True Copy was an exhibition by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber at Henguchi’s gallery Kuromegarou in Konohana in 2012.(before it was shown at Florence Loewy in Paris).
With True Copy Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber deal with various questions of copy and original. During their first long trip to Beijing, they came across the topic again and again: counterfeit fashion products, pirated copies of films and music, a theme park with small scaled buildings from all continents and even counterfeit banknotes. A glossary on the subject is published together with zine #40, which itself is a copy of an early zine by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber: both issues featured forographies of the same institutions, always documented slightly differently by the two photographers.They produced a traditional Chinese stamp for the zine which proofs the issue being a Certifies Copy. The glossary includes keywords and references to various aspects of Copy.
Copy may refer to: Copying or the product of copying (including the plural ‚copies’); the duplication of information or an artifact // Cut, copy, and paste, a method of reproducing text or other data in computing // Photo-
copying, a process which makes paper copies of documents and other visual images // Fax, a telecommunications technology used to transfer copies of documents, especially over the telephone network // Facsimile, any copy or reproduction which bears a close resemblance to the original. // Replica // Term of art in US copyright law meaning a material object in which a work of authorship has been embodied, such as a book. // Copy (procedure word), a response indicating satisfactory receipt of last radio transmission. // Copy (command), a shell command. // Copy (written), written content in publications, in contrast to photographs or other elements of layout. // Copy (album), the debut album of the electronica artist Mitsuki Aira. // Copy (musician), the Portland-based electronic music artist.
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