De ‘Amen Break‘ uit Amen Brother, een hit van The Winstons uit 1969, vormt de basis voor geloopte grooves in hiphop, jungle, techno en uiteenlopende andere muziekstijlen en commercials. In onderstaande korte docu van Nate Harisson wordt de oorsprong en het gebruik ervan gedetailleerd uiteengezet. Fascinerend, ook in auteursrechtelijk verband, waarbij Harisson het belang van het publieke domein benadrukt.
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Occuprint is een website waar ontwerpers van affiches voor uiteenlopende Occupy-protesten hun exemplaren beschikbaar stellen. Uit hun About sectie:
Occuprint emerged when The Occupied Wall Street Journal asked us to guest curate an issue dedicated to the poster art of the global Occupy movement. The Occuprint website is meant to connect people with this work, and provide a base of support for print-related media within the #Occupy movement.
Occuprint showcases posters from the worldwide Occupy movement, all of which are part of the creative commons, and available to be downloaded for noncommercial use, though we ask that artists are given attribution for their work.
Mooie docu over de remixcultuur, gemaakt door een aantal Yale-studenten:
“Walking on Eggshells” is a 24-minute documentary about appropriation, creative influence, re-use and intellectual property in the remix age. It is a conversation among various musicians, visual artists, writers and lawyers, all sharing their views on why and how we use and create culture, and how intellectual property law, originally designed to provide people with incentives to create, sometimes hinders creative production far more than it enhances it.”
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Read MoreGrafische partituren zijn allesbehalve nieuw, maar de wijze waarop de samenwerkende kunstenaars Quayola en Abstract Birds het met Partitura hebben aangepakt ziet er wel erg mooi uit. Ik weet niet of celliste Hildur Guðnadóttir (in de eerste video hieronder) het volgende week ook in Leeuwarden gebruikt, maar het zou wel iets zijn waarnaar ik extra uitkijk. Over Partitura:
Partitura is a custom software to generate realtime graphics aimed at visualising sound. The term “Partitura” (score) implies a connection with music, and this metaphor is the main focus of the project. Partitura aims to create a new system for translating sound into visual forms. Inspired by the studies of artists such as Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oscar Fischinger and Norman McLaren, the images generated by Partitura are based on a precise and coherent system of relationships between various types of geometries. The main characteristic of this system is its horizontal linear structure, like that of a musical score.”
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Partitura #000 – Excerpt 1 from Partitura on Vimeo.
Partitura #001 from Partitura on Vimeo.
Kasten gevuld met blikjes as, in dit geval afkomstig van gecremeerde patiënten van het Oregon State Hospital, tevens de filmlocatie van One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Fotograaf Davis Maisel maakte een serie, getiteld Library of Dust, van delen van het ziekenhuis die momenteel verlaten zijn. Maisel:
On my first visit to the hospital, I am escorted to a decaying outbuilding, where a dusty room lined with simple pine shelves is lined three-deep with thousands of copper canisters. Prisoners from the local penitentiary are brought in to clean the adjacent hallway, crematorium, and autopsy room. A young male prisoner in a blue uniform, with his feet planted firmly outside the doorway, leans his upper body into the room, scans the cremated remains, and whispers in a low tone, ‘The library of dust.’ The title and thematic structure of the project result from this encounter.”
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David Maisel, Asylum 16, Oregon State Hospital, Salem, OR
David Maisel, Asylum 3, Tubs, Ward 7, abandoned portion of J Building
David Maisel, Asylum 4, Lounge/Meeting Room, Ward 66, abandoned portion of J Building
David Maisel, Asylum 15, Gurney, Crematorium
Kunstenaar José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros plaatst Disneyfiguren in situaties, of dicht ze karaktereigenschappen toe, die de oorspronkelijke makers allerminst zo bedoeld zullen hebben. Over zijn illustratiereeks:
His latest project, Disenchanted, seeks to demystify the modern fairytale. Rodolfo juxtaposes representations of animation’s yesteryear with unexpected, almost antithetical situations. While his subjects (in another context) might embody the quintessential happy ending, Rodolfo reminds is that as individuals we are neither wholly immune nor entirely susceptible to viscera. We absorb a narrative that is neither truth nor lie, allowing elements of fantasy to become our reality, and so it should come as no surprise to discover elements of reality intruding on our richest fantasies. Even material that is created as an escape from waking life can be impacted by the real world, changing the original aesthetic completely.”
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