Oxcars
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The oXcars are a non-competitive awards ceremony held at Sala Apolo in Barcelona
, Spain
, in October each year. They are a public showcase that puts the spotlight on cultural creation and distribution carried out under the paradigms of shared culture.
Through presentations and symbolic mentions of works in a series of categories, real legal solutions are shown using parody as a strategy. The award categories include: Music, Animation, Theatre, Human Tools, Future Markets and Great Leftovers of Spanish Culture, among others .
(previously eXgae, until November 2010), a non-profit organisation that explores alternative models for cultural diffusion and royalties
management. In 2008 and 2009 the oXcars were organised with the collaboration of Conservas, and in 2010 with Conservas, Red Sostenible and Telenoika.
The awards ceremony is an overview of the most outstanding projects in the field of free/libre culture and knowledge, with live music, videos, brief presentations, performances and readings.
Since 2009, the oXcars have coincided with the FCForum
, an international conference in which organisations and experts in the field of free/libre culture and knowledge gather for the purpose of devising a global strategic framework and an international framework for coordination.
, literary collective Wu Ming
, filmmaker Guillermo Zapata (director of the short film Lo que tú quieras oír
, Pablo Soto (developer of the Manolito P2P software), Platoniq, Alan Toner, FreeCinema, Griffi from Sólo los Solo, Molleindustria
(with the video game Free Culture Game), Enrique Sierra from 127.es, the Blender Foundation
with the 3D short film Big Buck Bunny
, Realidades Avanzadas and Matt Black (Coldcut
).
The evening was rounded off with live sets by K-Sero+Off://TV, Filastine
and La Màquina de Turing.
on the net, production and royalties management for audiovisual projects, and Safe Creative, a service that allows users to register works with any type of licence at no cost. Activities also included the launch of the book New Thing by Wu Ming
and a screening of the film Steal this film, part 2
.
, the playwright Rodrigo García, the creators of the Internet series Malviviendo, Derivart
, the Taller de Musics Original Jazz Orquesta, the writer Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
, Electronic Frontier Foundation
, Riot Cinema Collective, Jamendo
, Ilegal Art, FreeCinema, the publishers Alqua, the artist Evan Roth
, the comedian Rémi Gaillard
, psst!3 (collaborative film project), Shelios, short film maker David O'Reilly
, Compartir Dòna Gustet, Xavier Theros and Martín Fernández (MotionGraphics).
The evening ended with a concert and live DJ set by Daedelus
and Martin Vallejo.
, Kate Madison and Actors at Work Productions (creators of the film Born of Hope
), dance company Akram Khan
, the writer Belén Gopegui
, Miguel Brieva, Triolocría, design studio Lava with their Free Magenta campaign (against the Deutsche Telekom patent on the colour magenta), gastronomic blogger Txaber Allué, hip-hop crew At Versaris, the Reactable
(collaborative electronic music instrument), the free culture and copyleft
festival Te Pica la Barba (with the animated short film Sopa, by Irene Iborra and Jossie Malis), Rojadirecta (a portal that offers sports broadcast through streaming or P2P applications), Koulomek, the Tweetpeli (a collaborative film made through Twitter), leerestademoda.com, Ploomba (a free piped music service), Jerzy Celichowski (from Open Society Archives
), European Digital Rights
, Public Domain Day, La Máquina que guía los rayos del sol (animations), Martín Hernández (MotionGraphics) and Kevin Nicoll (illustration).
, celebrating 15 years since the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, the Mundo Today satirical group with updates on the latest in social policy, filmmaker Stéphane Grueso with !Copiad Malditos! which is the first TVE documentary with a Creative Commons
licence, and the band Las buenas noches, who make their music under the Creative Commons paradigm.
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, in October each year. They are a public showcase that puts the spotlight on cultural creation and distribution carried out under the paradigms of shared culture.
Through presentations and symbolic mentions of works in a series of categories, real legal solutions are shown using parody as a strategy. The award categories include: Music, Animation, Theatre, Human Tools, Future Markets and Great Leftovers of Spanish Culture, among others .
About the oXcars
The oXcars are an awards ceremony organised by X.netX.net
X.net, known as the eXgae until November 2010, is a Spanish non-profit platform that supports and develops alternative models for cultural diffusion and royalties distribution and defend Net Neutrality as a tools to increase democracy...
(previously eXgae, until November 2010), a non-profit organisation that explores alternative models for cultural diffusion and royalties
Royalties
Royalties are usage-based payments made by one party to another for the right to ongoing use of an asset, sometimes an intellectual property...
management. In 2008 and 2009 the oXcars were organised with the collaboration of Conservas, and in 2010 with Conservas, Red Sostenible and Telenoika.
The awards ceremony is an overview of the most outstanding projects in the field of free/libre culture and knowledge, with live music, videos, brief presentations, performances and readings.
Since 2009, the oXcars have coincided with the FCForum
Free Culture Forum
The Free Culture Forum is an international encounter of civic society actors on free culture, digital rights and access to knowledge. It took place in Barcelona for the first time from October 30 to November 1, 2009 and second time from the 28th to the 31st of October 2010...
, an international conference in which organisations and experts in the field of free/libre culture and knowledge gather for the purpose of devising a global strategic framework and an international framework for coordination.
Categories
- Music
- Film
- Dance
- Theatre
- Animation
- Literature
- Millions of Visits in Your Bedroom
- Great Human Tools
- Future Markets
- Culture existed before the Cultural Industry
- Great Leftovers of Spanish Culture
2008 oXcars
The participants of the first oXcars, on October 28, 2008, were Leo Bassi, The Pirate BayThe Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website which hosts magnet links and .torrent files, which allow users to share electronic files, including multimedia, computer games and software via BitTorrent...
, literary collective Wu Ming
Wu Ming
Wu Ming is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors formed in 2000 from a subset of the Luther Blissett community in Bologna.In their pre-Wu Ming days, the group wrote the novel Q ....
, filmmaker Guillermo Zapata (director of the short film Lo que tú quieras oír
Lo que tú Quieras Oír
Lo que tú Quieras Oír is a Spanish language short drama by Guillermo Zapata added to YouTube on March 26, 2006...
, Pablo Soto (developer of the Manolito P2P software), Platoniq, Alan Toner, FreeCinema, Griffi from Sólo los Solo, Molleindustria
Molleindustria
Molleindustria is an Italian guerrilla semiotics and culture jamming website that produces flash videogames based on provocative left-wing socio-political points of view, like on topics like labour market flexibility and Queer theory, in explicitly opposition with the mainstream video game industry...
(with the video game Free Culture Game), Enrique Sierra from 127.es, the Blender Foundation
Blender Foundation
The Blender Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for the development of Blender, an open source program for three-dimensional modeling....
with the 3D short film Big Buck Bunny
Big Buck Bunny
Big Buck Bunny is a short computer animated film by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation.Like the foundation's previous film Elephants Dream, the film was made using Blender, a free software application for animation made by the same foundation.-Overview:Work began in October 2007...
, Realidades Avanzadas and Matt Black (Coldcut
Coldcut
Coldcut are an English dance music duo, comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. Their signature style is electronic dance music, featuring cut up samples of hip hop, breaks, jazz, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and multimedia.-1980s:In 1986, computer programmer Matt...
).
The evening was rounded off with live sets by K-Sero+Off://TV, Filastine
Filastine
Grey Filastine is a musician based in Barcelona. He is a former member of ¡Tchkung! and the Infernal Noise Brigade. His album Burn It was released on DJ/Rupture's Soot Records. He has also been associated with the CrimethInc. collective. His album Dirty Bomb was released in 2009.-References:...
and La Màquina de Turing.
Related activities
A series of activities related to free/libre culture were organised on October 29 and November 1, in conjunction with the 2008 oXcars. They included talks, debates, round table discussions and practical workshops on licences, examples of free culture, anonymity and cryptographyCryptography
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...
on the net, production and royalties management for audiovisual projects, and Safe Creative, a service that allows users to register works with any type of licence at no cost. Activities also included the launch of the book New Thing by Wu Ming
Wu Ming
Wu Ming is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors formed in 2000 from a subset of the Luther Blissett community in Bologna.In their pre-Wu Ming days, the group wrote the novel Q ....
and a screening of the film Steal this film, part 2
Steal This Film
Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property produced by The League of Noble Peers and released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol....
.
2009 oXcars
The participants of the 2nd oXcars were DuquendeDuquende
Juan Rafael Cortés Santiago, known as Duquende , is a Spanish flamenco cantaor . Born in Sabadell, Spain, Duquende is considered a successor to influential Flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla...
, the playwright Rodrigo García, the creators of the Internet series Malviviendo, Derivart
Derivart
Derivart is an interdisciplinary art group located in Barcelona. It is constituted by Jesús Rodríguez , Mar Canet and Daniel Beunza...
, the Taller de Musics Original Jazz Orquesta, the writer Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa is a Spanish novelist. His novels have sold over 25 million copies worldwide.-Biography:...
, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States...
, Riot Cinema Collective, Jamendo
Jamendo
Jamendo is a music website and a community of music authors. It bills itself as "the world's #1 platform for free and legal music downloads under Creative Commons licenses."...
, Ilegal Art, FreeCinema, the publishers Alqua, the artist Evan Roth
Evan Roth
Evan Roth is an artist whose work focuses on tools of empowerment, open source and popular culture. He has previously released work under the name "fi5e".-Biography:...
, the comedian Rémi Gaillard
Rémi Gaillard
Rémi Gaillard is a French humourist.Gaillard gained attention in the French media after performing a well-documented series of pranks, including a famous appearance disguised as a Lorient football player in the 2002 Coupe de France final match, during which he took part in the winners'...
, psst!3 (collaborative film project), Shelios, short film maker David O'Reilly
David O'Reilly (artist)
David O'Reilly is an Irish film director and artist based in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for creating animated short films with a stripped down aesthetic.-Work:...
, Compartir Dòna Gustet, Xavier Theros and Martín Fernández (MotionGraphics).
The evening ended with a concert and live DJ set by Daedelus
Daedelus (musician)
Alfred Darlington is a music producer based in Los Angeles, California. Daedelus pioneered using the Monome in conjunction with Max/MSP for live performances. He is a part of the groups Adventure Time and The Long Lost...
and Martin Vallejo.
2010 oXcars
The participants of the 3rd oXcars in 2010 were the writer José Luis Sampedro, The Pinker TonesThe Pinker Tones
The Pinker Tones are an alternative pop band from Barcelona, Spain. They have released 6 albums to date, and have been included on many more. The Whistling Song is featured in all versions of EA Sports' FIFA 2009.- Artists and Music :...
, Kate Madison and Actors at Work Productions (creators of the film Born of Hope
Born of Hope
Born of Hope: The Ring of Barahir is a 2009 fantasy-adventure fan film directed by Kate Madison and written by Paula DiSante that is based on the appendices of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...
), dance company Akram Khan
Akram Khan (dancer)
Akram Khan, MBE is a dancer whose background is rooted in his classical kathak training and contemporary dance.-Career:Khan was born in London into a family of Bangladeshi origin. He began dancing and trained in the classical Indian dance form of Kathak at the age of seven. He studied with Sri...
, the writer Belén Gopegui
Belén Gopegui
Belén Ruiz de Gopegui is a Spanish writer.She studied law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and she worked for several newspapers including El sol....
, Miguel Brieva, Triolocría, design studio Lava with their Free Magenta campaign (against the Deutsche Telekom patent on the colour magenta), gastronomic blogger Txaber Allué, hip-hop crew At Versaris, the Reactable
Reactable
The Reactable is an electronic musical instrument with a tabletop Tangible User Interface that has been developed within the at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain by Sergi Jordà, Marcos Alonso, Martin Kaltenbrunner and Günter Geiger....
(collaborative electronic music instrument), the free culture and copyleft
Copyleft
Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...
festival Te Pica la Barba (with the animated short film Sopa, by Irene Iborra and Jossie Malis), Rojadirecta (a portal that offers sports broadcast through streaming or P2P applications), Koulomek, the Tweetpeli (a collaborative film made through Twitter), leerestademoda.com, Ploomba (a free piped music service), Jerzy Celichowski (from Open Society Archives
Open Society Archives
The Open Society Archives , abbreviated as OSA, is an archive and center for research and education located in Budapest, Hungary. Its collections and activities relate to the period after the Second World War, mainly the Cold War, the history of the formerly communist countries, Human rights, and...
), European Digital Rights
European Digital Rights
European Digital Rights is an international advocacy group headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. EDRi was founded in June 2002 in Berlin by ten NGOs from seven countries....
, Public Domain Day, La Máquina que guía los rayos del sol (animations), Martín Hernández (MotionGraphics) and Kevin Nicoll (illustration).
2011 oXcars
Participants at the 2011 oXcars included John Perry BarlowJohn Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic...
, celebrating 15 years since the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, the Mundo Today satirical group with updates on the latest in social policy, filmmaker Stéphane Grueso with !Copiad Malditos! which is the first TVE documentary with a Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
licence, and the band Las buenas noches, who make their music under the Creative Commons paradigm.
See also
- X.netX.netX.net, known as the eXgae until November 2010, is a Spanish non-profit platform that supports and develops alternative models for cultural diffusion and royalties distribution and defend Net Neutrality as a tools to increase democracy...
- FCForumFree Culture ForumThe Free Culture Forum is an international encounter of civic society actors on free culture, digital rights and access to knowledge. It took place in Barcelona for the first time from October 30 to November 1, 2009 and second time from the 28th to the 31st of October 2010...
- CopyrightCopyrightCopyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...
- Open source licenses
- Free softwareFree softwareFree software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
- Private copying levyPrivate copying levyA private copying levy is a government-mandated scheme in which a special tax or levy is charged on purchases of recordable media. Such taxes are in place in various countries and the income is typically allocated to the developers of "content"...
- Net neutrality
- Telecoms PackageTelecoms PackageThe Telecoms Reform Package is a law of the European Union, aimed at updating the EU Telecoms Rules of 2002 and unifying Europe's tele-communications market for all 27 EU member states...
- Public domainPublic domainWorks are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
- P2PP2PP2P, P-2-P, P2p and P-to-P may refer to*Peer-to-peer, a computing or networking distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers*Peer-to-peer...