Tank Man response

Tank Man

After doing some research on the infamous Tank Man, modern day censorship and copyright laws, I came to some conclusions of my own. My paper, "Talk of Tank Man and Censorship" covers my feelings on censorship in the art world today. I don't believe in censorship because anything that can be published in the public domain, exists. I believe that nothing belongs to anyone; ownership is an idea created out of greed that society ties to money and punishment. Artists should be more lenient in the sharing of their work because after all, no idea is original. Everything is a combination of anything you've ever experienced, consciously or not.

Project: scanner face

Creativity Strangled:

Our generation speaks through other's words and pictures

is it okay?

what are the limits on copyright?

Larry Lessig, the man talking in the video, said that our generation completly rejects the notion of what copyright is supposed to do. This is true. When's the last time anyone thought, "maybe i should pay for this music"?

i guess there's a valid point that if we reject the laws of copyright, we should be more willing to allow our work, as artists to be freely available for non-commercial use.

"We live life in an age of prohibitions, we live life against the law"

-Larry Lessig

2-d lecture

9.22.09

Phillip Glahn

This lecture was by far better than last weeks. Glahn brought up some interesting points that cought my attention at least long enough for me to write them down. The lecture was mainly about artists using the work of others for their own pieces. So the question is, who's art is it? When Duchamp put the toilet seat in a gallery, he didn't create the toilet, he turned it on it's side, he came up with the statement. So who's work was it?

So i guess what he was trying to get at is ... that people should be more willing to collaborate. to say, this is what i did, this is what you did, none of it is anyone's. It's just that someone has to say things that aren't said, say things in a new way so new people understand. and to do so, all of us as artists need to accept that our ideas come from everything we've ever seen or experienced. And everyone is a part of our work. Nothing is our own. life is collaborative.

"Art is an affirmation of what it is to be a human, not a machine."

-Glahn

Art is different from production. There is always an imperfection to a work of art, but does that make it imperfect? Can something be perfect because of imperfections, or can we just start to look at imperfection with a positive view and say, this is imperfect and i like it. it's NOT perfect. it's just imperfect and that's it.

Glahn also talked about de- and re-skilling art. De-skilling being that which brings the outside world into works of art. Re-skilling being that which we learn in art school basically. classic techniques. hmm that's at least what i got out of it.