creative commons through the looking glass

Image this: it's 10 in the morning and you have a alcoholic ginger beer in one hand, a program that is so jam-packed it reads like a phonebook and a head so full of ideas and information you couldn't possibly remember it all. Welcome to that wondrous, debauturous multi-festival event This Is Not Art!

Consisting of four arts festivals/events, it's arguably australia's biggest and best independent arts festival. If you're into experimental electronic arts Electrofringe is for you. Musos please head to Sound Summit. And get your text on with the National Young Writers' Festival or Critical Animals postgraduate conference. But don't take my word for it, they say "It's the five days of the year where you get to share your ideas, passions and saliva with like-minded crew from all over australia."

So I'm heading down on one of the two flights from Brisbane to Newcastle tomorrow, accompanied by the lovely Amy Barker, Project Manager of Remix My Lit, to talk some talk with some of australia's leading independent artists, performers, musicians, thinkers and ratbags. Here's where I'll be:

Friday 3 October 2008

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSING (part of Electrofringe)

ABC Pool Producer, John Jacobs takes you though a clear and detailed explanation of Creative Commons licensing from a producers point of view.

Speakers: John Jacobs, Producer, ABC Pool, Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; and Elliott Bledsoe, Project Officer, Creative Commons Australia
Cost: Free event

LICENCE TO ILL: LEGALITIES, LICENSING, IMPLICATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATIONS! (part of Sound Summit)

Key representatives from APRA, the PPCA and Creative Commons join artists and industry to discuss the latest on artist copyright, licensing, downloading and legislation. In particular, addressing the impact and implications for local music communities.

Facilitators: Ronan Sharkey, Hack/JTV, Triple J, ABC
Speakers: Brett Cottle, CEO, Australasian Performing Right Association; David Vodicka, Principal, Media Arts Lawyers; Elliott Bledsoe, Project Officer, Creative Commons Australia; Lynne Small, Manager of Finance, Operations; Administration, Phonographic Performance Company of Australia
Cost: Free

BEYOND READ/WRITE: A LITERATURE REMIX MASTERCLASS (part of the National Young Writers Festival)

Read/Write has always been a dichotomy in literature. The author on one side, reader on the other, both toiling away in solitude. But is there a more collaborative space for literature? Can work be read & write? Creative Commons Australia invites you to cut, paste, shuffle & republish in this remixable literature masterclass.

Speakers: Amy Barker, Project Manager, Remix My Lit; Elliott Bledsoe, Project Officer, Creative Commons Australia
Cost: Free

Saturday 4 October 2008

YOUR CREATIVITY AND SUCCESS: NEW BUSINESS MODELS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE (part of Sound Summit)

Technology did its part in democratising creativity an eon ago, but where has that led? Experts & artists look at bottom up approaches to making music viable: How is active consumption, participation forcing major industry players out of the picture? Is this DIY or die, version 2.0?

Facilitator: Stuart Buchanen, Mixed Industries
Speakers: Beatrice Jetto, PhD student, Department of Media, Macquarie University; Evan Kaldor, Fbi Radio; Alex Crowfoot, Ollo; and Anna John, Cloth Ear
Cost: Free

If you see me around say hello ^_^