Art After the Internet: Reformulating Conceptions of Authorship Online
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- 2020
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For much of its history the concept of authorship has been defined by Western Romantic ideals. These ideals have shaped the ways in which viewers engage with a work of art. With the widespread use of digital technologies and online media sharing platforms to facilitate the creation, distribution, and viewing of art (and content more broadly), the potential for multifarious approaches to the process of authoring that exist outside of this singular and restrictive framework have emerged. Due to the entrenched nature of the Western Romantic understanding of authorship, people have struggled to engage with these new alternative approaches. To explore whether recent digital technologies provide tools for complicating, disrupting, and ultimately bettering our understanding of this reliance on Romantic notions of authorship, they need to be both examined and deployed strategically in art. My practice based research project takes up this task, critically examining the ways in which new technologies and media sharing platforms are being used online to reframe what artist Artie Vierkant (2010) has described as “reader-author” approaches as strategies for interrogating the concept of authorship. With artists increasingly turning to online media sharing platforms as both a subject for investigation and medium through which to present work, a discussion of how one can navigate the new possibilities for authorship offered by these platforms is vital.
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