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Part 03

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PART 3: Deploying Tactical Watermarks

Point A: Watermarks operate different roles

1 — Displaying provenance of a medium

2 — As a means to expression

3 — Watermarks to obscure

4 — Signatures

5 — Creating relations and communities

6 — Sensorial Augmentation

Research focus

I will explore what strategies can be reappropriated from watermarks to add provenance to different media. How can we reuse them? What opportunities arise? What modes of address can be formed?

Summary

During this chapter I will delve into different strategies on how the process of adding stains can be twisted and revived. I aim to compare how topics introduced in Part 1 and 2 of the thesis have influenced my creative process and what responses were motivated by them in my research and project development.

This will happen while commenting about watermarks' power to infiltrate, either against social structure, as a way to create relations and communities, augmenting the sense of solidarity, as user signatures, as a way to obscure previous watermarks, for sensorial augmentation and marks of quality. I will explore and compare it to what other projects or approaches I have encountered and reflect over their influence in my project. Tactical watermarks is not only a system but I will also delve into how it can be deployed.