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dc.contributor.convenorProfessor Kay Lawrence
dc.contributor.authorWhamond, Ashley
dc.contributor.editorKathleen Connellan
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:31:55Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:31:55Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2009-07-29T06:08:23Z
dc.identifier.refurihttp://www.acuads.com.au/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/24687
dc.description.abstractIn recent years the Internet has facilitated the spread of simplified media technologies allowing everyday people access to modes of expression that have hitherto been out of their reach. The increase in opportunities for the self-publication of writing, images, music and video outside of the mainstream commercial system but still provide exposure to a mass audience has lead to what Web commentator Clay Shirky has called "the mass-amateurisation of everything." As a result of the ubiquity of blogs and streaming video on the World Wide Web, new challenges have emerged toward established ideas of value, quality and commerce, but also toward ideas of subjectivity, expression and materiality. The continually tested boundaries of art are again forced to negotiate the impact of new mediative technologies. These amateur practices operate on both the edges of the established systems of popular culture and art which provides an opportunity to question the nature of these edges and what they actually delineate. This paper seeks to investigate some of the implications of this 'mass-amateurisation' for art practice, teaching and research. The main areas of investigation are the role of the amateur in the cultural appropriation of technology and the relationship of these amateur technologies to art and academe.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherACUADS Publishing
dc.publisher.placeMelbourne, Victoria
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.acuads.com.au
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofconferencenameACUADS 2008
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitleSite of Activity / On the Edge
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2008-10-01
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2008-10-03
dc.relation.ispartoflocationSouth Australian School of Art (Uni SA)
dc.rights.retentionN
dc.subject.fieldofresearchArt Theory
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode190103
dc.titleDigital amateurisation and the implications for art research
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE1 - Conferences
dc.type.codeE - Conference Publications
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, Queensland College of Art
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2008. The attached file is posted here with permission of the copyright owners for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this conference please refer to the publisher's website or contact the author.
gro.date.issued2008
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gro.griffith.authorWhamond, Ashley


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