Re: Social Safety Netz

I isn't going to catch on if there isn't a better explanation of how it
works.

joseph mcelroy

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> *August 19, 2005*
> * Social Safety Netz <http://netznetz.net/wiki/>*
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> Tired of waiting for net art's signal to register on the radar of
> established arts funders, Netznetz has taken matters into their own
> hands. This group of Viennese net art mavens has convinced their local
> arts commission that software art should be funded the way it's made:
> through self-organized networks of distributed activity and
> collaborative effort. More than 100 net art groups will join forces in
> developing 'social software' that will channel available funding in a
> 'guaranteed and dispersed' way within 'elastic' parameters – a
> continuous project altered daily, as American minimalist sculptor
> Robert Morris once described his work. The FLOSS (Free Libre Open
> Source Software) principles behind the current upswing of social
> software development propose that sharing is the most politically
> relevant and efficient way to do anything. Netznetz extends those
> principles to the thing most free software innovators are wary of
> sharing: money. The blog world was buzzing ! with news of Netznetz,
> this week, and Wikipedia has already published an entry on the
> project. Some kind of precedent is surely in the making. - Marina
> Vishmidt
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