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Welcome to the Open Congress WebsiteInspired by Free Software, software that challenges conventional practices of authorship, ownership and distribution, our innovative congress explored the implications of those developments for art, visual culture and cultural production in generalOpen Congress took place at Tate Britain over the 7th-8th October 2005. It was structured through three themes of Governance, Creativity and Knowledge. Participants shaped the Congress through simultaneous presentations, discussion, workshops and events. These included...  Cory Doctorow- from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Johanna Gibson, David Berry & Giles Moss -The Libre Society, McKenzie Wark author of A Hacker Manifesto, Trebor Scholz– The Institute of Distributed Creativity, Toni Prug of Open Organizations, Bronac Ferran with John Bywater, David Heath and Luke Nicholson , Richard Barbrook, Ben White with Eileen Simpson, Locarecords, Kelli Dipple, Monica Ross, Tiziana Terranova, Julian Priest, Christian Ahlert – Open Business, Neil Cummings, smsTroika. David Goldenberg, Jamie King, Saul Albert - Wireless London, Pete Maloney, Armin Medosch and Shu lea Cheang - Kingdom of Piracy, Paul B Davies, Max - Seeds for Change, Joasia Krysa with Grzesiek Sedek, Manuela Zechner, Corrado Morgana, Ilze Black, Julian Priest, Mary Anne Francis - Part Art, Constant VZW, Linda Drew, Felix Stalder, Simon Yuill, Simon Pope, Ian IanDrysdale, Trevor Giles, Carles Guerra, Tom Neill, Wei-Ho Ng, Darrel Stadlen - chelsea2005 among many, many others many of the contributions were webcast, and archived on the Tate website athttp://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/open_congress/those contributions not webcast, are archived as audio files in our downloads sectionOpen Congress ocdownloads stuffOpen Congress was initiated by CriticalPractice a cluster of researchers at Chelsea School of Art and Design. Critical Practice is now evolving at http://www.criticalpracticechelsea.org Open Congress: The Book: Out Now!Open Congress is featured in: 'Media Mutandis: a NODE.London Reader: surveying art, technologies and politics' edited by Marina Vishmidt, with Mary Anne Francis, Jo Walsh and Lewis Sykes. Funded by the Arts Council of England. As one of the three NODE.London 'October Season' events, Open Congress is the subject of a set of critical and contextual essays in this must-have publication. For further details, and info on how to order, see: http://publication.nodel.org/ Read Mary Anne Francis' introduction http://publication.nodel.org/Open-Congress-Introduction Open Congress [event/process] Archive General information about Open Congress and its development aboutOC Participants in Open Congress congressOctParticipants the Programme of Open Congress post-Congress financial things post-Congress and the OClicenses DownloadsOur new ocdownloads section containing audio files, documents and other Open Congress related stuff. Open Congress ProjectsDetails of OCprojects that organised and self-organised during the congress Housekeeping ArchiveGeneral information on public meetings, development, varios lists of participants, a document archive, lists of volunteers, our budget, etc. HouseKeepingFront - *RSS News Feed Here* http://opencongress.omxtra.com/modules/whatsnew/admin/rebuild_rss.php WebsiteCodeOfConductGuidelines Useful pages: Index, OrphanPages, EmptyPages, Search |
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