the re-remix!
(continuing the discussion...)
in my opinion, authorship cannot truely be lost. but instead the act of remixing will create a mostly hidden quasi-geaneology of this collection of works. peices of works can be traced from one work ot another, each peice (of collages, for the most part paintings, sculptures are not included in this discussion, escept those that quote or reference other works...) being the child or parent to another work. this geneology analogy is not completely precise, as the sampling of other's works does not need a mother and father. collaging can be an asexual process up to a multisexual process, either using just one peices from another's work, or taking parts from many peices to create a new one.
this topic that i seemed to have stumbled upon really isn't even a new one for me. for a previous project for another class (unfortunately i do not have any samples of the work on hand.) my group and i created a collage family tree. each of us, finding 5 source images, then creating a collage (with photoshop) per person with our seperate 5 images. then two of us would then give each of our five images to a third person (who would then have 10 original images) then that person would use 5 of those images to create a new collage. this new "child" collage could then be "bred" with a new collage (created with a seperate 5 images) and the process would continue, and lineages could be traced, and the "phenotype" of the collage children can be seen as the peices of the seperate images used in the collage itself. and the "genotype" of the collage would be the list of 5 files (selected from the combined 10 of the partent collages).
this project was both fun, and also apparently was quite relevant to the topic of this blog. :)
in my opinion, authorship cannot truely be lost. but instead the act of remixing will create a mostly hidden quasi-geaneology of this collection of works. peices of works can be traced from one work ot another, each peice (of collages, for the most part paintings, sculptures are not included in this discussion, escept those that quote or reference other works...) being the child or parent to another work. this geneology analogy is not completely precise, as the sampling of other's works does not need a mother and father. collaging can be an asexual process up to a multisexual process, either using just one peices from another's work, or taking parts from many peices to create a new one.
this topic that i seemed to have stumbled upon really isn't even a new one for me. for a previous project for another class (unfortunately i do not have any samples of the work on hand.) my group and i created a collage family tree. each of us, finding 5 source images, then creating a collage (with photoshop) per person with our seperate 5 images. then two of us would then give each of our five images to a third person (who would then have 10 original images) then that person would use 5 of those images to create a new collage. this new "child" collage could then be "bred" with a new collage (created with a seperate 5 images) and the process would continue, and lineages could be traced, and the "phenotype" of the collage children can be seen as the peices of the seperate images used in the collage itself. and the "genotype" of the collage would be the list of 5 files (selected from the combined 10 of the partent collages).
this project was both fun, and also apparently was quite relevant to the topic of this blog. :)
posted by eygji at 12:45 AM
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