Appropriation as Alchemy in New Media: A Case Study
Appropriation as Alchemy in New Media: A Case Study
Author(s): Elizabeth K. MIXSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Facultatea de Teatru si Televiziune
Keywords: new media; appropriation; digital alchemy; evolutionary biology
Summary/Abstract: Historically alchemists were concerned with the search or a lapis, the Philosopher’s Stone, able to transmute lead into gold. A similar transformational process takes place digitally in the work of new media artists, whose computers and code are the equivalent of the philosopher’s stone, becoming agents of transformation. This essay explores how both art history and popular culture is appropriated, manipulated and transformed by new media artist Jason Salavon (an American artist working in Chicago). Salavon’s processes include performance of operations upon databases of appropriated images and the application of digital interference to recycled music, films, music videos and live television broadcasts using primarily C+ coding.
Journal: Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media
- Issue Year: 10/2013
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 180-196
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English