<videovortex> Economies of the Commons volgende week in De Balie en bij Beeld en Geluid

Johan Oomen JOomen at beeldengeluid.nl
Mon Mar 31 22:31:33 CEST 2008


Goedenavond lenden van de Video Vortex community,

Hieronder volgt het definitieve programma van de Economies of the Commons conferentie volgende week in De Balie in Amsterdam en het 
voorafgaande seminar bij Beeld en Geluid in Hilversum. Het seminar is  inmiddels vrijwel volgeboekt. Indien u belangstelling hebt in deelname is spoedige reservering aanbevolen. U kunt een mailtje sturen naar epk at xs4all.nl voor aanmelding.

Vriendelijke groet, Johan Oomen
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid

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ECONOMIES OF THE COMMONS

Strategieën voor duurzame toegang en creatief hergebruik
van beelden en geluiden op internet


DEFINTIEF PROGRAMMA

Amsterdam & Hilversum 10, 11 & 12 April 2008

Internationale Werkconferentie & Publieke Avondprogramma's
De Balie, Amsterdam, 11 & 12 April 2008

Seminar over Intellectuele Eigendsomsrechten (IPR)
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum, 10 April 2008

www.ecommons.eu <http://www.ecommons.eu/> 


TICKETS:

passepartout: 25 euro (incl. avondprogramma's)
dagkaart: 15 euro
avondprogramma's: 5 euro

Informatie over het kopen van een  passepartout (via De Balie), of om 
te registeren voor het seminar (bijna volgeboekt!):
www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?&articleid=215589


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Over Economies of the Commons:

De Balie, het Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Beelden voor 
de Toekomst, Stichting Kennisland en het Virtueel Platform organiseren 
een internationale conferentie en een publieksprogramma rond de nieuwe 
vormen van audiovisuele cultuur die momenteel op internet ontstaan. De 
exponentieel groeiende mogelijkheden om publieke toegang te bieden tot 
omroeparchieven, audiovisuele collecties van cultuurinstellingen via 
internet stimuleren deze nieuwe cultuurvormen. Ook ontstaan nieuwe 
vormen van cultuurproductie waarin audiovisuele werken worden 
uitgewisseld, hergebruikt en gecombineerd tot nieuwe werken en worden 
via internet meer rechtstreekse verbindingen tussen maker en publiek 
tot stand gebracht.

De conferentie richt zich in het bijzonder op de vraag naar de 
duurzaamheid van deze nieuwe audiovisuele collecties op internet en de 
mogelijkheden om deze te kunnen openen voor creatief hergebruik en 
nieuwe cultuurproductie.

Terwijl de activiteit op dit terrein zeer groot is en een zeer breed 
schala aan actoren omvat, waaronder nationale archieven, 
omroeporganisaties, maar ook professionele cultuurproducenten en 
instellingen, tot en met informele p2p bestandsuitwisselingsprojecten, 
blijft de duurzaamheid van al die collecties on-line zeer ongewis. 
Massieve publieke investeringen in deze audiovisuele bronnen is een 
voor de hand liggende oplossing, met al even duidelijke nadelen. 
Economies of the Commons onderzoekt welke alternatieve economische 
modellen voorhanden zijn, of ontwikkeld kunnen worden, die deze 
onschatbaar waardevolle audiovisuele collecties op internet duurzaam 
kunnen maken. Wellicht moeten we daarvoor de paradoxale vraag 
beantwoorden wat een geschikt business model zou kunnen zijn voor de 
'digital commons', voor het digitale publieke domein?

Economies of the Commons richt zich op drie kernkwesties: strategieën 
voor duurzaamheid, nieuwe modellen en vormen van waarde-creatie, en 
het potentieel van creatief hergebruik van de publieke digitale 
bronnen - de 'digital commons'.

Onze belangrijkste vragen zijn:

- Wat voor strategieën zijn beschikbaar om de groei van deze nieuwe 
publieke kennisbronnen te bevorderen en hun duurzaamheid op langere 
termijn te garanderen?
- Hoe wordt waarde gecreëerd rond de 'digital commons' en hoe kan die 
waarde worden aangewend ten behoeve van het publiek belang?
- Hoe kunnen deze digitale bronnen worden geactiveerd als een 
creatieve drijfkracht voor de hedendaagse cultuur, hoe kan het 
hergebruik van deze ongekend rijke digitale bronnen worden ondersteund 
en gestimuleerd?

De voertaal van de conferentie is Engels

www.ecommons.eu <http://www.ecommons.eu/> 

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Programma-overzicht per onderdeel:

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Legal seminar on audiovisual archives and Intellectual Property Rights

Location: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum
Thursday April 10, 2008 - 10.00 - 17.00 hrs

Subject
Legal issues on digitisation and reuse of audiovisual content. The 
legal seminar includes two workshops on orphan works and clearing 
rights, and secondly on archives and open content publishing.

Speakers: Hubert Best (Best&Soames / FOCAL), M.H. Elferink (Utrecht 
University), Herkko Hietanen (Turre Legal), Mieke Lauwens (Netherlands 
Inst. for Sound and Vision), Meike Richter (Journalist, Hamburg) 
Sebastian Lütgert (Open content activist, Berlin).

9:00 Doors open

9:30                            Welcome (Sem Bakker)

                                Lectures:
9:45 - 10:15            Lecture: Hubert Best
10:15 - 10:45           Lecture: Mirjam Elferink
10:45 - 11:15           Coffee break
11:15 - 11:45           Lecture: Herkko Hietanen
11:45 - 12:15           Lecture: Sebastian Lütgert
12:15 - 13:15           Lunch break
13:15 - 13:35           Lecture: Meike Richter
13:35 - 13:55           Lecture: Mieke Lauwers

14:00 - 16:15           Workshops:
                                * The problem of orphan works and clearing rights
                                * Archives and open content licensing


16:15 Closing & drinks


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Economies of the Commons Conference: Day I

Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam
Friday April 11, 2008 - 10 - 18.00 hrs

10.00: Opening and Welcome

10.30: Conference Keynote:
Peter Kaufman: The Economics of Film and Video Distribution in the 
Digital Age

11.30: Panel 1: Audiovisual Archives
Audiovisual archives are at the beginning of a profound change in the 
way that they have traditionally operated for the last fifty years. 
This change is primarily the result of two key developments: [1] 
Digitisation of analogue material becoming an integral part of the 
working processes; and [2] New online services that emerge, such as 
video on demand and online repositories for education.
Speakers:
Pelle Snickars (SLBA), Poppy Simpson (BFI Screenonline), Tobias 
Golodnoff (Dansk Culturarv), Roei Amit (INA).

13.00: Lunch break

14.00: Panel 2: Commons-based Peer Production
The digital world of internet is increasingly conceptualised as an 
expanding universe of content that not just sits there to be looked 
at, but that also can be re-used to create even more content. Much 
research has already been devoted to user-generated content and the 
processes through which that content is produced. But what are the 
economies of peer production? How do new developments compare to firm 
production and market-based production?
Speakers:
Felix Stalder (Open Flows), Jamie King (Steal This Film), Jon Phillips 
(Creative Commons), Sebastian Lütgert (oil21.org)
Moderator: Paul Keller (Kennisland)

15.30 Coffee break

15.45: Panel 3: European Digital Library
Individual efforts cannot meet the overarching requirements leading to 
ubiquitous access on a pan-European scale and do not accumulate to the 
critical mass needed to steer the research and development roadmap 
advocated by the industry. This gap is acknowledged by policy makers. 
Now European and national governments need to take responsibility to 
close the gap.
Speakers:
Paul Doorenbosch (KB - National Library of The Netherlands), Jill 
Cousins (Director European Digital Library), Sonja de Leeuw (Utrecht 
University/ case: Video Active), Georg Eckes (Deutsches Filminstitut / 
case: European Film Gateway)

17.15: Wrap up first conference day


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Public Keynotes & Responses Friday April 11, 2008 - 20.30 - 22.30

Sustainable Images for the Future

Introduction
The Friday night of the Economies of the Commons conference is 
dedicated to Images for the Future and the Commons. Edwin van Huis 
(Director General of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) 
will provide the introduction about the largest digitisation project 
in the Netherlands, Images for the Future.

Public Keynotes:

Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives): The Audiovisual Commons and the 
Social Contract
Rick Prelinger will focus on the future of archives demonstrated by 
the case of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 48.000 films of 
which a central selection has been added to the Library of Congress.

David Bollier (On the Commons): The Commons as a New Sector of Value-
creation
David Bolier speaks on the subject of value creation in open networks 
and how to link the Commons with government and industry.

Debate
We end the session with a panel discussion with the speakers, joined 
by Emjay Rechsteiner of the Dutch Filmmuseum about the Commons and 
Dutch audiovisual archives.

Moderator: Joeri van den Steenhoven (St. Nederland Kennisland)

This evening program is presented in association with Images for the 
Future.


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Economies of the Commons Conference: Day II

Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam
Saturday April 12, 2008 - 11 - 18.00 hrs

11.00: Panel 4: Uncommon Business Models
This panel will take on the subject of open business models. The 
workshop will be kicked off by two experts from related media 
industries that are arguably ahead of the curve.
Speakers:
Jan Velterop, CEO of Knewco and one of the leading experts on Open 
Access will give us an insight in the deployment of open business 
models in scientific publishing. Over the past couple of years Open 
Access has been able to provide a valid and sustainable alternative in 
this 7 billion dollar industry.
Jonas Woost, Head of Music at the pioneering music company Lastfm will 
pick up from there. In his presentation he will highlight how his 
company has successfully generated income streams in an industry that 
has shown to be particularly vulnerable in the open environment of the 
internet.
Followed by a panel discussion with: Peter Kaufman (Intelligent 
Television), Roei Amit (INA), Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives) and 
Eerde Hovinga (NIBG-tbc).
Moderator: Harry Verwayen (Kennisland)

12.30: Lunch Break

13.30: Panel 5: Intangible Heritage Resources in the (Non-)Western World
In our age of increasing global connectivity, cultural mobility and 
digital reproduction, intangible heritage is increasingly being 
appreciated, appropriated and exploited. Traditional music styles from 
various parts of the world have enchanted numerous musicians, scholars 
and admirers all over the world. Still, the preservation and 
transmission of intangible heritage faces an abundance of challenges 
and difficulties.
Speakers:
Joost Smiers (Prof. em. Political Science of the Arts), Shubha 
Chaudhuri (ARCE), Anthony McCann (University of Ulster), Wim van 
Zanten (ICTM)

15.00: Coffee Break

15.15: Panel 6: Professional Cultural Producers
This panel addresses the public content zone beyond that of user-
generated-content: the possibilities and problems related to making 
professionally produced cultural productions publicly available on the 
internet. What kind of revenue models exist for that? How is the 
public interest in accessibility squared with the need of 
professionals to make a living? What new and alternative distribution 
models emerge for professional cultural producers and cultural 
institutions?

Speakers:
Florian Schneider (Kein.tv), Kenneth Goldsmith (Ubuweb), Bauke 
Freiburg (Fabchannel / Culture Player), Chai Locher (NFTVM), Rick 
Prelinger (Prelinger Archives).
Moderator: Eric Kluitenberg


16.45: Coffee Break

17.00: Report from the Legal Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights
Report session of the most important results from the workshop on 
orphan works & clearing rights, the workshop on open content 
licensing, and the closing debate of the legal seminar on Thursday 
April 10.

17.30: Closing Session / Conference wrap up


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Mashup Cinema

Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam
Saturday April 12, 2008 - 21.00 - 00.00

Found footage and the digital commons
Public screening, live cinema & performance program

Found Footage has always been an important source of inspiration for 
experimental filmmakers. The use of 'found images' is not just 
affordable, it is mostly employed to attach a different meaning 
through a new composition of images to existing icons. With materials 
found on the floor, in the waste baskets of montage rooms, or in a 
dust bin outside the studio, filmmakers are conveying messages, which 
besides being pretentious or at times politically charged, can also 
simply be funny.
During this special evening about reuse of digital and analogue images 
you can expect a presentation by the internet's most renown film 
archivist Rick Prelinger. He will present a selection from his 
monumental archive  of 'sponsored' and 'ephemeral' films about media 
publics and media producers from the 1930s to the 1960s, which can be 
read as a historical commentary on our contemporary digital media 
culture.
Next to this a short-film program has been put together with films 
that attach a new meaning to existing analogue film materials.

These screenings are interspersed with short music and sound 
performances in which  music fragments are mixed live, sampled from 
digital remix projects such as ccMixter and Freesound, and historical 
sound samples presented by Kenneth Goldsmith (Ubuweb)

Films:

Outer Space
Peter Tscherkassky 10'
Suggesting a convulsive hall of mirrors, Peter Tscherkassky's 
widescreen tour de force Outer Space reinvents a 1981 Barbara Hershey 
horror vehicle, leaving the original's crystalline surface intact only 
to violently shatter its narrative illusion.

L'Arrivée
Peter Tscherkassky 2'
L'Arrivée is Tscherkassky's second homage to the Lumiére-brothers. 
First you see the arrival of the film itself, which shows the arrival 
of a train at a station. But that train collides with a second train, 
causing a violent crash, which leads us to an unexpected third 
arrival, the arrival of a beautiful woman - the happy-end.

Light is Calling
Bill Morisson 8'
A scene from The Bells (1926) is optically reprinted and edited to 
Michael Gordon's 7 minute composition. A meditation on the fleeting 
nature of life and love, as seen through the roiling emulsion of an 
film.

Beirut Outtakes
Peggy Ahwesh 8'
The cellars of a traditional cinema in the entertainment district of 
Beirut are opened after years of being hermetically sealed. Peggy 
Awash constructed a veritable time machine out of the film materials 
found there, with a spoken montage of old Lebanese drama and western 
action movies.

Gravity
Nicholas Provost 6'
The reassuring world of multiplied cinematographic kisses is shattered 
by a stroboscopic effect that plunges and looses us into the dizzying 
vertigo of the embrace where, as often in Provost's cinema, love 
becomes a passionate battle in which monsters are finally unmasked.

Bitches Brew
Heidrun Holzfeind 11'
Sampled from mostly male directed movies from the 60s to today, the 
video shows women who take back control and power, fight off their 
attackers or take revenge on their assailants. A man's nightmare!

The Mashup Cinema program is presented in association with balie cinema

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LOCATIONS:

De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10
Amsterdam
www.debalie.nl <http://www.debalie.nl/> 

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Sumatralaan 45
Mediapark
Hilversum
www.beeldengeluid.nl <http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/> 

Conference website and dossier with suggested reading materials:
www.ecommons.eu <http://www.ecommons.eu/> 


 

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