Rob Myers
Since 2003
Works in United States of America

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BIO
Rob Myers is an artist and hacker based in the UK.

I have been creating images of the contemporary social and cultural environment through programming, design software and visual remixing since the early 1990s. My work is influenced by popular culture and high art in equal measures. My interest in remixing and sampling has led to my involvement in the Free Culture movement. I have been involved in the public consultation regarding the Creative Commons 2.0 and CC-UK licenses. All my visual art is available under a Creative Commons license.

My interest in programming has led to my involvement with the Free Software movement. I developed the Macintosh version of the Gwydion Dylan programming language compiler. All my software is available under the GNU GPL.
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DISCUSSION

Four Freedoms After All


What freedoms do people need to work with culture? Or, to phrase the
question another way, what human rights exist as a result of the
existence of culture?

These freedoms may be disparate. Art may not need the same freedoms as
journalism. But different areas of cultural endeavour need access to
each other to continue the conversation of culture. Art draws on
literature and criticism, and vice versa. Even if one artist may not use
advertising imagery another may, or a musician the first artist enjoys
listening to (or is inspired by) may. This means that an individual may
not benefit from specific instances of use of their work, but will
benefit from the general ability to use others

DISCUSSION

Re: Open Source Art Again


Quoting Jim Andrews <jim@vispo.com>:

> Cool. What are five such "most successful software programs in use
> today, particularly on the Internet"?

In fact they qualify better as Free Software than as Open Source. They
are Free,
but they are not all developed in a participatory manner. I haven't made that
distinction at that point in the essay though, which is intended to build up
the hype before taking a look at what the hype is actually about.

That said, to answer your question:

Apache (most successful web server).
Eclipse (most popular Java development environment).
PHP (scripting language used on more websites than ASP).
Solaris (operating system used by most top web sites).
MYSQL (database approaching market majority).

Firefox (second most popular browser) is Free Software. MacOS X (second most
popular OS) and Safari are Free Software at their base as well. Java is to be
Free'd. The "LAMP stack" (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) for web development is
growing in popularity. PHP in particular is used on more web sites than
ASP for
example.

The trend in software in general is towards Free Software. Even Microsoft have
made some of their utilities Free.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Open Source Art Again


Yochai Benkler describes Open Source as a methodology of 'commons based peer production

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: regarding the On Colaboration reblog on the Rhiz front page


On 16 Sep 2006, at 16:03, Rob Myers wrote:

> instrumentalsation

Or instrumentalisation, if one proofreads one's emails properly
before sending them. ;-)

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: regarding the On Colaboration reblog on the Rhiz front page


Christina McPhee wrote:

> interesting, not sure how you mean this:
> , that the projects resulting from the UK sci-art funding , tend
> towards a semiotics e. g.
>
> 'in terms of'

"UK sci-art funding bodies perceive (or evaluate) the work's success in
non-art terms."

This is the problem with instrumentalsation of art by the state, and is
self-defeating.

- Rob.