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<div style="font-family: Eurostile;"><h1 style="position: relative; top:
0px; opacity: 1; pointer-events: initial;">Oliver Laric’s <em>Versions</em>
(2010) is a video essay that muses on the manipulation and
re-appropriation of images throughout history. <br><br><a
href="https://anthology.rhizome.org/versions">Versions
(2010)</a> is the second of three official versions of this essay, and
forms part of a larger project that includes “a series of sculptures,
airbrushed images of missiles, a talk, a PDF, a song, a novel, a recipe,
a play, a dance routine, a feature film and merchandise.” All of these
components come together to create a meta-exploration of the topics
raised therein: the relationship between copy and original, authorship,
piracy, and reuse. Ultimately, <em>Versions</em> is a celebration of
visual culture as a collective, social project, historically and in the
internet-enabled present.</h1></div>
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