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Of People Not Machines: Authorship, Copyright and the Computer Programmer
Authorship of computer programs merits close attention, on one level, because it illustrates what is one of my more general observations about the relationship between ideas of authorship in law and the "digital arts": its complexity. The sphere of "digital arts" is characterised by a multiplicity of creative practices and consequently a diversity of ideas about “authorship”, which resist simplistic conclusions as to what the challenge of the digital should mean for law. At the same time, the status of computer programmers as authors draws attention to what for modern lawyers is likely to be an unexpected and counter-intuitive observation about certain aspects of the relation between digital art and law: far from always a source of challenge, the discourses of authorship in the "digital arts" can also provide the law with assistance. Indeed, as we will see, in humanising technology and exalting the computer programmer as a creative poet, certain discourses of digital art can in fact provide coherence and legitimacy to legal concepts of authorship, rather than challenging them.
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 14:08
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William Poundstone and the Aesthetics of Digital Literature
This paper will discuss the work of Los Angeles-based writer and digital artist William Poundstone. Poundstone, who makes his living writing books for a popular audience on subjects such as cryptography, philosophical and mathematical conundrums, economics and even a biography of Carl Sagan, has a growing, but still quite small, reputation as one of the most intellectually challenging, playful, and artistically distinctive web artists. His “New Digital Emblems” is probably his most ambitious work, and operates somewhere between a documentary about the history of visual and ludic writing—ranging across centuries and focusing most profoundly on the Renaissance emblem books—and an original artistic creation, as it includes several of his own “digital emblems.” Other works, such as “Project for Tachistoscope,” challenge our ways of reading as this narrative is presented as a mix of basic “Wing Dings”-style iconography and text, presented in synch one image/word combination at a time.
Audun Andreassen - 10.04.2013 - 12:53
