Ctrl+X & Ctrl+V : postproducing the digital world / Aidan Law.
Publication details: [Auckland, N.Z. : Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design], ©2006.Description: 56 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmOther title:- Control X and control V
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library Dissertations | Dissertations | DISS 06-18 LAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not For Loan | 0007191 |
"In partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Master of Fine Arts Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, 2006"
Keywords: Digital, Information, Installation, Open source culture, Painting, Postproduction, Reduplication, Reproduction, Simulation, Structures
Includes bibliographical references.
The internet and digital culture has subsumed the contemporary world, causing a fundamental shift in the conceptionand construction of art today. This dissertation proposes that there is a newer manifestation of Postmodernism, a direct reaction to theopen source nature of the internet,and the mass proliferationof information within this domain. The artist is now a DJ or the postproducer, cutting and pasting pre-‐existing forms into new structures that reflect a personal lived experience. The three modes of my artistic practice, traditional, virtual and installation paintingiscontextualised in relation to the idea of an open source culture and Nicolas Bourriaud’s theory of “postproduction” (2002). Using this notion of “postproduction” (2002), I examine the art practicesof the contemporary artists Michel Majerus, Matthew Ritchie, Franz Ackermann and Ryan McGinnessand theindividual ways in which they construct new structures from the constant flow of information.