Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art

by Carolyn Guertin

Overview

First to explore how authorship is changing in a digital age, particularly focusing on how restrictive copyright laws are endangering the future of culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441106100
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/26/2012
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Carolyn Guertin holds a dual appointment in digital media-as Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and as a member of the graduate faculty at Transart Institute in Berlin, Germany. She was Senior McLuhan Fellow and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto from 2004 to 2006. She is widely published on issues related to cyberfeminism, born-digital arts, and participatory cultures.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ambivalence and Authorship The Third Space of Authorship: Participatory Practices and New Narrative Models The New Prohibition: Digital Piracy and the Politics of Creation
 
Part I ~ The Aesthetics of Appropriation Creativity is Dead Long Live The Reflexive Remix Interruption (Stoppage + Repetition) Disturbance (Action + Event) Tactical Media: Public Disturbance After the Decline and Fall of Activism Capture/Leakage (Performance + Documentation) Dynamic Data and Augmented Bodies
 
Part II: Authorship From Karaoke Culture to Vernacular Video ‘Aberrant Decoding' and Atactical Aesthetics Sampling Mashups Remakes/Adaptations/Intertexts Streamed data/content or visualization Archiving As An Aesthetic Form Hacks Google Empire: Smart Art and Intelligent Agents From Intelligent Tools to Smart Art Real Time/ UnReal Time
 
Part III: Creative Cannibalism and Digital Anthropophagy Digital Anthropophagy Translation: Performing The In Between ‘Productive Mistranslation' (China and Pakistan)
 
Conclusion Works CitedIndex