txt: Ars Electronica 2008 – A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property.
After all, regardless of the perspective from which one approaches this issue—that of the Internet pirates, the inventors of a new information commons, the pioneers of a sharing economy or the apologists of the creative industries—one thing remains true: if knowledge and content actually are to be the new capital of postindustrial society, then they have to circulate and be accessible by all.
txt: I precari dell’arte – VENEZIA Mostre ma anche progetti sul mondo del lavoro agli ex magazzini del Sale – www.ilmanifesto.it
Dobbiamo ricordare – dice a questo proposito Baravalle – che tutto quello che è produzione immateriale, produzione di linguaggi e quindi anche la produzione culturale e creatività non sono più accessori nell’economia metropolitana ma sono molto spesso chiavi per quanto riguarda lo sviluppo della metropoli
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[en] We have to remember – says Baravalle – that all that is immaterial production, production of languages, cultural production and creativity are no longer accessories in the urban economy but are very often the keys in the development of the metropolis.
video: Metropolis – an extract from Fritz Lang’s Silent Film (1926) on youtube.com
Let’s face it, Edinburgh festival is about live performance. It’s about theatre, it’s about comedy, and although the Edinburgh Art Festival, now into its fifth year, keeps getting stronger, it would be ludicrous to think it’s visual art that brings summer crowds to the city.
txt: Monicelli, la freschezza a 93 anni ‘Ma l’Italia ora è alla deriva’ [Monicelli: freshness at 93 years old 'But Italy is now drifting']
Un consiglio ai giovani cineasti?
“Scegliere storie di una semplicità elementare, che è la cosa più difficile. Non mettere troppe cose e troppi personaggi nel tentativo di renderle interessanti. Sono le storie semplici che nel tempo continuano a emozionare”.
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[en] A tip for young film makers?
Choose stories of elemental simplicity, which is the hardest thing. Do not put too many things and too many characters in an attempt to make them interesting. These are the simple stories that continue to emotion us over the time.
links:
65th Venice International Film Festival
Corto Cortissimo section.
video: tuffo nel lago ghiacciato – Bovinonline on youtube.com
via: neural.it – edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter – MyCreativity Reader
txt: The MyCreativity Reader – The Institute of Network Cultures
The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research into the creative industries. The material develops out of the MyCreativity Convention on International Creative Industries Research held in Amsterdam, November 2006. This two-day conference sought to bring the trends and tendencies around the creative industries into critical question.
The “creative industries” concept was initiated by the UK Blair government in 1997 to revitalise de-industrialised urban zones. Gathering momentum after being celebrated in Richard Florida’s best-seller The Creative Class (2002), the concept mobilised around the world as the zeitgeist of creative entrepreneurs and policy-makers. Despite the euphoria surrounding the creative industries, there has been very little critical research that pays attention to local and national and variations, working conditions, the impact of restrictive intellectual property regimes and questions of economic sustainability. The reader presents academic research alongside activist reports that aim to dismantle the buzz-machine.
colophon: Editors: Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter. Editorial Assistance: Sabine Niederer. Copy Editing: Michael Jason Dieter. Design: Katja van Stiphout. Cover Image: Hendrik-Jan Grievink. Printer: Veenman Drukkers, Rotterdam. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.
