The idea of an open-source art festival emerged inside the multimedia center Kiberpipa, and the first biennial event was held on 2004. Thematic focus of the HAIP Festival 2008, Hacktopia tries to question the results of the actual practice of opensource-technology-supported creative media art and the dimensions of the freedom of expression inside it.The core question is: hacktopia at the continuum of utopia and dystopia.
Where is the freedom of artistic expression in open source media?
How can we hack the paradigms of society?
It is with great pleasure that Virtual Entity is participating to such event which brings together very interesting projects, collectives and individual artists from all over. Focus of the presentation will be the VE’s Metadata structure and the division of the digital world of creations in four substances. The Metadata scheme developed by the author will be collectively set to a series of tests. The results will be implemented in the first Souls database prototype. The first Souls database was created on November 2nd 2008. A special date that occurred by chance, a day charged of specific significance by different cultural traditions. Voila’. The game has started!
