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October 26-27th, 2011
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SHOW - Share Open Access Worldwide
SHOW (Share/OpenAccess/Worldwide) will be the first-of-its-kind event to celebrate Open Access Week in Croatia, held through October, 26 to October 27th 2011 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences within the University Campus in Rijeka, Croatia.
The idea is to raise awareness among Croatian students about the importance of free flow of information and open access to research literature, which is not a familiar term, by raising questions about what students are already well familiar with, i.e., intellectual property.
The students will be introduced to Copyleft movement, Creative Commons licensing, Open Projects, Open Content movement, Open Access movement and the Right to Research Coalition action and they will be invited to join the debate about the chances for the world of open values.
1. Tomislav Medak: Creative Commons Licensing
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Tomislav Medak is a philosopher with interests in constellations, contemporary political philosophy, media theory and aesthetics. He is co-ordinating theory program and publishing activities of the Multimedia Institute/MAMA (Zagreb, Croatia). He’s a free software and free culture advocate. He’s project lead of Croatian Creative Commons team and board member of international commons organization iCommons. He’s member of urban activist initiative Right to the City. He is a member of the Zagreb based theatre company BADco.
2. Round Table: Intellectual Property in a Digital Age
Both scientific and artistic achievements do not occur in a vacuum, they built on their contexts, "sampling" the intellectual environment of the time to create something new. Our digital culture has fractured information and the shards float freely in and out of attribution. Shouldn't our creative practices reflect this reality? Manifestos abound on the Web declare that ideas "are not owned by an individual or corporation" and should therefore "be freely available as seeds for more ideas, and not bound and haggled over by lawyers and politicians." In many ways, intellectual property laws are fighting a losing battle with new modes of creation and expression eroding the copyright model.
Speakers: Tomislav Medak, Nebojša Zelic, Neven Petrovic, Ivana Kunda, Debating Club
Moderator: Andrej Kljun
3. Aleksandar Blagojevic - Leader and Founder of Pirate Party Serbia: We are Open Source Beings - Let's Live That Way!
Aleksandar Blagojevic (Pirate Party Serbia): "You are an Open Source being. Your parents did not need a prestigious university degree in order to understand and learn how to have you. They also did not purchase the special "top USA company" licence to "make" you. They were in love - that was more than enough to bring you to life.
Please, take a look at the reality trough my pirate spyglass."
The Pirate Party of Serbia represents a new political movement in Serbia based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party. It was founded in February 2008 in Smederevo. Serbian pirates strive to ban copyright based systems, reform intellectual property law, protect freedom of speech, preserve and promote net neutrality, introduce liquid democracy in Serbia, improve physical education and defend personal privacy as basis for the sovereignty of the citizen.
4. Right to Research Coalition Webcast: Open Access and the Impact of Open on Research @ Hall no. 6
Webcast will feature John Wilbanks, a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and the former Vice President for Science at Creative Commons, who will discuss Open Access and how open has the power to transform research. This webcast will also feature Goldis Chami who will describe the student role as a catalyst for creating change on campus, using her personal experience at the University of British Columbia.
5. Movie: Rip Remix! Manifesto
Biomedical engineer turned live-performance sensation Girl Talk, has received immense commercial and critical success for his mind-blowing sample-based music. Utilizing technical expertise and a ferocious creative streak, Girl Talk repositions popular music to create a wild and edgy dialogue between artists from all genres and eras. But are his practices legal? Do his methods of frenetic appropriation embrace collaboration in its purest sense? Or are they infractions of creative integrity and violations of copyright?
You can be the judge and watch the movie.
Thursday, October 27
Publishing Open Access:
1. Sara Uhac and the Publishing Academy Rijeka: How to Publish and How to Publish Open Access
Special Focus on PhD Students
Sara Uhac is a PhD Researcher in Communication Sciences, enrolled in a PhD course at the University of Lugano specializing in Publishing Studies. Together with her higher studies, she currently holds the position of Head of Journal Publishing at InTech - Open Access Publisher, and she is responsible for determining, implementing and managing the publishing strategy for 50+ OA STM journals.
Publishing Academy Rijeka is an EU funded project that will train 35 bright bachelor students during 6 months in skills such as publishing, editing, proofreading, translation, design, marketing and librarianship.
2. Hrčak Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia: Presentation
Hrcak is the central portal of Croatian scientific journals. Hrcak offers the access to the journals following the Open Access Initiative. Counting more than 269 journals, this portal is supported by the Ministry of Science Education and Sports, developed and mainteined by the University Computing Centre and was initiated by the Croatian Information and Documentation Society.
"Total number of OA journals on the Hrčak portal is 129 (given that the total number of Croatian OA journals in the year 2009 by the end of June 2010 was 133). The number of volumes in June 2010 was 1079; the number of issues 2824 and the number of OA articles was 38265. The Hrčak portal is not really an OA repository, however, but the platform for access to Croatian OA journals," according to Ivana Hebrang-Grgić.
3. Bernard Koludrovic: "Drugost" - Journal Presentation
Journal of Cultural Studies "Drugost" (Otherness), publishes papers that examine the cultural studies as a discipline, or apply its categorically apparatus over a wide range of cultural topics. Previously published issues can be found here.
4. Ivana Hebrang Grgic - Open Access to Scientific Information in Croatia
Ivana Hebrang Grgic is an author of a paper titled Open Access to Scientific Information in Croatia: Increasing Research Impact of a Scientifically Peripheral Country. The study introduces some basic OA concepts and then switches the focus to understanding of such concepts in Croatia, and to OA awareness among Croatian scientists, librarians and governing bodies.
5. Presentation: <whatis> Free Energy
Introduction to Free Energy as a term and a concept with basic ideas explained. What is the difference between renewable energy and free energy, how free energy is accepted among the members of the scientific community and what are the theories of free energy research suppression. This and again, more than this, will be explained to you by Marino Franusic, a professor at the Faculty of Technology and Engineering in Rijeka, Croatia.
6. David Blazevic, Ervin Kamenar - Energy Harvesting: BAST Project Presentation: Autonomous Wireless Tire Pressure Sensor
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The BAST project includes analysis, design, and experimental study of a wireless autonomous sensor model for real time tire pressure measurements. The project is based on a concept labeled 'Energy Harvesting' which is the process of converting energy from external sources such as solar, thermal, wind & kinetic energy, to low-level electric energy. The model to be presented was built at the Faculty of Engineering in Rijeka, Croatia.
7. Debate: A Remix Manifesto: Digital Music and the Remix Culture
Using the tools of digital technology, even the simplest tools, anyone can begin to “write” using images, or music, or video. But, is our culture a Read-Only or a Read-Write culture? What are “the copyright wars” about today if not about new forms of creativity, or artists making new art?
What is the impact of the digital revolution on the music business? While disc jockeys use their technical expertise and play with bits of culture found in their digital cupboard, the outdated copyright laws are turning them into criminals. Should there be a change in the current state of copyright laws to legalize remix culture and bring us back the creative integrity? If music industry would treat this process more like a game, and less like a product, could it thrive financially from it in the future?
Speakers: Ivan Šarar, Davor Popdankovski, Pero Despero
Moderator: Luka Rodela
8. Movie: Steal This Film
Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property produced by The League of Noble Peers and released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. In fighting file sharing, the entertainment industry is fighting the fundamental structure of the Internet. Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property and was a talking point in the British Documentary Festival. Part One, produced in Sweden and released in 2006, takes account of the prominent players in the Swedish piracy culture: The Pirate Bay, Piratbyran, and the Pirate Party.
9. Ducks Records: Musical plus Visual Performance
Ducks Records is a collective of artists and non-artists working in various fields, gathered primarily around works of experimental music and sound art, but expanding into video production, performance projects, installations and collaborative theatrical work. The netlabel exists for about a year now. Based in Rijeka, Croatia, where they are trying to establish a greater sensitivity for experimental art in general, they build different sound-making-machines out of pieces of discarded whiteware, defunct computers, household utensils, "real" musical instruments mutated into somewhat "unreal" ones. They also work with field recordings and recordings from impromptu improv sessions in other people's apartments. Some of their music is simply a radio recording from the year 2430. All of their music is free for download.
All Day Activities for Wednesday and Thursday:
- Art Academy Students: "Free Information" Exhibition and Voting
We have invited students to show us the meaning of liberating information in a form of a painting, sculpture, photography or digital animation. We have also prepared awards for their work and came up with a board that will rate them.
You can send your applications by October 21st at 12 p.m. at latest to: show.prijave@gmail.com. You have probably noticed a promo poster in Croatian around the campus, but if not, you can find it here. Your work must be exhibited at the SHOW in order to enter the competition.
- Creating an Open Access Comic
Damir Steinfl works on comics and illustrations which are being published both in print copies and online since 1994. He has displayed his work in various exhibitions, more than forty of them, and he has participated in more than 15 comic workshops. He’s a founder of a non-formal Croatian avant garde comic collective Emisija Emocija. He will be our cartoonist for the SHOW and he will help us create an open access comic by all SHOW participants.
- Animations
We will display various animations during the event, whether this be a simple video from Nina Paley explaining that copying is not theft or one of RSA animations on education paradigms or one of Sparky-awarded videos or finally, our own SHOW video with some additional surprises
- Interactive Book Download
Send a link to one of our open access books that you have chosen for yourself and find it in your inbox when you get back home from the SHOW together with an online version of our colorful SHOW badge and a statement that you are an open access advocate.
- Peek and Poke Booth
Since 2007, Peek & Poke museum is one of the few permanent displays of vintage computing technology in Europe. Located in the centre of the city of Rijeka and spread across 300m2 of space, it contains more than 1000 exhibits of the world and local computer history, ranging from very early calculators and game consoles to rare and obsolete computers from the nineties. You will also find a library of books and magazines from the nineties era here.
- Pirate Booth
The Pirate Party of Serbia represents a new political movement in Serbia based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party. It was founded in February 2008 in Smederevo. Serbian pirates strive to ban copyright based systems, reform intellectual property law, protect freedom of speech, preserve and promote net neutrality, introduce liquid democracy in Serbia, improve physical education and defend personal privacy as basis for the sovereignty of the citizen.
The party was a founding member of the Pirate Parties International.
Want to wear the "I'm a Pirate" T-shirt? Be sure to grab your own!
- Student Union Booths
We have invited most student unions in Rijeka to show us their activities and engage in our striving for the world of open values.
- Right to Research Statement Petition Booth
The Statement: We, the undersigned student organizations, hereby endorse Open Access as the preferred model for scholarly communication, because:
(a) Open Access improves the educational experience. All students, regardless of their institution’s ability to afford subscriptions, should have access to the full scholarly record, whether for assigned reading, research for a term paper, or literature review for a dissertation.
(b) Open Access democratizes access to research. Students from around the world should have full access to the scholarly literature, along with patients looking for medical information and citizens seeking to learn about the environment or other scientific topics.
(c) Open Access advances research. Open Access helps researchers be more productive by facilitating access to the latest studies. Open Access also enables new techniques for computer-assisted research, paving the way for scientific advancements.
(d) Open Access improves the visibility and impact of scholarship. Today's student is tomorrow’s scholar. Recent studies suggest that Open Access articles are downloaded and cited more frequently than articles that are accessible only through subscription.8 Open Access fulfills researchers’ professional responsibility to maximize the impact of their research.
Stay tuned!
Staff/ SHOWMEN:
"We are the theatre, they are the people,
dressed up to be seated, lookin’ upwards and dreamin'."
SHOW project managers and executive producers:
Katarina Lovrecic, Community Manager and Ana Nodilo, PR specialist at InTech Open Access Publisher
e-mail: lovrecic@intechweb.org
e-mail: nodilo@intechweb.org
SHOW is sponsored by: InTech Open Access Publisher
SHOW makers (the people behind the idea): Katarina Lovrecic, Ana Nodilo, Luka Rodela, Marko Luka Zubčić, Matko Hrvatin, Jan Hyrat and Silvia Vlaše
SHOW art program managers: Sara Salamon, Damir Steinfl, Silvia Vlaše, Mia Dević
SHOW design: Martina Sirotic
SHOW video: Lucia Modric, Raško Bajraktarević, Maša Drndić, Josip Grabar
SHOW technical and web support: Dražen Praštalo, Arsen Leontijević, Igor Vrančić, Raul Ćiković
SHOW runners (volunteers): Igor Babić, Saša Leporić, Vana Persen, Daria Nahtigal, Dragana Manestar, Andrej Kljun, Bojan Bajić, Eva Simćić, Davor Popdankovski, Sanja Bakula, Tea Markovic, Antonija Krznarić
More staff TBA.
Special thanks goes to a big SHOW supporter:
Predrag Šustar, PhD, dean at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka, Croatia
and to:
Nick Shockey, Director of the Right to Research Coalition
and all of our speakers and guests!