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Poets, artists, singers, film directors meet in Taiwan
Daniela Faris · Johannesburg (South Africa) · Aug 03rd, 2006 2:11 pm · 20 votes · no comments made
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 The Creative Commons Collage Party held on 21 July, was a great success. The party was hosted by Creative Commons Taiwan (ccTaiwan) and Creative Commons Garden (ccGarden), a Taiwan based organisation which brings together artists, musicians, film makers, writers, painters and other members of the creative community, who meet to share their ideas and their common vision around Creative Commons.
The hosts expected about fourty people to attend, and for the party to last from 19:00 until 21:30, but they were surprised when about 100people filled the venue to bursting point; and most people hesitated to leave after the official event and stayed chatting until midnight, thanks to the owners of the Nan Hai Gallery, where the event took place.
'Lots of people stayed and discussed Creative Commons and how it can be used in their works. I think we were successful in delivering the concept of Creative Commons. Although they are not lawyers, they accepted the concept and will try to use Creative Commons in their future works,' Kuo-Wei Wu, founder of ccGarden, commented.
The party started with a video clip created by a group of eight students from Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts of the National Taiwan University of Arts. These students were preparing this video from a month before, when they interviewed, Dr. Tyng-Ruei Chuang, deputy director of the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Wu, singers and movie directors about why they support the Creative Commons movement. The screening was followed by a performance by the singer 'PigHeadSkin', who sang the first Creative Commons licensed song to be released in Taiwan. PigHeadSkin has recently provided new songs for download to mobile phones, all under CC licenses.
This performance was followed by a presentation by Angelika Wang a famous movie director in Taiwan. She ran a movie competition project in May, during which she asked competitors to license their films under Creative Commons. She edited these submissions into a film which she presented at the party. Dr. Chuang also shared his experiences at the iCommons Summit on Rio, and announced that he and PigHeadSkin would be attending a meeting in Korea to discuss collaboration between ccTaiwan and ccKorea on 19 August.
The official section of the party ended with a 40 minute DJ set, based on a famous pop song in Taiwan. The artist agreed to license the song under a Creative Commons license, 'so we now have a famous Taiwanese pop song as a base to mix, edit and rework,' Wu said.
Above: Kuo-Wei Wu, addressing the crowd at the ccCollage party.
Many members of the Taiwanese press attended the event. Photo
courtesy of ccGarden, CC BY 2.0.
An important collaboration to come out of the party was the attendance of Lin YaoTang, a painter in Taiwan who also has connections with many poets in the country. Inspired by the concept of Creative Commons, he agreed to spread the word about the organisation through this community by inviting these poets to publish their work under Creative Commons license. A project will be initiated through ccGarden, to gather all these poets' work under Creative Commons license and share them with the world. This project will be started early next year.
'We all agreed that the next party will be bigger and will showcase more works, we hope that it will take place later this year or early of next year. We would also like to invite ccAsia people to join us to enjoy the Creative Commons works created in Taiwan, and to showcase the works being created in their countries,' Wu said.
Members of the press attended the party, and a video and photographs were taken by the students from the National Taiwan University of Arts. These will be edited into a five minute video clip. As soon as this is released, icommons.org will spread the word about where to find it. For more photographs please click here.
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