Recombinant Human Dragon

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Recombinant Human Dragon is an internet-based multimedia installation exploring issues of cultural ownership and re-use. It is also home to the musical artists Beastmaster Romance and The Earl of Bandwidth.

[edit] Manifesto excerpts

"We too often confuse doing an activity with being entertained. We too readily accept passive entertainment as a substitute for active participation in culture, consumption as a substitute for production. We too often convince ourselves to be satisfied with cultural opportunities which ask us to invest nothing other than money."

"The project of recombinant cultural production asserts the necessity of hybrids, the impossibility of inventing anything completely new. Works of culture always borrow from, build off of, and make reference to past works, whether they like it or not. Originality is a myth that belongs with the epic works of 19th romanticism. Leave it there. You cannot create something from nothing. One needs raw materials. The process of creation requires appropriation."