questions from the first reading

These were questions and observations generated by the group from the Bourriaud reading. They relate to the underlying concepts behind new media and so we will revisit this discussion many times over the course of the semester.

• Is there an "original"? What does it mean to make "new" work?
• When is it OK for an artist to appropriate material from other sources?
• What rights of ownership do artists have in work that uses reproductive or appropriated material?
• What is the difference between the ready-made and the sample?
• If artists are working with recombinative processes to cite creative works from a vast archive of history, how will anything new be added to the database of works that can be borrowed, quoted, and sampled for the future?
• What is post-modernism?