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AU - Velkova, Julia
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Free Software Beyond Radical Politics: Negotiations of Creative and Craft Autonomy in Digital Visual Media Production
KW - Digitale Medien
KW - Medienwirtschaft
KW - Programmierung
KW - Kunst
KW - virtuelle Realität
KW - Software
KW - Kapitalismus
KW - Postfordismus
KW - Flexibilität
KW - Kreativität
KW - Autonomie
KW - Blender
KW - craft autonomy
KW - F/OSS
KW - media tools
KW - material politics
KW - media industries
KW - open source software
KW - Synfig
PY - 2016
N2 - Veröffentlichungsversion
N2 - begutachtet (peer reviewed)
N2 - In: Media and Communication ; 4 (2016) 4 ; 43-52
N2 - Free software development and the technological practices of hackers have been broadly recognised as fundamental for the formation of political cultures that foster democracy in the digital mediascape. This article explores the role of free software in the practices of digital artists, animators and technicians who work in various roles for the contemporary digital visual media industries. Rather than discussing it as a model of organising work, the study conceives free software as a production tool and shows how it becomes a locus of politics about finding material security in flexible capitalism. This politics is ultimately contradictory in that it extends creative and craft autonomy of digital artists but does not mobilise a critical project. Instead, it nurtures further precarious labour. Empirically, the article draws on ethnographically collected material from the media practices of digital artists and programmers who engage with two popular free software production tools, Blender and Synfig.
BT - Interaktive, elektronische Medien
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
ER -