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After reading the article "Policy of Reality Versus Reality of Policy" by Douglas McLennan the importance of Creative Commons world, where we share imagery and ideas without the fear of losing something by making it public, became even more evident. Douglas writes:
I believe in net neutrality, in Creative Commons and sharing and transparency and giving away things not because they seem like cool concepts, but because they seem like good common sense business strategy. Good business strategy, by the way, that puts more control in the hands of the individual.Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that increases sharing and improves collaboration through a new sort of Copyright. By declaring a work under a CC License, you allow other people to sample, use, quote, expand and collaborate on your ideas. This concept makes art available and accessible. Some groups in the music industry are releasing albums free to the public through their websites and are seeing great increases in merchandise and ticket sales due to increased popularity. I believe people support what they truly like. The best way to get your art out into the world is to set it free.
I'm currently working on a project in efforts to bring archived imagery to the public. This is to share the works and legacy left behind by creators of the past on an Internet archive. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has been hesitant, to say the least, to release their images to the public eye. It would seem as if they would rather keep the images locked in their archives than risk someone having a copy on their hard drive. MoMA seems to think that these are proprietary images meant for their digression but in many ways they are just the ones meant to preserve the work. As the line becomes more and more unclear as what museums are actually used for we get many pieces of art and eventually history closed behind doors.
Museums and archives around the world seem to believe the public is a scary and not to be trusted. I believe there is a better way. Now I ask you, and the world, what are you afraid of?
- Jeremy Mumenthaler
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On the one hand, I think it's wrong for the museum to showcase a piece and then have the power to decide if it's going to be shown or if it's going to be stored. On the other hand, I do trust museums to preserve and archive pieces of valuable art. Perhaps a leasing policy on art work, opposed to the museum owning the piece, would be a better concept.
ReplyDelete-Zach
I don't see the problem with museums owning art and keeping it in their archives - this helps preserve the art and helps it last for much longer than it would otherwise. I believe only trained professionals should be able to handle artwork... but what you're suggesting is that there be an internet archive of photographs/copies of original work? Doesn't this already exist, just not in one group? If you do a Google image search of any artist, you will find countless representations of their work.
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm not clear on what Creative Commons is about. I'll have to do some reading up on it...
- Kris Hendon.
I really like this idea of having a public archive of art online. I think it would be great for the public to have access to things which are not on display but owned by a museum. This could be useful for schools, disabled people, etc. I totally support that idea.
ReplyDeleteKelsey
I agree with the idea that the best thing for a piece of art (and for the artist) is for the art to be free and readily available. I personally don't like looking at art in museums. It's so public, and I don't get a chance to really spend time with a piece and really decide how I feel about it. Yes, the originals should be preserved, but I like the idea of an online museum. Plus, art should be available to everybody, not just the people who can afford to pay admission to a museum.
ReplyDeleteLauren
I do like the idea of having artwork more available to the public through the internet. I think it is a good thing for museums to hold on to the archived art, but I also feel that if it isn't hanging up on the walls that it should be able to be viewed by a different means. I think for the museums to have the pictures of this artwork available on the web would help people to further learn and experience more art and this is not a bad thing in my view.
ReplyDelete-Kira
I believe this is a common argument these days. The best way to make art accessible to as many people as possible is the internet. I think that most artists however consider technology as a killer of art. I think this is a great idea and that artists should allow their art to reach as many people as possible.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the idea of arching artwork through the internet and making it more accessible to anyone. Along with many other, as a full-time art student who also has to work a part-time job in order to get by, it is almost impossible to find time outside of the classroom/work/darkroom to go out to the museums or galleries to see these pieces in person. I believe the next best thing would be seeing it on my computer's screen.
ReplyDeleteI find that keeping art exclusive and for people of VIP status to be a very strange/interesting phenomenon within the art community. I am taking the course Art in Chicago Now and simultaneously reading Seven Days in the Art World and it is beyond belief how majority of galleries, both large and small, restrict people from purchasing art. What happens is that if someone comes in and wants to purchase a piece, has the money for it on the spot even, whoever is running the show can decide to not sell it to them because they don't know about their status in the art community and therefor don't think that the piece should or could be good with them. This is a completely ridiculous and saddening situation to be faced with and creates a large gap between the "normal" public and those that are considered upper-class VIP and therefor allowed to obtain art. It is a very elitist and arrogant way of thinking and I am glad to see that people feel the same as I do and are working to have these walls torn down!
ReplyDelete-Anastasia