The Sun BabelFish Blog
Don't panic !
Appropriation Art
Art and thought always builds on the past art and thought, since intellectual and creative work is a discussion. The Read Write society of blogs, wikis, mashups is about making it easy/allowing people to participate in the intellectual and cultural life of the planet. Since doing this is always in part an appropriation of the past, of the words of the other, in order to transform it or adapt it for ones own life the Appropriation Art a Canadian group has built its position on this fundamental insight of what makes meaning.
The talk on Art and Copyright yesterday, made this point very well. Various other talks here showing how developing countries such as Brazil, Nigeria (which produces more films than both Hollywood or India), where a culture of intellectual property ownership is not developed and a lot of sharing just happens spontaneously and legally, are showing us the way in this respect.
Posted at 09:47PM Sep 15, 2006 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in Art | Comments[1]
Note on comments:
- I know the forms below are a little small. We have asked for years for this to be changed, but I don't think it's going to happen soon. In Apple's Safari you can resize the entry box with you mouse. For people using other browsers click on this javascript link, that should allow you to resize your form.
- Comments are moderated, so they will take a little time to appear. Currently moderation means I have to read them personally. Hopefully with OpenId deployment, this will become more automated.
- HTML markup no longer works here, due to some decision made somewhere. Sorry about that.
- If you are having trouble posting, it may be that you need javascript to be enabled. I don't think javascript should be needed for submitting a form, but that's the way it is here.
- Check your comments by using the preview button...
yay
Posted by 124.183.148.137 on October 21, 2007 at 04:45 AM CEST #