„The
idea of this project is to replace the regular exhibition space by an internet
based platform conducting the exhibition 71Gedichte. The technical challenge is
to keep all the benefits of the real life exhibition space and gain the advantages of the internet. These
media art works are made for the internet mainly using internet material. They
are accessible for everyone and for free.“
From: Boaz Kaizman <kaizman@t-online.de>
Date: 31 May 2011 16:03:51 GMT+02:00
To: rms@gnu.org
Bcc: boaz kaizman <kaizman@t-online.de>
Subject: a request
Dear
Mr. Stallman
I
would first like to express my true admiration for you and for your
way to work out your ideas. I am an Israeli video artist born in 1962
in Tel Aviv. I live and work for many years in Cologne/Germany. I am not a
computer expert but I very often use the computer for my art work. I am going
to start an internet project (see concept attached) - a video exhibition on
real time that will take place only in the internet. This exhibition and it's
artworks will be free for everyone and anyone could participate at the opening
and at the exhibition without needing to register. With this project I
wish to find out wether the internet can be a platform showing video art.
Attached
you can find my concept for this project and an information text
about some of my videos.
With
this mail I would like to inform you about my project and I will be very happy
to hear your opinion about it.
Yours
sincerely,
Boaz
Kaizman
P.S. Please
give me a sign that you have received my mail.
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: 1 Jun 2011 17:12:59 GMT+02:00
To: Boaz Kaizman <kaizman@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: a request
Reply-To: rms@gnu.org
It is certainly possible to distribute video
on the Internet, so I
guess the project is feasible. I'm
hardly competent to discuss the
idea in artistic terms. But there are
a couple of pertinent points I
can mention.
* Most Internet video distribution is done
in formats that are
obstacles to users' freedom, one way or
another. For instance,
Flash, RealPlayer, MPEG2, MPEG4. Some
of these formats are
secret, some are patented.
If you don't want your exhibit to be a force
against free software,
please use Webm or Ogg Theora. Those
are the formats that don't work
against freedom.
* The term "cloud computing" is
marketing confusion.
See
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.
Can you possibly avoid granting it any
legitimacy?
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree
(freedom-denying) software.
Use free telephony
http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/
From: Boaz Kaizman <kaizman@t-online.de>
Date: 6 Jun 2011 10:09:47 GMT+02:00
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Bcc: boaz kaizman <kaizman@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: a request
many
thanks - it is wonderful to see something is working.
I
am glad you mentioned users' freedom, this is also why I have contacted you.
I
do not only mean to distribute videos on the internet - but having an
exhibition's opening and later a 6 weeks long exhibition on the internet.
"cloud
computing" - I did not find a better term to describe what I wish to
do; to take use of existing platforms. For example, Facebook for
showing the videos and for communicating, exploiting Google and Youtube for
archiving the opening and the exhibition, and more. The only software to
be needed will be a Web-browser. Anyone
will have the permission to use, copy, and/or distribute the artworks.
Therefore
I contacted you - finding ideas and support realizing this idea following the
ideas of the free software movement.
Again, many thanks and sorry if I again have used
wrong terms,
Boaz Kaizman
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: 7 Jun 2011 01:55:10 GMT+02:00
To: Boaz Kaizman <kaizman@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: a request
Reply-To: rms@gnu.org
"cloud
computing" - I did not find a better term to describe what I wish =
to do; to take use of
existing platforms. For example, Facebook for =
showing the videos and for
communicating, exploiting Google and You Tube =
for archiving the opening,
the exhibition and more.
* These various services raise various
different issues, which is why
using one term to talk about all of them is
misleading.
For instance, you should not use Facebook to
show video. Not ever.
It uses Flash -- only!
However, YouTube provides the option of Webm
format, which is friendly
to free software. So use YouTube for
that.
When you say "use Facebook for
communicating", does that mean your
exhibit would push people to use Facebook?
I hope not, because that
is a very bad practice. It would
exclude me, for instance; I don't
have a facebook account as a matter of
principle. On stallman.org
you will find a button, "Not f'd",
and a section which explains the
bad things about facebook.
Therefore I contacted you
- finding ideas and support realizing this idea following the ideas of the free
software movement.
* The general idea of the free software
movement is that you deserve to
should control your own computing. If
you do your computing in
someone else's server, you lose control of
it, so that is a bad way.
See
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree
(freedom-denying) software.
Use free telephony
http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/
From: Boaz Kaizman <kaizman@t-online.de>
Date: 4 Mar 2012 10:24:18 GMT+01:00
To: rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a request
Dear
Mr. Stallman,
last
May I wrote you about my wish to create an online video exhibition and asked
for your advise. I thank you again for your answer.
Please
have a look at the exhibition's preview / testing phase. This
exhibition will start March 28th, 2012 and then will be accessible
for everyone.
I will be very glad hearing from you.
Yours
sincerely,
Boaz
Kaizman
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: 12 Mar 2012 09:46:58 GMT+01:00
To: Boaz Kaizman <kaizman@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: a request
Reply-To: rms@gnu.org
last May I wrote to you
about my wish to create an online video
exhibition and asked for
your advise. I thank you again for your
answer. Please have
a look at the exhibition's preview / testing
phase. This exhibition
will start March 28th, 2012 and then will
be accessible for
everyone.
* It is not easy for me to do this. I will
try to find a chance.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree
(freedom-denying) software.
Use free telephony
http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/
From: Boaz Kaizman <kaizman@t-online.de>
Date: 20 Apr 2012 10:59:23 GMT+02:00
To: rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a request
Dear Dr Richard Stallman,
I am very happy to inform you that the pilot
project - the online-video exhibition is going well. Even more than I expected.
I was inspired by your personal page mainly
by the strong and simple link between a word and its function. http://stallman.org/
Now people ask me - where could
you find your profit, if you, as an artist, give your work for free
and for every one? I answer them that I have no idea yet.
What would you answer them?
Yours
sincerely,
Boaz Kaizman
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: 20 Apr 2012 22:41:45 GMT+02:00
To: Boaz Kaizman <kaizman@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: a request
Reply-To: rms@gnu.org
Now people ask me - where
could you find your profit, if you, as
an artist, give your work
for free and for every one?
* I smell a straw man. I do not say
artists (or programmers) should
"give" their work "for
free".
I advocate certain freedoms for users.
In the case of art, I say that
people should _be free_ to share copies.
Sharing means
noncommercially redistributing exact copies.
I think it is fine for artists to sell
copies, sell tickets to
performances, sell fan merchandise, as well
as ask for donations.
Many musicians are already succeeding this
way. Meanwhile, I think it
is fine for painters to sell their
paintings, which is what they have
done for a long time.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree
(freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call
From: Boaz Kaizman <kaizman@t-online.de>
Date: 24 Apr 2012 14:30:29 GMT+02:00
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: a request
Dear
Mr. Stallman,
many
thanks for replying and for your answer!
May
I quote your answers?
I would be very thankful.
Yours
sincerely,
Boaz
Kaizman
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: 25 Apr 2012 11:45:13 GMT+02:00
To: Boaz Kaizman <kaizman@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: a request
Reply-To: rms@gnu.org
May I quote your answers?
* Ok.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree
(freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call
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