[-empyre-] how would it work

[adrian at cnmat.berkeley.edu]

>> > On Mar 19, 2010, at 4:54 AM, sdv at krokodile.co.uk wrote:
>> >
>> > > cynthia/all
>> > >
>> > > The logic of open-source seems to work in subsidized environment
>> like
>> > > academia where they are paid for teaching and perhaps a little
>> > > research
>> > > - but external to the academy how would an open-source artist
>> > > survive ?
>> > > I can see how the economics of it would work in West, with a false
>> > > economics of scarcity and with rich patrons investing in art objects
>> -
>> > > which rather obviously are not open-source objects, but still
>> without
>> > > these how would the economics work ?
>> > >
>> > > Is that it ? That the art academy supports artists, so that when
>> > > the few
>> > > produce art objects for patrons, they in turn then support the
>> > > generation of ideas for the spectacle ?
>> > >
>> > > Or is the model something else ?

There are lots of alternative models (and always have been): busking,
begging, trading,
recycling, stealing, property speculating (gentrification). Usually though
(in the west) open source open media and art are the bait for a
bait-and-switch where the engaged have to switch
to a paying model to serve their craving for the charismatica.