Submitted by admin on 5 March, 2008 - 15:22.
An interview with members of Sharing is Sexy
Thinking back a few months ago, even before the website was launched, I was very much intrigued by seeing “open source” and “sex” in the same sentence on the welcome page of Sharing is Sexy (SiS). Buzz wording or… pure genius, you ask? This current issue of .dpi on the theme of images gave me the excuse to find out. Here, some members of the collective behind the San Diego/Tijuana borderlands based project were kind enough to spend time putting into words what they usually put into pornographic photos. After about a year of work and significant institutional resistance from the university (which was hosting the site), along with the challenges posed by legal questions when operating within an anti-capitalist framework, SiS was launched in early 2008. The project is described as an open source porn laboratory and a sex positive collective, which you can visit at: www.sharingissexy.org . You will also be lucky enough to meet two of the members, who will be in Montreal at the end of March, presenting their project to the Northern, perhaps freezing, horny audiences.
Broad CDS2 Carly Delso-Saavedra, www.sharingissexy.org
Please note that the people answering these questions are part of SiS, but they don't speak for the collective, only for themselves.
First off, could you tell us what prompted this project and the form it took? Sort of give us more details about the origin as well as the (collective) process and so on?