A frequently asked question that needs clarification: people have been asking how much the events cost. They are all free. Workshops have restricted numbers and are full, but everything else is unrestricted. Just show up and bring your ideas and media!
Food for thought: Chris Anderson´s essay on why FREE is the future.
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how free is free?
Good question. Anderson´s point is, ultimately, “free” has a price tag of one kind or another – but in this case the festival is footing the bill :-)
A more relevant reference may be Blaine L. Reininger, musician with Tuxedomoon, who had the following to say in an online forum in 2006:
“(…) it is the maelstrom of communication between sentient entities which creates wealth amongst them, not the avaricious hoarding of resources. The fact that there is an interested community of sentients trading in, quoting from, digesting our creative output feeds the system and keeps it spinning. That is, I will be more worried when no one at all wants to pick up the hen scratches that we leave behind us.
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Where are your situationalist credentials? What about the “free exchange of signs and signifiers?” Hmmm? Knock yourselves out, chilluns. Glory halleluiah.”