Open Access Publishing Project
is a nine channel video installation [57” LCD Monitors] that was exhibited in the HUMlab, Umeå University, March 2009. The project explores the open access movement from an interdisciplinary perspective. It's composed of videos I made and appropriated from online sharing sites like Vimeo, YouTube and Google Video. I downloaded the videos using open source tools like the Firefox Download Helper and converted them into Quicktime Movies that I played using the open source VLC media player.
The videos feature artists, scholars, teachers, librarians and researchers discussing open access publishing, Creative Commons, creative expression, intellectual property, social justice, and US and international copyright law. I also included a series of interviews videotaped by The National Library of Sweden-funded project Introducing Researchers to Open Access which conducted a series of seminars at Swedish universities in 2008 and 2009.
Key phrases of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002) and Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003) were written on white boards in the HUMlab space. LCD monitors featured quotes by John Willinsky (UBC and Stanford) and Tara McPherson (USC), both scholars in the digital humanities. I selected open access journals and websites for participants to browse online like the Vectors: A Journal of Culture and Technology, the Open Humanities Press, and the Directory of Open Access Journals.
The videos feature artists, scholars, teachers, librarians and researchers discussing open access publishing, Creative Commons, creative expression, intellectual property, social justice, and US and international copyright law. I also included a series of interviews videotaped by The National Library of Sweden-funded project Introducing Researchers to Open Access which conducted a series of seminars at Swedish universities in 2008 and 2009.
Key phrases of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002) and Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003) were written on white boards in the HUMlab space. LCD monitors featured quotes by John Willinsky (UBC and Stanford) and Tara McPherson (USC), both scholars in the digital humanities. I selected open access journals and websites for participants to browse online like the Vectors: A Journal of Culture and Technology, the Open Humanities Press, and the Directory of Open Access Journals.
