The FLOSS+Art book tries to critically reflect on the growing relationship between free software ideology, open content and digital art. The book is currently being edited and is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2008.

Topics include: digital art licensing, copying and distributing using open content models, influence of FLOSS on digital art practices, free software to produce art and the art of producing free software, economy of an open digital artwork, FLOSS as an embedded political message in digital art, paradox and limitations of open licenses for digital art, FLOSS as a way to quote and embed other artworks in a new one, digital artist as a FLOSS developer/user and vice-versa, definitions and manifestos for a free software art...

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For more information about the FLOSS+Art project, please visit the project site http://people.makeart.goto10.org

FLOSS+Art is made possible with support from the Piet Zwart Institute, Constant, GOTO10 and the Digital Research Unit