“Fair Use: Information Piracy and Creative Commons in Contemporary Art and Design” | Columbia College, Chicago | March 01, 2010 – Apr 30, 2010
via Columbia College Chicago : Glass Curtain Exhibition Archive.
Fair Use is a multimedia exhibition that looks at how the copying, sampling, and recycling of existing material is being used as a creative tool in contemporary culture. The exhibition sets out to foster discussion through the examination of work by contemporary artists and designers who develop alternatives to the way we share ideas, images and objects. Participating artists include:Tyler Avery, Sze Lin Pang, Line Langballe and Christina Okai Mejborn of Totem Collective, Guy Ben-Nur, Pratchaya Phintong, Seth Price, Mark Holmes, Ethan Huber,Joseph Willis, Superflex, Salter/Snowden and Siebren Versteeg. Curated by Brandon Alvendia.
![shepard_fairey_hope_2008 Shepard Fairey’s “Barack Obama/Hope” image went viral during the 2008 election. Then controversy about the image’s source transformed it into the poster child for fair use in the public debate over copyright and free culture. Now FULAB takes “Hope” as its icon [Image source: Wikipedia]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/shepard_fairey_hope_2008.jpg)
![danger_mouse_grey_album_cover_200 Promotional artwork for "The Grey Album" by Justin Hampton. This was not used for the actual cover, but appeared on the Danger Mouse website in 2004. [Source: Wikipedia]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/danger_mouse_grey_album_cover_200.jpg)


![ada_signing_072690_ucp_2 President George H.W. Bush signs into law the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990 as Justin Dart looks on. [Source: ucp.org]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ada_signing_072690_ucp_2.jpg)