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This past Wednesday, Jan. 18, several of the internet’s most successful sites, sporting immense visitor volumes, “blacked out” for 24 hours. Google’s ubiquitous multi-colored logo, known for whimsically changing to reflect seasons, holidays and current events, censored itself with a large, black bar. Wikipedia shut down all of its English pages, dooming students’ research attempts. Wordpress, the popular blog-posting site, obscured the text on its front page with black bars, “censored” written across each text field. This blackout was not due to any server failure or power outage, but was, in fact, a protest organized by the internet giants to fight against the twin bills currently under consideration in Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). The acts were created in the spirit of protecting intellectual property (IP), as claimed by their supporters. Generally supported by major IP owners such as the Motion Picture Association of America, each bill alone allows IP holders to quickly and harshly shut down any internet site found to contain the unlicensed spread of copyrighted materials without any court trial or verdict. The intention of this corporate power is to put a stop to piracy as soon as it starts and deter its return. But those who oppose SOPA and PIPA—the sites participating in the blackout, along with other service-providers on the internet—believe that the broad wording of the bill will give too much power to large corporate IP owners. These corporations would then potentially have the power to unceremoniously close down Youtube, Facebook, Imgur, or any other site with user-created content. “The overly broad provisions we’ve seen in the pending SOPA and PIPA bills could be used to target legitimate U.S. sites and chill innovation at a time when it is needed most,” said Zynga, a popular browser game host and developer, in its official statement on the bills. These two bills are the cause for battle among countless legislators and lobbyists who argue blogs.iwu.edu/argus/ Volume 118 | Issue 13 January 20, 2012 FEATURES, P. 9 Cardinals snap Titan streak after nine wins TIA SPRENGEL MANAGING EDITOR Discover hidden treasures on Main Street SPORTS, BACK PAGE SEE CENSORSHIP P.3 SoA’s Wakeley gallery welcomes new exhibit Blackout forces students to imagine life without Facebook CHRIS FRANCIS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SHANE MROZEK/THE ARGUS Above: Sites such as Wired, Firefox, Wordpress, Google, and Wikipedia all “blacked-out” to protest SOPA/PIPA and give users a taste of life with a censored internet. GRAPH COURTESY OF BBC.CO.UK Above: A work of Phillips’ “Dream State,” is exhibited by the School of Art’s Wakely Gallery. CENSORED As students returned for this year’s spring semester, a new exhibit titled “Dream State” by Jerry Phillips opened in the Illinois Wesleyan University School of Art’s Wakeley Gallery. Phillips, who previously taught the School of Art’s printmaking course as a sabbatical replacement during spring semester 2011, is both excited and grateful for the chance to return to Illinois Wesleyan to unveil his first solo exhibition. “This is a huge step in my career as an artist, and I couldn’t think of a better place for it to happen,” Phillips said. “Some of my former students actually hung the show, and for me that was just a very sentimental notion that made this whole experience come full circle.” Phillips’ students are also excited to see their former professor on campus again. “The exhibit was a good opportunity to see his work and all the different techniques he taught us in class,” sophomore art major Kathryn Thomas said. According to Phillips, the idea for “Dream State” grew from the sense of déjà vu he feels when he sees images from his dreams in his daily life. Inspired, Phillips ventures into the world of his own subconscious and attempts to collect and archive these images visually through the medium of monotype with gouache and color pencil. Unlike much of Phillips’s previous work, “Dream State” is free of symbolic themes and was completed only for the pleasure of creating art. “I’ve learned to let go and have fun. Art doesn’t have to change the world immediately. Art can be whimsical and should reflect how I feel while making it,” Phillips said of his own aesthetic philosophy. While he appreciates the School of Art’s exhibition of his own work, Phillips also believes Illinois Wesleyan’s galleries serve an important role in the lives of both art majors and the entire student body. Phillips describes the benefits Wesleyan students recieve through the presence of the galleries: “A space devoted to exhibiting work, allows students and the public to observe and interact with art on a more personal level,” Phillips said. “School galleries allow art students to exhibit their own art and experience art-making from the role of an artist as opposed to one of an observer.” Gallery director Carmen Lozar agrees that the power . “Art has the power to enrich, inform, and expand the human experience. The galleries at Illinois Wesleyan University serve not only as an educational tool for our students, but as a means of expanding our experience in the world today,” he said. “Dream State” will be showing in the Wakeley Gallery until Feb. 2. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 12 – 4 p.m., Tuesday 7 – 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 1 – 4 p.m. Below: The beginning of the exhibit immerses the viewer into Phillips’ “Dream State.” “A space devoted to exhibiting work, allows students and the public to observe and interact with art on a more personal level. School galleries allow art students to exhibit their own art and experience art-making from the role of an artist as opposed to one of an observer.” -Professor Jerry Phillips Feel the love with Liam OPINIONS, P. 13
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Title | 2012-01-20 |
Publication title | The Argus |
Subject |
Newspapers Universities & colleges Students |
Year | 2012 |
Decade | 2010 |
Publisher | The Argus, Illinois Wesleyan University; printed by The Pantagraph, Bloomington, IL from 1894-2009 and P&P Press, Peoria, IL from 2009-present. |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Contact Information | Please email Tate Archives at archives@iwu.edu or call 309-556-1535 for more information. Permission to reproduce these images must be granted by IWU. |
Collection | Student and Alumni News Periodicals (Illinois Wesleyan University) |
Source | Record Group 11-12: Student Publications |
Type | Image |
Format | Text |
Language | eng |
Digitization Specifications | Argus issues published from 1894-Spring 2003 were scanned at 600 dpi on a NM1000-SS scanner by Northern Micrographics, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Fulltext OCR was accomplished by the same company in Summer 2009. Issues published from the fall of 2003-present are born-digital. |
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Title | Page 1 |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Contact Information | Please email Tate Archives at archives@iwu.edu or call 309-556-1535 for more information. Permission to reproduce these images must be granted by IWU. |
Full Text | This past Wednesday, Jan. 18, several of the internet’s most successful sites, sporting immense visitor volumes, “blacked out” for 24 hours. Google’s ubiquitous multi-colored logo, known for whimsically changing to reflect seasons, holidays and current events, censored itself with a large, black bar. Wikipedia shut down all of its English pages, dooming students’ research attempts. Wordpress, the popular blog-posting site, obscured the text on its front page with black bars, “censored” written across each text field. This blackout was not due to any server failure or power outage, but was, in fact, a protest organized by the internet giants to fight against the twin bills currently under consideration in Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). The acts were created in the spirit of protecting intellectual property (IP), as claimed by their supporters. Generally supported by major IP owners such as the Motion Picture Association of America, each bill alone allows IP holders to quickly and harshly shut down any internet site found to contain the unlicensed spread of copyrighted materials without any court trial or verdict. The intention of this corporate power is to put a stop to piracy as soon as it starts and deter its return. But those who oppose SOPA and PIPA—the sites participating in the blackout, along with other service-providers on the internet—believe that the broad wording of the bill will give too much power to large corporate IP owners. These corporations would then potentially have the power to unceremoniously close down Youtube, Facebook, Imgur, or any other site with user-created content. “The overly broad provisions we’ve seen in the pending SOPA and PIPA bills could be used to target legitimate U.S. sites and chill innovation at a time when it is needed most,” said Zynga, a popular browser game host and developer, in its official statement on the bills. These two bills are the cause for battle among countless legislators and lobbyists who argue blogs.iwu.edu/argus/ Volume 118 | Issue 13 January 20, 2012 FEATURES, P. 9 Cardinals snap Titan streak after nine wins TIA SPRENGEL MANAGING EDITOR Discover hidden treasures on Main Street SPORTS, BACK PAGE SEE CENSORSHIP P.3 SoA’s Wakeley gallery welcomes new exhibit Blackout forces students to imagine life without Facebook CHRIS FRANCIS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SHANE MROZEK/THE ARGUS Above: Sites such as Wired, Firefox, Wordpress, Google, and Wikipedia all “blacked-out” to protest SOPA/PIPA and give users a taste of life with a censored internet. GRAPH COURTESY OF BBC.CO.UK Above: A work of Phillips’ “Dream State,” is exhibited by the School of Art’s Wakely Gallery. CENSORED As students returned for this year’s spring semester, a new exhibit titled “Dream State” by Jerry Phillips opened in the Illinois Wesleyan University School of Art’s Wakeley Gallery. Phillips, who previously taught the School of Art’s printmaking course as a sabbatical replacement during spring semester 2011, is both excited and grateful for the chance to return to Illinois Wesleyan to unveil his first solo exhibition. “This is a huge step in my career as an artist, and I couldn’t think of a better place for it to happen,” Phillips said. “Some of my former students actually hung the show, and for me that was just a very sentimental notion that made this whole experience come full circle.” Phillips’ students are also excited to see their former professor on campus again. “The exhibit was a good opportunity to see his work and all the different techniques he taught us in class,” sophomore art major Kathryn Thomas said. According to Phillips, the idea for “Dream State” grew from the sense of déjà vu he feels when he sees images from his dreams in his daily life. Inspired, Phillips ventures into the world of his own subconscious and attempts to collect and archive these images visually through the medium of monotype with gouache and color pencil. Unlike much of Phillips’s previous work, “Dream State” is free of symbolic themes and was completed only for the pleasure of creating art. “I’ve learned to let go and have fun. Art doesn’t have to change the world immediately. Art can be whimsical and should reflect how I feel while making it,” Phillips said of his own aesthetic philosophy. While he appreciates the School of Art’s exhibition of his own work, Phillips also believes Illinois Wesleyan’s galleries serve an important role in the lives of both art majors and the entire student body. Phillips describes the benefits Wesleyan students recieve through the presence of the galleries: “A space devoted to exhibiting work, allows students and the public to observe and interact with art on a more personal level,” Phillips said. “School galleries allow art students to exhibit their own art and experience art-making from the role of an artist as opposed to one of an observer.” Gallery director Carmen Lozar agrees that the power . “Art has the power to enrich, inform, and expand the human experience. The galleries at Illinois Wesleyan University serve not only as an educational tool for our students, but as a means of expanding our experience in the world today,” he said. “Dream State” will be showing in the Wakeley Gallery until Feb. 2. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 12 – 4 p.m., Tuesday 7 – 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 1 – 4 p.m. Below: The beginning of the exhibit immerses the viewer into Phillips’ “Dream State.” “A space devoted to exhibiting work, allows students and the public to observe and interact with art on a more personal level. School galleries allow art students to exhibit their own art and experience art-making from the role of an artist as opposed to one of an observer.” -Professor Jerry Phillips Feel the love with Liam OPINIONS, P. 13 |
Collection | Student and Alumni News Periodicals (Illinois Wesleyan University) |