http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts/illegalart_3656.jsp Comments for "Illegal Art, openDemocracy " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts/illegalart_3656.jsp <div class="full_image"><p><img src="http://www.opendemocracy.net/content/articles/3656/images/illegal_art_555.jpg" alt="illegal art"width="555" border="0" /><br /><span class="image_caption"><a href=http://www.illegal-art.org/print/index.html#kijima target=_blank>Untitled</a>, 2002, Ai Kijima</span></div><p>The <a href=http://www.illegal-art.org target=_blank>Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age</a> exhibition seeks to celebrate art that has skirted legal issues of corporate copyright infringement. It argues that current intellectual property law has a silencing effect which discourages the creation of new works &#150; if these laws had been in place &#147;back in the day&#148;, whole genres such as collage, hiphop, and Pop Art might never have existed. </p> <p>This print juxtaposes Stan Lee and Steve Ditko&#146;s iconic Spider-man creation with recycled pieces of fabric. The artist, <a href=http://www.aikijima.com target=_blank>Ai Kijima</a>, incorporates images of popular culture with textiles from curtains, vintage kimonos, table clothes and dresses to create a mishmash of new perspectives using familiar objects.</p> <div class="rating-item"><div class="rating" id="rating_mean_3656"><div class="rating-intro"><span class="rating-intro-text">Average rating</span></div><div class="star avg"><a style="width: 100%;" onclick="return false;">&nbsp;</a></div> <div class="star avg"><a style="width: 100%;" onclick="return false;">&nbsp;</a></div> <div class="star avg"><a style="width: 100%;" onclick="return false;">&nbsp;</a></div> <div class="star avg"><a style="width: 100%;" onclick="return false;">&nbsp;</a></div> <div class="star avg"><a style="width: 100%;" onclick="return false;">&nbsp;</a></div><div class="num-votes">(<span id="rating_num_votes_3656">0</span> votes)</div></div><form action="/crss/node/3656" method="post" id="rating_form_3656" class="rating" title="Rating: 0.0"> <div><div class="form-item"> <label for="rating_options_3656">Rate this: </label> <select name="edit[rating]" class="form-select rating-options" title="Rate this" id="rating_options_3656" ><option value="0" selected="selected">---</option><option value="100">Excellent!</option><option value="80">Great!</option><option value="60">Good</option><option value="40">Quite good</option><option value="20">Not so great</option></select> </div> <input type="hidden" name="edit[nid]" id="edit-nid" value="3656" /> <input type="submit" name="op" value="Submit" class="form-submit" /> <input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-rating-form-3656" value="rating_form_3656" /> </div></form> </div> http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts/illegalart_3656.jsp#comment arts &amp; cultures openDemocracy Original Copyright the small picture Sun, 18 Jun 2006 23:00:00 +0000 3656 at http://www.opendemocracy.net