I have published some books. As an author I´ve tried to make statements about the defective copyright laws.
Now it will be an art exhibition in my name. I therefore humbly ask for help from pirates and anyone who understands that the laws are wrong, both off and online.
I would like to use this art exhibition; the prints, invitations, media relations, etc., that will surround the event to provide a moderate manifestation.
I hope to bring more artists to the awareness that they are just as deceived as those who enjoy their work. We have to become a movement that fights against our tormentors, artists who fully understand that the copyright industry is obsolete.
In the link list below are examples of other artists who are in the fight.
In the link list below are examples of other artists who are in the fight.
I gratefully accept suggestions and proposals on how this manifesto / statement can be improved; shorter and more intellectual hard hitting.
Below my first outline of a program for the exhibition.
Wish u the best
/Anders
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Concrete illusions
80x60cm Panel/hardboard,
Polymerized concrete, acrylic.
Anders Widén IRL & Cyberspace 2012
Anders Widén IRL & Cyberspace 2012
a stolen Art exhibition
Anders Widén
2012
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My Origin
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates or fuels your imagination. Devour films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, light and shadows. Select things that speak to your soul. If you do this, your theft will be creative. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery. Always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: ‘It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.’”
Slaughter remix of Jim Jarmusch by me.
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I´m a mesh from the past to now. Everyone is as we are born into a culture. One has to take advantage of it, manage to squeeze startling stuff out of the dull life itself. Otherwise there is nothing but an inflated ego.
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The Pirate Party points that we are in the remix era. I argue that we always done remixes, and has been involved in thefts, though artists call it inspiration.
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What’s so Bad About Stealing?*
# Rembrandt, a master of layers that glows. I rip him off big way.# Michelangelo´s alfresco on dry plaster of the Sistine Chapel, I pinch but go for concrete.
# In my view comic books came before Rubens, so I knew where he was stealing how to use light to create dynamic and sharp contrasts. His dynamism worth warping? Hell yes!
# There is an unguarded vault to rob: Expressionism. Munch, van Gogh, Matisse, Cezanne, Kandinsky and so forth. Add cross-fertilizing between Picasso's Cubism, brilliant colors of medieval church windows and the smells that hit you when you get off an airplane in central Asia: Bang.
My theft runs into bunches of transparent glaze so that the surface transforms into a multi-layer information carrier. On concrete.
I´m an artist. Not a word above is unique and original.
Want to mess with isolated ideas? Check Newton and Einstein, since these geniuses were without history and was not standing on the shoulders of scientists and generations of knowledge before them.
Anders & the swarm, Cyberspace 2012
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*Jonathan Barnett Professor USC Gould School of Law Los Angeles, CA 90089 United States
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Links on the subject:
Web
Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity (TED video)
Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod (Ted video)
Who Sampled
Sound Opinins: Rock Plagiarism etc.
Kill Bill, Reference guide
Magazine
Harpers Magazine. "The ecstasy of influence:A plagiarism"
Books
Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world.
Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is “intellectual property,” Lewis Hyde turns to America’s founding fathers—men like John Adams, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson—in search of other ways to value the fruits of human wit and imagination. What he discovers is a rich tradition in which knowledge was assumed to be a commonwealth, not a private preserve.
Video
Good copy, bad copy
Rip: A remix Manifesto.
Edit:
Mike Masnick: "Patents are doing massive harm to the tech industry" (through Rick F)
copyriot om surfplattor och varför spotifierade böcker är en dystopi.
IDG: Christopher Kullenberg om kreativitet.
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Inverterade tankar om remix som förgiftar världen:
Steve Jobs: I sin självbiografi i IDG
– Till mitt sista andetag, och om jag måste spendera de 40 miljarder dollar vi har i kontanter, så kommer jag att bekämpa det här. Jag ska krossa Android, för det är en stulen produkt. Jag är villig att starta ett kärnvapenkrig kring detta
