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report: RomaEuropa FAKE Factory@LPM09
report: RomaEuropaFAKEFactory @ LPM 2009
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We’re just back from the intense 4 days of the Live Performers Meeting 2009 where REFF (RomaEuropaFAKEFactory) held its new showcase.
LPM2009 really has been full of surprises, and we were more than happy to share the spaces of the Brancaleone with over 300 video artists from all over the world. From live video to electronic modding, up to incredible workshops and performances.
REFF curated the first day of the meeting, focused on “Digital Freedoms“.
Many people, groups and associations joined in the event.
Starting from Russel Carrens of myRMX, which we invited as an example of an effective business model enacted through smart usage of open licenses for music. This young startup (it didn’t exist 6 weeks ago) is creating quite a stir with its mobile application, allowing users to create remixes starting from the musics and samples of young artists, who get regularly paid and wonderfully distributed. “We want to make music an open process” is what Russell says about the project.
And then Brett Gaylor and Perpetual Art Machine.
Brett is a film maker up to really exciting projects. His OpenSource Cinema allows people to collaboratively create movies and that’s what he’s doing with his documentary “RiP: a Remix Manifesto”, telling the tale of mashup artist Girl Talk and describing the worldwide situation on creativity and intellectual property. RiP was shown during a workshop that explained how video artists could join in and submit their content to the project, contributing to the final version of the movie and getting their name and art shown around the world. (and for all of you videomakers reading: the process’s still open, and you’re all invited to join, here
Perpetual Art Machine was invited as a beautiful and effective example of the ways in which open processes for cultural promotion can turn into forms of art. PAM, founded by Chris Borkowski, Aaron Miller, Raphaele Shirley and Lee Wells, is an art project that created an online platform through which artists could promote and showcase their video productions. All the works are collected into a complex installation that, when exhibited, allows visitors to browse and live mix all the videos, creating one enormous and emotional performance.
“As a PAM member who’s work has been accepted in to the project we encourage you to list these exhibitions on your artistic resume”
This statement, written under the impressive list of PAM exhibitions, says it all: an open, cared-for, project, actively promoting videoarts and creating beautiful emotions.
We invited PAM at the REFF roundtable, and we were trying to get their installation here, but no money and time were available, so we agreed on getting the installation here on November, at REFF’s final event. PAM’s videos were showcased at the LPM2009 on a simpler dedicated setup for the whole duration of the meeting, attracting quite an interesting audience….
…..more here Art Is Open Source
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