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Introduction
Appropriation is a commonly heard piece of artspeak which is used to discuss the deliberate re-working of one work into another (often unrelated) work. The Oxford English Dictionary expands this definition to include the phrase "without authority," and although this is usually true, appropriation is not synonymous with plagiarism. The key difference is that while plagiarism is outright theft by misrepresentation, appropriation is recontexulization for the purpose of the discovering of additional meaning.
Both artists and engineers who work with technology should be intimately familiar with this and other themes the Jackals are exploring. As technology artists, the "medium" of the Jackals' work is very often the end product of someone else's work. The pieces they develop, composed often as not by appropriated consumer technology, represent a recontextualization of the end product of a commercial process.
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