On December 13, 2009 in Inter Art Center, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, Creative Commons China Mainland organized a large-scale art exhibition of CC-licensed artworks. After an openning ceremony, participating artists and members from CC China Mainland, joined by project leads and representatives from Creative Commons Asia-Pacific Region including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia, convened a forum under the theme of the exhibition: “Remix and Share”.
The forum was chaired by Curator of the exhibition, Mr. Wu Hong and Vice-director of Tsinghua Institute for Internet Behaviour, team member of CC China Mainland, Dr. Li Xu. It focused on the concept of “remix and share”, with an additional special session for experiences sharing between CC Asia-Pacific regions’ project teams in promotional activities. Representatives from the regions introduced and discussed the promotion of CC in their own jurisdictions, with special focuses on the exploration and practices of “art and share”.
In this forum, Mr. Kong Lingqian, board member of the advisory Board of CC China Mainland and founder of Kong Bohua TCM School, delivered a great speech to the audience. He started by analyzing the soul of share with theories of Confucius, and shared with the guests the ideas in cultural phenomenon of “remix” and “share”.
Dr. Tyng-Ruey Chuang, research fellow of Institute of Information Science of Academia Sinica and Project Lead of CC Taiwan delivered a presentation titled Collaborative works and Public License to describe the practices of CC Taiwan. After that, another guest from Taiwan, well known new media artist Mr. Escher Tsai shared his experience from the aspect of new media with a speech titled Path of CC. He also made an introduction of the Playaround Workshop 2009 activity, an event currently taking place in Taipei, and discussed with the audience on how to view the concept of share.
Shen Yi, a participating artist also shared her opinions on “remix” as an approach of authoring, and on the importance of share to young artists. The artists strongly recognized the concept of “Remix and Share”, which they believed to be an embodiment of the vigor of contemporary art communities in China.
Legal Lead of CC Hong Kong (CCHK), Professor Li Yahong from University of Hong Kong introduced the general situation of CCHK. . Project team member of CC Australia, Mr. Sampsung Shi introduced the development of CC Australia in 2009, and shared with the participants their experiences In the end, Ms. He Xiaolin of CC China Mainland introduced the local project’s promotional activities and achievements since the release of CC China Mainland version in 2006.
In this occasion, guests, artists and other participants were coming from various regions and having different professional background; their brainstorm has perfectly illustrated one of CC’s principles: Public Participation. Professor Wang Chunyan addressed that CC China Mainland will continue to organize activities like this forum, and extend to all coverable fields. She welcomed the support of CC China Mainland and promotion of CC’s concept from everyone.
