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Image ID
100
This “proto-cinematic” device used a spinning drum lined with sequential images that appeared to move when viewed through slits or a peephole, creating one of the earliest illusions of motion.
What is a zoetrope
100
A smartphone is a common example of this concept in which multiple forms of media and communication technologies are combined in a single device.
What is media convergence
100
Increased migration, international trade liberalization, global communication networks, and the declining power of the nation-state together define this major 20th and 21st-century phenomenon "shrinking" the earth.
What is globalization
100
These structures were built to protect citizens who wanted to shop from the chaos of the streets and were designed with the ethereal feel of cathedrals.
What are shopping arcades
100
His motion studies paved the way for cinema and proved through sequential photography that a horse lifts all four hooves off the ground when galloping.
Who is Eadweard Muybridge, Galloping Horse, 1878
200
Charles Pierce relates this quality to the fact that the camera was in the physical space with what it photographed.
What is Indexical
200
Television and the internet are both examples of this term that refers to a method for recording and transmitting information.
What is medium
200
A phenomenon in which "starchitect" designed cultural sites revitalize a struggling region by introducing global tourism.
What is the Bilbao effect
200
This concept refers to the way companies build identities and communities around their products, encouraging consumers to adopt a lifestyle connected to the brand.
What is brand culture
200
Engaging with the question of the copy and copyright, this artist rephotographed Walker Evans' image without alteration.
Who is Sherrie Levine
300
In analog photography, when this is copied, there is a degeneration of the original, but it is not required in digital photography, making digital more readily reproducible and consistent in quality.
What is a negative
300
The term for a cultural production that makes fun of more serious works through humor and satire while maintaining some of their elements, such as plot or character.
What is a parody
300
This term refers to an artwork or object whose value increases when its supply becomes limited
What is a commodity
300
This artist transformed Campbell’s soup cans into iconic artworks, reflecting his fascination with American consumer and pop culture.
Who is Andy Warhol
300
The reproduction of this painting shows how an artwork’s aura and significance can actually intensify through mass circulation.
Andy Warhol, Mona Lisa, 1963
What is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
400
Walter Benjamin links this concept to unique, valued works of art, stating that it is not found in a reproduction of an artwork.
What is an Aura
400
Terms most famously used by French theorist Jean Baudrillard that refer to a sign that does not clearly have a real-life counterpart, referent, or precedent, which differentiates it from a copy.
What is a simulation
400
This term refers to the return of cultural objects to their original countries or communities, a question raised because many universal museums built their collections through Western colonialism.
What is repatriation
400
The feeling of belonging that is enhanced when a company invites us into its “participatory culture” or brand culture.
What is consumer citizenship
400
This is an example of an early photographic process that produced a single positive image on a silvered plate and could not be reproduced.
Louis Daguerre, View of the Boulevard du Temple, 3rd Arrondissement, Paris, 1838
What is a daguerreotype
500
In this village, many artists produce and sell replicas of famous paintings in the same medium based on an ancient Chinese tradition that is valued as a skilled, disciplined act, even allowing some artists to negotiate authorship by signing the copied work.
What is Dafen Village
500
A factor in determining copyright cases that permits copying without permission of the copyright holder in certain cases, such as for educational purposes, commentary, criticism, or parody. A determining factor is whether the copy is transformative or derivative. An example would be Rogers v. Koons
What is the Fair Use Doctrine
500
The existence of various communities, usually of a particular ethnicity, culture, or nation, scattered across different places outside of their land of origin or homeland.
What is diaspora
500
This contemporary artist critiques how brands are woven into everyday life by linking the historical meaning of “branding” as marking the body to modern product branding and consumer identity.
Who is Hank Willis Thomas
500
The works seen below are an example of this term used by artists such as Richard Prince and Sherri Levine to make a statement about copyright and creativity.
Richard Prince, New Portraits, 2015, on display at Gagosian Gallery
What is appropriation or copying