Entries from October 2008 ↓

“Adventures in Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistance and Negativland” with Mark Hosler a founding member of Negativland, at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Wednesday November 12, 5pm.

Presented by Students for the Study of Law & Culture at the University of Tennessee in collaboration with COPYSHOP. Free and open to the public.

Pioneers of “culture jamming” (a term they coined way back in 1984), the group Negativland have lead and defined movements against traditional copyright for decades. They became a critical, high profile example in the copyfight movement when U2 (the group with Bono) sued the band to prevent a Negativland release titled U2.

In 2003, members of Negativland were asked by Lawrence Lessig to help write a new kind of copyright license for Creative Commons. This collaboration resulted in the “Sampling License” - a license that allows people to create collage art and “mash-ups” (as well as other art forms based on re-used materials) from licensed works.

COPYSHOP has invited Mark to help us celebrate the end of COPYSHOP in Knoxville. Please join us for his talk at the Knoxville Museum of Art at 5pm!

In conjunction with Students for the Study of Law and Culture, at the University of Tennessee, we are excited to present Sonic Outlaws by Craig Baldwin! It will be shown at the College of Law, Nov 6, room 135 at 5:15pm.

Open to everyone! Five lucky visitors will receive copies of the Sonic Outlaws DVD from Craig. Visit early to get a spot.

The University of Tennessee, College of Law - with Students for the Study of Law and Culture - will host a talk with AGoK and Superflex on November 3 - at 6pm (room 132).

This talk will give us a chance to talk about Copyshop, consider the work of Superflex and AGoK, and make plans for the future. Please come see us!

The group TotemCollective has designed a new set of furniture for COPYSHOP. TotemCollective will be working in Knoxville this September - contact The Art Gallery of Knoxville to help TotemCollective and talk about The Original C Plus System.

The Original C Plus System is an open and modular shelving and seating system that will be launched at the COPYSHOP in Knoxville from September 12th - October 31st.

The ramification in the system symbolizes a modern world of collaboration and open culture going through the path from original to copy. The thought behind the design is to demonstrate the development of ideas and the variation of people involved in the process from original idea to the carrying out of the actual design. Therefore we will publish a public manual of how to create The Original C Plus System (TOCPS) on our website on September 12th for people interested in supporting our vision.

The Original C Plus System exhibition is supported by
Jørgen Christensen Snedkeri and Kvadrat.