Copy Camp Canada
2pnet.net News:- Some 150 artists, geeks, lawmakers, and copyright activists yesterday kicked off Copy Camp, a Canadian ‘unconference’ for artists about the Net and the challenges to copyright.
Organized by the Creators’ Rights Alliance, it’s hosted by Ryerson University’s School of Journalism in Toronto, the idea is for attendees to explore issues surrounding the new models for making art and making a living using the ‘net.
Featured presenters include: Paul Hoffert, Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and fellow of the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard, Moana Maniapoto, the celebrated New Zealand singer/songwriter, film-maker/director Toby Mills, and Canadian dub poet Lillian Allen. Science Fiction writer and boingboing creator, Cory Doctorow will also there, virtually, in conversation with Alliance co-chair, writer Susan Crean.
Copy Camp starts today with a Speed Geek session, introducing the key ideas and themes.
"Being an unconference, the programme is massively self-organized, comprised largely of many small sessions of fewer than 15 people," says the organizers.
Hit the Copy Camp wiki to and click the Participation and Session List to see who’s proposing what, ie:
- Mark Linksvayer (Creative Commons US) on commons-enhanced business strategies
- Greg Young-Ing on aboriginal protocols for traditional knowledge
- Mark Hosler (of the renowned US collective Negativland) wanting to know more about Canadian culture asking “What up with Canada?”
- Winnipeg visual artist Diana Thorneycroft on “How can I keep making my work and not get sued?"
- Montreal photographer André Cornellier on “turning all this talk into action”
- Moana Maniapoto and Toby Mills screening their film, “Guarding the Family Silver”.
An Electronic Salon showcasing the work of artists making art and making a living in new ways using the Internet will be featured each day and today, Toronto theatre and media artist Geoffrey Pugen will present "Online Personalities, Institutions, Museums and Games" about artists working with appropriation to create virtual environments, institutions and narratives.
Tomorrow (Saturda)y, novelist and “pop culture provacateur” Jim Munroe will present "Art Slips Free: Rethinking How Culture Is Produced”.
As well, famed Net authority Michael Geist, Canada research chair in internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa, will be joined by Mike Holderness (National Union of Journalists UK), and Geoff Tansey (the Joseph Rowntree Foundation for a Just and Peaceful World) in a discussion of creative commons – why and for whom, called “Building the (Creative) Commons”.
There’ll also be a workshop examining the concept of the Virtual Shopping Mall pioneered by the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and the Association Québécoise des Auteurs Dramatiques (AQAD) led by Michel Beauchemin, executive director of AQAD, and co-chair of the Creators’ Rights Alliance.
Copy Camp will be facilitated by Misha Glouberman, host and producer of the Trampoline Hall Lectures.
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