open source culture

First we had media art. In the early days of electronic and digital culture, media art was an important way of considering relationships between society and technology, and suggesting new practices and cultural techniques. (more…)

Over the last few decades our post-industrial culture that once worshiped the myth of individual heroics and thrived on fierce competition and the survival of the fittest, has been challenged by the idea that co-operation and sharing actually works to ones advantage. (more…)

ANAT’s still/open emerging technology labs recently travelled across Australia in pursuit of open access to knowledge. The thinkers driving the quest were Alessandro Ludovico (Italy), Beatriz da Costa (USA), Andy Nicholson and Elliot Bledsoe (Aust). (more…)

Wandering into the bright Brisbane sunlight, we enjoyed a moment of mental refreshment that the open air brings. A diverse group, equal parts ‘arty’ and ‘techy’, all keenly focused on the task at hand and infused with a vague sense of anticipation. (more…)