing
a different-then-traditional positions on the issue.

Feedback Loop consists of two segments.

In the framework of a display we present the artworks, printed publications and multimedia
content produced by following artists, creative collectives and institutions of culture:

Ana Hušman, Biro Beograd, Dubravka Sekulić/Dunja Predić/Davor Eres,
KONTEKST galerija, Ivan Bon, Ivan Kucina, kuda.org, Miško Šuvaković
- MSLU Novi Sad, MSU Beograd, slobodnakultura.org, TKH, Queer Beograd,
Vladan Jeremić.

exhibition setup: Ana Knežević i Milica Gudović.

The exhibition by Dejan Grba called U.S. Composites will be presented @Rex. It is a series of high
resolution panoramas created by merging the shots from slightly different viewpoints into the
compact images rich in details and complex spatio-temporal relations. The photographs were taken
in Syracuse (NY), in New York City (NY), and in Washington D.C. during 2007.

Most of the content and material presented at Feedback Loop visitors can take away -
Freedom Toaster is the device-interface project to serve for individual and independent
file exchange in public spaces.
Freedom Toaster mashed up by homoludens at slobodnakultura dot org.

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SATURDAY 8th of March, Gallery of MOCAB, Pariska 14a
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17:00
in collaboration with the Institute for flexible technologies – NAPON
http://napon.org

presenting the project
Playground @Play Cultures
http://napon.org/content/view/17/9

The exhibition Play Cultures is an international exhibition that presents contemporary
artistic production that uses the language of digital games and shows one possible view of
how the genre of digital games can be used in a creative and engaging way. The exhibition
consists of standalone games, mods, video works, multiplayer games and interactive
storytelling.

The curator and the editor of the Play Cultures conference Kristian Lukić wili talk about the
exhibition and accompanying events and discussions related to the positions and questions
problematized by this project, with a special focus on the issues of licensing, participation in
contemporary gaming and virtual platforms.

What is the position of the class of "gamers" in today's culture and society? Could game
culture be used for emancipatory purposes and education? Is the militarization of game
culture something that can be deconstructed or does it represent a highly customizable
recruitment and ideological tool of the war culture?

18:00
discussion:
After copyright

Sooner or later, the changes within traditional models of economy and ownership are inevitable.
What will happen with billions of texts, images, music and video on offer? How all this material
will be organized, and how we are going to navigate trough it? Who is curating the archives,
who uses the archives, and in how? Do we enter the times in which the politics will be conducted
trough the culture of interface and control of meta-data?

participants:
Rasmus Fleischer, Magnus Eriksson (piratbyran.org), Tom Medak, Marcell Mars (mi2.hr),
Ronaldo Lemos (icommons.org).
intro: Vlidi (slobodnakultura.org)

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SUNDAY 9th of March, Panel room of Dom omladine Beograd
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18:00
in collaboration with Wikimedia Serbia
panel
Creative Commons licenses and Wikipedia in Serbian
speakers: Nevenka Antić (Legal Lead, Creative Commons Serbia),
Dragan Satarić, Nikola Smolenski (Wikimedia Serbia)

Which licenses are being used for Wikimedia projects, and why? The transition of the
Wikipedia project to Creative Commons licenses on the global and local level. Presentations of
the less known Wikimedia projects: Wikisource - what it is the purpose of Wikisource, how it works,
the history of Wikisource ... And, ofcourse, the issues of licensing on Wikisource.

21:00
in collaboration with Boban Jevtić, the editor of a film
program of Dom omladine Belgrade
screening
Star Wreck
http://www.starwreck.com
directed and produced by: Timo Vuorensola, Samuli Torssonen
and 300 of volunteers and collaborators

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a science-fiction parody, a result of collaborative work of the
small Finnish team and more of 300 of fans, assistants, volunteers and collaborators worldwide.
The driving force behind this demanding production was the enthusiasm of this group of SF
fans, especially their love and respect towards the Star Treck series. The work on this
full-featured movie full of stunning special effects lasted for almost 7 years. This is the first
projection of Star Wreck in Serbia.

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MONDAY 10th of March, CK13, Vojvode Bojovića 13, Novi Sad
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19:00
in the collaboration with cultural center CK13
http://ck13.org

presentation and discussion
Piratbyran and Pirate Bay - activsm and service economy

Is realaktivism the realpolitik of the present? Is theory today irrelevant if not offering it's own
models of the ideas it contemplates, applied in material practice? But does activism turns to
real-activism, and is there an ideology blurred by particular and fragmented short-term goals
of myriad of activistic initiatives?
On the history of the organization Piratbyran and the project of PirateBay.org.
Is hyper-production of activistic initiatives presents a step further towards the economy of
content and services? Self-organization as the model of organizing collectives and societies...

participants: Rasmus Fleischer, Magnus Eriksson (piratbyran.org), Milica Gudović,
Vladan Jeremić, Vlidi (slobodnakultura.org)

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this is a joint project by:

Creative Commons Serbia, slobodnakultura.org, Bureau for culture and communication, Zene na delu, Dom
omladine Belgrade, Cultural center Rex, NAPON.org, Wikimedia Serbia, CK13.org, indietronic.org

concept and realization: slobodnakultura.org

slobodnakultura.org is a part of Druga scena <drugascena.org>.

support: Fund for an Open Society
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*Play Cultures:

Artist:
AES + F (RU), Afkar Media (SY), Alon Tzarafi (IL), Fiambrera (ES), Gonzalo Frasca (UY),
Jodi (BE, NL), Molleindustria (IT), Personal Cinema (GR), Persuasive Games (US),
Robert Praxmarer (AT), Serious Games Interactive (DK), Tale of Tales (BE), Vladan Joler (RS),
Vladimir Todorović (RS, SG), Urtica (RS)

Production
Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies - NAPON
www.napon.org

Coproduction
Musem of Contemporary Art Vojvodina
www.msuv.org
New Media Center_kuda.org
www.kuda.org

Patron:
Executive Council of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

Sponsors:
Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia
Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade,
BS Procesor, Neobee.net, Fund for an Open Society Belgrade,
MagicBoxMultimedia, Student Cultural Center

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