Project:Religious impressions from the south by Lydia Halldorf
Posted: April 29th, 2009 | Author: LH | Filed under: IMAGES, PROJECTS | No Comments »
The two themes of this project has been “the end times”and the relationship between the Christian and the secular culture. Coming from the very secular country Sweden I could not help noticing how these two cultures tend to merge here in the south. The aesthetics and messages of Evangelical churches, and this subculture at large, has been one source of inspiration for me. Another is the author Flannery O´Connor and her cryptic, enigmatic stories on similar themes.
I chose this online community to help bridge the gap in my understanding of both the Open Source movement and the public domain. Like software developers, the members of the community have virtually no interaction beyond their participation on the message board (which is built on open source software). There are mainstream alternatives to this community in the form of tennis blogs and magazines that provide the equivalent of “firm produced software” because they have intellectual property rights on their products. In contrast, this tennis community is based around members’ discussing/debating various issues surrounding the sport and intellectual property rights aren’t asserted over its contents. Finally, this community deals almost exclusively in text, images, and video/audio files related to the sport. These are all units of creation that the public domain is concerned about.
