Antonio Lafuente (born in Granada) is a researcher at the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at CSIC in the area of Studies of Science. He has worked in the colonial expansion of science and the relationship between science, its audience and lay knowledge. More recently, he has investigated the relationship between technology and commons, as well as the links between new and old patrimonies. His interest in common properties has led him to study the problems posed by the spread of intellectual... Read more

Platoniq is an international non-profit organization made up of cultural producers and software developers based in Barcelona since 2001, pioner in the production and distribution of copyleft culture. Since 2001, they carry out activities and projects where the social uses of ICTs and networking are applied to enhance communication, self-training and citizens organisation. Their work generates innovative software applications and methodologies, in addition to an extensive free-licensed audiovisual archive on the Internet. This collective has been associated to the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona since 2003. During the last years, their project Burn Station (2004) has been awarded by the Transitio Festival (Mexico DF) and by the Transmediale Digital Culture Festival (Berlin). It has also won a mention of honour in the UNESCO Digital Arts Awards. Among their projects, we can also find the Bank of Common Knowledge (2006), a knowledge exchange platform; the public streaming server, OpenServer; the organisation of temporary media labs, Media Space Invadres (2003-2004); and the creation of the first copyleft license within the Spanish legal framework, Unconditional Air (2004), which was applied to the contents of the exhibition with the same name produced by Platoniq at the Shedhalle Art Center of Zurich. Platoniq has been a pioner in the design of... Read more