Public Domain of Contemporary ArtPublic Domain of Contemporary Art is a not-for-profit group of participants from all vocations who are interested in the research, development and fair sharing of creative systems. Member Tagny Duff is a Montreal-based artist-researcher working with performance, video and the Internet. She is currently completing a PhD in Humanities at Concordia University. David Jhave Johnston, also member of PDoCA is a digital poet, curator and artist. He holds a Master’s of Science degree from Simon Fraser University and is also pursuing a PhD in Humanities at Concordia University.
Public Domain of Contemporary Art; Retrospective Public Domain of Contemporary Art Retrospective is a durational website project that is growing “bodies of work” through images donated to a user-generated database. In this case, the audio and visual documents of live artwork created by artist Tagny Duff over the span of her career form the core images of the on-line archive. Visitors to the PDoCA website are invited to scale, superimpose, delete, download and repurpose document material. An upload function allows the insertion of the visitors’ own document files into the archive. The encounter with these documents, as much as the documents themselves, is an event that propels the proliferation of the bodies of work through time. The sharing of digital documents alters bodies of work, transducing visual memories through time. These memories are generated through the violence of deletion, the generosity of visitors’ time and the graffiti of lurkers. Retrospective challenges the tradition of “authorship” and “intellectual property” that delineates a body of work by generating potential for individuating bodies of memories. These are proliferated through digital and organic replication in the public domain. |