The video above is a remix of Anders Webergs film 090909 the film shot entirely on a mobile phone originally runs for 9 hours 9 minutes and 9 seconds the remix running 9 seconds and 9 frames is reminiscent of the work of Stan Brakhage.
In our networked culture copyrights and control over the use and distribution of creative works is a hotly debated issue among artists. Anders Weberg is one artist who has explored these issues head on. In uploading his art works to filesharing networks and deleting his original source files Weberg relinquishes control over the life cycle of the work to the networked audience.
In a quotation from his website http://www.p2p-art.com Weberg describes this process –
“Art made for – and only available on – the peer to peer networks. The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it. After that the artwork will be available for as long as other users share it. The original file and all the material used to create it are deleted by the artist. ”There’s no original”. A project from Swedish artist Anders Weberg started in 2006. P2P Art – The aesthetics of ephemerality.”
In issue 35 of Digimag Valentina Tanni dicusses P2P Art with Weberg
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL WRONGS REVERSED
“technological development, who exponentially augmented the “reproducibility” of art, complicates more and more the situation, turning the opposition between “original” and “copy” into an impossible data to manage.
In the époque of contents sharing through the Net, in fact, we always find ourselves in a new condition of resources ubiquity, always disposable in a million of versions indistinguishable one to another: an army of multiples without an original.
These are some of the theoretical cues that inspires the P2P Art project …… “