Digital Prohibition Piracy and Authorship in

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 Prohibitionexplores 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.

Introduction: Ambivalence and Authorship The Third Space of Authorship: Participatory Practices and New Narrative Models The New Prohibition: Digital Piracy and the Politics of Creation

Part I ~ The Aesthetics of Appropriation Creativity is Dead Long Live The Reflexive Remix Interruption (Stoppage + Repetition) Disturbance (Action + Event) Tactical Media: Public Disturbance After the Decline and Fall of Activism Capture/Leakage (Performance + Documentation) Dynamic Data and Augmented Bodies

Part II: Authorship From Karaoke Culture to Vernacular Video 'Aberrant Decoding' and Atactical Aesthetics Sampling Mashups Remakes/Adaptations/Intertexts Streamed data/content or visualization Archiving As An Aesthetic Form Hacks Google Empire: Smart Art and Intelligent Agents From Intelligent Tools to Smart Art Real Time/ UnReal Time

Part III: Creative Cannibalism and Digital Anthropophagy Digital Anthropophagy Translation: Performing The In Between 'Productive Mistranslation' (China and Pakistan)

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