Concept :

BURN STATION is a multipart project travelling through Europe, investigating the different aspects of free culture (free software community, open source policies, organizational strategies and independent distribution) from a social and local perspective. Our prime interest is to track the history of independent media culture back to the 60's, from Marcel Mauss and the philosophy of the economy of gift to Fluxus, through the situationist movement, psychogeography, flanneur culture, relational and social aesthetics), and to document how the new technologies have helped free culture and cultural networks to grow out of subcultural contexts. Organizing sporadic get-togethers in different European cities, the idea is to share information and tactics with local communities members, free copyright and independant music labels, independent media centers, art servers, artists run space, net radios, temporary media labs and other net culture initiatives about how free culture and alternative options to copyright laws can be developed. Actions and debates are organized in public spaces around a piece of open source software programmed for the project.

A data base containing audio, texts and video material distributed under free license is let at the disposal of the audience, allowing later consultation, possibility to select, to copy and upload new material from local producer as the on-going part of the project.