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NETWORK OF COMMONS
Bootlab
http://bootlab.org
Association for promoting independent projects and visualising the associated working conditions.
- The Thing
http://bbs.thing.net
Probably the most important technical infrastructure of the past ten years for artistic and net-critical projects in our closer and wider context.
- v2v
http://www.v2v.cc
A video distribution system for freeing moving images from profit-oriented utilisation contexts.
- seltsam.com
http://www.seltsam.com
Rearrangements of things found on the Web, compiled by Daniel Pflumm. Initiated at a time when strange domain names were still available.
- ~cantsin
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/ homepage
The homepage of Florian Cramer. Works of literary studies and information theory at the border between text and code.
- Chaos Computer Club
http://www.ccc.de
Since 20 years now, the Chaos Computer Club has been making public in a critical way the politics of computers.
Josè Louis Brea
http://www.joseluisbrea.net
Art critic and curator living in Spain, editor of the "Estudios Visuales" magazine, founder of aleph, art.zin and Acción Paralela.
Faces
http://faces-l.net
FACES is an international mailing list that connects women: activists, artists, critics, theoreticians, technicians, journalists, researchers, programmers, net workers, web designers and educators, all women who share an interest in the media and communication arts.
InterSpace
http://www.i-space.org
InterSpace is a New Media Art Centre, based in Sofia, Bulgaria. InterSpace was founded in 1998 as a non-profit association of professional artists, informatics engineers, do-it-yourself media makers. InterSpace runs a couple of projects relating to "Common Property".
- Beats per Minute
http://bpm.cult.bg
- Schizoid Architecture
http://www.i-space.org/schizoid
Schizoid Architecture is a network project, open for unlimited number of participants that get involved in the creation of a virtual architectural model of shared personal spaces.
- Socioscan
http://socioscan.net
Socioscan is a system/tool/ for scanning and mapping of information that people exchange in virtual communication or particularly in chat rooms.
- Dailystats
http://dailystats.net
Dailystats is a highly abstract statistics project. You can look back or interact.
- Towerchat
http://towerchat.cult.bg
This project is based on chat with VRML animation. It is part of the idea for visualization of information in the conversations and the interactions on the net and more particularly in the chat channels.
Delete.tv – Fran Ilich
http://delete.tv
Fran Ilich is a novelist, media-artist and filmmaker based in Mexico City. He teaches streaming media at the National Center of the Arts and is enrolled in latin american studies at Alliant International University. He currently works on a network of independent iberoamerican initiatives that concentrate on the intersection of narrative media experimentation and the social sphere.
- Contra Tv (Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien)
http://contratv.net
A group of media storytellers who do workshops with teenagers in Brasil, teaching them tools and techniques so they can create their own storys. They call themselves sunday's Contra Tv, an e-motion storytelling collective, who are calling now for alternative editions of tv shows using original footage.
- Música para Espías (Mexiko City, Mexiko)
http://delete.tv/netaudio
It's the first mexican net label, and it specializes in tape recorder audio or music that plays with narrative aspects, noise, analogue synthesizers and open source software. The mp3's are distributed freely and they are published under the "sample me" license of creative commons. Participating artists are Béatrice Rettig, Carrie, dj Pod, Dogana, Grundum, Ilich Sabotage, Labees, Pawky y Pedro Jiménez, and others.
- Festival Potlach (Buenos Aires, Argentinien)
http://www.sindominio.net/lasagencias/yomango/test/html/modules.phpop=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=277
Festival Potlach is an independent media & arts festival that exists through contributions of people in Buenos Aires and around the world who are part of the network of friends of la fabrica cultural impa (the one featured in Naomi Klein's documentary), however they don't have a website yet. Their contact is: potlach@gmail.com
- Ruidos de la Calle
http://delete.tv/pacho
The collected columns of José Luis Paredes Pacho, the writer & drummer of "maldita vecindad", which are originally published on the mainstream newspaper "reforma", and which apart of being distributed for free are collected online so that zine publishers can use them freely.
- Gramagrass (Bogotá, Kolumbien)
http://gramagrass.org
A collective weblog of spanish-speaking writers from whole hispanamerica. Topics range from hacktivism, literature, music, open source software, and the like. Altough the project is currently changing servers, its creator and webmaster says it won't take long before it comes back to feel the gap it left.
netart.org.uy
http://netart.org.uy/brian.html
Run by Brian Mackern, Uruguay, director/editor of "artefactos virtuales" , one of the first latinamerican virtual spaces devoted to the investigation, development and implementation of netart projects (1996).
- Processing
http://processing.org
Processing is an open project. A programming language and environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities. Initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas.
- Mejor Vida Corporation® – Minerva Cuevas
http://www.irational.org/mvc
Among other activities, Mejor Vida Corp. promotes a series of projects through the Internet which provide tools to resist the effects of globalisation and neo-liberalism.
- dyne:bolic – Jaromil
http://www.dynebolic.org
[alt.soft] dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production. You can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software.
- Offline Group
http://offline.area3.net
OFFLINE is a cross-border global group of artist collaborators working creatively with the Internet and related digital and networked media.
- Netart Latino "Database"
http://netart.org.uy/latino
[alt.resource] Map-recopilation of latinamerican netartists' works, mailing-lists related to this theme, and links to other netart related databases.
no-org.net
http://www.no-org.net
No-org.net is a new jerusalem art network envisioned as a platform for experimental projects in the area of netbased and digital art and for the exchange of independent information on contemporary art. No-org.net is an independent project initiated by Sala-Manca Group and vagRearg which run with no official support or commercial sponsors.
mi2
http://www.mi2.hr
Multimedia Institute [mi2] is a Zagreb based NGO that sprang up in 1999. mi2 is internationally mostly known for the activities of its free content publishing label – EGOBOO.bits , its meetspace – net.culture club MAMA and development of its TamTam free software application for online collaboration.
- Duke Conference on Public Domain
http://www.law.duke.edu/pd
Conference on the topic of public domain that was held in 2001 and probably set the tone for the discussions on digital commons. All contributions can be downloaded from the Web site.
- Infonomics
http://www.infonomics.nl
Perhaps the only large-scale empirical study on the relevance of "FLOSS" (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) for social development. It substantiates why it makes sense in social terms to prefer "FLOSS" to proprietary software.
- Archive.org
http://www.archive.org
Internet archive as a prototype – common property of mankind.
- GNUpauk Reader
http://www.gnupauk.org
A reader compiled by mi2 on GNU-GPL and its significance in the cultural, social and political environment. The project consists of a Web site, a book and a CD containing the mi2's own free music and software.
- Egoboobits
http://www.egoboobits.net
mi2-label for free contents with by now more than 20 musicians, video artists and theorists who publish their works under GNU-GPL. More than 50 hours of audio and video material can be downloaded for free and passed on or used for one's own creative activities.
Re:combo
http://www.recombo.art.br
Re:combo is a Brazilian-based but now worldwide collective of musicians, software engineers, DJs, professors, journalists and computer geeks who combine live events, peer-to-peer networking, and music resampling as their medium.
- Mombojo
http://www.mombojo.com.br
This Brazilian band mixes music from a lot of different roots: samba, surf music, bossa nova and psychedelic brasilian sixties and releases it under the Creative Commons licence on its website.
- Ping FM
http://www.pingfm.org
Radio activists from Weimar, increased the enviroment of open internet radio production.
- Sarai
http://www.sarai.net
Sarai appears as a New Media Initiative from India – a space for research, practice and conversation about the contemporary media and urban constellations. With their Media Lab and with works like OPUS – Open Platform for Unassigned Significations, Sarai becomes an important space committed to innovation and experimentation, and autonomous of the commercial pressures of the art and audio-visual marketplace. New modes of dissemination and an active context for engagement with a new audience for digital culture.
- Wu Ming
http://www.wumingfoundation.com
From the dusts of Luther Blissett comes this Bologna based community of free texts. Italian Open Culture.
- Rasta Software
http://rastasoft.org
Also from Italy, the makers of Dyne:bolic, a one-for-all multimedia linux bootable experience: «This software is about Digital Resistance in a babylonian world which tries to control and make business out of the way we communicate, we share our interests and knowledge.»
The Trinity Session
http://www.onair.co.za
The Trinity Session is an independent production team around Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their fields of work include art in public space, urban development, critiques, media art, and online culture. They collaborate in a networked structure with artists, institutions and companies.
- African Colours
http://www.africancolours.net
African Colours assists and improves accessibility by providing opportunities for art and art related organisations to get online.
- Arts Host
http://www.artshost.org
Arts Host was created to host a digital network of communication between visual arts workshops, centres and residencies throughout Africa.
- DigiArts
http://portal.unesco.org/digiarts
DigiArts is one of UNESCO's major initiatives aiming at the development of interdisciplinary activities in research, creativity and communication in the field of media arts.
- Southern African New Media Art Network
http://www.onair.co.za/sanman
- Soul Beat
http://www.comminit.com/africa
The Soul Beat, an Africa-specific e-publication based on the information summarised on Soul Beat Africa – communication for development and change.
Virose
http://www.virose.pt
An E-zine and mailing list platform operated by Miguel Leal and others in Portugal.
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