.without you i am nothing_:
a homage to free culture_

.culture builds on what has been produced before_.everything we come up with are in fact a product of our past experiences, thus nothing is original, all work is appropriation, “all creative work is derivative” and “everything is a remix” .this work couldn’t have been possible without appropriating other works; without them it was nothing. the authors of the appropriated works encouraged others to copy, share and build on it in a free way by stating their politics on this through free cultural licenses or even just through their declaration without using any kind of a license. they are the peers of free culture. this work is a homage to these authors and to free culture. there are many other free cultural works. the works attributed in this project are just some of the free/libre videos of the peers of free culture as of 2010_

.many licenses of creative commons that have “no derivatives” and “non-commercial” clauses restrict appropriation and commercial use. many of the creative commons licensed works have these clauses and they just create a simulacrum of free culture_ .all the works appropriated in this work are either licensed with one of the licenses listed for free cultural works (Free Art License, GNU GPL, CC by, CC by-sa) in “the definition of free cultural works” or are in public domain, or have their own statements encouraging copying, sharing, appropriation and even commercial use. if any of these freedoms is not declared in the authors statement, .-_-. contacted and asked them about their ideas and politics about these freedoms and got approval to include in this work_. besides the final product, the process of making this work; researching the free cultural works on the internet and getting in contact with their creators,  is the real artistic experience for .-_-..
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the technique of this work consists of just blending the 36 attributed free videos and slowing down the final video with a color correction. in the online installation, there are two looped ogg theora videos made with this technique, with durations of 33 seconds and 19 seconds playing on the same frame (div) on each other, one with a transparency of 0.5 (made with css). since the videos start buffering and playing in different times in each visit and since they loop in different durations, each image of a frame you will see will be different and unique. this is the endless possibility of appropriation for creativity.

Surveillance Camera Players
1996 – …
http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html
NO COPYRIGHT – ABOLISH PRIVATE PROPERTY
Source:
1984

Dancing To Architecture – a motion picture about TINA
by Vital Focus, 2003
http://www.minskimedia.com/projects/dta.html
Copyleft 2003 Vital Focus Productions
Source:
Dancing to Architecture – a motion picture about TINA (2002)
Director: Leroy Black
Producer: Kristefan Minski
Soundscape/Music: Ionic

Scenes of Provincial Life
by Michael Szpakowski, 2003-…
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
No License. “You may freely download & remix any of them, though I would appreciate a credit.”
Source:
Departure From Haywards Heath

Route 66 – An American (bad) Dream
VEB FILM Leipzig, 2004
http://route66.vebfilm.net/free/en
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany License
Source:
Route 66 – An American (bad) Dream
Director: Stefan Kluge

Dictionary of War
by Multitude e.V. , 2006 – …
http://dictionaryofwar.org/
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic License
Source:
Counter Imaging – Erden Kosova
Presentation: Erden Kosova
Video Recording: Kein.tv

Elephants Dream
by Blender Foundation / Netherlands Media Art Institute, 2006
http://www.elephantsdream.org/
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Unported
Source:
Elephants Dream
Director: Bassam Kurdali (Orange Open Movie Project)

P2P Art
by Anders Weberg, 2006 – …
http://p2p-art.com/
No License
Source:
Transient, 2007
Emphasis, 2008
080808, 2008
Anonymus, 2009

.re_potemkin: a copyleft crowdsourcing free/open source cinema project_
.f.reep_ project by .-_-. , 2006
http://re-potemkin.httpdot.net
.copyleft!_ .f.reep_, 2006
Source:
potemkin divided (re_potemkin habib bolat edit)
by Habib Bolat, 2008
.copyleft!_ , habib bolat , 2008 & .f.reep_, 2006

Steal This Film
by the League of Noble Peers, 2006
http://www.stealthisfilm.com
Copyright 2006 League of Noble Peers – so you can steal it
Source
Steal This Film Part 1

The Codebreakers
by UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme, 2006
http://www.archive.org/details/The-Codebreakers
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
Source:
The Codebreakers (2006)
Director & Editor: Maximillian Jacobson – Gonzales

Wizards of OS 4
by Volker Grassmuck,2006
http://www.wizards-of-os.org/
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Germany License
Source:
Art & Copyright
Speeches by Cornelia Sollfrank, Gordon Duggan, Christian von Borries, Michael Iber, Simon Yuill, Séverine Dusollier

Steal This Film II
by the League of Noble Peers, 2007
http://www.stealthisfilm.com
Copyright 2007 League of Noble Peers – so you can steal it
Source:
Steal This Film II
Production & Direction: JJ.King

Stray Cinema
by Michelle Hughes and Daniel Agnihotri-Clark, 2007 – …
http://straycinema.com/
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
Source:
Stray Cinema 2009 Footage packet 1
by Raul Broceno & Roger Caubet

Big Buck Bunny
by Blender Foundation, 2008
www.bigbuckbunny.org
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
Source:
Big Buck Bunny
Director: Sacha Goedegebure, aka “sago” (Project Peach))

Jfest Pre Video
by Koray Löker, 2008
http://radiobrecht.org/
Free Art License 1.3
Source:
Jfest Pre Video

Sita Sings the Blues
by Nina Paley, 2008
ww.sitasingstheblues.com
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
Source:
Sita Sings the Blues

The Digital Tipping Point
by Christian Einfeldt,2008
http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com/
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Source:
Digital Tipping Point: How the Malmrose family moved to GNU-Linux (2008)

Copying Is Not Theft (Minute Meme #1)
by Nina Paley, 2009
http://questioncopyright.org/minute_memes/copying_is_not_theft
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
Source:
Copying Is Not Theft

Dozer
by Davor Radic, 2009
http://www.thehillproductions.com/
Creative Copyleft 2009 The Hill Productions
Source:
Dozer

(Moral Bozukluğu ve) 31 / Feeling Blue and 31
by Dirty Cheap Creative, 2009
http://moralbozukluguve31.com/
Copyleft MVB31
Source:
(Moral Bozukluğu ve) 31

Wikipedia Art Remixed
by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, 2009
http://wikipediaart.org/remixes/
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
Source:
Wikipedia Art Remix (based on scene from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
by Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert
http://www.life-art.org/wiki.php

All Creative Work Is Derivative (Minute Meme #2)
by Nina Paley, 2010
http://questioncopyright.org/minute_memes/all_creative_work_is_derivative
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
Source:
All Creative Work Is Derivative

Copyright and Surveillance
by Nina Paley, 2010
http://questioncopyright.org/minute_memes/copyright_and_surveillance
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
Source:
EFFAn Animated Thank You from EFF and Nina Paley!

Düğümküme Meetings
by dugumkume.org, 2010
http://dugumkume.org/dk05
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Source:
Dk05 Open Governance Part 2 of 5 Ozgur Uckan
Presentation by Özgür Uçkan

Everything is a Remix
by Kirby Ferguson, 2010 – …
www.everythingisaremix.info
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Source:
Everything is a Remix, Part 1

Riverpool
by Davor Radic, 2010
http://www.thehillproductions.com/
Creative Copyleft 2010 The Hill Productions
Source:
Riverpool

Sintel
by Blender Foundation / Durian Open Movie Project, 2010
http://www.sintel.org/
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
Source:
Sintel
Director: Colin Levy (Durian Open Movie Project)

Tetris
by Davor Radic, 2010
http://www.thehillproductions.com/
Creative Copyleft 2010 The Hill Productions
Source:
Tetris

Valkaama
by Tim Baumann, 2010
http://www.valkaama.com/
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Source:
Valkaama (music – Michael Georgi)