the very best exemple I know about artist as inventor, is the french poet Charles Cros, who invented the colour photography, and the phonogram too, in the same time with Edison.
One of his well known poem is :
Je sais faire des vers perpétuels. Les hommes
Sont ravis à ma voix qui dit la vérité.
La suprême raison dont j'ai fier, hérité
Ne se payerait pas avec toutes les sommes.
J'ai tout touché : le feu, les femmes et les pommes ;
J'ai tout senti : l'hiver, le printemps et l'été ;
J'ai tout trouvé, nul mur ne m'ayant arrêté.
Mais Chance, dis-moi donc de quel nom tu te nommes ?
Je me distrais à voir à travers les carreaux
Des boutiques, les gants, les truffes et les chèques
Où le bonheur est un suivi de six zéros.
Je m'étonne, valant bien les rois, les évêques,
Les colonels et les receveurs généraux
De n'avoir pas de l'eau, du soleil, des pastèques.
If you can read it (it's realy a very beautiful poem), you will notice how the thematics of scientific research and poetry are mixed in a perfect way. It's some thing like the Renaissance credo...
A good day to all of you.
Xavier Malbreil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jorge Antunes" <antunes@unb.br>
To: <abureaud@gmail.com>; "YASMIN DISCUSSIONS" <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] ARTISTS AS INVENTORS ON YASMIN
> Dear Yasminers:
>
> I didn't think very much about this interesting subject.
> But, my first reaction would be to say:
> "All good artists were and are always inventors."
>
> Beethoven was a great inventor!
> Kagel also!
> Duchamp also!
> Xenakis also!
>
> Patent? Hummmmm!
> Editions Salabert explores very well the patents (copyright) of Xenakis!
>
> Regards,
> Jorge Antunes
>
>
>
>
>
> 2009/3/2 Annick Bureaud <abureaud@gmail.com>
>
>> Dear Yasminers
>>
>> I am very much looking forward to this discussion.
>>
>> Often, when I throw the terms : "artists as inventors" and "patent"
>> immediatly come the words : Open Source and Creative Commons.
>> This is a new direction, how do you take that into account in the overall
>> discussion ?
>>
>> Best
>> Annick
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