Talk @ OpenKnowledge – Open Arts
The February 21th, 2015, at the Third Open Data Day organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation, was held the Open Knowledge Workshop – Open Arts at the department of mathematics and computer science of the University of Catania (Italy). On this occasion, rather than stick to the topic of open data by public authorities, the organizers decided to tackle the broader issue: the paradigms of Open Knowledge. All this with a particular focus on the production, promotion and enjoyment aware of the artistic and cultural heritage.
The first intervention was in fact held by a digital artists: Stefano Roveda.
Stefano Roveda told us about some of the interactive installations and distributed systems he worked with Studio Azzurro, an historical yet really important italian collective of artists to which he belongs. Was very interesting see how he, and his group, needed a lot of creativity in order to solve technological issues that today are much much easier. By doing that Stefano demonstrated us not just great invention spirit but to have put the basis of what interactive and digital art have been in Italy and how still matter what they did.
After Stefano Roveda I was invited to speak.
I presented Soñando Satélites as a case study in order to make a collective analysis around the topic open data – open knowledge. Projects like the Palestinian Space Agency, in fact, demonstrate how satellites are narrative art platforms that help to rethink old paradigms about geographical space. If its true we can use a lot of data from space devices because they are open by design, like TLE, what is exactly the object of our actions then? Do we have a goal?
It is interesting how the jurisdiction over outer space and important declarations like the Bogotá’s declaration of 1978 open up questions about governance of this common knowledge we have as humans. The outer space and satellites cases, are not just about the space but represent a different way to thinks about the commons (resource) in general.
And I believe that is very interesting addressing this topics from the arts
