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What is art to iCommons

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Jamison · Oslo (Norway) · Sep 17th, 2007 4:26 pm · 13 votes · 7 comments

Jam tea Soul Bin, Jam tea Soul Bin, CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Jam tea Soul Bin, by Jam tea Soul Bin

i notice on the icommons site that the artists does not have a home yet, nor are "the arts" listed as something your able to pick as a search subject on the home page.

how do I define an artist or art ? i reckon the best art is something that is created without too many restrictions, the more restrictions on the art, the less artistic it is. so everything within our culture is art, yet some is more art than other.

reading the mission statement on the icommons site "icommons.org is a website for the stories and projects of social entrepreneurs that are building the digital commons around the world". the creative commons facebook statement that explains who creative commons is "i believe the laws governing creativity often neglect artists needs".

wiki: a social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. whereas business entrepreneurs typically measure performance in profit and return, social entrepreneurs assess their success in terms of the impact they have on society. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_entrepreneurship .

some social entrepreneurs are not focused on art and some artists are not social entrepreneurs. is it possible for the icommons mission to include an artist focus ? creative commons acknowledges that artist needs are neglected.

it would be good to see icommons become a place where all artists are able/welcome to meet/integrate and find solutions with creators.

some thoughts on how to do this:

* create a meeting point/place/forum that would connect sites/artists/creators. the idea being to bring the elements together and to create a node.

*bring artists to cc parties events & saloons, integrate a submission platform into the site.

some sites I have found recently

http://www.pluginamp.com
http://www.60sox.org
http://www.CultureLoad.net
http://openmusiccontest.org

*have icommons reporters seek out new sites for self publishing of art.

*cc & icommons workshops on how to explain & communicate CC to creators & artists with little knowledge of copyright.

*encourage people involved within the icommons community to connect with art and explain CC where they can.

tags: oslo norway education icommons creative commons art artist

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Hi Jamison. This is an interesting article. Don't forget that articles are more formal than emails so you need to use capital letters and all the syntax bells and whistles :)
Kerryn McKay (South Africa) · Sep 17th, 2007 10:35 pm
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i took the bells and whistles out, don't capitals just make some parts of the sentence more important than others. my compromise was all those stops and commas, yet i'm working on that.
Jamison · Oslo (Norway) · Sep 17th, 2007 10:58 pm
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You have to use capitals at the start of every sentence like in a book or magazine. Actually, capitals don't make things more important; that is actually an incorrect use of capitals. Capitals are for beginnings of sentences and 'proper nouns' eg: names. By bells and whistles I meant ... er ... full stops. Gotta have those ;)
Kerryn McKay (South Africa) · Sep 17th, 2007 11:07 pm
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i wrote 2 versions to this article and this version got published and the prior did'nt. so i striped this one right back. you can read the other version of the article at this link. http://www.icommons.org/articles/what-is-art-to-icommons

i like the relaxed vibe that goes with an article that does not have all the full stops and capitals. its kind of like an unplugged version of a song. sometimes the full production scares people away or sometimes the production does not represent the song. the concept of the article needs to be though about and developed, maybe. its all somehow related. thanks for your messages and support for the article.
Jamison · Oslo (Norway) · Sep 17th, 2007 11:43 pm
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I understand what you're trying to get at with a laid back vibe, but isn't that something that can be conveyed by the content of the article, not the form?. Very simply, I struggled to read you article. Capital letters help people know when a new sentence (which is usually the starting place for a new idea) begins. I like ideas. I'd like to know how to find them.
Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter (South Africa) · Sep 18th, 2007 5:24 pm
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i took a lo-fi approach to this article, under my definition of what is lo-fi. i can see that you guys don't agree with that. understand what your saying and take note.

it was more a reaction to this article not getting published that i took the lo-fi way.
http://www.icommons.org/articles/what-is-art-to-icommons
i sent out requests through icommons to 5-10 (high vote status) people, asking them to vote for the article when it was in the voting queue.

thought:
if every article that was in the voting queue was linked to the mailing list, this might make things flow a little better.

i understand that the site is developing. i'm a little chaotic with the way i express things in written word and in real life. i still reckon this lo-fi way has something in it though.

thanks for your comments.

Jamison · Oslo (Norway) · Sep 18th, 2007 9:51 pm
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I noticed that icommons mission has changed.

first mission statement.
iCommons.org’s mission is to provide a valuable service to the global commons community by providing valuable information and networking tools to the social entrepreneurs that make up this movement.

This makes things slightly clearer. What about a place where those that use the licenses meet those that create the platforms ?

Jamison · Oslo (Norway) · Nov 15th, 2007 7:21 pm
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