Digitiples
Güncel
Sanatın Özgür Bir Şekilde Kitlelere Ulaştırılmasında Yeni Bir
Model Önerisi:
“Dijital
Çoğaltmalar”
Doktora Tezi (Türkçe)
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Copyleft,
ibrahim, 2011
ibrahim[at]httpdot.net
https://httpdot.net/ibrahim/digitiples/
Copyleft:
Bu özgür bir yapıttır, Özgür Sanat Lisansı şartlarına uygun
olarak çoğaltabilir, dağıtabilir ve işleyebilirsiniz.
http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
“Digitiples” is a concept emerged as an outcome of the PhD study of ibrahim at Yildiz Technical University, Art and Design Doctorate Program between 2004-2011. An English abstract of the thesis is below but the full text is in Turkish as linked above. There is also an English version derived from the thesis focusing on the concept “digitiples” with extra chapters but it is still a work in progress.
Abstract:
A
Proposal For A New Model in Communicating Contemporary Art To The
Masses: “Digital Multiples“
An
artwork which is suitable for being represented as digital
information, can be identically duplicated in unlimited numbers in a
simple, quick and costless way and be made freely accessible as
copyleft through a free, anonymous, distributed, P2P Internet
architecture in free file formats without requiring mandatory
economic relations and the intermediation of the culture industry. If
this work of art is also suitable for being experienced independent
of space and time and without the help of any particular
sophisticated apparatus, it can communicate the ideas of the artist
to everyone who has basic tools for and knowledge of using the
Internet. This study discusses this new model I dare say, “digital
multiples” for rendering contemporary artworks freely accessible to
the widest audience possible in the age of information technologies.
This model was influenced by the “multiples” of Joseph Beuys,
which he used as a tool to communicate his artistic and political
ideas and to stay in touch with masses. However multiples of Joseph
Beuys reached only a limited number of people becoming commodities in
culture industry. This was because of the fact that the physical
multiples can only be reproduced in limited numbers because of
technical and economical limitations. “Digital multiples” model
tries to find a solution for this problem by highlighting the
technical potentials of digital multiplication and political
potentials of the copyleft attitude referring to some notions of art,
technology and economy in an interdisciplinary way. Copyleft attitude
enables the free access, experience, sharing and also appropriation
of the work of art. Appropriation practices in art and legal
restrictions on this method have been discussed in relation to the
notion of copyleft. The politics of various movements against
copyright, particularly Creative Commons were discussed in the
context of “free culture” referring to “free software”. It is
claimed that the political approach to the information technologies
have the potential to open up new perspectives on many topics which
are being discussed by artists, like making artworks freely
accessible to wide audiences, as it is discussed in this study.
Contemporary artists need to be aware of the potentials of
information technologies and evaluate these potentials politically in
an interdisciplinary way to develop new discourses.
Keywords
:
Contemporary art, free culture, information technologies, multiples,
digital multiples, copyleft, open source, Creative Commons,
appropriation.
Copyleft,
ibrahim, 2011