N.Y.Times : High-Speed Lines Leave Door Ajar for Hackers
Meanwhile, the new ( and as yet unpublished on-line ) issue of
Web Techniques has a piece by Lincoln Stein on setting up appropriate security for your home computer.
Matthew Mirapaul : An Attack on the Commercialization of Web Art
"Rinehart said: 'Is $52.50 the true value of the work? Well, it doesn't need to be, because I sold a copy of the work to Robbin, not exclusive ownership rights. I sold the only form of property relevant in the 'e-verse:' intellectual property. Maybe digital artists could make up in volume at low prices what they lose in uniqueness at high prices.' " Does anyone remember Paul Allen spending $6M of his own money to help Jimi Hendrix' father secure his son's "image rights" ?
While I attended art school
there was a retrospective celebrating the role the
College played in the heyday of 70's
conceptual art. One of the pieces consisted of a single hole in the wall, the result of someone firing a pellet gun. Whatever, I didn't like it either. What fascinated me was that not only had someone bought the "original" (did they buy the whole wall or just like a square foot?), but they had also "authorized" the "reproduction" of the nonobject-cum-artobject!
Since we're on the subject
be sure and check out G.H.Hovagimyan's
Barbie Meets Richard Serra, an obvious precursor to the cutting-edge neo-montage work of
Alien Ice Picktures (whose entire body of work is conceivably now owned and copyrighted by Yahoo.)
Meanwhile, Rob Moritz has a mission :
to "protect cultural icons from Web exploitation, which he says makes the Web safer for everyone."
Bob Rogers
I was thinking about the various stories on intellectual property and art, and Bob's work seemed like a natural fit. Bob is a
Master Printer and an amazing
teacher. After 25 years printmaking, he hung up his rollers and now does all his work on the computer / net.
Clive Thompson : Why Your Fabulous Job Sucks
"Chained to their keyboards, working far longer hours than they are paid for and blurring the boundaries between their jobs and their lives, digital employees paradoxically present the kind of compliant workforce that would have pleased Henry Ford, Nelson Rockefeller and probably Chairman Mao." via
slashdot.
