John Haber has just come out with an essay on representation of data as
'digital landscapes' that thinks through some interesting complexitie
- http://www.haberarts.com/cyborg.htm#diaries
He asks about the 'truth' in data representation and discusses narrative
and memory in this context.
The only artist, as far as I know, who
literally creates landscape painting of the
information age is Wolfgang Staehle.
Herr Ding grumbled something in German when he read this then went out
to stand on a rocky shore contemplating the sublime. Or maybe he just
went to get coffee.
He
more projects to add to this list:
http://www.c5corp.com/projects/landscape/index.shtml
http://paglen.com/pages/projects/carceral/index.htm
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Also on the topic of the visual meshing of landscape and informatic
processes, another project worth viewing is Susan Collins' project,
'Fenlandia':
From May 2004, webcams are being installed in various sites - rural and
technological - in Silicon Fen (East Anglia), Silicon Valley (M4
Romanticism was a rebellion against the utilitarian stance of the
enlightenment project, in which the world of nature was an emanation of
spirit. Both a political and an artistic movement the romantics believed
that art and poetry could restore the world to us by revealing what was
behind it.
i remember in simon schama's book 'landscape and memory' his part about
the word landscape and its dutch root 'landschapen' excuse my spelling,
and that is akin to the german landschaft - land= land(eng)
schaffen=produce/make(eng). it was linked by schama to the root of
landscape painting in
[This is another contribution to the Open Nature catalogue. I think it
may also vaguely relate to the Ghost in the Network thread. cheers,
armin]
Landscape Painting of the Information Age
or Romanticism In Media Art
Armin Medosch
In England, France and Germany during the age of
rapid
In the summer of 2004 the New York-based artist Laura Kurgan exhibited
four large prints based on data collected by commercial earth-observation
satellites, at the Whitney Museum at Altria in New York City. She called
the work Monochrome Landscapes. The New Yorker magazine reviewer wrote
