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:
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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
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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
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Committed Art x Art for Art's Sake
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26 August 2005
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Experience Reports of the Art and Society Workshop Olivier Petitjean
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01 March 1998
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Human Rights and the Privatization of Culture in Brazil Bianca DOS SANTOS (Instituto POLIS)
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19 July 2005
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No Alliance without Artists! Michel Sauquet (FPH), Michel SAUQUET (Alliance des Editeurs Independants)
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01 July 1998
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The World of Art Marilena ChauÍ
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04 August 2005
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