CC China Mainland Arts Promotional Program

Zhu Handong Artist, Project Manager of Creative Commons China Mainland

Share, Remix, Reuse Legally Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that increases sharing and improves collaboration.

Outline
The Backgrounds The 1st CC Photography Contest China 2007 The 1st Large-Scale CC Contemporary Art Exhibition Remix and Share 2010 Screenage Art Document Exhibition

The 2nd Focus on China Exhibition of CC licensed Photographs of China The 2nd Focus on China Itinerant Exhibition in 12th China Pingyao International Photograph Festival Maker Carnival 2012 Some cases of CC licensed works and arts community

The Backgrounds

By YanHeng

Information society provides our more convenient access to various resources, especially for artists re-creation. The all rights reserved traditional copyright places a gulf among artists and originators. what CC advocates share, remix and reuse legally hopes to have better interactivity between creation and communication. While relieve the confrontation better free communication and legally access.

29th March, 2006, under the joint efforts of Project Lead, Pro. Wang and other CC advocators, 2.5 version of CC China mainland license was put into public. against this background, CC China Mainland has started its all around promotional activities in 3 main sectors, from arts, OER to science data. This can be regard as the embryo of our arts promotional program.

The 1st CC Photography Contest China 2007

Our 1st activity of the arts program CC Photography Contest China 2007VenueNational Library
It was joint-organized by CC China mainland & Nphoto net. More than 3,000 Netizens presented about 10,000 high-quality photos. Some famous photographers from U.S, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, HK, Macau and Taiwan province. In the meantime, the contest has been recognized as a high-tone social event for large amount of CC supports.

A school in cellar, by Huang hewan, BY-NC-ND, Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 China Mainland License.

Mission & Organizing Principles of Art Program

Photograph

Modern Arts

Music

Our Mission: To spread the idea of Share, reuse and remix legally among the grass-rooted creators. To promote the use of CC licenses in China and deliver the status qua of CC global community to Chinese. To improve the communication between Chinas modern arts and the rest of the world. Organizing Principles: on-line: off-line: exhibition, forum and salon.

Some examples of art program since 2007

2007, the 1st CC Photograph Competition 2008, Sports and Share, the 2nd CC Photograph Competition Mini Midi 2008

2009, Remix and share, CC Comprehensive Arts Exhibition

The 1st Large-Scale CC Contemporary Art

Exhibition Remix and Share

The 1st Large-Scale CC Contemporary Art Exhibition Remix and Share Time: Dec, 2009 Venue: 798 Art Zone, Beijing

Co-organized by CC China Mainland and Artintern, and with additional support from a number of organizations including Inter Art Center, Hudong wiki, and mash4. More than 200 participants, including artists presenting their works, the media, invited guests from various fields, and the project team and volunteers of CC China Mainland, came to attend the opening ceremony. The exhibition presents CC-licensed art works from artists across the country. It received so much responses that during just a one month period, more than 200 artists have submitted works in various forms including new media, devices, videos, easel painting, etc. Works presented at the exhibit are from more than 60 artists, selected to match the size of the venue and theme of the event. Some well-known Chinese artists including Cao Fei, Yan Jun, Wu Xiaojun and Liu Wei are also invited to present their CC licensed works at the exhibit.

Remix and Share Cross-Domain Forum Time: Dec, 2009 Venue: Open at 798 Art Zone After the opening ceremony, Artists and members from CC China Mainland, joined by project leads and representatives from Creative Commons Asia-Pacific Region including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia, convened a forum under the theme of the exhibition: Remix and Share.

2010 Screenage Art Document Exhibition

2010 Screenage Art Document Exhibition Time:18th, April 2010 Venue: Songzhuang Art Center
Hosted by Songzhuang Art Center, which is famous landmark for concerning Chinas modern arts status qua. The exhibition was composed of multiple sections including the Field, the Domain, the Emotion, Natural Unnatural, and Gathering Recalling. A number of CC-licensed photographic and video works were shown. CC China Mainland, as one of the supporting organization of this event, also had its representatives to present in the opening ceremony.

The 2nd Focus on China Exhibition of CC licensed Photographs of China

The 2nd Focus on China Exhibition of CC licensed Photographs of China Time: 31st, March 2012 Venue: 798 Art Zone, Beijing Curator: Zhu Handong, project manager of CC China Mainland

Social media & websites were used for collecting works from the public. Nearly 4,000 photo were contributed by more than 300 photographers in less than 1 month. The shortlist was consisted of 30 of them. All works focused on Chinas urbanization, leftover-children, stay-at-home elders, environment pollution etc. It truly reached our object of focus on China through your eyes.

The 2nd Focus on China Itinerant Exhibition in 12th China Pingyao

The 2nd Focus on China Itinerant Exhibition in 12th China Pingyao International Photograph Festival Time: 19th-25th, Sep 2012 Venue: Pingao, Shanxi 1st time for CC licensing photos group show in an influential international photograph festival. 3 photographers works were rewarded.

More than 1700 photographers from 45 countries took part in this festival. Cross Asia, North America, Africa and Australia. Nearly 13,000 photos were shown there. Lots of people raised their interests for CC licensed works.

Maker Carnival 2012

Maker Carnival 2012 Time: 28th, April 2012 Venue: China Millennium Monument It was co-organized by Beijing maker space, CMM, the Interaction design Lab of China Central Academy of Fine Arts and sponsored by CC China Mainland. Maker is backbone of open-source community, especially OS hardware. As an effective sharing and creation system, OS give each of us the right to learn, improve, distribute and spread. OS hardware overturns the traditional close-creation concept and largely enhance the overall vitality of the people. OS hardwares diversification and individuality are strengthened through the open of design, working drawing and technology.

Theme forum of Maker Carnival 2012: Creative Commons with Knowledge Sharing and Product Innovation Time: 29th, April 2012 Venue: China Millennium Monument

As one of the important session of Maker Carnival 2012. Participated by copyright experts, artists and various makers from home and abroad. They discussed what are the problems in OS and innovation when confronting with copyright.

Some cases of CC licensed works and arts community

Some cases of CC licensed works and arts community

Chinas 1st artist to use CC license Caofei One of Chinas most famous temporary artist. She took part in 2007 Croatia CC Summit. She used CC license in June 2007, Biennale di Venezia.

RMB City

Video: I mirror

Yanjun, Music critic, sound artist Under his efforts, the 1st experimental music CD Noise is Free Mini midi 2008 in China mainland was published under CC license. Some of his works & blog also use CC license.

20082009

Handmake Image Book Plan Originator: Lin Shu BY-NC-ND

Its about put our photos on book, pass on and communicate with other photographers. Since 2006 the plan started, there are more than 39 photographers participated.

Based on cyber-space and real space, Real time interaction work of art The three Gorges of the Future

Artist: Zhu Handong

The Three Gorges of the Future

BY-NC-SA

The Calm Three Gorges It records how peoples lives changes after the water level rising since China built the worlds largest reservoir. It also shows changes happened to upper cities and cultural heritages along the Yangtze river. BY-NC-SA

 Internet community becomes one of the most important sharing & communication platform for artists and photographers.
Nphoto is among the 1st batch of CC licensed websites in China. Its the professional Chinese photograph communication portal.

Tuchong, a very popular CC licensed professional photograph community.

CC-licensed LOFTER community

The latest CC licensed blog community developed by Netease, one of Chinas big 4 portals. Another big try made by Netease, after its cc-licensed Open Course Project. Just after put into public, LOFTER attracts the attention of many creators. We firmly believer its development prospective. LOFTER encourages users to create & publish original works in their space. Original works will be covered by CC license, including pictures, text, music and video etc.

Current problems need to be addressed

Our arts promotional program has positive influences for artists creation regarding the sharing concept we advocated for years. Many artists are very happy to engaged in. But attentions paid for CC-licensed works dont sound higher than those non CC-licensed works, why does this happen? Some work-sharing websites place more restriction on. Under this condition, sharing tends to be more exclusive. We dont have a purely sharing & communication website for art works. Its not easy to get funding for NGOs like us, who devotes on the promotion of cultural & arts sharing activities. This dose affect our future program.

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