rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

I gave presentation last connecting up my artistic/creative trajectory, involvements with Open Source, Open Content, Creative Commons, on into new projects, exemplified through Cantocore (at present). Thanks to all who came out, watched some of the pixellated videos I presented, and laughed at a few of my bad jokes

A big super thanks to Pat and Gwen for having me speak at the well-respected Electromediascope program. Also, please check out Mark Daggett’s work. He presented the week prior and his presentation sounded much more high-level and put together than my open diatribes. He held me accountable on a few topics I’ve become lazy about differentiating like the diffs between Free Software and Open Source, and Open Content.

Here is the slide show:

While in SF and BoCoMo (Boone County, Columbia, Missouri), I have been mulling many ideas and plans over deeply. After I get back to Guangzhou in time for the Cantocore Export Opening (and then onto Beijing), I am going to be doing some internal code review, drop some files on the floor, and churn out more writing. I’ve been spending massive time in the applied arts, and not so much in more theoretical and pure research. Don’t worry, I’m not going to spin out in “prep” mode or anything. It is just a good time to clean house

Oh, and I forgot to give a summary of my talk last night: I build remix communities which make systems for producing objects. Currently, I’m making cultural remixes.

So, it seems that Sound Systems harassment happens both in real space and in the virtual world, as has happened to me now in both places.

So, similar to sound systems that I built with Natty and Matt Hope, I one day decided to try and get more people to build in CC’s space on Second Life by buliding the (virtual) world’s largest sound system.

I did a pretty good job of making the speakers of all different types, licensed them properly with the hopes of getting more people to copy and make their own sound systems, in the true Jamaican Sound System way.

Anyway, I forgot about this mini-project from time to time, but then started to get these negative comments about having to remove this sound system from the already nearly-empty space of CC SL land. I stuck to my guns and said anyone can change them, yet no one really did. Time went on and one day I got an email out of the blue for them to be exhibited at big art show at 798 space in Beijing, in real life. Finally, someone appreciated this creation

Well, now, again, I’ve received the request to remove them, and I enabled sharing for all the speakers, with the same “Open” attitude as with Open Source, Wikipedia, etc. It looks like there is going to be restructuring, so I wanted to make sure things are mobile.

I suddenly realized the same situation is now happening that happened before when I had a sound system: the harassment and hating of bass that comes from people who are either not partaking (partying) around a system, who created it, or who belong to the sound system crew.

So, yet again, there is more support that the virtual mimics the physical. And, with the addition of virtual limitless copying, I challenge anyone to copy these speakers, modify them and do something, rather than nothing in the metaverse.

In fact, I will make sure that anyone who participates in spreading these speakers, modifying them, etc, gets credit at the show in Beijing, China, when it happens. Now there is a resume/CV incentive! Are you in?