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2007format
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net-artproject description
A radical approach of concept of author as social degeneracy.
It's a research about authorship and audience issues, in the era of creative economy and in the profusion of prosumers.
The authors haves nolonger the authorship of their works.
Some factors as the democratic diffusion of tools for create and for spread content, the explosion of economy of imagination, the sharing of intellectual products, the figure of prosumer and the social network of web 2.0, these have desacralized the figure of author, these have stripped its aura, it has been plunged in the Pangea of Knowledge, which is the only one creator of human culture, transversely in time and in place.
Authorship becomes indistinguishable from the multiplicity of authors, this profusion transforms the culture and their creators in a unique body. It's the collective intelligence, it's the return of the rules of oral and folk culture. Collaborative creativity, influences, remix, sampling, reshaping and mesh of diffuse publications of intellectual products, from ideas and concepts, to arts and researches; these are the causes that have diminished the character of originally, individually and autonomy composition.
The entire essay:
http://www.peoplequotepeople.com/about.htm
artist bio
1979,
http://www.paolocirio.net/cv.php
As agitprop he organizes illegal events, from net-strikes to art happenings on streets and actions of culture jamming. He was also part of the famous [epidemiC] art collective, in other, he has collaborated with historically net-art artists: The Yes Man, Stewart Home, Bruce Sterling, SocialFiction, Alessandro Ludovico, Electronic Disturbance Theater, Ubermorgen.
