[WOS] WOS-Workshop, 22.9.: "Information wants to be free"
Volker Grassmuck
wos@mikrolisten.de
Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:33:58 +0200
The Wizards of OS
"INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE"
The Digital Knowledge Order between Rights Control Systems and Inform=
ation
Commons
Die digitale Wissensordnung zwischen Rechtekontrollsystemen und WissensAl=
lmende
http://mikro.org/Events/OS/interface5/=
22.09.2000
Kunstverein Hamburg
Klosterwall 23, Hamburg
Eintritt 15 DM / ermaeszigt 10 DM
(teilweise in englischer Sprache)
LiveWebcast (in Quicktime) am 22.9., 12:0019:30 auf
http://www.interface5.de/home/broadcast/broadcast_index.html
organized by Wizards of OS
(mikro, Humboldt University Informatik & Gesellschaft)
Wolfgang Coy & Volker Grassmuck
Workshop within the Interface 5
(Schedule, speakers info & abstracts below) =
English
The 'Commons' is an old term for a communcal form of property. In the fiel=
d of
intellectual property, the GNU General Public License (GPL) creates a simi=
lar kind of
Knowledge Commons that allows people in open cooperation to develop and nu=
rture a
wealth of software. While the "Wizards of OS. Open Sources and Free Softwa=
re" in July
1999 in the House of Cultures of the World Berlin took Free Software as it=
s focus, this
Wizards of OS Workshop widens its scope to include other forms of free inf=
ormation
in science and in the arts, in the libraries and in the sky above. Today, =
the term
Commons is usually used in the context of environmental policies. In the i=
nterest of our
informational environment the workshop asks for opportunities and chances =
for equal
access and informational sustainability.
Deutsch
'Allmende' ist ein alter Begriff fuer kommunitaeres Eigentum. Im Bereich d=
es geistigen
Eigentums schafft die GNU General Public License (GPL) eine aehnliche Form=
von
Wissens Allmende, die es Menschen erlaubt, in offener Kooperation miteine=
inander
einen Reichtum an Software zu entwickeln und zu pflegen. Waehrend die "Wiz=
ards of
OS. Open Sources and Free Software" im Juli 1999 im Haus der Kulturen der =
Welt Berlin
ihren Schwerpunkt auf die Freie Software legten, umfaszt dieser Wizards of=
OSWorkshop einen breiteren Bereich von freiem Wissen in der Wissenscha=
ft und
der Kunst, in den Bibliotheken und Himmel ueber uns. Heute wird der Begrif=
f Allmende
gewoehnlich im Zusammenhang der Umweltpolitik gebraucht. Im Interesse unse=
rer
informationellen Umwelt fragt der Workshop nach den Moeglichkeiten und Cha=
ncen
fuer einen gleichen Zugang und eine informationelle Nachhaltigkeit.
SCHEDULE
12:00 Welcome / Introduction,
Wolfgang Coy, Professor for Computer Science and Society at Humboldt Unive=
rsity,
Berlin
Volker Grassmuck, mikro & CS Humboldt Uni Berlin & Professor Media Art,
Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
12:30 "Informationsfreiheit und urheberrechtlicher Interessenkonflikt" [in=
German]
Gabriele Beger, Copyright Attorney of the Federal Union of German Library
Associations
13:30 "Wissenskommunismus: Anachronismus oder Futurismus fuer das
Informationszeitalter" [in German]
Helmut Spinner, Institute of Philosophy, University Karlsruhe
14:30 break
14:45 "AntiCopyright in Subcultural Art Currents" [in German]
Florian Cramer, Literature Scientist, Free University Berlin and Neoist Ac=
tivist, Berlin
15:45 "Makrolab The Library in the Sky" [in English]
Marko Peljhan, Makrolab, Ljubljana
16:45 break
17:00 "Information as a prime and primarily relational value" [in English]
Sally Jane Norman, New Zealander/ French performing arts theorist, Paris
18:00 "An Informational History of the World" [in English]
Phil Agre, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Lo=
s Angeles
19:00 panel discussion
ab ca. 20:00 Screening: Craig Baldwin, "Sonic Outlaws" (USA, 1995, 80 Min.=
)
SPEAKERS
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GABRIELE BEGER
<beger@zlb.de>
Homepage: <http://www.zlb.de/bibliothek/standorte/beger.htm>
Copyright Attorney of the Federal Union of German Library Associations; Di=
rector of
the Berlin City Library in the Foundation Central and State Library Berlin=
; Head of the
Dpt. Media Center of the Central and State Library Berlin; teaches library=
, information
and documentation law at Humboldt University Berlin and at Fachhochschule =
Potsdam;
Managing Chairwoman of the Berlin Association within the German Library
Association; Chairwoman of the Law Commission of EDBI (Ehemaliges Deutsche=
s
Bibliotheksinstitut); member of the German Culture Council; member of the =
curatorium
of the Literary Colloquium Berlin.
INFORMATIONSFREIHEIT UND URHEBERRECHTLICHER INTERESSENKONFLIKT
"Verhindern kann man virtuelle Bibliotheken nicht, also muss man sie lize=
nzieren -
hier besteht dringender Handlungsbedarf."
Die Informationsfreiheit, das Recht eines jeden Buergers, sich ungehindert=
und
unabhaengig von seiner sozialen Stellung aus veroeffentlichten Quellen zu =
informieren,
stellt ein fundamentales Menschenrecht dar. In mehreren internationalen Ab=
kommen
haben sich Staaten zu ihrer Einhaltung verpflichtet. Die Bundesrepublik De=
utschland
hat dieses Grundrecht in Art 5 ihrer Verfassung niedergeschrieben. Urheber=
rechtliches
Schaffen basiert auf der Ausuebung der Informationsfreiheit. Ohne
Auseinandersetzung mit vorhandenem geistigen Schaffen waere eine
Weiterentwicklung in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur nicht moeglich. Fre=
ie
Information sichert Fortschritt, qualifizierte Arbeitskraefte und damit
Wirtschaftsstandorte.
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HELMUT SPINNER
<rc01@rz.unikarlsruhe.de>
Homepage: <http://www.unikarlsruhe.de/~philosophie/spinner.html>
Head of the Institute of Philosophy, University Karlsruhe, head of Studium=
Generale.
Research areas: philosophy and sociology of science and technology, modern=
and
contemporary philosophy.
KNOWLEDGE COMMUNISM: ANACHRONISM OR FUTURISM FOR THE
INFORMATION AGE
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FLORIAN CRAMER
<paragram@gmx.net>
Homepage: <http://userpage.fuberlin.de/~cantsin>
Born 1969, studied general and comparative literature science, art history=
and German
philology in Berlin, Konstanz and Amherst/Massachusetts (USA), teaches at =
the
Institute for General and Comparative Literature Science, Free University =
Berlin.
Participated in the "Festivals of Plagiarism" und "Neoist Apartment Festiv=
als" since
1989, published in PhotoStatic/Retrofuturism, YAWN, SMILE, works on neoism=
.org
since 1995, arcticles on Neoism in: Stewart Home and Florian Cramer, The H=
ouse of
Nine Squares, London: Invisible Books, 1997, and in: Mario Mentrup (ed.),
Printidentitaeten, Berlin: Maas Verlag, 2000
Since 1996 various talks and essays on literature and computer. PerlProgr=
ammer,
GNU/Linux user since 1996 and speaker at events by Berliner Linux User Gro=
up
(BeLUG). His website "Permutationen" was awarded the Special Price by the =
Pegasus
'98 jury.
ANTICOPYRIGHT IN SUBKULTURELLEN KUNSTSTROEMUNGEN
In den spaeten 1980er und fruehen 1990er Jahren organisierte sich eine kue=
nstlerische
Subkultur aus dem Umfeld von Mail Art und experimenteller Cassettenmusik u=
m die
Schlagwoerter von "plagiarism" und "anticopyright". Interessanter vielleic=
ht als die
Bilder, Toene und Performances, die im Namen dieser vorgeblichen Bewegung
produziert wurden, ist die theoretische Debatte, die ihre Akteure unter an=
derem in den
Zeitschriften "PhotoStatic/Retrofuturism", "YAWN" und "VAGUE" fuehrten. Di=
e
historischen Bezuege gehen zurueck bis Lautr=DAamont, erweisen sich aber b=
ei genauerer
Betrachtung als Kette von interessanten Fehllektueren. Nicht minder aufsch=
luszreich
sind die Differenzen und Ueberschneidungen des AnticopyrightAktivismus mi=
t Freier
Software und ihrem "Copyleft", mit Literaturtheorien des Einflusses und de=
r
Intertextualitaet, mit poetischem "playgiarism", der "Appropriation Art" d=
er 1980er und
der Netzkunst der 1990er Jahre. Der Rueckblick auf diese Diskurse erweiter=
t und
schaerft, so meine These, die Sinne fuer Probleme der Kontrolle und der
Reproduzierbarkeit von Zeichen im Zeitalter ihrer Digitalisierung.
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MARKO PELJHAN
<marxx@ljudmila.org>
Media artist, born in Nova Gorica, Slovenia 1969. Founder of the organizat=
ion Projekt
Atol and PACT (Projekt Atol Communication Technologies) in the frame of wh=
ich he
carries on his research in the fields of performance, technology applicati=
ons, radio,
sound, video, film, lectures and situations. He also works as programs coo=
rdinator of
Ljudmila Ljubljana digital media lab <http://www.ljudmila.org>) and as=
operations
coordinator of the Makrolab project <http://makrolab.ljudmila.org/> which =
was shown
at dokumenta X and in Adelaide, Australia. His latest project is INSULAR T=
echnologies
(International Networking System for Universal Long distance Advanced Radi=
o)
<http://www.insular.net/>.
MAKROLAB THE LIBRARY IN THE SKY
Project Makrolab (1997, ongoing, <http://makrolab.ljudmila.org/>, also at
<http://www.kudfp.si/~luka/makrolab/> Makrolab is designed as an autonomo=
us,
modular communications and living environment, which is powered by sustain=
able
sources of energy (solar and wind power). It is designed for a long existe=
nce in an
isolated environment and can withstand extreme natural conditions. Researc=
h into
telecommunications as the main aspect of the project is concentrated on th=
e discovery
and recording of the events which take place in the densely populated abst=
ract areas of
the electromagnetic spectrum. The electromagnetic spectrum is a part of th=
e global
sociopolitical space, which is invisible and immaterial on one hand but p=
resents a
productive factor of general living and social conditions on the other. It=
can be sensed
only by the means of suitable interfaces and specialized knowledge. The
telecommunication activities of makrolab are created as the process of tra=
nscribing
invisible and vague microenvironmental activities into traditional, three=
dimensional
textures documents.
Brain Springer, together with whom Marko Peljhan conducted the Makrolab Pr=
oject an
Dokumenta X wrote: "We approached the sky above the Lutterberg as a living=
library
out of the shelves of which voices, images and data communications streame=
d down to
us."
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SALLY JANE NORMAN
<norman@wanadoo.fr>
New Zealander/ French cultural theorist and practitioner working in perfor=
ming arts,
new media and technology; holder of a doctorat de IIIe cycle and doctorat=
d=92=E9tat in
theatre studies (Universit=E9 de Paris III); scientific director of the 19=
93 Louvre
international conference on "New Images and Museology"; instigator of perf=
ormance/
technology events (Institut International de la Marionnette, Charleville=
M=E9zi=E8res;
Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe; Studio for ElectroIn=
strumental
Music STEIM Amsterdam); collaborator on ESPRIT art and technology pro=
jects at
the ZKM (199799); artistic advisor to STEIM; member of the European Cult=
ural
Backbone; director of the Ecole Sup=E9rieure de l=92Image, Angoul=EAme/Poi=
tiers, France.
INFORMATION AS A PRIME AND PRIMARILY RELATIONAL VALUE
Current attempts to use digital tools to inventory humanity's material and=
immaterial
assets, to merchandise as information products elements of our hitherto i=
nalienable
cultural heritage, are both threatening and absurd. Threatening, insofar a=
s corporate
avarice already weighs heavily on certain kinds of previously accessible, =
shareable
knowledge and experience. Absurd, insofar as the digital visionaries drivi=
ng this
commodification race are as shortsighted as Midas: information which is p=
rocessed as
discrete packets of goods, cut off from the res publica from which it emer=
ges and
whereby it survives and evolves, is doomed. Turning information into nugge=
ts of
discrete digital gold is tantamount to killing it. Because information is =
only meaningful
in the context of human relations: it is generated, nurtured, and transfor=
med in short,
brought and kept alive through intercourse via active, interactive human=
minds.
My presentation attempts to focus on the participatory, social quality of =
information,
and to stress the vanity and danger of information hoarding that fails=
to recognise
this vital quality.
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PHIL AGRE
<pagre@ucla.edu>
Homepage: <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/>
Philip E. Agre is an associate professor of information studies at Univers=
ity of
California, Los Angeles. He received his PhD in computer science from MIT=
in 1989,
having conducted dissertation research in the Artificial Intelligence Labo=
ratory on
computational models of improvised activities. Before arriving at UCLA he=
taught at
the University of Sussex and UC San Diego, and has been a visiting profess=
or at the
University of Chicago and the University of Paris. He is the author of "C=
omputation
and Human Experience" (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and the coeditor=
of
"Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape" (with Marc Rotenberg, MIT Pres=
s,
1997), "Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical Studies =
in
Computing as a Social Practice" (with Douglas Schuler, Ablex, 1997), and
"Computational Theories of Interaction and Agency" (with Stanley J. Rosens=
chein,
MIT Press, 1996). His current research concerns the role of emerging info=
rmation
technologies in institutional change; applications include privacy policy =
and the
networked university. He edits an Internet mailing list called the Red Ro=
ck Eater News
Service that distributes useful information on the social and political as=
pects of
networking and computing to 4000 people in 60 countries.
AN INFORMATIONAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Information technology, we have often heard, is bringing about an idealize=
d market
economy of global scope. Underneath this conventional story is a routiniz=
ed argument
about the role of information in markets: that information technology redu=
ces
economies of scale and thereby reverses longterm historical tendencies to=
ward the
centralization of economic power. This argument, however, does not make s=
ense. I will
use economies of scale as the point of departure for a strikingly differen=
t reframing of
the conventional story about the nature of globalization.
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