Open Congress

Volledige titel

Open Congress

Soort evenement:

Lezing

Datum / tijd / duur evenement

07- 08/10/05

Locatie

Tate Britain, Londen, Engeland

foto's

Foto's from the open congress are better

Images from the OpenCongress taken by the documentation team (ELAM)

http://opencongress.omweb.org/modules/xoopsgallery/cache/albums/album10/Open_Congress_tate_86.jpg

http://opencongress.omweb.org/modules/xoopsgallery/cache/albums/album10/Open_Congress_tate_87.jpg

Keyword lijst

open source, collaboration, governance, creativity, knowledge (and gendered criticism thereof)

URL

http://opencongress.omweb.org/

Type productie

Type of production: invitation to contribute to the congress, lecture, discussion

Partner organisaties

Open Congress was initiated by criticalpractice at Chelsea college of Art and Design; a group coregroup of artists, researchers and academics

Totaal aantal bezoekers evenement:

estimate for the lecture 10/15 persons for the whole event, pff 2000?

Soort bezoekers / deelnemers / gasten evenement

example: artists, curators, software programmers, theoriticians

Korte beschrijving (max 200 woorden)

Description of content and form (or the mature marriage between these two) of the specific event (replace) Inspired by Free Software, which challenges conventional practices of authorship, ownership and distribution, this congress explored the implications of those developments for art, visual culture and cultural production in general. Open Congress took place across two days, and was structured through three themes of Governance, Creativity and Knowledge; an array of international and UK participants - artists, theorists, academics and activists - shaped the Congress through simultaneous presentations, discussion, workshops and events. Nicolas Malevé and Laurence Rassel (Constant) were taking part to the Creativity discussion, and brought Constant practices and questions to the debate of porting open source and free licenses to the cultural field. They insisted on the importance of the culture of exchange that goes far beyond a formal choice between pre-packaged licenses.