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TO BE OR NOT TO

BE



WHAT EXACTLY IS AUTHENTICITY?

Webster·s dictionary defines ´authenticµ as ´fidelity toactuality and fact, compatibility with a certain source or origin, accordance with usage or tradition or completesincerity without feigning or hypocrisyµ

A quality of any piece of work that registers itself intotime and space





CAN YOU RELATE TO THE COLOURS?



NOMINAL AUTHENTICITY

The correct identification of the origins, authorship, or provenance of an object, ensuring, as the term implies,that an object of aesthetic experience is properlynamed

Forgery

Plagiarism



Burial of Christ,Michelangelo Caravaggio





FORGERY

A forgery is defined as a work of art whose history of production is misrepresented by someone (not necessarilythe artist) to an audience (possibly to a potential buyer of

the work), normally for financial gain.

The concept of forgery necessarily involves deceptiveintentions on the part of the forger or the seller of the work

This distinguishes forgeries from innocent copies or merelyerroneous attributions.



HAN VAN MEGREEN

One of the most famous episodes of misidentification and fraudulence inthe last century involves the van

Meegeren Vermeer forgeries

Christ and the Disciples atEmmaus, was completed in 1937

Van Meegeren went on to forge sixmore Vermeers, one of which endedup in the private collection of theNazi Reichsmarschall HermannGöring.



CHRIST AND THE DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS





PAINTING AT THE JAIL



THE CASE

In May 1945, shortly after the liberation of Holland, two officersarrived at the studio of van Meegeren, then just a little-knownDutch painter and art dealer. The officers, from the Allied ArtCommission, were responsible for repatriating works of art looted

by the Nazis. They had come about a painting discovered among the collection of Hermann Göring

Meegeren : "To paint a copy is no proof of artistic talent. In allmy career I have never painted a copy!But I shall paint you a new

Vermeer. I shall paint you a masterpiece.´ On November 12, 1947 he was found guilty of obtaining money

by deception and sentenced to one year's imprisonment.



PLAGIARISM

´The wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining andpublication, of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions, and the representation of them as one's own originalworkµ

Not the same as Copyright Infringement

Copyright infringement is a violation of the rights of a copyrightholder, when material protected by copyright is used without

consent.

The moral concept of plagiarism is concerned with the unearnedincrement to the plagiarizing author's reputation that is achievedthrough false claims of authorship.



PLAGIARISM IN MUSIC

The use or close imitation of another author's musicwhile representing it as one's own original work.

Plagiarism in music now occurs in two contexts ²² with a musical idea (that is, a melody or motif) or ² sampling (taking a portion of one sound recording and reusing

itina differentsong).

Any music that follows rules of a musical scale is limitedby the ability to use a small number of notes.





TIMBALAND 2007 CONTROVERSY



EXPRESSIVE

AUTHENTICITY

The concept of authenticity often connotessomething else, having to do with an object·s character as a true expression of an individual·s or a society·svalues and beliefs

Here authenticity is seen as committed, personalexpression, being true musically to one·s artistic self,

rather than true to an historical tradition



AUTHENTICITY IN MUSIC

What is an Authentic track?

How is it distinguished from non-authentic ones?

Examples



AUTHENTICITY AND THE DIGITAL

WORLD

Rise of the digital age

Mass reproduction

Primary existence of the original in Time and space

Examples



WHAT HAS NEW MEDIA

CONTRIBUTED?

Easy availability and access

Text ² ebooks, pdf articles Videos ² various websites Music ² legal and illegal downloads Pictures ² a huge collection. Art galleries are passe Era of gadgets ² mobile phones. Everybody

possesses art



WHAT IS THE FATE?

Fate of art in the hands of digital duplication?² Total function of art is reversed ² from rituals to politics² Ideal in Marxist thinking.

² Digital apparatus lends itself especially well to the politicalfunction of art.

² The invention, design, and production of the digitalapparatus has been and continues to be a part of a capitalistsystem.

² ´Art for the practice of moneyµ



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