FreeP

= exploring the peer production model to create copyleft free/open source content.

URL = http://f.reep.httpdot.net/

Description

.f.reeP_ investigates the recent concepts driven by information technologies such as free/open source movement, copyleft attitude, distributed computing, p2p, crowdsourcing, peer production, network economy etc. and what also explores what they may have to offer for artistic creation and contemporary art in the age of information technologies in order to influence social, economic and cultural life through re-examining some notions of art such as culture industry, appropriation, authorship, relational aesthetics, gift economy, multiples, use value of art etc. .f.reeP_ is free and peer oriented_

.for .f.reeP_ projects, .-_-. works with crowds and communities as peers to experiment on the potential of artistic creation of the peers, to debate on the notions of art, culture, life and information technologies and to create free/open source copyleft content and artworks that can be shared and appropriated freely so that new works and concepts can be developed. The process itself, where each peer is free in all means of contribution and chooses his/her way to be creative, features a form of relational aesthetics, where there is no art at all or everything is art. concepts, contents, works and whatever else created as a part of .f.reeP_ is distributed/shared on internet with free formats to encourage peers all over the world freely share, study and appropriate the featured copyleft content_

.peers all over the world and p2p networks are proposed to determine the value of what is created (if there is or there will be any) by sharing and appropriating, and websites and blogs as well as other platforms by linking, appropriating, hosting and sharing the featured content. this is the way .f.reeP_ proposes for determining the real use value of a work of art, content or concept. each .f.reeP_ project builds on the experiences of the previous ones, whether backing up or challenging the concepts of those. .f.reeP_ is experimental_ "

.recent .f.reeP_ projects_

". .re_potemkin (Re Potemkin‎);: a copyleft crowdsourcing free/open source cinema project_: re_potemkin is one of the very first examples of demonstrating and investigating the potential of using crowdsourcing to create a film_

. .complaints choir of basic design: (as) a free copyleft peer production project_ : complaints choir of basic design is based on the original concept by tellervo kalleinen and oliver kochta-kalleinen to explore the peer production model to create copyleft free/open source content.

. .aa_: an anonymous distributed identity project_: this .f.reeP_ project is simply to create an identity with an e-mail account and to distribute its password on a blog to let people to build a distributed identity which can be appropriated for anonymous distributed responsibility of any act. the name chosen for this distributed identity (which is mentioned as “aa” here) is not announced here or any other medium as a part of .f.reeP_ but it is yours to discover and appropriate if you happen to find it out. this distributed identity already has many online accounts and everyone who adds a new account for it announces its password and info on the blog."