1. So what happened in the last 200 years?
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So what happened in the last 200 years?

2. Change
Industrial Revolution Electronic Revolution Information Revolution Over the last 200 years industry has tuned from heavy industry towards miniaturisation and finally disappeared into information management and control. “Dematerialisation”

3. Information wealth
Something like 70% of the Gross National Profit of the US is through Intellectual Property $7.8 trillion ( Today intellectual property means almost everything finance, medicine, food as well as culture.

4. Core copyright industries including software, musical recording and motion pictures, represent some 6 percent of U.S. GDP The software industry estimates that their $50 billion in global sales of commercial, packaged software for personal computers in 2003 represented less than two- thirds of the almost $80 billion in commercial, packaged software actually installed on PCs in that year. This suggests that more than one-third of all commercial, packaged software installed on PCs is counterfeit. In some countries, rates of theft of software intellectual property are much higher. For example, one study estimated that some 61 percent of installed software in Brazil is counterfeit.

5. New Superpowers are emerging
USA vs. Brazil + rest of the world Different concepts on information control. Closed and protectionist vs. Open collaborative

6. Aids
Brazil began free drug provision in 1997 in an attempt to prevent the spread and impact of the disease % of the AIDS budget was spent on foreign, imported drugs which meant they could not continue the free drug program. “It's all a big agreement to keep developing nations hostage to the multinational industry.”
Pedro Chequer Head of Brazil's Aids programme
In 2001 Brazil broke the copyright on a number of AIDS drugs and manufactured them locally. Under Brazilian law, and based on World Trade Organisation rules, a nation can break drug patents by applying a "compulsory licence" on a product if it is a case of national emergency or national interest. This affair had the effect of encouraging a number of African countries to follow.

7. Creative Commons

8. What has happened to the art object?
Dematerialisation Painting Sculpture Photography Conceptual art Video Art Net Art

9. 80’s and 90’s themes:
Robots Cyberspace Artificial Intelligence Trans-humanism Aesthetics Community Art

10. Current Themes:
Open Source Social collaboration Interactivity Trust Networks Hacker Science Physical Computing Locative Media Database Culture Socially Engaged Practice Relational Aesthetics

11. Relational Aesthetics
Nicolas Bourriaud Relational Aesthetics
Aesthetic theory consisting in judging artworks on the basis of the inter-human relations which they represent, produce or prompt.
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