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| + | Your assignment is to find some information (image, text, audio) that is somehow "locked up" and emancipate it by sharing it with everyone in the hallway outside our classroom. If you want to do a physical installation or use the monitors, let me know so I can get departmental approval. On Oct 7, please bring a proposal/rough draft to discuss. You may work in groups or as a class. | ||
Revision as of 19:38, 30 September 2022
This is the page for Proj. 2 in Pratt 22/FA-COMD-460-04 - Emerging Practices: Uncreative Designing
Oct 7: Gatekeeping is the activity of controlling and usually limiting public access to something. Until recently, accessing information required physical proximity. To see a famous painting, you had to visit it at a museum. To listen to a rare record, you had to track it down. Mechanical reproduction emancipated images at the end of the 19th century, allowing them to circulate in prints and books. At the end of the 20th century, digital reproduction freed them from materiality altogether.
But can information be too free? Many creators attempt to control the digital circulation of their work so they can charge for it and make a living. But the same controls that aim to protect artists, students, and small businesses can be overbroad and prevent those same sympathetic characters from accessing information locked behind paywalls and in libraries.
Your assignment is to find some information (image, text, audio) that is somehow "locked up" and emancipate it by sharing it with everyone in the hallway outside our classroom. If you want to do a physical installation or use the monitors, let me know so I can get departmental approval. On Oct 7, please bring a proposal/rough draft to discuss. You may work in groups or as a class.
