Aram Seinrich
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Michael Krimper @ The Hydra considers a new book about art and originality.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Media writer and theorist Aram Seinrich just finished an intriguing new book, Mashed Up: Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture. Influenced by the aesthetics of DJing and sample-based music production, Seinrich sketches an emerging, and still hazy concept of art at odds with the Romantic notion of the artist as a pure originator of a creative work. Sinnreich calls us to drop the notion of such an artist: the introspective and surely depressive genius who, in gathering waves of inspiration from within or without or whatever, produces a decidedly original — a wholly new — work of art. At first blush, this point seemed like a bit of a straw man to me; I mean, who really believes in the notion of the artist as absolute originator anymore? But then I realized there was one powerful force that still seems to rest on this outdated idea — and that’s really what Seinrich has beef with: copyright law.
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