The freedom & fear, the empowerment & risks, of Internet Culture.
The freedom of internet culture is the ability to search anything at any time. Especially during this quarantine where people cannot travel or go out to the store, they have the ability to shop online or explore the world through different servers, pictures, and blogs. However, this freedom can also cause a fear of having too much freedom. A good example is the dark web where people can search up and do things that they are not allowed/should not be doing. But even outside the dark web, people still have the freedom to harass or contact people they should not be talking to.
The internet can also create a place of empowerment and supportive culture. Often social media pages or blogs are started to give motivation to others or to start mini communities of support groups. Also, celebrities and influences have the platforms to be able to spread healthy and positive messages to vast audiences. However, much like freedom & fear, risks are also tied to the empowerment of internet culture. Most of those risks from empowerment come from hate or cyberbullying from people who do not want those empowering and positive messages to spread.
Your thoughts about Copyright: is it working as is? Should it be strengthened, weakened, or modified?
I follow a lot of art pages, and I still see a lot of them talking about art theft. Often art is not copyrighted on social media pages, because some of the artists are starting out with just their own art social media page and are not actually well- known artists in galleries. Their form of copyright is called a “watermark” or signature, but even then, art theives will blur out or crop out the watermarks. I think that any social media platforms should modify their “report systems” and have a direct link that would report art/post theft.
What license you’ve chosen for your work and why.
For this specific work, I chose “Attribution.” I do not feel the need to ban anyone from using this piece because it is just a remix of different photos of my dog. I have seen a lot of artist do this kind of collage, so it is not my original idea/style because this is a popular style. Therefore, I should not restrict people from expanding on my piece or from taking inspiration from it.
Your experience of making your Remix piece. How did you do it? Did it come out as you expected? Were there surprises? Challenges? Insights?
I decided to remix pictures of my dog because it have seen these art styles used often so I wanted to try it out. At first, it looked weird and the pictures did not sync together, but in the end I found the right pictures and I liked the result of the piece. I think one challenge was trying to find pictures that would fit well with the main picture I was using for the template. However, I have so many pictures of my dog I was eventually able to find some I could use. I really liked this style of editing; I actually think I would do something like this again and use more pictures of my dog.
Brianna 