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1. Digital Prohibition Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art

   The act of creation requires us to remix existing cultural content and yet recent sweeping changes to copyright laws have criminalized the creative act as a violation of corporate rights in a commodified world. Copyright was originally designed to protect publishers, not authors, and has now gained a stranglehold on our ability to transport, read, write, teach and publish digital materials.

   Contrasting Western models with issues of piracy as practiced in Asia, Digital Prohibition explores the concept of authorship as a capitalist institution and posits the Marxist idea of the multitude (à la Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, and Paulo Virno) as a new collaborative model for creation in the digital age. Looking at how digital culture has transformed unitary authorship from its book-bound parameters into a collective and dispersed endeavor, Dr. Guertin examines process-based forms as diverse as blogs, Facebook, Twitter, performance art, immersive environments, smart mobs, hacktivism, tactical media, machinima, generative computer games (like Spore and The Sims) and augmented reality.

   (Source: Continuum online catalog)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 28.03.2012 - 09:48

2. “III=II=I=I=II=III”

   A network- and laptop- distributed language art performance based on texts that have been processed and regenerated in terms of the typo- and orthographic dimensionalities of their supply compositions, with phrase selection based on indexed occurrence counts hacked from Google.

   (Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.06.2012 - 14:51

3. Invisible Participation: Language and the Internet

   Language is the hidden scaffolding of networks, applications, and web sites. It is minified and monetized in ways that are often occluded from the everyday user’s experience. From their point of view, the interaction is innocuous – language is used for labels and explanations. A few words are typed into an empty field and thousands of related results appear instantly. A simple search, an email to a friend, a unique phrase – all easily logged, monetized, and indexed. This is the world of invisible participation.

   Scott Rettberg - 05.11.2012 - 16:28

4. "How It Is in Common Tongues": an interview with John Cayley and Daniel Howe

   A video interview about the installation "How It Is in Common Tongues" at the Remediating the Social exhibition with John Cayley and Daniel Howe. Interview conducted by Scott Rettberg 3 Nov. 2012 at Inspace, Edinburgh. Photography by Richard Ashrowan.

   Scott Rettberg - 15.02.2013 - 12:57