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Why starting from scratch?
Appropriation aesthetics in the Internet era
AVEC - Art, Visuality and Electronic Culture
Graduate Student Workshop
20 May 2024 / 11.00 - 16.00
Santa Cristina Complex, Piazzetta Giorgio Morandi 2
Bologna
In the fifth appointment of the series of talks organized by the Graduate Student Workshop AVEC, the topic of appropriation aesthetics in the Internet era will be faced. If, as Kenneth Goldsmith points out, CTRL+C CTRL+V commands have become an integral part of our creative or academic process, making it obvious how the availability of content on digital media has profoundly changed the way we write and relate to pre-existing materials, when does this process of appropriation, more or less explicitly, become critical reflection? And how does this shift affect our behavior? The figure of the prosumer is to all intents and purposes part of everyday life, holding the possibility of influencing, even if in a small way, the shaping of an idea and the impact it has on others. Such power has given rise to new narrations and fostered the creation of alternative worlds, such as gaming and virtual reality, but it has also given rise to the need to disrupt binarism, whether digital, with the dismantling of authorship and the adoption of anonymity, or cultural, with a space of expression that is free and open to all interpretations.
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