15-20 Minute Paper
Roderick Dioso
Goldsmiths College, University of London (PhD candidate)
OCAD University (sessional instructor)
Biography
Rod Dioso is a new media artist and postgraduate researcher in Arts & Computational Technology at Goldsmiths, University of London in the UK and a sessional instructor at the OACD U (Digital Futures) in Canada.
Abstract
In this paper I first map the origins of the Open Source Software Movement and link its development to a paradigm shift in the analogue world with a focus on the ‘Third World’. I specifically look at the ways in which open communities are proving to dominate over traditionally hegemonic infrastructures. From art, politics, and education, open as prefixed qualifier, has come to mean a viable alternative that is based in the knowledge value of the masses as opposed to a selected elite.
As a case study, I will discuss ASEUM 2009, an international symposium of new media artists and researchers initiated in the Philippines and Slovenia. ASEUM is a contemporary example of transnational discourse through digital art. This collaboration circumvented the traditional art establishment and represents a borderless community of like-minded artists and technologists framed by an open source ethos.