CBA Art in the Workplace Mod 4.

CBA Art in the Workplace Mod 4. Assemblage, Originality and Theft Overview The process of examining the past, learning from it and reassembling the ideas into new working models draws parallels to all walks of life. "I'm not a creative person," or "I'm not an artist," are misconceptions that are commonly heard among the general public. This simply isn't true. This lecture will provide broader meaning to the phrase, "Everyone is an Artist." Assemblage, Originality and Theft Key Points • Current uses of appropriation are different than past forms. • The recognizably of objects is key to interpretation. • Technology is a tool, but shouldn't be the art. • Everyone is metaphorically painting a canvas. • The value of past art is sometimes exploited. Assemblage, Originality and Theft The Golden Age of Assemblage • Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various art forms in regards to creativity and idea creation in the workplace. It is the golden age of assemblage art. The art of assemblage, or appropriation, is the process of collecting old images, written passages, objects, or ideas, and reassembling them in a new context. A cut and paste mentality brought on by the total immersion of computers in contemporary society has made it increasingly easier, and fashionable, to access information and assemble it however a user sees fit. As is the fashion of art historians and critics to categorize art into tidy labels, the lines are now being blurred. Artists no longer stick to one medium and often combine different types of art works into new forms of expression. Influential assemblage artist Kurt Schwitters collected pieces from the mass waste of the industrial revolution, but his work still related to his time. Now, the enormous residue of the public's regurgitation of assembled images currently saturates multiple forms of media. While their appropriation process may be similar, their results are different. Currently, Facebook is littered with countless Internet memes combining images from pop culture's past, punctuated with clever comments to make a message relevant. While it would be difficult to find a scholar that would champion the Internet meme as high art, contemporary artists have sparked the evolution of what appropriated images can do. The current state of assemblage art is the reflection of an attention deficit culture dependent on technology, searching for meaning in the association of combined artifacts, while sometimes focusing too much on the nostalgia of the past. Embracing the past, present, and future, enables artists to create a true cultural impact. This concept of examining the past, learning from it and reassembling ideas