Hometaping is a project involved with copyright and the ambiguous laws that surround sampling and remixing. Just how much of someone else's work can a visual artist use as their own. Is there a limit to how much of anothers work can sampled before the authorship is questioned.

I investigated the paths artists take when sampling to avoid infringing these laws and discovered that (for the most part) copyright laws are ignored and samples are used freely. After investigation around these topics my mind fell at last on file sharing and peer to peer networks and the recent lawsuits filed against "serial-sharers".

The outcome of this work was an online radio station controlled by a series of walkmans in the exhibition space. Each walkman played a cover of the same song "Come Together". When the audience interacted with the walkmans by listening to one of the tracks this would control the online radio station and mix the everplaying song so that particular cover was dominant.

The audience was taking part in an "illegal" act by choosing a song to broadcast on the radio. Also by actively mixing the song by interacting with the work they themselves were sampling and remixing the song, using others work as their own.

This project sought to bring together the freedoms of sampling, remixing and sharing with the harsh penalties that peer to peer networks (or rather the music industry) can now inflict.