As of today, all of the writing on this web site is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Practically that means that i encourage people who read the contents of this site to republish it in other non-commercial contexts, to link to it, to use excerpts of it in their own work or [...]
This site now publishing under Creative Commons
June 16th, 2009 3 Comments
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Creativity needs Creative Destruction
June 16th, 2009 2 Comments
It can be incredibly difficult to kill an arts company in this country and damn near impossible to simply let it die a natural death. Come the apocalypse, the only things likely to survive are cockroaches, email spammers and arts companies.
Yet finding a way to let things die is vitally important in the realm of [...]
Tags: ANAM · Arts · Arts Funding · Creative Destruction · Creativity · cultural commentary · cultural policy · Marcus Westbury · media · the age
Column Catchups
June 16th, 2009 No Comments
Given that The Age web site folks haven’t exactly been enthusiastic about posting my columns online, i am going to start posting them here as well after a a bit of a delay. I’ll post a new (old) column here each week starting from today. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while but [...]
Tags: canvas · fairfax columns · Marcus Westbury · Melbourne · newspaper. column · the age
Age Column This Week: Creativity and Copyright
June 2nd, 2009 No Comments
For what i think is the first time, my weekly column in The Age is up and on the web site.
DIGITAL technology has created two opposing cultures. One where copyright rules are enforced by a phalanx of lawyers with no regard for artistic intent or respect for legitimate creativity, and another — in our homes, [...]
Tags: Arts · Creative Commons · Creative Commons Australia · Internet · lawrence lessig · Marcus Westbury · media · piracy · the age
I’m a newspaper columnist!
April 23rd, 2009 7 Comments
Based on the fact that i am sweating over my copy this afternoon, i think it is safe to say that I am now officially a newspaper columnist.
The downside is that “newspaper columnist” is a sub-profession of human being somewhere above politician and used car salesman and below journalist. I’m not sure that inflicting my [...]
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A facebook Experiment
March 1st, 2009 7 Comments
I am conducting a little experiment over at Facebook. I’m trying to work out whether it is possible to somehow round up all those people who don’t quite fit the “Art” boxes and as a result never get a seat at the table. My theory is that a relatively small number of highly centralised and [...]
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Me. v. Adelaide radio host Peter Goers
October 22nd, 2008 6 Comments
I’d resisted posting this for a while because i wasn’t exactly sure how to introduce it.
Part of me was tempted to launch into an elaboration of my theory of why and how Adelaide is the least interesting cultural place in all of Australia. It is. Honest.
Part of me was tempted to elaborate on the highly [...]
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Looking for work
October 22nd, 2008 7 Comments
One of the strange things about being on television is that it creates the impression that you’re busy, jetsetting and living some sort of glamorous, high profile existence. To be fair, i did get to go to the Logies but it isn’t all tedious and bizarre nights surrounded by people who dig up people’s gardens, [...]
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Steal This Film
October 21st, 2008 8 Comments
The second episode of Not Quite Art Series Two goes to air on TV on ABC1 across Australia at 10pm local time tonight.
If you’re in Australia, it is possible to download all episodes of the series in full and for free from the ABC web site. However as a lot of people have observed this [...]
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My name is a google ad!
August 26th, 2008 1 Comment
I was googling myself this morning – as i should confess that i can be a bit prone to doing at times – and i noticed the strangest thing. Someone has bought my name!
Google “marcus westbury” yourself and see.
Sadly, it hasn’t been bought by a global a talent agency, or by that Nigerian prince’s family [...]
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