Digital prohibition : piracy and authorship in new media art / by Carolyn Guertin.

The act of creation requires us to remix existing cultural content and yet recent sweeping changes to copyright laws have criminalized the creative act as a violation of corporate rights in a commodified world. Copyright was originally designed to protect publishers, not authors, and has now gained...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Guertin, Carolyn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Continuum International Pub., 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ambivalence and authorship; The third space of authorship; The new Prohibition; PART ONE The aesthetics of appropriation; Interruption (stoppage + repetition); Disturbance (action + event); Capture/leakage (performance + documentation); Dynamic data and augmented bodies; PART TWO Authorship; From karaoke culture to vernacular video; 'Aberrant decoding' and atactical aesthetics; Google Empire: smart art, intelligent agents; Real time; PART THREE Creative cannibalism and digital; Digital anthropophagy; Translation: performing the in between.
  • 'Productive mistranslation' (China and Pakistan)Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.