De Balie in Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, in collaboration with Knowledgeland, Images for the Future, and Virtual Platform, organize an international working conference on the economies and sustainability of online public audiovisual resources and archives, as well as opportunities for creative reuse.

Thu 10 April @ Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum:
09:00-17:00 hrs: Legal seminar on audiovisual archives and intellectual property rights, including two workshops on orphan works and clearing rights, and secondly on archives and open content publishing.

Fri 11 April @ De Balie, Amsterdam:
10:00-18:00 hrs: Economies of the Commons Conference: Day I, with a conference keynote by Peter Kaufman, and panel sessions on audiovisual archives, commons-based peer production, and the European Digital Library.
20:30-22:30 hrs: Sustainable Images for the Future, evening program dedicated to the largest digitization project in the Netherlands, Images for the Future, with public keynotes by Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives) and David Bollier (On the Commons).

Sat 12 April @ De Balie, Amsterdam:
11:00-18:00 hrs: Economies of the Commons Conference: Day II, with panel sessions on uncommon business models, intangible heritage resources, and professional cultural producers, a report from Thursday's legal seminar, and closing session.
21:00-00:00 hrs: Mashup Cinema: public screening, live cinema & performance program with Rick Prelinger, Kenneth Goldsmith (UbuWeb)...
 More info: www.ecommons.eu

 

The two-day public event Recalling RFID centered around the 'invisible' technology RFID (radio frequency identification) with a public seminar, two workshops and the Nabaz'mob smart opera. Initiated and organized by Richard de Boer (De Balie), Sabine Niederer (Institute for Network Cultures) and Rob van Kranenburg (Waag Society), the program brought together distinctive conceptions of RFID and its uses, reconfiguring discourses as dialogue.
 Recalling RFID: videos, reports, pictures

Affichekind van een magische toekomst: RFID en de dingen die gaan komen

[PDF, 1.4 MB], essay verschenen als bijvoegsel bij de maandfolder van De Balie (oktober 2007)
In vergelijking met de ons omringende landen weten in Nederland maar weinig burgers wat RFID is, ook al wordt het op veel plekken gebruikt. Het is dan ook niet vreemd dat het Nederlandse debat over RFID zich voornamelijk afspeelt in de relatief besloten sfeer van ronde-tafelgesprekken en seminars. Van de politieke partijen verdiept alleen de ChristenUnie zich serieus in het onderwerp. Het publieke debat in Nederland zou gevoed moeten worden met specifieke RFID-gerelateerde vraagstukken. [Lees verder]