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__Abstract__


This presentation intends to approach the evolution of the Estúdio Livre project in Brasil.

Born from an insight about free media tools necessities for research, development and production, the project has its cradle in the Programa Software Livre Paraná - a non-profit organization that promotes FOSS initiatives.

The goals are: to stimulate production of free/open media; to analyze the professional potential of free/open media tools; to collaborate with the multimedia FOSS community; to build coloboration between programmers, computer scientists with artists and media producers; to experiment the use of artistic meta languages, mixing new technological processes and contemporary concepts; to build new interface possibilities using technologies once considered obsoletes.

Estúdio Livre is unique as a collaborative Brazilian Portuguese speaking network. The interaction with its environment are presented through personal weblogs, medias for download, manuals for users, forums, research groups, discussion lists and other unique collaborative work tools.


Last year, a partnership with the Brazilian government - Ministry of Culture - delivered a support to the whole implantation process of Cultural Hotspots, a project that uses free media tools in creative processes as a way to improve the circulation of cultural 'goods'. Through an interface to estudiolivre.org, each Hotspot is now becoming mediactive in the network.

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However Estudio Livre work do not intend to be restricted to "ordered products" and it is open for donations, endorsements or specific consultancy looking for new ways to maintain its structure with its focus on support and maintenence of our community and research for implementation of colaborative tools and methods.
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This initiative is still restricted to the Portuguese language yet, but intends to interact very soon with the world wide net that also researches and develops professional and experimental media production softwares.



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__1. Free Software and its Process__

Free Software is a phenomenon that everyday is gaining more space both in media and in practics, beeing considered a privileged instrument for digital inclusion and technological development. It's widespread the image of open systems as activists of freedom in the "Information Age", capables of win "proprietary" monopoly. With this perspective, the free software is aproppriate as a flag and weapon against hegemonic models of closed information systems. Free software are more and more technicaly superior, safer than ever and maybe an econonomic alternative because of its open souce and free copies licence.

Otherwise, besides this usual speech brought important subjects to the media, as distances in technological development and Patent laws consequences, it fails on ignoring the characteristics that maybe are the most importants of Free Software phenomenon: its production dynamics, its rules of circulation of products and the changes in behaviour faced the ways its utilization logic. There's a difference between "proprietary" model not only in its materiality nature, but mainly in social relationships that it moderates. Actually, it's not correct to argue that free software it's better than "proprietary", but in fact that it belongs to another order. This order can be argued as more honest and better than proprietary.

Meanwhile a proprietary model is motivaded by competition, the free model is motivaded by colaboration and generosity. In any level of interactivity of free model, it's estabilished an horizontal relationship betwen producers and collaborators, that it's completly diferent from the relationship productor/consumer or server/costumer, that are qualitative unfair social relationships. Different from closed source softwares, the publishing with open source is part of its process of development - the moment that the collaborators will build it together.

Therefore, the new colaborative paradigm that we present is inspired in the way of free software production and in the structure of information cycles in the Internet, that should be understood as a new cultural PROCESS and not as a new cultural PRODUCT. This PROCESS can be defined as a cycle of cumulative feedback, that push the network to think and is based on information sharing as motor of technological inovation and of the PRODUCTION of cultural goods.

Could be intersting observe that coexistence of the variables PROCESS and PRODUCT (or PRODUCTION ), in a continuous fluxus of happenings, it could be better understood by the computational modern concepts of "fuzzy logic". Under a traditional Aristothelic logic, based on "True" or "False" statements, we usualy analise that some PRODUCT is a RESULT of a PROCESS. Fuzzy Logic works with ideas of complex scales calculated at limits of processings. Most humans experiences can't be just classified just as "true" or "false", "yes" or "no". We want to see all the implications and particularities in beteween PROCESS and PRODUCTS, to know and to learn about complex scales of interaction, by various perpectives. Working technology with human aspects: that's the way Estudio livre works.

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__2.Estudio Livre__


The free multimedia software are finding more barriers because of advanced state of media industry proprietary software. To fill this lacune was created Estudio Livre, an collaborative environment for people interested in production and distribuition of media made with free software and independent networks. The objective of website it's to support a community envolved in this research, production and motivation to circulation of collaborative cultural goods. The pieces can be freely distributed, remixed and retransmited legalized by the authors without any restriction to its acess - including monetary. Therefore, we can assume that Estudio Livre is envolved in production of new forms of media production and information technology research.

All the tools in estudiolivre.org environment are based in free software concepts, free knowledge ans technological apropriation. The motivations of interaction in this environment are throught personal weblogs, medias for download, user manuals, foruns, research groups, mailing lists and other collaborative tools.

At estudiolivre.org , the users will realize that in its virtual structure there're not just only informations in portuguese language, but also possibilities of interctive communication throught its network. Since then, they can feel that are not alone with this news, and can intergrate with more facilities to the process. The idea is turn this web site a reference for researches in portuguese language about multimedia production in free software and to motivate collaborative works in between members of this community.

To interact in the website, the users must regitrate their personal data, to inform the authoring of the material that it's beeing published (phonograms, images, audiovisual, softwares, texts, samples, etc.), and authorize, without exclusivity, its exibition and eletronic distribution at http://www.estudiolivre.org respecting the therms of website use policy. They have to confirm that agree with the collaborative licences, taking responsability about complains that may appeae reclaiming the authoring of material. They have to be conscious that estudiolivre.org don't have obligations about this distribuition or exbition (it will happen with the flow of community inside the website ) and will not own any reward by the licenced material. This warning is a summary of website "Therms of Use".

~~#FF0000:/* o paragráfo sobre aproximação entre desenvolvedores e produtores culturais ( "usuarios") esta desenvolvido abaixo...~~

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__3.Community__

''Developers: Open Source, Arts and Science.''


The utilization of open source software, with licences that allow sharing and recombination of their source codes is potencially a great asset for viability of a more interdisciplinar community that could put arts and science closer.

Extimulating this model of production, we support a space where the science can opperate with more innovation and arts can work with better engagement on development of techniques. A big problem of human relationship with arts production technologies is the fact of non-questioning on repetition mechanisms of "professional media industry". The computer is seen by the artists in the most of cases as a "closed box", that always will dictate aesthetical paths of its interfaces, attaching de cultural producer in a blind dependency of mass culture industry patterns and products.

In the case of open source software the productions follow a demand rythm and mutual colaboration where the developer has an immediate feedback of the artist and the artist can have a more advanced knowledge about the development of his working tools, as the production of these tools are not in a ethernal cycle of "industrial secrets". In this case a deeper knowlwdge of a self method od uses of machines is consequently estimulated and the potencial of customization of his production process is bigger and bigger, besides, bringing better interstests on science and technological techiques that made avaible his processes.

Otherwise, the scientists, mainly the programmers, can find in this enviroment a huge motivation to his creativity and a way to break the boundaries between his techniques and artists methods, stimulating the vision that produce a code, project an interface or build a machine should me so poetical and ludical as paiting a canvas or play a guitar. It brings back the image of the inventor, for this cold age of mass production industry.


''Artists and cultural activists: Colaborative Production Environments.''


The way that free software is developed is for shure one of the most sucessful models of organic and participative management of a collective work already known. The idea of collaborative producing using internet interfaces that allows code edition, veryfing differences between versions, discussion foruns and mailing lists supported the criation of complete operational systems that today are in some cases more efficients than proprietary software, for example, the web servers. This happens because is more inteligent and fast share the problems and "bugs" with an open community than with "secret" methods of decisions.

This vision influenced a lot the way of see artistic production in the beggining of this century. It's explicit that artistic production could reach its public directly without middlemen and getting directly the interested people, without have to mold itself to "marketing" aesthetics demands from its distributor ( in most of cases suppositions full of prejudice and fear of creativity). Artists could understand their own field of influence. Therefore, this generated necessity of going deeep inside the questiond of licencing this sharing of authoring, as every "consumer" is also a potencial distribuition or even a collaborator in his works.

One of the purposed solutions, that Estudio livre works in practics is incentive to this collaborative production using the sharing licences as Creative commons, for questions of copyrights. In this way the producer gives in advanced to his "public" the rights to be his partner in creative and/or distribuition of his works. By this way we can create this reationship here production and consumption are parts of the same cycle, where the profit is the aquired knowledge and one stronger and stronger social network that sooner or later will be supported by reliablility between comunity members. This production chain can pottencialy pass throught cultural and geopolitical borders possibiliting autonomous networks, more self-consciousness oftheir directions and more able to think their social and economic role of production.


__4.Conclusion__


The scope of Estudio Livre acting is concentrated on supporting approximation of cycles of free media production software and motivation of sharing and colaborate in this production and development. After all, it's a collective that counts on volunteers of community sharing interests for the autonomy and principles of its purpouses. In the other hand incentivate the participation of its more active members in consultancy and implementantation of projects that wants this work methodology, utilising the material and documentation of the website and bringing more self envolving in production of more contents for the website. Estudio Livre also accepts volunteer donations and institucional partnerships, since it's not against the collaborative policies and in the case of institucional profits the authors of contents had to be contacted.

The objective is incentivate cycles where the collaborative development of free software for multimedia production and the goods generated with this tools find a distribuition flow, support and sharing of theorical, practical and creative knowledge, creating a scenario of more participative cultural and technological production, generating a kind of consuption non-alienated in mass entertainment industry. We exepect with this more consciousness of social roles, as part of a interdependent, open and collective process.






KEYWORDS

Media Activism, Collaborative Environment, Free Culture, Open Knowledge



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Legenda: v - view, s - source, c - compare, d - diff

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03:12:40 de 29/03/12 fabs186.206.110.108+ link para o livro 11
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17:38:03 de 15/08/08 fabs189.32.1.163partnership and link updates, format corrections 10  v  s  c  d  
16:35:39 de 10/04/07 fabs201.3.219.217acrescentei o credito da tori 9  v  s  c  d  
01:20:13 de 01/04/07 fabs201.35.230.235credits 8  v  s  c  d  
05:12:01 de 15/03/07 fabs201.14.149.170tradução feita pela tory holmes 7  v  s  c  d  
20:41:59 de 12/03/07 vern86.133.139.203more changes 6  v  s  c  d  
17:05:15 de 12/03/07 vern86.133.139.203more text 5  v  s  c  d  
16:01:49 de 12/03/07 vern86.133.139.203Added a few things/changed grammer 4  v  s  c  d  
20:35:30 de 10/04/06 fabs201.22.34.50  3  v  s  c  d  
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23:47:45 de 11/02/06 fabs201.22.9.118  1  v  s  c  d