Author: Juan A. Esteban
-
Málaga Museums: the contract is traceable, but working conditions are not
Externalización, mediación y trabajo cultural. De la serie iniciada en «Contra la vida optimizada». La Administración ha publicado cuánto paga por la gestión de visitantes de los museos municipales de Málaga y cuánto previó destinar a sus servicios de mediación y educación. Con la documentación recuperada no puede reconstruirse cuántas personas prestan esos servicios, qué…
-
Who decides culture in Málaga's towns and villages
Territorio, decisión y transparencia en la política cultural provincial. De la serie iniciada en «Contra la vida optimizada». Advertencia inicial Este texto se construye solo con información pública accesible: la publicada por la Diputación de Málaga en su web y la localizada en la Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones y el Boletín Oficial de…
-
Warhol v. Goldsmith: the same image, two uses
In 1984, Andy Warhol used a photographic portrait of Prince, taken by Lynn Goldsmith, to create the Prince series. Thirty-two years later, following the musician's death, the foundation managing his estate granted Condé Nast a licence to use one of those works, Orange Prince, on the cover of a…
-
Being on the internet is not being seen: ‘Banana and Orange’ and ‘Comedian’
En 2001 Joe Morford publicó «Banana and Orange»: dos paneles verdes, una naranja arriba, un plátano abajo, sujetos con cinta adhesiva. En 2019, Maurizio Cattelan presentó «Comedian»: un plátano pegado a la pared con una tira de cinta. En enero de 2021, Morford demandó a Cattelan por infracción de derechos de autor ante un tribunal…
-
Banksy before the EUIPO: two readings of anonymity
In February 2014, Pest Control Office, the company holding the trademarks linked to Banksy, applied for the image of the flower thrower as a European Union trademark: the figure of a protester throwing a bouquet. On 14 September 2020, the Cancellation Division of the European Union Intellectual Property Office…
-
The Druet-Cattelan case: the question the court did not answer
Several of Maurizio Cattelan's most celebrated works feature wax figures at their centre that were modelled by another man. The figure of John Paul II lying beneath a meteorite, the kneeling child with the face of Hitler, Cattelan himself suspended from a coat hanger: those effigies were modelled by Daniel Druet, a French sculptor at the…
-
Who can be seen
In 2017, researchers attempted something simple: to ascertain the origin of the photographs used to train image recognition systems. They took ImageNet, one of the datasets that defined the development of contemporary computer vision, and examined, among the images whose origin they could trace, which country had operated the camera.…
-
Eight plus four
In museums across the world, there are many of Rodin's Thinkers. Not pirated copies or imitations: fine bronzes in serious collections, all originating from the same model. The question of which is the original does not have the answer one expects; and determining why necessitates examining how a sculpture is manufactured and, in particular, who decides…
-
The work that sustains culture and appears in no data
In any organisation, there is work that sustains it and which is almost entirely unrecognised: taking the minutes of a meeting; organising an encounter; accompanying a new arrival; mediating a conflict that was becoming entrenched; remembering birthdays, that supplies need replenishing, that a certain person…
-
Who vouches on digital platforms
Desde hace unas semanas participo como verificador en la plataforma Eurosky/mu.social. La fundación que presido, Kripties, ha sido designada verificadora de confianza en la red social europea. Ahora puedo poner junto a la cuenta de otra persona una marca que dice «esta cuenta es quien dice ser». Lo cuento con ilusión y, precisamente por eso,…