Is it like real property? Or is it a “mirage”?Ī temporary monopoly on the use, reproduction, and transmission of a creative work?Ĭopyright can be an incentive to creativity, but copyright can also get in the way. Learn how to use Creative Commons and other open licenses to share and protect your work. Notes from the ITP Driveby I taught last night (October 8, 2009, 9:30 PM). Now with audio!Ĭopyright, copyleft, copy-what? We will discuss the various copyright/intellectual property issues faced by artists, designers, and other creators of content. Imagine the above scenario with live video, multiple computers, and streaming online. What if I replaced the lemur photo with the last photo with me in it. Would that create an infinite loop of monkeys looking at monkeys? Lemur photo by Sandrine Vuillermoz, published in National Geographic. I want to play with the idea of the mediated gaze, reflections and narcissism. I have also been reviewing some of the concepts we dealt with in my Animals and People class last spring. I’ve previously said that I like looking at animals through webcams and in zoos. But what do animals see when they look at us? What do they see when they see themselves reflected in a mirror or on a video screen? I want to create an infinite loop (or more like spiral) of live internet video of monkeys watching monkeys watching monkeys, ad infinitum. It would be awesome to try this with real monkeys, but in the meantime, I’ll demonstrate proof of concept with virtual monkeys. Starting off from the Infinite Cat idea, but with monkeys: This week I have continued to develop my idea for my Live Web midterm. My project is called Monkey Watching Monkey Watching Monkey… It combines live streaming video with elements of Nam June Paik’s TV Buddha and The Infinite Cat Project. If only our monkey talent were this well trained:Ĭontinued from my previous post: Live Web Midterm Idea The installation would probably have worked better with analog video This installation would probably work better and be more aesthetically pleasing with just cameras and monitors (with the laptops hidden) We hope to trick this page out with more live monkey media in the near future.Įven off-the-shelf solutions have their limitations The goal was to position webcams and screens in a way to create an “infinity effect” of primate viewing pleasure.įinally, we created the be beginnings of the Monkey Show, a webpage featuring two USTREAM channels and a Twitter widget that displays the latest tweets with the work “monkey” in them. (Does Snow Leopard hate Monkeys or what?) So we moved on to some off-the-shelf solutions, trying first iChat, then Skype, and finally to create a series of simian scenarios. For some reason the compiled SWFs only worked part of the time on Kristin’s computer and never actually worked on mine. We started with the Conference.as code that Shawn gave us in class, but we came across some mysterious problems. More monkeys / This is is really disturbing / WHOA! I worked this week with Kristin Loeb on Monkeys Watching Monkeys, a streaming web video installation that deals with the mediated gaze, reflections and narcissism as they relate to how people look at monkeys, and how we think monkeys look at people and how monkeys look at each other. Horror lies just under the surface of cute. They are Curious George one minute and the next minute they are giving you Ebola or AIDS or ripping off your face. Monkeys as symbols are also charged with social and political meaning. We often anthropomorphize monkeys and project our own human anxieties onto them. Monkeys often evokes a strong emotional response among people. Continued from Part 2: Monkeys Watching Monkeys
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