Untitled. A statue of the Virgin was turned into a personification of Justice, simply by removing the Christ Child and replacing him with scales.
Network artist Oliver Laric reinterprets Susan Sontag’s statement that just about everything had been photographed (1977), and proclaims that just about everything has been photoshopped. His video essay and statement on visual culture Versions (2010) also features the Iranian incident from 2008, where the Revolutionary Guards released an image with a digitally added missile. Versions: The Purpose and Repurposing of Images. By Maria Popova Originality, recycling, and why everyone is stealing from Disney.
The evolution of remix culture is something we’re quite fascinated by — from the notion of originality in creation (how similar is too similar?) To the moral tensions of sampling and borrowing. That’s exactly what occupies artist Oliver Laric in Versions, a visual essay about the re-appropriation of images, the borrowing of intellectual property and the manipulation of visual media. INCITE » Peter Nowogrodzki: Interview with Oliver Laric. Image: Still from Touch My Body (Green Screen Version), Oliver Laric, 2008 Oliver Laric is an artist living somewhere in Europe.
He is also a co-founder of vvork.com. Versions, 2010, Oliver Laric.