{"id":752,"date":"2007-02-15T17:33:49","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T23:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=752"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:33:30","slug":"copy-it-right-selections-from-the-phil-morton-memorial-research-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2007\/02\/15\/copy-it-right-selections-from-the-phil-morton-memorial-research-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy-It-Right! Selections from the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Thursday, February 15, 2007,6pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1517\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/pmorton450.jpg\" alt=\"pmorton450\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Curator Jon Cates in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style:normal\">Charismatic video pioneer Phil Morton influenced an entire generation of video and digital artists, founded SAIC\u2019s Video Department, laid the groundwork for what has since become the Video Data Bank, and developed Copy-It-Right, an anti-copyright ethic that set the precedent for the current open-source movement. His name has been largely forgotten, however, and his legacy was cut short by his death in 2003. Curated by SAIC professor Jon Cates, tonight\u2019s selection of Morton\u2019s ground-breaking work launches the opening of the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, housed in the Film, Video &amp; New Media Department at SAIC.<\/span><\/em> 1969-90, Phil Morton, US, ca. 90 min, various formats.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, February 15, 2007,6pm Curator Jon Cates in person! Charismatic video pioneer Phil Morton influenced an entire generation of video and digital artists, founded SAIC\u2019s Video Department, laid the groundwork for what has since become the Video Data Bank, and developed Copy-It-Right, an anti-copyright ethic that set the precedent for the current open-source movement. His [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2007\/02\/15\/copy-it-right-selections-from-the-phil-morton-memorial-research-archive\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Copy-It-Right! Selections from the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[115,180,518,623],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-12","tag-chicago","tag-early-video-art","tag-saic-faculty","tag-video-data-bank"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8779,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/8779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}