Seminar
Columbia University School of the Arts
Spring 2004

Net Art Session 7: Monday, March 8, 2004

Topic

Authorship, Originality and Intellectual Property

Class Plan

+ Presentations
+ Discuss readings
+ Critique mid-term projects

Required Readings

+ Culture & Technology, by Andrew Murphie and John Potts
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2003. Available at Labyrinth Books.

Authorship, intellectual property & technology (pp. 67 - 73)

+ Copyrights and Copywrongs, by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Available in course packet.

Introduction (pp. 1 – 16)

+ The Illustrated Story of Copyright, by Edward Samuels
Available in course packet.

The Internet (pp. 98 – 124)

Recommended Readings

+ Ken Jordan and Paul Miller: "Freeze Frame" - Available as class file.

+ Cornelia Sollfrank's 'net.art generator' as Collectors Object - Available as class file.

+ Jon Ippolito: “Why Art Should Be Free" - Also available as class file.

+ Douglas Quin: “Digital Sampling, the Mimetic Impulse and Appropriation in Modern Art" -
The Journal for the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Volume IX, #1, April, 1994
Available as class file.

Files

+ Douglas Quin: “Digital Sampling, the Mimetic Impulse and Appropriation in Modern Art"
+ Cornelia Sollfrank's 'net.art generator' as Collectors Object
+ Jon Ippolito: "Why Art Should Be Free"
+ Ken Jordan and Paul Miller: "Freeze Frame"

< Session 6 | Session 8 >