culture
This is one of the slides from Andi Zeisler’s talk at CreativeMornings/Portland as part of our theme month on Rebel.
Andi Zeisler is the co-founder and editorial/creative director of Bitch Media, a national nonprofit organization best known for publishing Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, which for 18 years has fused feminism and cultural criticism in a witty, readable quarterly publication. This is their mission statement. Watch her talk. →
This is one of the slides from Andi Zeisler’s talk at CreativeMornings/Portland, quoting Thomas Frank, as part of our theme month on Rebel.
Andi Zeisler is the co-founder and editorial/creative director of Bitch Media, a national nonprofit organization best known for publishing Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, which for 18 years has fused feminism and cultural criticism in a witty, readable quarterly publication. This is their mission statement. Watch her talk. →
The ability to reuse and remix is so baked into our tools, it has rewritten our culture.
We learn to make great art by copying, and we participate in our culture by reusing and modifying what we see. But the law hasn’t caught up with our changing values, effectively criminalizing the creativity of millions. Cover songs on YouTube, fanfic, mashups, and supercuts all violate copyright, and lawyers are starting to find new tools to discover and enforce infringement. Welcome to the new Prohibition.
Andy Baio is a writer and coder who loves making things. His most recent projects are XOXO, a festival and conference celebrating indie artists and hackers, and Playfic, a community for writing and sharing interactive fiction. He helped build Kickstarter, produced Kind of Bloop, and created Upcoming.org, the collaborative calendar acquired by Yahoo in 2005. Original reporting on his blog, Waxy.org, has been featured in the New York Times, Wired, and NPR.
“We need to create a culture of accepting mistakes and actually rewarding people who are at least trying.”
—Tegan Martin-Drysdale
—Tegan Martin-Drysdale
Shorts Saturday!
We’ve pulled some of our favorite takeaways from popular talks to give you 2-5 minute videos packed with inspiration and motivation. The perfect length for a quick break between projects, or a preview before seeing if you’d like to watch the full 20 minute talk. Check them out.
Watch more shorts here.
I see software as the testing ground for the future, a place where we can put on our training wheels and get our ethics right and develop cultural and social norms for how technology should relate to humans.
Jonathan Harris, Founder of Cowbird
speaking at CreativeMornings/NewYork (*watch the talk)
“Play proceeds culture.”
Joe Coppard, Interactive curator, creative and consultant
speaking at CreativeMornings/Stockholm (*watch the talk)
The speaker for the July 6th, 2012 edition of CreativeMornings/Vancouver was lawyer, entrepreneur, publisher, radio panelist, digital media innovator, arts advocate and self-titled “junk yard dog” Sandy Garossino.
Touching on topics from women in creative professions (her daughter is popular indie musician Grimes) to the need to protect democracy on the Internet, Garossino engaged the audience with her inspiring ideas and thoughtful challenges, ending the morning with a call to arms to everyone in the room and watching to raise the statue of arts & culture, and increase the value of creativity as a way to build a great city.
A big high-five to Ryan Mah (@Unisonpress), Mahyar Saeedi (@MahyarSaeedi), Jake Hermiston and Matthew Shettler for video production.
We need to raise the stature of arts and culture. We need to value creativity. That’s how you build a great city.
Sandy Garossino, Founder and CEO of Intellex Legal Project Management Inc.
speaking at CreativeMornings/Vancouver