http://www.bloc.org/ News from Bloc http://www.bloc.org.uk/cgi-bin/showbig.cgi?id=77 The bloc bulletin is a free email publication containing news about bloc activities as well as breaking news about events and opportunities in Wales, the UK and beyond for the creative technology sector. The bulletin is published fortnightly. Bulletin subscribers are also able to add their own news to the bulletin.Subscribe to the Bulletin at: http://www.bloc.org.uk/3-2.html http://www.bloc.org.uk/cgi-bin/showbig.cgi?id= http://www.bloc.org.uk/cgi-bin/showbig.cgi?id=1297%26news=true Fair Use is a multimedia exhibition at Columbia College Chicago`s Glass Curtain Gallery that sets out to foster critical discussion about intellectual property rights. The exhibition looks at how contemporary artists and designers challenge proprietary cultural material through its appropriation, reconfiguration and redistribution.

The recent strategies of open-source and `copyleft` licensing serve to encourage collaboration and innovation through the free sharing of information. Together these two paradigms form a critique of the conventional modes of distribution and ownership to imagine a more fluid and inclusive economy of cultural meanings.

Participating artists include: Guy Ben-Ner, Bea Correa, Line Langballe and Christina Okai Mejborn of Totem Collective, Sze Lin Pang, Pratchaya Phintong, Seth Price, Kay Rosen, Salter/Snowden and Siebren Versteeg. This exhibition is curated by Brandon Alvendia.

Exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

RELATED PROGRAMMING:
- Artist Talk: Siebren Versteeg. Thursday, March 11, 5:00pm. Siebren Versteeg is a multimedia artist who, in addition to writing his own software code, co-opts online media and commercial databases to create hi-tech works that critique the very sources he usurps. Versteeg will be discussing his ideas and work in this lecture. Versteeg`s piece, New York Windows, is included in the Fair Use exhibition.
- Gallery Talk: Brandon Alvendia, Curator. Tuesday, March 16, 6:00-7:00pm. ... http://www.bloc.org.uk/cgi-bin/showbig.cgi?id=1296%26news=true With so many TV programmes being made in Wales and more to come, find out how to tap into the production music market; the difference in categories of audio visual music, the people who use it and how it could be a new revenue for you.

Panel from the audio-visual sector, answering your questions, and explaining the market. Launch of WMF`s essential production music toolkit: a `how to` guide for music creators and rights owners. Pick up your free copy. Drinks, nibbles and networking after

All FREE

To book your place e-mail hello@welshmusicfoundation.com or call 02920 494 110

About the event: Production music can be an additional income stream for many music creators and rights holders. Recent figures have shown that, with only 2% of production music used on Welsh TV being composed by Welsh composers, its one we’re not taking advantage of. In light of this, Welsh Music Foundation will be launching a toolkit for labels, composers, studios and musicians to prepare music for the TV and the wider multi-platform industry such as computer games. Taking place 3pm at the CULT Cymru / North Wales Creative Industries Fair in Galeri, Caernarfon, a panel of audio-visual insiders will discuss the market with Aelwyn Williams (PAWB, who are presenting the Toolkit) and John Hywel Morris (PRS For Music). Chaired by Rhys Mwyn.

Copies of the toolkit will be available free at the event with drinks and networking after....