PEEK-Projekt: originalcopy
Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation
“One thing you should consider before posting: When you make something publicly available on
the Internet, it becomes practically impossible to take down all copies of it.” — Tumblr, Terms of Service, 2014
Copying has become ubiquitous yet invisible, both in the digital realm and in the analog world. In the
arts-based research project “originalcopy” we develop a working model that subjects the dichotomy of original and copy to
a re-evaluation from a post-digital perspective and sheds light on this contradictory phenomenon. Our research focuses on
the tensions between the supposed immateriality of digital technologies and their material manifestations by appropriating
contemporary methods of copying and exposing them to artistic processes of transformation and translation. In “originalcopy”
we are less interested in the results of a recycling derived from the double act of copying copying strategies, rather the
processes that lead to them. Our main question is how copying practices can be rendered productive for the investigation of
the same.
Performance, book presentation, public talk
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
7 p.m. | Performance
Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet (Reading Space)
Lois Bartel
7:30 p.m. | Book presentation and public talk
Performative Research
Michael Kargl, Claudia Slanar, Franz Thalmair
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Site-Specific Art
Paulusplatz 5
1030 Vienna
Austria
“originalcopy” is funded by the Program for
Arts-Based Research (PEEK) of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF: AR348–G24). The research project is hosted by the Department
of Media Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. “originalcopy” is run by Michael Kargl and Franz Thalmair from July
2016 through December 2018.
