Chris Ashley, Cinematic Dataculture (-empyre- 1), 2005, HTML, 505 x 475 pixels

Rich, your question on the empyre forum was a good one--one of the few that showed real support and enthusiasm for the topic and the invited guests. I don't think the issues are old or mundane, though I'm less interested in the "stealing"' issue than I am issues of context and originality. This work is a new animal in the history of art and deserves careful consideration. I copied your question a few days ago, intending to answer it, and will say more soon I hope. With your permission I reproduce it here, and will eventually reproduce it on my main page with some kind of answer:
I must admit that I had a look at the source code of [Chris Ashley's] pages, just to see the almost endless table tags. however, I can also copy that code and paste it on my own page. the image that this would display would be exactly the same as yours. is this a copy? or is it your work, but moved? if I copied and pasted the code into another html file and posted it on my own site would that be the equivalent of stealing a picture and hanging it in my front room? I'm thinking a lot lately about the perception of computer generated images as a medium. I've started making a series of drawings just using programs like photoshop - drawing from scratch and seeing what happens. they're not ready to show yet, they're a bit derivative! and I'm unsure about the validity of such marks, what value do they have? these are questions I'm trying to address through the work.

- tom moody 6-10-2005 8:36 pm





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