nettime: There is a good description of art appropriation from the Detournement movement in 1950s to intellectual property being the “Oil of the 21st century”:

In a post-industrial society production is no
longer confined to material goods (such as steel
and coal) but increasingly extends to immaterial
goods. However, a significant difference exists
between the two: immaterial goods like knowledge
and information can be reproduced without
impairment, which is not the case with material
goods. But in order to be able to function within
a value chain, the distribution of these
immaterial goods must be restricted - namely with
the aid of patent, copyright and trademark law.

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Curated by Breda Beban, imagine art after brings together artists who left their home countries and now live in London with artists who stayed.

This international contemporary art project, devised in different stages and across different locations, began in 2005 on Guardian Unlimited with online dialogues between pairs of artists from Afghanistan, Albania, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria and Serbia. Its inaugural exhibition was at Tate Britain (5 October 2007 – 6 January 2008).

imagine art after introduces an innovative and experimental curatorial model that emphasises process and production, drawing on Beban’s independent filmmaking practice where, in the process from script to screen, each stage is a result of the previous stage.

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