Open culture

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Andy Müller-Maguhn at the Open Cultures Conference 2003

Open culture ( English for "open culture") is the catchphrase of a movement that is looking for alternative concepts in the information society. The utopias of free access extend - united under terms such as open , free and common - over many areas from technology and computer science to culture and art .

Open Culture connects creators who are not active for purely commercial reasons with users who for economic reasons are difficult to access proprietary intellectual property, culture and products. In addition, creativity should be free and not restricted by the interests of business and politics.

This is expressed in the concepts such as

  • free publishing (with the help of internet blogs etc.)
  • the distribution of free visual and audio works ( free content )
  • free access to education and free databases ( open access )
  • In the IT area, the development of free programs with free insight and further development of program codes ( free software , open source ), the creation of freely available specifications ( open standards ) that are used in free formats and standardized interfaces , among other things ,
  • in the technical field of free hardware and
  • in health care Open Medicine (e.g. with access to free databases).

Also free music and Vores Øl ( Danish "our beer") follow this idea. The first example in the field of Open Movie is the film Elephants Dream , which was created using only free software.

Open Cultures Conference in Vienna 2003

The conference OPEN CULTURES - Free Flows of Information and the Politics of Commons took place in Vienna from June 5 to 6, 2003 . At this event, experts discussed free access to information, free software, patents, alternatives to knowledge monopolies, wireless community networks, open distribution channels and new forms of artistic expression. Various artists, journalists and founders of organizations promoting free software spoke at the conference. Among the participants were, for example, Armin Medosch (as a representative for the online magazine Telepolis ), Sascha Kösch (editor of the magazine De: Bug) , Andy Müller-Maguhn (then one of the directors of ICANN ), Bruce Sterling (science fiction Author and columnist for Wired magazine) and Eben Moglen (as a representative of the Free Software Foundation ).

Festival paraflows .8 Open Culture in Vienna 2013

From September 12th to October 12th 2013 the festival paraflows took place in Vienna under the theme OPEN CULTURE . paraflows was devoted to the topic of OPEN CULTURE in a comprehensive retrospective, accompanied by a symposium and a series of concerts . This festival encompassed a multitude of heterogeneous concepts that could not be reduced to digital culture: among others the concept of the open source movement, the open access idea and the fight against regressive copyrights.

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Wikibooks: Open Culture  - Learning and teaching materials