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/// from "Gallery 9 / Walker Art Centre", 01 jan 2001
/// http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/lifesharing


0100101110101101.ORG / life_sharing

[…] life_sharing is an anagram of "file sharing". life_sharing is a
computer sharing its hard-disk with the whole world, making all its
contents accessible via Internet. "All" does’t mean a directory of the
hard-disk but the whole content of the computer: programs, system (all
the software used is open source), desktop, archives, tools, ongoing
projects, mailboxes and so on. From the moment life_sharing started,
every Internet user has free access twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a
year to 0100101110101101.ORG’s computer: they can rummage through
archives, search for texts or files they’re interested in, check the
software, watch the "live" evolution of projects and even read
0100101110101101.ORG’s private mail.

Users can access the contents through their browser, thus no particular
technical abilities is required, only the basic notions necessary to
surf the web. The computer contents are not periodically uploaded -
thing that is usually necessary to update a web site - because
0100101110101101.ORG is working directly on the shared computer - the
web server - so that users follow the development of the work in real
time, they are always present and up-todate.

The idea is both simple and full of implications that go beyond the
concept of a work of art being an object of contemplation, and raises
political, sociological, philosophical and informational issues.
life_sharing determines and underlines problems and contradictions that
are no loner aesthetic, they are ethical.

The first of these problems is evidently privacy. life_sharing
represents a radical subversion of the concept of privacy, a clear
inversion of the perspective from which it has always been considered
and discussed. life_sharing is the "empirical" demonstration that on the
Internet is possible to experiment new forms of interaction and
networking, on the condition that we are willing to leave evidently
obsolete practices behind us. It is not a utopia, it is a practice that,
once started, is going to become part of our everyday life.

Another issue raised by life_sharing is the intellectual property
question: the proposal is not a complete abolition of copyright, but its
substitution with the GPL (Gnu General Public License -
http://www.gnu.org ).

Extract from the Gnu General Public License: "Licenses for most software
are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By
contrast, the GPL is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and
change free software - to make sure the software is free for all its
users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
Foundation’s software and to any other program whose authors commit to
using it. You can apply to it to your programs too. When we speak of
free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General
Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to
distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you
wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that
you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs;
and that you know you can do this things. To protect your rights, we
need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or
to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to
certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the
software, or if you modify it."

Untill now, the GPL, has been applied only to programs, with great
succes both economical and "cultural". 0100101110101101.ORG wish to
apply the open source model (so a license directly inspired by the GPL)
also to works of art. This statement is a concrete proposal: to truly
share intellectual properties, beginning from our own, every day.

First published by Gallery 9 / Walker Art Centre for life_sharing by
0100101110101101.ORG http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/lifesharing


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