When combined, these COSI strategies create a robust model for accelerating synergy, creativity, and continuous change. Collaborative development efforts to create innovative, 'open' software tools and applications for use in the Creative Arts is rapidly accelerating.
Creative
Arts encompasses the fields of visual and performing arts,
e.g. painting, sculpture, graphic design, printmaking,
photography, music, theatre, film, interactive media, and more.
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Many of the innovative 'open' solutions used in the Creative Arts are being released under one or more open source license arrangements that allow higher individuals and institutions to acquire and use these tools at little or no cost.
Coupled with the proliferation of 'open access' publications and training materials, open source and other 'open' solutions will have tremendous beneficial consequences for individuals and organizations around the world that face funding challenge.
The 'Open Way'The 'Open Source Way' is more than a software development model; it defines the characteristics of a thriving collaborative, sharing culture.
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Check out the following sections on the growing ‘Open’ Movement within the ‘Creative Arts’ that now includes Open Access, Open Data, Open Source Software, Open Hardware, Open Knowledge, Open Standards, Open...
Open
Access
By
‘Open
Access’,
we mean permitting any users to view, download, copy,
distribute, print, search, share, or link to artworks,
books, articles, music, or other materials in the public domain for
research, educational, or other lawful purposes.
Several variations of open access copyright licenses are
available from the Creative
Commons organization.
Check out the following links to open access sites:
Check out the following links to open access sites:
- Bestof Art History - Portal to art history web sites created by EdTechTeacher Inc.
- Europeana - Providing open access to digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
- Google Art Project - Providing online access to thousands of artworks from collections around the world.
- Incredible Art - Provides a comprehensive list of links to 'open source' and/or public domain free clip art, photos, images and other artworks.
- Library of Congress - Recognized as the national library of the U.S. Its collections comprise the world's most comprehensive record of American history, human creativity, and knowledge.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art - Offering 'open access' to an online collection of over 400,000 works of art.
- Open Clip Art Library - An archive of clip art that can be used by anyone for free for any use.
- Open Music Library - Journal articles, videos and music scores from the world's best digital collections.
- ProjectGutenburg - Offering over 33,000 free eBooks that can be downloaded.
- Public Domain Clip Art - Images that are in the public domain, based on the laws of the U.S.
- WikiMediaCommons - An online repository of freely licensed, shareable educational photos and images available on the internet.
Open
Art Organizations
Check
out the following selected ‘Open Arts’ organizations:
- Blend - Collaboration network for music creators.
- Consortium of Community Colleges for Open Education Resources - Providing resources, support and opportunities for collaboration, learning, planning, and implementing successful open educational programs
- Creative Commons - A nonprofit organization dedicated to building a globally-accessible public commons of knowledge and culture.
- LibrePlanetArtists – A network of graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, videographers, animators, and musicians working to create free artwork using open source tools.
- Open Culture - Providing online access to free movies, books, artworks music, and much more.
- P2P Foundation: World of Free and Open Source Art – Focused on the world of free and open source art.
Finally, check out some of the following examples of major Free and ‘Open Source’ Software (FOSS) for the Creative Arts:
- Artof Illusion - A free and open source 3D modeling and rendering studio.
- Audacity - A free and open source, cross-platform software tool used for recording and editing sounds.
- Blender - A free and open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.
- DarkTable - An open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual light table and darkroom for photographers.
- GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) - A multi-platform photo and image manipulation tool. It is an open source alternative to Photoshop.
- GNOME Projects - Hundreds of free and open source GNOME applications are available a vast range of activities, including playing media and editing photos
- Inkscape - An open source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator or CorelDraw.
- Kaltura - A community developed free and open source video management platform and applications.
- Krita - A full-featured, open source sketching and painting application for digital artists
- MuseScore - Free and open source music composition and notation software.
- MyPaint - An open source graphics application for digital painters.
- Open Movie Editor - A free and open source video editing program, designed for basic movie making capabilities.
- Scribus - An open source desktop publishing system with and extensive graphics tools.
- Shape Collage - An open source tool that allows you to create picture collages in any imaginable shape or form.
- Synfig Studio - Free and open-source 2D animation software solution for creating film-quality animation using vector and bitmap artwork.
- TuxPaint - A free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12.
Visit osalt.com to find other open source alternatives to commercial software products.
The ‘Open Way’ is about sharing your process and challenges the entrenched approach that espouses the solitary nature of the truly creative artist. It allows for emergence of a stronger community of artists and creative worker to work together and more openly share ideas, if they choose.
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