Sharing Art As an Alternative to Merchandizing

Hello,

I am Philippe Axel, French author, composer, and performer. I am a "Web artist." On my Web site at www.philaxel.com, I advocate the creation of an international virtual community of musicians with the possibility for each of them to register his or her work for free in mp3 format. A community with a humanist vocation that would be able to give birth, through music, to an embryo of international brotherhood. I also propose to associate with the files that are registered, a "ladder" system that allows artists to evaluate their work mutually. This would simply be the first democratic music label of the world.

I have made my own Web site, where in its "Blog" I express my humanist feelings. I am working on new forms to finance musical creation through sponsorship and I am proposing a "small test on the Internet and current music." A text in which I demonstrate why, according to me, culture, just as education, health, or research, must not be reserved exclusively for "solvent clients." I also explain, with many literary and journalistic references, why it is necessary today to free artists from the influence of governments and marketing, and I imagine how the Internet could contribute to that.

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Links:

Philippe Axel’s Web site
Self-interview In French

Further reading:

• Art and Cultural Identity in the Construction of a Cooperative World
  Hamilton FARIA (POLIS), Pedro GARCIA, Hamilton FARIA (Instituto de Estudos, Formação e Assessoria em Politicas Sociais. World Network of Artists in Alliance), Pedro GARCIA
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  01 November 1998

  	EN	FR	PT
  	44 ko, 15 pages		1219 ko, 132 pages
  	51 ko, 14 pages	57 ko, 9 pages

• Art and Cultural Identity in the Construction of a Cooperative World
  hamilton Faria (POLIS), Pedro Garcia (POLIS), Hamilton FARIA (Instituto de Estudos, Formação e Assessoria em Politicas Sociais. World Network of Artists in Alliance), Pedro GARCIA
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  04 July 1998

  	EN
  	239 ko, 48 pages

• Committed Art x Art for Art's Sake
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  26 August 2005

  	PT
  	39 ko, 4 pages

• Experience Reports of the Art and Society Workshop
  Olivier Petitjean
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  01 March 1998

  	FR
  	209 ko, 57 pages

• Human Rights and the Privatization of Culture in Brazil
  Bianca DOS SANTOS (Instituto POLIS)
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  19 July 2005

  	PT
  	32 ko, 5 pages

• No Alliance without Artists!
  Michel Sauquet (FPH), Michel SAUQUET (Alliance des Editeurs Independants)
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  01 July 1998

  	EN	FR	ES
  		24 ko, 2 pages
  	23 ko, 2 pages		24 ko, 2 pages

• The World of Art
  Marilena ChauÍ
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  04 August 2005

  	PT
  	119 ko, 25 pages