OPEN CONGRESS
07-08/10/2005
This congress is focused on defining and assessing the relevance, viability, availability, applicability and perception of ÂOpen Source vs ÂFree Software. Does it have a future? Is that future one that can be predicted?
I've definitely overdosed on coding, significances, the ascribing of information as properempoweringment, ownership...etc. It all gets a bit political and there seemed to be an obsession with constructing Âtools to Âmake the ÂartÂ, and not 'art' itself... but there you are. Maybe I slept through the critical stuff? There was a chance for some very useful exchanges of views with other members of the course and that proved fruitful.
There seems to be a concern regarding the ownership of the tools. On the one hand, this concern with coding may be a result of singular passions to construct an edifice for the purpose of manipulating the properties found in virtual reality. On the other hand, the coding is ultimately a tool for facilitating communication. ItÂs use depends on both itÂs usability [is it user friendly?] and its qualities and characteristics .does it do the job and does it do the job well enough?
Skills are necessary to convey meanings and perceptions, but unless the meanings and perceptions are clear, concise and significant, there seems little justification for embarking on these projects aside from curiosity.
That is not to say curiosity in itself is not valuable! Skill acquisition suggests ideas what comes first? the chicken or the egg?
But I fear that an obsession with mapping out boundaries [or even destroying boundaries] of itself, is no guarantee of originality of thought ..the Âeureka momentÂ.
This congress is focused on defining and assessing the relevance, viability, availability, applicability and perception of ÂOpen Source vs ÂFree Software. Does it have a future? Is that future one that can be predicted?
I've definitely overdosed on coding, significances, the ascribing of information as properempoweringment, ownership...etc. It all gets a bit political and there seemed to be an obsession with constructing Âtools to Âmake the ÂartÂ, and not 'art' itself... but there you are. Maybe I slept through the critical stuff? There was a chance for some very useful exchanges of views with other members of the course and that proved fruitful.
There seems to be a concern regarding the ownership of the tools. On the one hand, this concern with coding may be a result of singular passions to construct an edifice for the purpose of manipulating the properties found in virtual reality. On the other hand, the coding is ultimately a tool for facilitating communication. ItÂs use depends on both itÂs usability [is it user friendly?] and its qualities and characteristics .does it do the job and does it do the job well enough?
Skills are necessary to convey meanings and perceptions, but unless the meanings and perceptions are clear, concise and significant, there seems little justification for embarking on these projects aside from curiosity.
That is not to say curiosity in itself is not valuable! Skill acquisition suggests ideas what comes first? the chicken or the egg?
But I fear that an obsession with mapping out boundaries [or even destroying boundaries] of itself, is no guarantee of originality of thought ..the Âeureka momentÂ.
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