I think that once you liberate the code, you put yourself in a place
where you are forced to become more creative and move beyond the
original idea.There are 2 ways to think about this: you can hold on to your idea, and
it will only grow out of your own experiences with it. Or you can let it
go, and be inspired by how other are using your creation.At the root, it comes down to respecting the idea. If it is not ready to
be shared, then it should not be shared. Once it is ready, I think you
have to let it go, and enjoy it’s effects on the world around you. This
is true for any medium. It is about having respect for your idea. I
agree, it is a very hard switch to make, especially with code, because
it feels like people can copy what you have done much more easily than a
painting. You can always get a Creative Commons License on it that
specifies that the person interested in using part of, or all of your
code, contact you first – but that it is open to use.The greatest thing about technology is that it fosters collaboration of
ideas…. and to think that collaboration is not part of your process,
then you had better not look at the source code of a nice site/piece
ever again, or for that matter, stop thinking about process altogether.
Code is about copying & pasting – it is remixing what the person before
you has done with what you have done. This is also true across all mediums.How well have you taken the ideas of the past, remixed them, and made
them new again?I think it is also important to look at why your piece is successful.
Does your piece rely on you knowing something about programming to fully
enjoy the piece? If your piece relies on the fact that you made some
genius little script to ‘wow’ the viewer, then that leads me to think
that your code could be considered part of the art.these are just a few ideas…
On one hand, the whole world has changed on the internet since February, 2006. Then again, all of the same principles still apply. This still leaves open the question, what constitutes as Art from here forward?
Here is the original Rhizome thread.
]]>Kepler, An Opera by Philip Glass will make it’s U.S. premier this November at the Brooklyn Acadamy of Music (BAM). Dennis Russel Davies will be leading the Bruckner Orchestra Linz through for 3 nights of Kepler.
Philip Glass’s opera, written expressly for Landestheater Linz and Linz09, deals with the intellectual cosmos of the great astronomer.
Johannes Kepler lived and worked in Linz from 1612 to 1627. The opera raises fundamental questions of the kind that Kepler worked on all his life and that he hoped science would be able to answer. Historical ruptures in the wake of the Counter Reformation shaped the world into which the astronomer and mathematician was born in 1571. Surrounded on all sides by war and religious strife, he sought to decipher the divine order hidden in the “book of Nature”, in the unshakable belief that his efforts would be crowned with success. “God has based everything on numbers”, was the motto that inspired his research. Philip Glass, one of the best known composers of our time, bases his approach to Kepler on the astromer’s conviction that “without genuine knowledge life is dead”. - Glass Notes
An Opera by Philip Glass
Part of the 2009 Next Wave Festival at BAM
Libretto by Martina Winkel
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
Nov 18, 20 & 21 at 7:30pm
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And yes, Juliette and I have a 4 month old named Kepler Cezzar Zilar. He was named after Johannes Kepler. It was mere coincidence that Philip Glass did an opera of the same name. Also a coincidence that NASA launched the Kepler Telescope into space last May, after we had chosen the name. NASA’s Kepler Mission went into full operation July 24, 2009, one day after our Kepler was born.
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