In The Name of “Like This”: The Appropriation of Artwork In Digital Age

• Main Authors: Pangeran Putra Perkasa Alam Nasution, Mochammad Wahyu Ghani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate School of Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta 2019-06-01
• Series: International Journal of Creative and Arts Studies
• Subjects: digital information age; artwork creation; cultural appropriation
• Online Access: http://journal.isi.ac.id/index.php/IJCAS/article/view/3273/1518

The rapidly growing and massive information age in digital media platforms has created and introduced cultural ramifications on various aspects of human life. The ongoing era of globalization of the twentieth century has fuel the capability in digitizing and manipulating information during traffic. Cultural growth in the new age includes: ―cultural preservation as the main ingredient of the ordinary‖; the proliferation of electronic visual images; and the construction of a multifaceted and the individual identity or social imaginary. The artwork currently is glorifying so many appropriations practices. All the art creations i n the code of conduct are suitable for one aspiration, and that is the digital aesthetic market. It is now customary to gather on the variety of artistic creations from different cultures that are appropriated as new and authentic artwork. Thus, this article discusses the appropriation for the artwork in the rise of the digital media platform era. This paper is an anthropological study that refers to the interpretivereflexive paradigm as the analysis of path-work. Digital media is the unit of analysis in this study.