AE Report #6
Ars electronica is over. Today i visited my last two sessions, forum 5: digital communities and the launch of creative commons austria.
Notes for forum 5 are available and again, don’t expect them to be entirely correct, cohesive, comprehensible or complete. Notes for german parts of the session are again in german.
Launch of creative commons was quite interesting. Funny thing is i was particularly interested in legal issues like reasons for the localization efforts or warranties and liabilities of the licensor, nonetheless it was incredibly difficult to pay attention when these things were discussed. That’s what lawtalk can do to you, a sure-fire cure for insomnia. Got most open questions sorted out though.
Lawrence Lessig already hinted at some huge news involving gilberto gil, david byrne, cornelius and the beastie boys yesterday and today Joi Ito mentioned that a sampler (supposedly featuring the aforementioned artists) will be released later this year under a creative commons license. Will be interesting remix matieral i guess.
Overall i had a great week at ars electronica. I really enjoy listening to other people, but usually there are just not that many people worth listening to. Here at ars there were lots of people with something to say and i had the impression that the audience was motivated and eager to listen. It’s been like all-you-can-eat mind-fodder and my brain’s rather stuffed now. Lots of things to process and research over the next week, but right now i need a little short-term break. Besides that i’ll be stuck on 28.8k for the next few days (no kidding, i blame it on a faulty phoneline) so i’ll be forced to step back and be a little less online anyway.