Open Culture Festival supported by Viral Acaemy
- Transnational Food Festival (working with Francesco Morano at the University here - http://www.visualanthropology.net/ and - http://www.cucinalucana.it/) (with @k)
- Open Dojo - with the Kung Fu School of Matera (with @hazard)
- unMonastery Radio - and a distributed unconference on open culture (with @aden)
- Open Art School (with @lauren)
On the ground, the work that this residency would enable me to do, would be to work with local people to create a sustainable digital asset for Open Culture. We would run training courses at several venues around the city (the University, the kung Fu School, the Liceo Artistico, Mediatec, and Guerilla Office venues around the city. This would be an urban autonomous university on open culture! I’ve researched the venues, and with the exception of the Mediatec which we should know about soon, we have permission to run courses at all these venues. Working with the guys at Guerilla Office and some of the cafés and hotel lobbies we have found here with good wifi, we’d add to the map free spaces for urban learning.
These courses would extend the work of the Open Tech School, and in particular we would work on the following concrete applications to be presented at the Open Culture Festival in October. These would include:
- An open source server running a variety of services supporting open culture
- A development server for students to learn and contribute to these services
- Loomio and Share Tribe platforms for open democracy, local resource sharing, and a community market place
- Open Street Map, and open data assets integrated into the above platforms (particularly WordPress).
- An open source cross platform mobile application, built and created by local people, and celebrating the open culture event.
I would run these courses on the ground, based on the work already done, and support them with online training via the Viral Academy. My role would be to co-ordinate the festival, and work in close co-operation with existing and new projects that would like to take part in the event. I would also teach daily courses here and online, and seek to engage EdgeRyders and other remote communities in a co-learning process.
- Agile Project Management
- Festivals and Event Management
- Mobile App Development
- Teaching
- Coding for installations, servers, and mobile
- Science, biochemistry, medicine
- Art and installations
- Philosophy, writing, pitching, presenting
- Democracy, liquid, and gladiatorial
- a wide and diverse range of failures
- a student multimedia note taking system for Medical Students (1988)
- 15 CD_ROMS for commercial publishers
- a bunch of trashy advertising based websites and projects for a range of top-10 agencies in London
- interactive theatre, dance, music, and video installations including several arts council commissions
- one of the founders of Liquid Democracy, and developed Liquid Law and a range of democratic projects in art and real community projects
- developed and project managed the technical and Creative Commons licensing structure of a Vienna based community TV channel (OKTO)
- architex anonymous - early experiment (2004) working with Architecture and Design students using p2p teaching, mediawiki, wordpress and concept + geolocated mapping in Istanbul.
- open secret - 3 month residency working with Quintessenz based on the first ever hacking of the NSA
- FlowerBank and the Book of Money - early experiments with crypto currencies
- www.festivalofmint.org
- www.viral.academy