Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art

Guertin’s book is extremely timely in addressing the crisis in copyright but also in terms of the explosion of compositional/authorial modes and practices circulating through popular cultures. This interconnection brings together two issues that have, for the most part, been addressed separately. Connecting them through a framework of prohibition provides an excellent historical grounding and an innovative foothold for these discussions in progressive media studies. –Jamie “Skye” Bianco, Assistant Professor, English Department, Director, DM@P, Digital Media at Pitt, University of Pittsburgh

Carolyn Guertin has long been embedded in the digital, both as a practitioner and as a critic. Her insightful and provocative ideas should be part of every new media syllabus. — Professor Sue Thomas, De Montfort University, UK

Guertin rightly argues that these interested parties are fundamentally at odds not only with those who share music or films but also with the entire collective structure of the internet. From this basis she goes on to explore and justify an internet culture in which copyright is viewed not only with a stereotypical irreverence but also as a crucial irrelevance. — Michael Runyan is completing a master’s in cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. ― Times Higher Education Textbook Guide Published On: 2012-11-08

This is an inclusive text that connects media philosophers with radical changes to internet periodicals and plenty of related digital artworks. Nicolas Bourriaud’s definition of “art as a social interstice” suitably describes most of the art present here, with its distinctively disruptive, powerful and subtle qualities. ― Neural.it