“Versions” is a visual essay by Oliver Laric, investigating the re-appropriation and manipulation of images in our culture.
Watch the video here.
Oliver Laric does a lot of good thinking on the nature of images, in the "images as reproductions of 'real' things" sense. Click the link above for the video essay in full.
One question to ask here is: given the nature of how humans engage in and and experience the world (primarily through mimicry, the social creatures that we are), how should we measure the relative values of things like authorship, creation, motivation (in the "foundation of copyright law" sense), volition, experience and individuality?
These things (and surely there are plenty more) seem to all point to why we intuitively think some things are more "real" than others. Like Oliver and many others I find myself exploring the validity of these instincts a little deeper as well.
