Contributors 2009

graphic and media designer, born 1983, graphic design degree from Valence (France), MA student of Media Design at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Design and research projects include Issue Magazine, an annotated online platform for critical texts on graphic design , and a critical design investigation of intellectual property as obstruction of cultural accessibility.

Thomas was part of a FFII crew, that worked behind curtains to gather information about the backgrounds on the political rush on software patents. Soon they found themself in an investigation about the “who” “what” and “why” of a hidden agenda. He is now known for amusing criticism of that “intellectual property heals every mental illness” movement, because he knows far to much to take it for serious.

Us(c)hi Reiter studied graphic and design at the Kunstuniverstät Linz. As artist and project developer with a special interesst in net.activism and audio-visual communication, she has been collaborating with different groups and artists since 1998. From 2005 till 2017 Reiter run the non-profit cultural backbone organisation servus.at/Kunst & Kultur im Netz.

She continues to research Free/Libre/Open Source Software in the frame of cultural production and art as well as work on conceptual and performative setups.

Yves Degoyon (es/fr) is a musician/performer and a free software developer/dealer .

He developped since 2001 some tools for audio and video processing within the frame of Pure Data and some tools for escaping from the software mainstream, promoting self-mediation and inventive ways of communicating and organizing.

he's practising copyleft philosophy under the name of d.R.e.G.S : http://ydegoyon.free.fr

some bits of code ::

G.I.S.S. : http://www.giss.tv
/etc/groups : http://etc-groups.sf.net