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Re: “Wade Guyton And The "Imperfect Beauty" Cliché”
Excellent piece, especially this point: "...you can’t help but be struck by the lack of curiosity this artist has for the technology that helps produce so much of his work."
Weirdly, paired with that lack of curiosity toward technology is a desire to be so transparent about it (e.g., wall text citations of printer models and lively descriptions of Guyton's rassling with them) that the works become entirely about process rather than product. (Another, perhaps less-chided cliché.) To me, the prints represent the latest and most blatant of what Michael Fried called "theatricality"--not only is a consideration of our spectatorship required to make the objects worth looking at (a tail-eating snake), but too much of their achievement further hinges on our visualizing Guyton, jamming his printer to achieve the desired effect. It's a practice closer to poor (if implied) performance art than good painting.
Re: “Are Video Games Art?”
The MOMA has done the right thing. After NEOLUDICA ART IS A GAME at Biennale Venice 2011 it was recognized that the world is a video game, a total bet on our future, in which video game as a medium, knowingly sprung from its own fiction, may finally get out of the mirror, like Alice, in order to express its thought on a society that has never been so stratified and complex. The two realities – which sum up to form one augmented reality – are very much alike and cannot do without one another. Artists, creators, developers and players are then called upon to step up in class, andto accept a confrontation that will be aesthetic as well as ethic, and therefore will bring upmore daydreams.Today more than ever we are moved by Lewis Mumford’s words from his 1934 essayTechnics and Civilization: “Thanks to machines, we now have a chance to understand a worldwe contributed to create.”
In Italy the videogame is art and is exhibited in museums:
http://www.museoscienza.org/english/activi…
http://www.artitude.eu/it/news/987-neoludi…
http://neoludica.blogspot.it/
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Re: “Glassholes”
Whatever your opinion of sarcasm is I think there is a significant insight to take from this article. Fine artist's can end up letting their conceptual choices be dictated by their incidental design ones. Glass is a material with some inherent aesthetic appeal, and it can be easy for a lazy artist to lean on that appeal to make their work look sexier while not necessarily making it better.
It reminds me of a fellow student from my thesis class a few years ago. She made a piece by destroying a bunch of her sketchbook pages, making little samples of homemade paper out of them, and then pinning the samples to the wall in a grid formation. It struck me at the time that the piece's visual impact was really coming from the paper's rough quality and their arrangement into a grid. In terms of design both of these things are very nearly non-decisions on the artist's behalf. A grid has its own visual appeal while essentially eliminating a swath of compositional choices, while the paper's rough quality is attainable without any significant skill.
These decisions didn't detract from the piece, but they were doing a lot of heavy lifting considering how easily they were arrived at.
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Re: “Glassholes”
There are so many artists doing amazing work with glass that has nothing to do with panes of window glass..... Please widen your search...really? Window glass?
Re: “Glassholes”
And...? Mr. Brand is charmed with himself, but what else is there to take from this? Sarcasm is not insight. It is, however, tedious. What a waste of a read.
Re: “Do NOT Flush That Toilet!”
So this is where people get this stupid idea from. Let me tell you that I am sick of people not flushing their toilets, everytime I walk in I am greeted with the horrible smell of urine or feces. I'd rather "waste water" than contract some disease from this unsanitary practice. You tree-hugging hippies should be ashamed for proposing insane "tips" that ironically harms the environment and human beings more than it helps. All you do is whine about non-existant problems and create drama for yourselves, please stop dictating how we should live our lives.
Re: “Night Shift or Day Shift?”
Day Shift, Saleem is right. Without sunlight you get depressed and go stir crazy. Plus it means never having dinner with friends.. ever!
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Re: “The Best Artist You've Never Heard Of”
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Re: “Vaginal Vexations”
Audrey - Tell the lady with the dry bits to try making 'green smoothies' which will cancel out her
She can also incorporate some local honey or bee pollen which will bring her bodies' defense back into balance, instead of freaking out over some pollen.
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