Bodó, Balázs, PhD (1975), research scientist at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.
Balázs is a socio-legal research scientist at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.
He is a two time Fulbright Scholar (Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society in 2006/7, Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society in 2012). In 2013-15 he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. In 2017 he received an ERC starting grant on blockchain and society.
Balázs is an internationally renowned expert in cultural black markets, piracy, and the digital underground. He has given lectures at top US universities (U. Penn, American University, Harvard), and he is regularly invited to talk at leading European academic and industry events. He is a regular contributor to scholarly and popular discussions on copyright, enforcement, piracy and digital freedoms.
Before moving to the Netherlands, Balázs was deeply involved in the development of the Hungarian internet culture. He was the project lead for Creative Commons Hungary. Between 2008 and 2015 he was a member of the National Copyright Expert Group. As a tenured faculty at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, he led the university’s Masters Program in Cultural Industries. He advised several public and private institutions on digital archives, content distribution, online communities, business development. His academic interests include copyright and economics, piracy, media regulation, peer-to-peer communities, underground libraries, digital archives, informal media economies. His most recent book is on the role of P2P piracy in the Hungarian cultural ecosystem.
Dear Bodó,
My name is Agnieszka Slodownik, and I’m working for the Polish Audiovisual Institute in Warsaw. Yearly the Institute organises the “Culture 2.0” festival focusing on various aspects of technology in culture: digitisation of archives, new media awareness, renewable potential in culture and other.
This year’s edition will take the cultural aspect of so called “citizen 2.0” and participation in culture as its theme. How can culture act through technology in favour of the citizenship? How can a community get involved in creating and creative use of its own cultural resources? How does citizenship work in art? What right does a citizen have to cultural content?
We understand the “citizen 2.0” as the citizen of the web, which defines his or her possibilities and limitations. The “Culture 2.0” festival will therefore focus on culture which is spread across the web, and saturated with technology. The latter considered as a tool enabling one’s activity and subjectivity, or a factor in social exclusion. Official art is being replaced by every day creativity, and creation is now a common act. We are cultural, as long as we’re involved.
The festival is dedicated to GLAM sector employees: teachers, culture activists, artists, culture theoreticians, IT sector and anyone interested in interactive solutions in culture.
I would like to find out if you’d be interested in taking part in the festival 26-27 October 2012. If you’re initially interested after this introductory letter, I will be happy to get to all the details and answer any questions you might have.
Kind regards,
Agnieszka Słodownik
dział programowy | programme department
M. +48 531 292 208 | E-mail: agnieszka.slodownik@nina.gov.pl
Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny
ul. Wałbrzyska 3/5 | 02-739 Warszawa
nina.gov.pl | dwutygodnik.com | biweekly.pl
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