thought this article from artnet magazine might be of interest --
anyone in Australia care to comment?
Oct. 28, 2010
AUSSIE ART CENTER KILLS PRINTER PROJECT
Melbourne’s Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and Hewlett-
Packard are smarting from an interactive art installation/product
showcase gone wrong. The piece, dubbed
myworkisintheaustraliancentreforcontemporaryart, was intended to run
Oct. 25-Nov. 7, 2010, and was essentially a promotion for HP’s
"ePrinter" technology, allowing anyone to email an artwork to a
printer located in ACCA’s foyer. Less than a week into the run,
however, the printer was taken offline, according to The Age, amid a
hubbub from artists condemning the piece for copyright provisions
giving the HP ownership of all the works submitted. Artists Damon
Kowarsky and Deborah Kelly had even encouraged submitting protest
works. ACCA made the decision to kill the project, and now seems to
be furiously disassociating itself from the whole thing, claiming
that it was "a venue-hire arrangement." When the project launched,
the institution’s artistic director Juliana Engberg was quoted as
promoting it with the tagline, "Art in the age of mechanical
reproduction just went cosmic."
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