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

Re: Re: Re: Re: the unrepublic of art


Erika Lincoln wrote:

> As "no man is an island" the same goes for art.

This is untrue. Paintings of Venice involve depicting islands, and
Christo wrapped islands to make an artwork. Islands may therefore be
art, and art may be islands, even before we get to nomination.

> [...] Perhaps the crisis is that, while maintaining
> these notions of art which are arrived at through the values of
> individuality, objectivity, and ownership, an art has emerged that
> does not fit into these criteria.

Which art is that?

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: T.WHID STARS IN DRUNK VID


Lewis LaCook wrote:
> on one level this is cute fun, on another it's why net art is dead

If we barricade ourselves into the mall possibly we can hold it off.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Commons Art Diagram


T.Whid wrote:

> The Commons Art Diagram has been released!
>
> http://www.mtaa.net/mtaaRR/news/twhid/commons_art_diagram.html
> <http://www.mtaa.net/mtaaRR/news/twhid/commons_art_diagram.html>

What's the license on that? :-)

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Gazira Babeli - first comprehensive survey of works in Second Life


Chris Rush wrote:

> In the spirit of opensource - Gazira has licensed much of her code

As the original author, Gazira doesn't have to license any of their
code. But if they do it is important that other users be free to use the
software effectively, so the complete code should be made available.

> via creative commons, and you can download it for your own us!

Licensing code using Creative Commons licenses is a very bad idea. They
are not designed for code, and Creative Commons do not recommend using
them for code. The GPL is much better for software.

If the code is GPL, when do modifications of Gazira's code made by other
users need to be released? Since Linden Scripting Language scripts run
on the Second Life server, just modifying and running the code on your
own objects or avatars probably means that no distribution has taken
place and so no modifications need to be released. *Unless* the modified
code is explicitly given to someone else, in which case distribution has
taken place but they have received the source code anyway.

The ability to exploit LSL scripts publicly while using the software
without distributing it means that the Affero licence might be better
for LSL scripts. The Affero license has been designed specifically to
tackle this kind of use, and it will be GPL-3 compatible.

Would running the script as part of a performance count as "public
performance of the work" as per the Creative Commons licenses? I
honestly don't know. If it does then this would work better than the GPL
to keep code public, but it might be better to still use Affero.

I appreciate that objects can be CC licensed in SL, but scripts on
objects should still be GPL-ed (or Affero-ed).

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Turbulence Commission: "Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence (AVAIR): Brad Kligerman"


Jo wrote:
> Ars Virtua

ars virua, vita verus est

- Rob.