Norms-Shifting for Digital and Online Arts Practice: Copyright and Fair Use in the Visual Arts Community

Through Carlos Mérida’s advocacy of the Graham technique, the Secretaría de Educación Pública invited U.S. choreographer Anna Sokolow to perform and teach in Mexico City. The SEP also invited Waldeen Falkenstein to perform, setting up a competition between their opposing styles of socially engaged choreography. Sokolow’s approach was closely aligned to Graham’s ideas; Waldeen claimed to have found her inspiration in specifically Mexican ways of moving. Their antagonistic approach mirrored ongoing divisions in the visual arts community over local inspiration versus an international orientation, though the disciples of both dancers vehemently rejected suggestions of any foreign elements in their work. Sokolow would come to be known as the originator of modern dance in Mexico, but it was Waldeen who created its watershed work, La Coronela (The Woman Coronel), with a distinctly female-centric evocation of Mexico’s revolution.

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Finding and preserving visual arts resources on the Internet

Art Libraries Journal ◽

10.1017/s030747220001049x ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 19-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Tony Gill ◽

Catherine Grout

Keyword(s):

Visual Arts ◽

Information Services ◽

The Internet ◽

Data Service ◽

Internet Resources ◽

Education Community ◽

Intrinsic Complexity ◽

The Uk ◽

Uk Higher Education ◽

Arts Community

Internet resources in any discipline are difficult to locate reliably, but the problem is exacerbated for the visual arts community by the intrinsic complexity of retrieving visual resources. After a brief examination of the problems associated with the discovery of networked resources, this paper outlines the development, integration and future objectives of two visual arts information services, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway (ADAM) and the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS), both funded for the benefit of the UK Higher Education community by the Joint Information Systems Committee.

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Canadian art archives: working to preserve Ontario’s visual art records

Art Libraries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0307472200019465 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 31-34

Author(s):

Tina Meale

Keyword(s):

Visual Arts ◽

Visual Art ◽

Documentary Evidence ◽

The Arts ◽

The People ◽

Canadian Art ◽

Arts Community

How can the Ontario archival community best provide comprehensive documentary evidence of activities in the visual arts? A strategy for preserving the documentation needs to co-ordinate the efforts not only of the various collecting repositories in the province, but also of the people within the arts community who are generating records of their activities. Attempts already being made by Ontario archivists to ensure visual arts records are acquired and retained could be enhanced by improved education of everyone concerned.

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Career Development and Contemporary Visual Artists: An Investigation of Cairns Australia

eTropic electronic journal of studies in the tropics ◽

10.25120/etropic.12.2.2013.3333 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Crystal Williams

Keyword(s):

Career Development ◽

Visual Arts ◽

Visual Artists ◽

Key Factors ◽

Stakeholder Groups ◽

The Arts ◽

Key Stakeholders ◽

Visual Artist ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

Arts Community

The purpose of this research was to identify key factors of relevance in relation to career development opportunities for contemporary visual artists in Cairns. Cairns is a tropical city in northeastern Australia with an energetic and creative visual arts community. In order to explore issues relevant to career development opportunities for a Cairns-based contemporary visual artist, interviews were held to examine the perceptions of key stakeholders within the arts community. These data were initially analysed by stakeholder groups, after which key themes were established and compared across the groups to identify similarities and differences. The results reveal contrasting views and the fact that there are numerous opportunities to create clearer pathways and opportunities for contemporary visual artists based in Cairns.

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Creative Action Under Two Copyright Regimes: Filmmaking and Visual Arts in Australia and the United States

Communication Culture and Critique ◽

10.1093/ccc/tcaa003 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 384-401

Author(s):

Aram Sinnreich ◽

Patricia Aufderheide ◽

Donte Newman

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Visual Arts ◽

The United States ◽

Fair Use ◽

Third Party ◽

Comparative Effect ◽

Cross Media ◽

Production Processes ◽

Media Environments ◽

The U.S

Abstract A comparison of the behaviors of two creative populations operating within cross-media environments in the United States and Australia tests the comparative effect of the two nations' legal environments on the range of creative expression and on costs of production in increasingly digitized production processes. The U.S. creators have access to the flexible and expansive exception of fair use, while Australian creators' ability to use third-party copyrighted content are far more constrained. While availability of copyright exceptions plays a crucial role, other factors including demographics, disciplinary norms, and social inequality may also be important in creative practices and professions.

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Introduction

RACAR Revue d art canadienne ◽

10.7202/1032750ar ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 41-42 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Natalie S. Loveless

Keyword(s):

Visual Arts ◽

Guest Editor ◽

Current Issue ◽

Editorial Team ◽

Controversial Issues ◽

University Of Alberta ◽

Spring Issue ◽

The University ◽

Arts Community ◽

Contemporary Topic

In this issue, RACAR’s editorial team is pleased to present Polemics, a new section which, like the curated Practices section introduced last year, will bring up-to-the-minute and sometimes controversial issues into the journal, while featuring art and ideas of any place and time. Each spring issue of RACAR will include a Polemics or a Practices section. Polemics focuses on matters of pressing interest to the broad visual arts community in Canada. Each Polemics will be developed and introduced by a guest editor and will include brief, provocative essays that speak to a single contemporary topic from different perspectives. For the current issue, the guest editor, Natalie Loveless of the University of Alberta, brings together four voices from our community who reflect on research-creation as “an important contemporary queering of the academy” and a vigorous challenge to traditional disciplinary lines.

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