When viewing this website, there are many things that stand out as odd. One, that you can take a famous persons' ideas/photos and sign it making it your own piece of art. Two, that it is able to stay up and hasn't been forced off of the web. I understand the idea behind the site, which as they say is to, "to facilitate their dissemination as a comment on how we come to know information in this burgeoning digital age." It makes sense that as a comment on the digital world, what was once only able to be produced and owned by the person holding the negative, owning the painting or sculpture is now all over the web and peoples homes. There is now no art that can not be mass produced and sent all over the world (at least there can be images of 3D art). So in a way this website is simply a commentary on this relatively new phenomenon in the art world. That is the genius behind the website, in a way it is its own art instillation that we may see in a museum, only its forum is that of the web where all the art has been sent to over the last couple of decades. This set-up is the way that comments on exactly what their mission statement is about facilitating their dissemination of these photos. It is a great comment on the digital age.
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