Week 5 - Feb 25th (Reading/internet browsing)

I viewed the website “Learning to Love You More” and read about the assignments. I think this is a great way to force everyday people to become their own authors and create something based on a given guideline or restriction. One of the assignments that grabbed my attention and fed into the idea of “authorship” was the assignment “draw a constellation from someone’s freckles.” This concept makes me wonder, “Who is the real author? The person with the freckles or the person who connected the dots with the freckles?” In many ways the person with the freckles themselves is the author because they are supplying the material that is connected, thus the constellation was already there in theory, just not as apparent. On the other hand, the person that drew the connections of the freckles could be considered the author because before he/she drew the connections it was just a random assortment of dots that the body created. I find it as an interesting debate much like the debate of remix artists. Are they considered artists for using already produced material but by chopping it up in a new way or stamping their name on it, or are they just reproducing something that isn’t their work and credit should be given to the original artist. (I.E. it is the person drawing connections versus the person supplying the freckles).