Open Source Video

Zittrain: Here Comes Everybody

http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/jonathan_zittrain.ogg

An ogg/vorbis bootleg recording of Jonathan Zittrain’s talk Here Comes Everybody. In this entertaining yet serious speech Zittrain addresses social political aspects of video on the web, the need to consider local mesh network strategies, the power of ISP’s. Where is ‘here’ in the cloud of the web? What is the positive and negative potential of mass scale availability of workforce on the web?

Jonathan Zittrain is co-director and co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a professor at Harvard Law School. Among his areas of expertise are cyberlaw, security, and copyright law. His book The Future of the Internet—And How To Stop It is about generative technology like the internet and how it promotes innovation and disruption. As controlled devices like iPods and Tivos grow in popularity, we face worrisome consequences for the net’s future potential for user participation.

Pirate Bay interview

http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/peter_sunde.ogg

This is an audio recording of the long distance interview with Peter Sunde of the Pirate Bay by Xeni Jardin that concluded the Open Video Conference. Introduction by Alan Toner.

Copy Remix Steal

http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/moltke_gaylor_king.ogg

Here’s an audio recording of the discussion by the (co)directors of three of the best known documentaries about filesharing: Henrik Moltke (Good Copy Bad Copy), Bratt Gaylor (RIP A Remix manifesto) and Jamie King (Steal this film) that took place during the Open Video Conference

Does making a film about sharing mean you should yourself share the film you’re making?

Matt Mason: cash + piracy

Attended this nice talk by Matt Mason at the Open Video Conference.

Listen or download this recording in ogg/vorbis

Mason wrote the Pirate’s Dillema and his talk was basically an outline of that book. He speaks about the remix as marketing tool, an wonders how business models can be developed after the model of piracy. What will happen to Nike when we will be able to download 3D printers that can print sneakers? And what is the future of the 3D printer market once 3D printers will be able to print out 3D printers?
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Yochai Benkler: democratic media

Seen at the Open Video Conference: Yochai Benkler’s keynote introducing the conference. A warm felt plea for collaboration, exchange and a democratisation of media. And one of the few presentations that were launched from a Linux system.

Here’s a bootleg audio reording from a heavily echoing NYU law school auditorium.

http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/yocai_benkler.ogg

If you prefer to watch a video registration, check out the archives of open video alliance.

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He writes about the Internet and the emergence of networked economy and society, as well as the organization of infrastructure, such as wireless communications. His work traverses a wide range of disciplines and sectors, and is taught in a variety of professional schools and academic departments. In real world applications, his work has been widely discussed in both the business sector and civil society. His most recent book, The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom (2006), is considered a seminal peice on peer production and the power of networked socities. His work can be freely accessed at www.benkler.org.

Gabriella Coleman: The Politics and Poetics of DeCSS

Witnessed during the Open Video Conference in NY, 19 june 09,

The Politics and Poetics of DeCSS: Featured Talk – (5:25 PM – 5:45 PM)

Here’s an audiorecording in ogg/vorbis of the firy and energising talk given by Gabriella Coleman on the moral and ethical importance of the DeCSS tool. She makes beautiful links between freedom of speech, poetics of code and te importance of linguistic expression.

http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/gabriella_coleman.ogg

Nothing exceptional I know, you can get the video from the website of OpenVideoConference, with much better soundquality, but nothing beats a good old non authorised recording in a non-flash format.
More important: the official registration didn’t capture the sound of a bag of crisps that opened with a loud ‘plof’ on the third row.

Description: In this talk, NYU Steinhardt professor Gabriella Coleman visits the protests surrounding the DeCSS arrest and lawsuits that unfolded between 1999 and 2003 in order to examine when and how a new vibrant free speech sensibility was cemented and refined among Free and Open Source developers. Contained within this story are important lessons about the role of conventional protests and unconventional protests (in this case, in the form of poetry and art) for establishing this free speech ethic.

speaker: Gabriella Coleman — Assistant Professor, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Interview Raffaella Traniello

Raffaella Traniello is a Venice based videolover and teacher. She is an active member of the Cinelerra and Lumièra communities and worked on several handbooks that testify of her enthusiasm for working with free software. Following Q+A attempts to unfold some of her energetic activities.

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Zimmermann + Latrive

Jeremie Zimmermann and Florent Latrive talked during the debate ‘Are we all pirates’, part of the Imaginary Property program in Cinema Nova, Brussels.

“There is not a week going by without media attention for the dangers of “piracy”, which is depicted as an attack on creativity and innovation, an harassment of cultural heritage of authors and inventors. Because digital media permit cultural production on a mass scale, an artificial creation of scarcity is beneficial for commercial exploitation of cultural artefacts,” which is often disguised as a discourse about good and evil. An evening which promotes a more nuanced perspective to the issue of piracy, touching upon issues such as the current EU legislation concerning copyrights and the events surrounding the French Hadopi; loi Création et Internet.
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Animated Route in Cinelerra

Have a look at this excellent explanation of how to achieve something so simple, yet complicated as visualising a line that moves from A to B, by our favorite Cinelerra hacker the Mule.

The wackiest bit in this guide is a project in itself: how to the customise shadewipes in Cinelerra, which is well described on the Akira Project website

Hmmm! Looking forward to more of this tasty stuff !

Article: Blender, working in 3d

Sumit Sarkar, a visual artist whose character based artwork takes the form of digital and canvas paintings, digital sculpture, and aerosol art, was invited to write Blender: working in 3d for the Digital Artists Handbook.

The article offers a helping hand to anybody who would like to start working with Blender. Written by an artist who is informed by using the software himself, the article manages to introduce this elaborate tool in a clear and accessible way. For those who want more after having been kick started by Sarkar’s article, references for more detailed information are given.

Read more here: http://goto10.org/two-new-articles