links for 2007-04-13

"There was an article on open source filmmaking in The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday entitled ‘How audience power could shape the future of movie-making'."

"For all the talk about the activity of the contemporary art market right now, you'd think there'd be a product to back it. Leaving Chelsea this Saturday I felt like I was reliving the dot com boom: everybody's investing in empty products that do nothing,

"Mark Tribe and Reena Jana have released their survey of new media and net art, New Media Art (Taschen, 2006) as an open source, cc-licensed wiki. Rock on! "

"The advent of open source software has produced more than lower software costs for users. It has also created major changes in the economic interaction among players in the software ecosystem."

"Read the following, bearing in mind that most dealers out in our art world are talking loudly about an immanent collapse of the art market. They think we are living in a bubble that has to pop sometime soon."

"Yes, the western academic world is very much like Weimar Germany, finding itself in a situation of losing power and influence. Fortunately, the countries that matter now are China and India, and the Chinese and Indian experts do not share the mood of doo