audioswap 5

audioswap 5

Production country: 
be
nl
Year: 
2009
Edition: 
2011
Format: 
net
performance
JODI audioswap5, Courtesy of the Netherlands Media Art Institute
JODI audioswap5, Courtesy of the Netherlands Media Art Institute

audioswap5 is a prank and ongoing performance on the popular video sharing website YouTube, situating JODI’s action in the context of internet folklore. With their literal act of transferring content from a digital back to an analogue medium, from YouTube to vinyl records and back, the artists Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans raise a discussion about copyright, re-use and remix, copy and original. The title audioswap refers to a service of YouTube which encourages users to replace the (illegal, copyrighted) audio track of an uploaded video with a ‘legal’ one provided by YouTube itself.

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