[-empyre-] July on empyre: Reclaiming creativity as agent of change

[Simon Biggs]

We would like to thank all those who have contributed to this month's empyre
discussion till now, with a special thanks to Saul and Julian. We welcome
two further colleagues for the fourth and last week's discussion, Michel
Bauwens and Simon Yuill. Michel is founder of the P2P Foundation and a key
figure in the development of both theoretical and practical examples of open
source culture and new forms of exchange and governance. Simon is a Glasgow
based artist, developer and writer with significant experience in the areas
of digital communications and participatory culture. We hope that our
previous guests continue to complement the discussion with their thoughts.

Michel Bauwens is founder of the P2P Foundation, a global collaborative
interested in understanding and promoting peer production, governance and
property in every domain of human life, as well as open and free (input),
participatory (process) and commons-oriented (output) paradigms. Its aim is
to see how the p2p ethic, open infrastructures, and institutional ecology of
peer production can become the new core social norm. With Frank Theys,
Bauwens co-produced TechnoCalyps, the metaphysics of technology and the end
of Man, a 3-hour TV documentary. The resource base is available via
http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net

Simon Yuill is an artist, programmer and researcher who has published
with MUTE, Variant and MIT Press. He is currently working on projects
with Constant VZW (Brussels) and The Strickland Distribution (Glasgow).
http://www.constantvzw.org
http://www.strickdistro.org

The July edition of empyre " Reclaiming creativity as agent of change" is
co-moderated by Simon Biggs (UK/Aus) and Magnus Lawrie (UK).


Simon Biggs | simon at littlepig.org.uk | www.littlepig.org.uk

s.biggs at eca.ac.uk | Edinburgh College of Art
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