PACIFICSTREAM

Beg, Borrow, Steal?

What new legal and ethical limits will shape the fair use of intellectual and creative property? This session will interrogate the current situation many artists find themselves confronting in the age of globalization and digitalization. What are the emergent strategies of open source and copyleft licensing? How will these new ways of sharing information and innovation function as critiques of conventional systems of distribution and ownership? How will they transform international intellectual property rights law?

Artist as Entrepreneur
In what way does the artist's studio-or the idea of the artist's studio-function as a sign of the entrepreneurial drive of the artist? As a zone of independent productivity does it serve as a model for start-up industries? In 1971, Daniel Buren wrote in his influential essay "The Function of the Studio," that "the art of yesterday and today is not only marked by the studio as an essential, often unique, place of production; it proceeds from it." The conventional (and even mythological) definitions of what constitutes a studio have certainly transformed since Buren's attack, and the studio no longer functions necessarily as a site that frames and delineates process. But what is the studio, then? Does the contemporary artist's studio continue to function, as Buren argued, as just another "boutique" of consumer capitalism?

Location Location Location
In this delicate economic moment artists' studios and homes are encroached upon by real estate realities. Yet some artists are able to locate opportunity in this real estate crisis, creating new artists' enclaves. By reinventing civic structures and public domain, artists are reclaiming and reinventing public space. Models like Project Row Houses in Houston, the recent migration of New York artists to Detroit, and others in European cities will be deconstructed to distinguish these models for their inventive thinking about public land and municipal spaces.

Can creativity save the economy?- Can art save the economy?- What kind of economy will we need?- How do artists make a living?- Will art as we know it survive?- Are creative industries good for art?- Is art good for the creative industries?- Are artists forgotten on the list of creative industries?- Does creativity solve problems?- Can artists solve problems?