So I came a crossed this artist Paul McLean in the RHIZOME site. I was interested in the way he went about generating his art, or at least in this case. Not unlike or own class the first thing he did was do a search on the web and steal a image to start his process of making his art. I an not sure if this is the norm, it just struck me as to how normal it seams to be that people just take someone else’s image as a starting place for there own work. I guess I have to get with the times on that one. Maybe in the old days it was just as easy to start with a new image as it was copy. But with this digital age and the ability to cut, copy and paste at the stroke of a key, combined with the availability of so many images on the web. I guess it is not hard to understand how we became so balsa about stealing others work. Or is it like so many other things on the web it’s more about sharing. And I think that may not be Sunday, January 23, 2011
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So I came a crossed this artist Paul McLean in the RHIZOME site. I was interested in the way he went about generating his art, or at least in this case. Not unlike or own class the first thing he did was do a search on the web and steal a image to start his process of making his art. I an not sure if this is the norm, it just struck me as to how normal it seams to be that people just take someone else’s image as a starting place for there own work. I guess I have to get with the times on that one. Maybe in the old days it was just as easy to start with a new image as it was copy. But with this digital age and the ability to cut, copy and paste at the stroke of a key, combined with the availability of so many images on the web. I guess it is not hard to understand how we became so balsa about stealing others work. Or is it like so many other things on the web it’s more about sharing. And I think that may not be 
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Huh... That's a very good point you bring up. How sometimes digital artist's will steal another piece and edit it into their own work.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience with art and the internet this is typically extremely frowned upon. The art website I'm a part off will kick you off if you use someone else's artwork without their permission. I feel like digital art kind of opens the doors for stealing huh?
With regard to the idea of "taking" imagery, I like to think how even "grand master" painters in the renaissance took iconography and poses from each other--it's kind of like we are appropriating imagery. And sometimes when you take an image you are critiquing the original artist or idea about the work
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