Creative Appropriation
"For the generation that I spend my days with, there’s not even any ideological baggage that comes along with appropriation anymore,” said Stephen Frailey, an artist whose work has used appropriation and who runs the undergraduate photography program at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.
NY Times Article on Appropriation
Creative appropriation is far outpacing copyright law
“They feel that once an image goes into a shared digital space, it’s just there for them to change, to elaborate on, to add to, to improve, to do whatever they want with it. They don’t see this as a subversive act. They see the Internet as a collaborative community and everything on it as raw material."
1000 Doors is a ten-story public art installation made from 1,000 reused doors by South Korean artist Choi Jeong-Hwa.
A fantastic example of creative appropriation, Choi Jeong-Hwa’s work is a bold and captivating way to recycle and recontextualise the ordinary.
Comment by Melanie Roth
“Information super highways are being constructed that will enable a vast increase in the flow of communications.” This statement immediately struck me while reading Mark Poster’s Postmodern Virtualities. Relating it straight to the media, we can see how the web has connected viewers all over the world. Electronic communications has allowed people to share their ideas and stories with the public, while also having access to others thoughts.
Blogs are so prominent in our Internet crazed society, and has opened up a whole new way for amateur critics to share their independent opinions to the public. In Henry Jenkins reading, Quentin Tarentino's Star Wars?, it is stated that “Technology and the new media facilitate the articulation and exchange of ideas in ways never before imagined.” I conducted some of my own research, and came across discussion boards, designed for fans, within the web pages for multiple shows on ABC. People who wrote on these boards shared theories and interacted with each other by commenting on one another’s posts, each relating back to the show. I have included screen shots from the ABC show, Revenge website, so that you can see how interactive the media is with its viewers.
I continued to think of how much fans in this era contribute to the media, and realized how much importance the public is to current reality television. ABC has recently come out with a reality show called The Glass House involving direct input from its fans. In this show, strangers are living in a house together with cameras recording them at all times. At selected times viewers are able to watch a live feed into the house and the public actually gets to decide who gets evicted each week, dictates what the contestants wear, where they sleep and what they eat. We see this use of viewer participations in many of these recent reality shows such as American Idol, and other talent focused shows where the pubic is heard through their votes.
Overall it is clear to me how much “electronic communications technologies significantly enhance these postmodern possibilities.”
http://f2012cmc300.blogspot.com/2012/10/poster-melanie-roth.html
Overall it is clear to me how much “electronic communications technologies significantly enhance these postmodern possibilities.”
http://f2012cmc300.blogspot.com/2012/10/poster-melanie-roth.html
Mashups
A mashup or bootleg (also mesh, mash up, mash-up, blend, and bastard pop/rock) is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another. To the extent that such works are "transformative" of original content, they may find protection from copyright claims under the "fair use" doctrine of copyright law.
D.J. Spooky, Mixiing, Mashup, Remix Culture
DJ Spooky / Paul D. Miller /
That Subliminal Kid lecturing about the role of mixing, mashup, and remix culture in aesthetics, philosophy and literature, the archival impulse, the function of the archive, and modes of production, connected to technology, audio, music, video, cinema, philosophy and his latest project in Antartica about global warming, sound and hypsographic architecture.