Technology Manifesto
Technology Manifesto
By Sean Jordan
In “Part I: Cultures” from Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy by Lawrence Lessig, Lessig chronicles the struggles of John Philip Sousa during another period of technological confusion in our nation. Phonographs and Player Piano’s were spreading music in a way that Sousa didn’t like, he saw as a threat against the general public’s musical knowledge and abilities. We made it through that period with little to relate back to Sousa’s struggle, he was likely right we have as a culture to many degrees lost those Read/Write skills as Lessig described. I’ve never sang as Sousa’s described and that is a little sad, I have though been to a rave party and that is something Sousa could never understand.
These’s fears of Sousa didn’t happen overnight and they where quit the prediction seeing as Sousa hadn’t even seen a radio before. The Player Piano and phonograph certainly couldn’t have done the cultural damage that radios did, and that progressed to the car radio allowing hours of listening pleasure. And a phonograph or record player couldn’t ride in a car, but the eight-track, tape, and then CD’s, and now mp3’s making music more mobile than ever. Well looks like the anti Sousa movement just gained ground in the last century
Though among all this change new opportunities have arose for creative expression. From the first radio show hosts just playing tracks side by side, keeping the tracks moving, to disc jockeys of the sock hops of the fifties and sixties, to DJ’s of the discos in the seventies and eighties, to the techno raves from the nineties to present. No one ever complained about there song on the radio our being played to dance to at a social event, because it is promotion. The delivery of the art has become as important as the art itself.
All of this may seem a little of subject from a blog about bicycles, but it gives you a background for how my belief system developed. Below I use a lot of terms to describe artful creations.
I believe that the spread of information is inevitable. That as an artist nothing should be more satisfying then to see your work travel through culture. And if it is adapted through remixing, and travels on further it should be no less flattering to the genius of the creation.
I believe that Artists should be able to make a living compared with the standards we all hold to quality of life. I believe in the integrity of live music, and through live music and sell out advertising the market should be able to reach equilibrium. I believe in remixed music as an original form of artistic expression. And in the theory of “de minimis use”, that borrowed parts don’t take away from the whole of the original.
I do not take part in any illegal file sharing because I do believe in the intentions of current laws and the attempts at protection of creative rights that they make. If I use any outside input on this site it will be with proper permission.
I would like to see the world come to a place of ethics and self governing, but until we can come to that point I would like to see artists representing there works with the creative commons license. Openly allowing others to distribute their art and adapt it to their own socio cultural groups. I believe that these actions will benefit the electronic community and culture as a whole.
Policies Governing My Work
“Treat others as you would like to be treated”
This Site was created no to take away from anyone or anything.
But to give credit where credit is due.
The creative commons license is used to allow the information on this site to travel freely and inform all of the opinions and knowledge of the site.
This site consists of mostly original photographs and Ideas.
All forms of media on this site were used in good faith, to spread knowledge and inform who ever is interested about track bikes and the Fort Collins happenings of the track bike community.
“If you’re not going to say anything nice don’t say anything at all”
Hopefully the information displayed on this site is only positively promotional. It is no motive of this site to tarnish reputations. The information may communicate criticisms, but they are all meant as constructive and not slander.
“Sharing is Caring”
Please share, copy, distribute and transmit my work
Please remix and adapt my work into bigger and better things
Please attribute my work to me in the manner you deem specified by the Manifesto above. (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse your use of the work)
If you alter, transform, or build upon my work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or compatible license.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
