[Rumori] "Joywar"

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Joywar: The Molotov Years
Rhizome.org - Net.Art News -
March 8, 2004
http://rhizome.org/netartnews/story.rhiz?timestamp=3D20040308

Recall Toywar, the battle between Zurich-based net collective
etoy.com and eToys, a once-profitable but eventually bankrupted
toy vendor? Recap: in 1999, the retailer closed down etoy.com,
arguing that eToys users who accessed the art site would be
offended by its content. In an act of 'electronic civil
disobedience,' etoy supporters bombarded eToys.com, overwhelmed
its servers, and helped devalue its stock to $1/share. When the
dust settled, the commercial giant had lost five billion dollars
worth of equity in 81 days and etoy.com retained the rights to
its name. Now: Joywar. Artist Joy Garnett, whose paintings sample
photojournalism, is being sued by a photographer over 'Molotov,'
a reworked, large-scale painting based on an image from 1978. The
case hinges on the question of who owns media images, especially
those that are supposedly documentarian: after all, if an artist
can lay original and exclusive claim to the portrait of a
revolutionary hurling a molotov cocktail, we might have pause to
wonder on the nature of that captured event. We might also notice
the anxiety released when an image is remade and given new
meaning, new circulation, and yes, new profit potential. While
she awaits the outcome of the suit, whose plaintiff is demanding
several thousand dollars, credit, and that she not exhibit or
produce the work again, Garnett has removed 'Molotov' from her
website. Garnett's peers have initiated a 'Joywar,' and a
flourishing campaign to sample, share and remix is underway. It's
impossible to list here all of the mirror sites and uses of
'Molotov' that have exploded in the last week or so, but it's
clear that many are in favor of the free dissemination and reuse
of images and the rights of artists like Garnett to sample. =96
Christine Smallwood

http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/solidarity.html

Joywar links:
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Joywar: Molotov Web ring (last updated 3/24/04 3:38pm EST)

Info / blogs / + image/s
http://www.alterazione.net/
http://www.dudecheckthisout.com/Blog.aspx?blogId=3D383
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/green/green3-17-04.asp
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/green/green3-17-6.asp
http://www.verybusy.org/v4/index.php?load=3Dinclude/home/home.php
http://www.ostili.splinder.it/
http://www.fridgemagnet.org.uk/archives/2004/03/002812.shtml
http://home.comcast.net/~aussieintn/
http://samizdat.manilasites.com/l
http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2004/03/495780.php
http://feed.etoy.com/p301.html
http://www.neural.it/nnews/joywar.htm
http://www.neural.it/
http://www.lukemelia.com/
http://www.guerrigliamarketing.it/
http://www.guerrigliamarketing.it/news/news.htm
http://www.murmurs.com/drupal/?q=3Dimport/feed/3
http://www.yo-yoll.net/
http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/archives/000420.html
http://rhizome.org/netartnews/story.rhiz?timestamp=3D20040308
http://nathanielstern.com/oldblogs/2004_03_07_oldblogs.html#107876584700453=
3
http://groups.msn.com/CyberspaceMegaBrains
http://www.ostili.splinder.it
http://www.yougenics.net/griffis/
http://www.culturekitchen.com/archives/000555.html
http://www.dronecolony.com
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/solidarity.html

Info / linking blogs / bbs
http://boingboing.net/text/2004_03_14_guestbar.html
http://boingboing.net/
http://www.kjj.it/dams/risorse/copyright.php
http://www.artsjournal.com/man/
http://www.netartreview.net/logs/2004_03_07_backlog.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/choiresicha_rss/80368.html
http://www.blogigo.de/wiredtexts/entry/6862
http://www.anti-chambre.net/blog//archive.php?id=3D75
http://void.nothingness.org/archives/situationist/display/12857?PHPSESSID=
=3Db71f5c
5381634e5515cc69a67fec36f6
http://x-arn.org/bim/
http://www.indiesite.com/
http://www.choiresicha.com/
http://www.rekombinant.org/
http://dongresin.katgyrl.com/
http://www.thing-net.de/cms/wap-d.php
http://radiofreeblogistan.com/
http://www.vojir.com/other/exf-rynyvayzy.html
http://bbs.thing.net/

Still Images: collage / agitprop
http://www.mirror-site.tk/
http://www.yougenics.net/griffis/images/JOY_billboard.jpg
http://www.wallcloud.com/molotovpow.html
http://www.antiexperience.com/edtang/works/molotov.html
http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/Images/PeaceInOurHands.jpg
http://www.voyd.com/joywar/joywar.jpg
http://art-design.smsu.edu/cooley/molotov/
http://navasse.net/joywar/
http://www.anatomyofhope.net/joy/
http://www.electrichands.com/shanghai-pepsi.jpg
http://www.voyd.com/joywar/Index.htm
http://www.rssgallery.com/book.htm
http://www.voyd.com/joywar/ascii.htm
http://www.robertspahr.com/joy/
http://tinjail.com/joy/

Moving Images / interactive
http://www.ysagoon.com/diz/web/molotov/
http://www.furtherfield.org/cwebb/screenmoments/molotov.html
http://www.naxsmash.net/bloodellipse/text/disastersofwar(molotov).html
http://www.anti-chambre.net/joywar/
http://www.sicplacitum.com/arte/molotov.htm
http://art-design.smsu.edu/cooley/molotov/
http://544x378.free.fr/(WebTV)/html/molotov.html
http://www.gloriousninth.com/piratesofpenzance.html
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/art.mov

Mirror Images
http://www.wallcloud.com/molotov.html
http://www.twhid.com/misc/joy/molotov/
http://linkoln.net/molotov.gif
http://www.leewells.org/joy/Molotov.html

Photo cropped from original, in B&W, (found 3/15/04) uncredited:
http://www.haroldpinter.org/politics/politics_america.shtml

Original Photo by Susan Meiselas, c.1979:
http://www.magnumphotos.com/LowRes/nyc/TR3/MES/82MLABZ/NYC15626.jpg

context of original:
http://www.magnumphotos.com/c/htm/FramerT_MAG.aspx?Stat=3DPortfolio_DocThum=
b&V=3DCDocT&E=3D2K7O3RNNPP0&DT=3DALB

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