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| − | free software,  | + | Constant_arton1-2bd55.png|link=Constant|[[Constant]], artist-run non-profit for copyleft and feminisms, [[Brussels]] | 
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| + | Bibliotecha_Stuff_Youll_need.jpg|link=Varia|[[Varia]], cooperative for everyday technology, [[Rotterdam]] | ||
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| + | AMRO20.png|link=Art Meets Radical Openness|[[Art Meets Radical Openness]], festival for art, hacktivism and open cultures, [[Linz]] | ||
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| + | Etc-punch.jpg|link=Eclectic Tech Carnival|[[Eclectic Tech Carnival]], feminist gatherings around free software and open hardware | ||
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| + | Piksel.png|link=Piksel|[[Piksel]], festival for kunst og fri teknologi, [[Bergen]] | ||
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| + | Art_Servers_Unlimited_1998.jpg|link=Community servers|[[Community servers]] | ||
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| + | Bibliotecha.jpg|link=Shadow_libraries|[[Shadow libraries]] | ||
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| + | XPUB-stickerset0000.jpg|link=XPUB|[[XPUB]], experimental publishing course, [[Rotterdam]] | ||
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| + | Runme.org_2024_detail.png|link=Runme.org|[https://runme.org runme.org], software art repository | ||
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| + | Pure_Data_screenshot.png|link=Pure Data|[[Pure Data]], visual programming for media | ||
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| ==Events== | ==Events== | ||
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| + | ; FLOSS arts festivals and events | ||
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| + | * [[Eclectic Tech Carnival]], int., *2002 | ||
| + | * [[Piksel]], Bergen, *2003 | ||
| + | * [[Verbindingen / Jonctions]], Brussels, [2000] 2004-2013 | ||
| + | * [[HAIP]], Ljubljana, 2004-2012 | ||
| + | * [[OpenLab]], London, 2005-2012 | ||
| + | * [[Make Art]], Poitiers, 2006-2010 | ||
| + | * [[Libre Graphics Meeting]], int., *2006 | ||
| + | * [[Art Meets Radical Openness]] (formerly LiWoLi), Linz, *2008 | ||
| + | * [[Flossie]], London, 2012-2013 | ||
| + | * [https://sister0.hotglue.me/ Networked Art Forms and Tactical Magick Faerie Circuits], *2014 | ||
| + | * [https://piksel.no/transpiksel TransPiksel], int., *2016 | ||
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| ; Conferences and summits | ; Conferences and summits | ||
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| − | + | * [http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/content/about OSCON], Portland, *1999 | |
| + | * [[FISL]], Porto Alegre, *2000 | ||
| + | * [[FOSDEM]], Brussels, *2001 | ||
| + | * [[Oekonux Conference]], int., *2001 | ||
| + | * [https://linuxaudio.org/lac.html Linux Audio Conference], int., *2002 | ||
| + | * [http://libreplanet.org LibrePlanet], Cambridge/MA, *2006 | ||
| + | * [[FSCONS]], Gothenburg, *2007 | ||
| + | * [http://web.archive.org/web/20190712033337/http://opensourcebridge.org/ Open Source Bridge], Portland, 2009-2018, [https://indieweb.org/Open_Source_Bridge] | ||
| + | * [https://fossasia.org FOSSASIA Summit], Asia, *2010 | ||
| + | * [https://indieweb.org/IndieWebCamps IndieWeb Summit / IndieWebCamp], Portland & int., *2011 | ||
| + | * [http://koppelting.org/en/archive FabFuse], Amersfoort, 2012-2015 | ||
| + | * [http://koppelting.org Koppelting], Amersfoort, *2016 | ||
| + | * [https://oxygen.offdem.net/ OFFDEM], Brussels, *2020, [https://ps.zoethical.org/pub/offdem-ozone-cfp] [https://ps.zoethical.org/c/engagement/offdem/129] [https://foss.events/2025/02-01-offdem.html] | ||
| − | [ | + | * ''Event listings'': [https://foss.events/ foss.events] (Europe & online, *2019). | 
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| ==Publications== | ==Publications== | ||
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| * Simon Yuill, [http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue20/machinista.pdf "Your Machines: Your Culture"], ''Variant'' 2:20, Summer 2004.   | * Simon Yuill, [http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue20/machinista.pdf "Your Machines: Your Culture"], ''Variant'' 2:20, Summer 2004.   | ||
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| + | * Armin Medosch, [https://monoskop.org/images/d/d6/Wynants_Cornelis_eds_How_Open_is_the_Future_Economic_Social_and_Cultural_Scenarios_Inspired_by_FLOSS_2005.pdf#page=135 "Roots Culture: Free Software Vibrations Inna Babylon"], in ''How Open is the Future? Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios Inspired by Free and Open Source Software'', eds. Marleen Wynants and Jan Cornelis, Brussels: VUB Brussels University Press, 2005, pp 135-162; [https://monoskop.org/images/5/50/Cox_Geoff_Krysa_Joasia_eds_Engineering_Culture_On_The_Author_as_Digital_Producer_2005.pdf#page=164 upd. in] ''Engineering Culture: On 'The Author as (Digital) Producer' '', eds. Geoff Cox and Joasia Krysa, New York: Autonomedia, 2005, pp 177-201; [[Media:Medosch_Armin_2005_Roots_Culture_Free_Software_Vibrations_Inna_Babylon.pdf|repr. in]] ''Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts'', New Delhi: Sarai, 2005, pp 222-239. [http://web.archive.org/web/20071115010845/http://theoriebild.ung.at/view/Main/RootsCulture Draft].  | ||
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| + | * [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/magazine/mute-vol-2-no.-1-%E2%88%92-underneath-knowledge-commons ''Mute'' 2(1): "Underneath The Knowledge Commons"], London: Mute, Dec 2005. | ||
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| + | * Simon Yuill, [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/all-problems-notation-will-be-solved-masses "All Problems of Notation Will Be Solved By the Masses"], ''Mute'' 2:8, London: Mute, May 2008. | ||
| * Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=31 FLOSS+Art]'', Poitiers: Goto10, and London: Mute, 2008, 320 pp.   | * Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=31 FLOSS+Art]'', Poitiers: Goto10, and London: Mute, 2008, 320 pp.   | ||
| * Chun Lee, ''[https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/4963/ Art Unlimited: An Investigation into Contemporary Digital Arts and the Free Software Movement]'', London: Middlesex University, 2008, 166 pp. PhD dissertation. | * Chun Lee, ''[https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/4963/ Art Unlimited: An Investigation into Contemporary Digital Arts and the Free Software Movement]'', London: Middlesex University, 2008, 166 pp. PhD dissertation. | ||
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| + | * Christopher M. Kelty, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=239 Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software]'', Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008, xvi+378 pp, [[Media:Kelty_Christopher_M_Two_Bits_The_Cultural_Significance_of_Free_Software_2008.pdf|PDF]]. | ||
| + | ** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=239 Two Bits: la trascendencia cultural del software libre]'', ed. Florencio Cabello, Barcelona: Icaria, 2019, 455 pp, [[Media:Kelty_Christopher_M_Two_Bits_la_trascendencia_cultural_del_software_libre_2019.pdf|PDF]]. {{es}} | ||
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| + | * Marloes de Valk, [https://bleu255.com/~marloes/txts/Tools_to_Fight_Boredom/ "Tools to Fight Boredom: FLOSS and GNU/Linux for Artists Working in the Field of Generative Music and Software Art"], ''Contemporary Music Review'' 28(1): "Generative Music", eds. Nick Collins and Andrew R. Brown, 2009, pp 89-101, [[Media:de Valk Marloes 2009 Tools to Fight Boredom FLOSS and GNU Linux for Artists Working in the Field of Generative Music and Software Art.pdf|PDF]]. [https://doi.org/10.1080/07494460802664056] | ||
| * ''[http://endefensadelsl.org/ En Defensa del Software Libre]'', 4 vols., 2010-2016. {{es}} | * ''[http://endefensadelsl.org/ En Defensa del Software Libre]'', 4 vols., 2010-2016. {{es}} | ||
| * Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett (eds.), [http://p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art ''Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art''], 2011.   | * Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett (eds.), [http://p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art ''Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art''], 2011.   | ||
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| + | * Nancy Mauro-Flude, [https://dpi.studioxx.org/en/no/22-free-culture/circe%E2%80%99s-new-equipment-and-sister0s-p-r-p-h-e-r-n-l-i "Circe’s New Equipment and sister0's P A R A P H E R N A L I A"], ''dpi. Feminist Journal of Art and Digital Culture'', Montreal, 2011. | ||
| * Aymeric Mansoux, [http://web.archive.org/web/20160304044517/http://texts.bleu255.com/how-deep-is-your-source/ "How Deep is Your Source"], in ''Digital Art Conservation, Preservation of Digital Art: Theory and Practice'', ed. Bernhard Serexhe, Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2012. | * Aymeric Mansoux, [http://web.archive.org/web/20160304044517/http://texts.bleu255.com/how-deep-is-your-source/ "How Deep is Your Source"], in ''Digital Art Conservation, Preservation of Digital Art: Theory and Practice'', ed. Bernhard Serexhe, Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2012. | ||
| * Paula Roush, [https://www.furtherfield.org/towards-a-free-libre-open-source-university/ "Towards a Free/ Libre/ Open/ Source/ University"], ''Furtherfield'', Feb 2013. | * Paula Roush, [https://www.furtherfield.org/towards-a-free-libre-open-source-university/ "Towards a Free/ Libre/ Open/ Source/ University"], ''Furtherfield'', Feb 2013. | ||
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| + | * [http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/ ''Journal of Peer Production'' 3: "The Critical Power of Free Software"], Jul 2013.  | ||
| + | ** Christopher Kelty, [http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/there-is-no-free-software/ "There Is No Free Software"]. | ||
| * Aymeric Mansoux, [http://hz-journal.org/n19/mansoux.html "My Lawyer is an Artist"], ''Hz #19'', ed. Sashiko Hayashi, Fylkingen, 2014. | * Aymeric Mansoux, [http://hz-journal.org/n19/mansoux.html "My Lawyer is an Artist"], ''Hz #19'', ed. Sashiko Hayashi, Fylkingen, 2014. | ||
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| + | * ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=13943 I Think That Conversations Are the Best, Biggest Thing That Software Has to Offer its User]'', Brussels: Constant, 2015, 351 pp. {{en}} | ||
| * Aymeric Mansoux, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18777 Sandbox Culture: A Study of the Application of Free and Open Source Software Licensing Ideas to Art and Cultural Production]'', London: Goldsmiths University of London, 2017, xxxviii+486 pp. PhD dissertation. | * Aymeric Mansoux, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18777 Sandbox Culture: A Study of the Application of Free and Open Source Software Licensing Ideas to Art and Cultural Production]'', London: Goldsmiths University of London, 2017, xxxviii+486 pp. PhD dissertation. | ||
| − | * Christina Dunbar-Hester, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23333 Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures  | + | * Christina Dunbar-Hester, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23333 Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures]'', Princeton University Press, 2020, xi+271 pp. [https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691192888.001.0001] | 
| * petites singularités, [https://ps.zoethical.org/pub/free-software-under-attack-an-offdem-manifesto "O2FFDEM. The threat to free software: An OFFDEM manifesto"], Jan 2020.   | * petites singularités, [https://ps.zoethical.org/pub/free-software-under-attack-an-offdem-manifesto "O2FFDEM. The threat to free software: An OFFDEM manifesto"], Jan 2020.   | ||
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| * ''[https://thx.zoethical.org/pub/presence-solidaire THX - Présence Solidaire. Pænser Ensemble: le Collectif et le Soin Radical]'', Brussels: petites singularités, 2021, 168 pp. {{fr}},{{en}},{{es}} | * ''[https://thx.zoethical.org/pub/presence-solidaire THX - Présence Solidaire. Pænser Ensemble: le Collectif et le Soin Radical]'', Brussels: petites singularités, 2021, 168 pp. {{fr}},{{en}},{{es}} | ||
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| + | * ''[https://www.spacesandcities-toolkit.com/ Toolkit for Homes of Commons]'', European Cultural Foundation, 2021. | ||
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| + | * [https://march.international/feature/publishing-as-protocol/ ''MARCH'': "Publishing as Protocol"], eds. Constant and Vessel, 2021-2023. [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23411] | ||
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| + | * Johan Söderberg, Maxigas, ''[https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13466.001.0001 Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking]'', forew. Richard Barbrook, MIT Press, Nov 2022, 264 pp, [[Media:Soederberg Johan_Maxigas_Resistance_to_The_Current_The_Dialectics_of_Hacking 2022.pdf|PDF]]. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544566/ Publisher]. | ||
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| + | * Manetta Berends, Femke Snelting, [https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/95105 "Tools shape practice shapes tools..."], ''Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements'', Madrid: UCM, Nov 2024, [[Media:Berends Manetta Snelting Femke 2024 Tools shape practice shapes tools.pdf|PDF]]. A history of two decades of doing graphic design with free, libre and open-source tools.  | ||
| * [https://monoskop.org/log/?tag=floss Publications on FLOSS on Monoskop/log] | * [https://monoskop.org/log/?tag=floss Publications on FLOSS on Monoskop/log] | ||
| * [http://cecpublic.pbworks.com/w/page/13063880/OpensourceBibliography more] | * [http://cecpublic.pbworks.com/w/page/13063880/OpensourceBibliography more] | ||
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| + | ==Documentary films== | ||
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| + | * [https://vimeo.com/33207474 FLOSSOFÍA: el software libre en el arte], dir. Ernesto Romero, 2009, 83 min. With footage from the 2008 editions of Make Art and Piksel festivals.  | ||
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| + | * [https://vimeo.com/173872190 Art Meets Radical Openness], 2009, 26 min. Documentary of the 2009 festival edition. Film conceived by Annalisa Cannito, Chui Yong Jian, Santiago Bence. | ||
| ==Resources== | ==Resources== | ||
| − | * [http:// | + | * [http://redecentralize.github.io/alternative-internet/ Alternative Internet], a collection of  networks, tools and devices aiming at decentralisation. | 
| − | * [http:// | + | * [http://www.a-s-c.org/ Anti-Subscription Catalogue], a catalogue of non-subscription, free, open-source, and one-time fee software. | 
| − | + | * [http://cecpublic.pbworks.com/w/page/13063884/OpensourcePeople Open Source People and Community] | |
| − | + | * [http://web.archive.org/web/20200120000944/http://eightycolumn.net/ Eightycolumn] (80c; archived), a network of free culture aware educators in art, music and design education. | |
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| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| − | [[ | + | [[Commons]], [[Community servers]], [[Copyleft activism]], [[Data activism]], [[Federated networks]], [[Hacker culture]], [[Libre graphics]], [[Live coding]], [[Pure Data]], [[Shadow libraries]], [[Software art]], [[SuperCollider]] | 
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Latest revision as of 07:13, 24 July 2025
For free, libre and open-source software, culture and the arts
- Art Meets Radical Openness, festival for art, hacktivism and open cultures, Linz 
- Eclectic Tech Carnival, feminist gatherings around free software and open hardware 
- runme.org, software art repository 
- Pure Data, visual programming for media 
- Anders Aarvik
- Sunil Abraham
- Access Space
- Adhocracy (exhibition)
- AMRO
- Amelia Andersdotter
- APO33
- Raphaël Bastide
- Manetta Berends
- Jan-Christoph Borchardt
- Michal Cáb
- Calafou
- André Castro
- Joana Chicau
- Community servers
- Constant
- Ginger coons
- Digital activism
- Disclosures
- Donestech
- Marc Dusseiller
- Eclectic Tech Carnival
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- F/LAT
- Fediverse
- FISL
- Flossie
- FOSDEM
- Luka Frelih
- Gisle Frøysland
- FSCONS
- Furtherfield
- Peter Gonda
- GOTO10
- Artemis Gryllaki
- Alex Gunn
- Hackers At Large
- Hackteria
- Adnan Hadzi
- Haip
- Christina Haralanova
- Graham Harwood
- Benjamin Mako Hill
- Hivenetworks
- Adam Hyde
- Iffy Books
- The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest
- Interferencias
- Jaromil
- Ryan Jordan
- Martin Kuentz
- LAFKON
- Micah Lee
- Libre Graphics Meeting
- Yuwei Lin
- LURK
- Make Art
- MaMa
- Vesna Manojlovic
- Aymeric Mansoux
- Manufactura Independente
- Pierre Marchand
- Marcell Mars
- Mattin
- Nancy Mauro-Flude
- Tomislav Medak
- Media Design and Communication Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam
- Armin Medosch
- An Mertens
- Modern Poland Foundation
- Mur.at
- Michael Murtaugh
- Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory
- Oekonux
- Oekonux Conference
- Julian Oliver
- OpenLab
- OSP
- Piksel
- Platoniq
- Public Software Group
- Pure Data
- Relearn
- Hugo Roy
- Sanchez
- Servers
- Servus.at
- Sloboda stvaralaštvu!
- Femke Snelting
- Sourcefabric
- Richard Stallman
- Malte Steiner
- SuperCollider
- Sursiendo
- Systemli
- Systerserver
- TransHACKfeminist! camp
- Transpiksel
- Marco Valdivia
- Marloes de Valk
- Varia
- James Vasile
- Danja Vasiliev
- Verbindingen / Jonctions
- Stéphanie Vilayphiou
- VX:mission
- Wizards of OS
- WSFII
- Wendy Van Wynsberghe
- XPUB
- Simon Yuill
Events[edit]
- FLOSS arts festivals and events
- Eclectic Tech Carnival, int., *2002
- Piksel, Bergen, *2003
- Verbindingen / Jonctions, Brussels, [2000] 2004-2013
- HAIP, Ljubljana, 2004-2012
- OpenLab, London, 2005-2012
- Make Art, Poitiers, 2006-2010
- Libre Graphics Meeting, int., *2006
- Art Meets Radical Openness (formerly LiWoLi), Linz, *2008
- Flossie, London, 2012-2013
- Networked Art Forms and Tactical Magick Faerie Circuits, *2014
- TransPiksel, int., *2016
- Conferences and summits
- OSCON, Portland, *1999
- FISL, Porto Alegre, *2000
- FOSDEM, Brussels, *2001
- Oekonux Conference, int., *2001
- Linux Audio Conference, int., *2002
- LibrePlanet, Cambridge/MA, *2006
- FSCONS, Gothenburg, *2007
- Open Source Bridge, Portland, 2009-2018, [1]
- FOSSASIA Summit, Asia, *2010
- IndieWeb Summit / IndieWebCamp, Portland & int., *2011
- FabFuse, Amersfoort, 2012-2015
- Koppelting, Amersfoort, *2016
- OFFDEM, Brussels, *2020, [2] [3] [4]
- Event listings: foss.events (Europe & online, *2019).
Publications[edit]
- Richard M. Stallman, "The GNU Manifesto", Mar 1985 ff. [5]
- Richard M. Stallman, "What Is the Free Software Foundation?", GNU’s Bulletin 1:1, Cambridge, MA: Free Software Foundation, Feb 1986, pp 8-9.
- Richard M. Stallman, "What Is Free Software?", 1996 ff. Previous versions.
- Richard M. Stallman, et al., Free Software: Essays and Articles, 1996 ff. Collection of articles.
- Bruce Perens, "Debian Social Contract, Version 1.0", Jul 1997.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Goodbye, ‘Free Software’; Hello, ‘Open Source’", Feb 1998.
- Richard M. Stallman, "Why 'Free Software' is better than 'Open Source'", 1998; rev. as "Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software", 2007 ff.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Open Source Summit", Linux Journal, Jun 1998.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Keeping an Open Mind", Cyberian Express, Mar/Apr 1999.
- Mark Stone, Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman (eds.), Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 1999, 280 pp.
- Bruce Perens, "The Open Source Definition", pp 171-188. [6]
 
- Eric S. Raymond, "The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story", (Part Two), Feb 2004.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Terminology Wars: A Web Content Analysis", 2004.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Open Minds, Open Source", Analog, Jun-Jul 2004.
- Simon Yuill, "Your Machines: Your Culture", Variant 2:20, Summer 2004.
- Armin Medosch, "Roots Culture: Free Software Vibrations Inna Babylon", in How Open is the Future? Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios Inspired by Free and Open Source Software, eds. Marleen Wynants and Jan Cornelis, Brussels: VUB Brussels University Press, 2005, pp 135-162; upd. in Engineering Culture: On 'The Author as (Digital) Producer' , eds. Geoff Cox and Joasia Krysa, New York: Autonomedia, 2005, pp 177-201; repr. in Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts, New Delhi: Sarai, 2005, pp 222-239. Draft.
- Mute 2(1): "Underneath The Knowledge Commons", London: Mute, Dec 2005.
- Simon Yuill, "All Problems of Notation Will Be Solved By the Masses", Mute 2:8, London: Mute, May 2008.
- Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk (eds.), FLOSS+Art, Poitiers: Goto10, and London: Mute, 2008, 320 pp.
- Chun Lee, Art Unlimited: An Investigation into Contemporary Digital Arts and the Free Software Movement, London: Middlesex University, 2008, 166 pp. PhD dissertation.
- Christopher M. Kelty, Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008, xvi+378 pp, PDF.
- Two Bits: la trascendencia cultural del software libre, ed. Florencio Cabello, Barcelona: Icaria, 2019, 455 pp, PDF. (Spanish)
 
- Marloes de Valk, "Tools to Fight Boredom: FLOSS and GNU/Linux for Artists Working in the Field of Generative Music and Software Art", Contemporary Music Review 28(1): "Generative Music", eds. Nick Collins and Andrew R. Brown, 2009, pp 89-101, PDF. [7]
- En Defensa del Software Libre, 4 vols., 2010-2016. (Spanish)
- Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett (eds.), Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art, 2011.
- Nancy Mauro-Flude, "Circe’s New Equipment and sister0's P A R A P H E R N A L I A", dpi. Feminist Journal of Art and Digital Culture, Montreal, 2011.
- Aymeric Mansoux, "How Deep is Your Source", in Digital Art Conservation, Preservation of Digital Art: Theory and Practice, ed. Bernhard Serexhe, Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2012.
- Paula Roush, "Towards a Free/ Libre/ Open/ Source/ University", Furtherfield, Feb 2013.
- Journal of Peer Production 3: "The Critical Power of Free Software", Jul 2013.
- Christopher Kelty, "There Is No Free Software".
 
- Aymeric Mansoux, "My Lawyer is an Artist", Hz #19, ed. Sashiko Hayashi, Fylkingen, 2014.
- I Think That Conversations Are the Best, Biggest Thing That Software Has to Offer its User, Brussels: Constant, 2015, 351 pp. (English)
- Aymeric Mansoux, Sandbox Culture: A Study of the Application of Free and Open Source Software Licensing Ideas to Art and Cultural Production, London: Goldsmiths University of London, 2017, xxxviii+486 pp. PhD dissertation.
- Christina Dunbar-Hester, Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures, Princeton University Press, 2020, xi+271 pp. [8]
- petites singularités, "O2FFDEM. The threat to free software: An OFFDEM manifesto", Jan 2020.
- "O2FFDEM. La menace qui pèse sur le logiciel libre. Un manifeste d’OFFDEM", Jan 2020. (French)
 
- Aymeric Mansoux, Roel Roscam Abbing, "Seven Theses on the Fediverse and the Becoming of FLOSS", in The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture, eds. Kristoffer Gansing and Inga Luchs, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, and Berlin: transmediale e.V., Feb 2020, pp 124-140, HTML.
- "Sieben Thesen zum Fediverse und zur Weiterentwicklung von FLOSS", in The Eternal Network. Vom Enden und Werden der Netzkultur, eds. Kristoffer Gansing and Inga Luchs, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, and Berlin: transmediale e.V., 2020, pp 136-154. (German)
- "Sept Thèses sur le Fédiverse et le devenir du logiciel libre", trans. Framalang, Framablog, 26 Jan 2021. (French)
 
- Présence Solidaire, "On Software Syndicalism", Jul 2021.
- THX - Présence Solidaire. Pænser Ensemble: le Collectif et le Soin Radical, Brussels: petites singularités, 2021, 168 pp. (French),(English),(Spanish)
- Toolkit for Homes of Commons, European Cultural Foundation, 2021.
- MARCH: "Publishing as Protocol", eds. Constant and Vessel, 2021-2023. [9]
- Johan Söderberg, Maxigas, Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking, forew. Richard Barbrook, MIT Press, Nov 2022, 264 pp, PDF. Publisher.
- Manetta Berends, Femke Snelting, "Tools shape practice shapes tools...", Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, Madrid: UCM, Nov 2024, PDF. A history of two decades of doing graphic design with free, libre and open-source tools.
Documentary films[edit]
- FLOSSOFÍA: el software libre en el arte, dir. Ernesto Romero, 2009, 83 min. With footage from the 2008 editions of Make Art and Piksel festivals.
- Art Meets Radical Openness, 2009, 26 min. Documentary of the 2009 festival edition. Film conceived by Annalisa Cannito, Chui Yong Jian, Santiago Bence.
Resources[edit]
- Alternative Internet, a collection of networks, tools and devices aiming at decentralisation.
- Anti-Subscription Catalogue, a catalogue of non-subscription, free, open-source, and one-time fee software.
- Eightycolumn (80c; archived), a network of free culture aware educators in art, music and design education.
See also[edit]
Commons, Community servers, Copyleft activism, Data activism, Federated networks, Hacker culture, Libre graphics, Live coding, Pure Data, Shadow libraries, Software art, SuperCollider











