Strategies for Sustainable Access and Creative Reuse of Images and Sounds Online
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 Shared Aesthetics of Clashing Voices (essay)
Essay part of an ongoing (2007-) project on the shared aesthetics and historical aspects of narrow-interval music traditions in Southeastern Europe. In highland parts of Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia and Bulgaria, performers of narrow-range vocal and instrumental polyphony experience unusual intervals (e.g. of a minor second) as harmonious. Interestingly, the practice of narrow-range polyphonies appears to be essentially multi-ethnic (this is why I call it a shared aesthetics of clashing voices). Western conceptions of consonance and dissonance do not provide adequate tools for an understanding of these aesthetics. Neither did numerous speculative hypotheses of the music's lineage provide truly productive insights. Research for the essay is supported by Prince Bernhard Culture Fund.
[More coming soon.]
Recalling RFID (19-20 October 2007)
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
More follows... [under construction]
richard de boer [risjaar AT tiscali.nl]
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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.
More info: 
Essay part of an ongoing (2007-) project on the shared aesthetics and historical aspects of narrow-interval music traditions in Southeastern Europe. In highland parts of Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia and Bulgaria, performers of narrow-range vocal and instrumental polyphony experience unusual intervals (e.g. of a minor second) as harmonious. Interestingly, the practice of narrow-range polyphonies appears to be essentially multi-ethnic (this is why I call it a shared aesthetics of clashing voices). Western conceptions of consonance and dissonance do not provide adequate tools for an understanding of these aesthetics. Neither did numerous speculative hypotheses of the music's lineage provide truly productive insights. Research for the essay is supported by Prince Bernhard Culture Fund.
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.
