On Sep 2, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Julian Oliver wrote:
> detected and substituted for art ('Artverts')gh writes: I like the your notion of creating the software for multiple devices. It speaks to the idea of re-configuring the Advertising Cloud ala Minority Report. The latest tech has cellphone projectors that cost $300 and project a 4x6 foot projection. It won't be long before holographic projections will be commonplace. Just imagine SPAM being projected on every surface and floating in the air! You'll have 11,000 choices for diet pills, refinancing your mortgage, trimming your nose hair etc... The question is whether substituting fine art images for advertising images is any different? After all the fine art images are just higher priced commodities that follows the same basic visual techniques as advertising. The conflation and analysis of the art image and the advertising image is an interesting subject in and of itself. My first *internet art* work in 1994 called Terrorist Advertising started to investigate these ideas. -- http://nujus.net/~nujus/gh_04/ terror/index.html Regis Debray, a French Philosopher/theorist is the major proponent of Mediology, here's the quote from wikipedia;"Debray is the founder and chief exponent of the discipline of médiologie or "mediology", which attempts to scientifically study transmission of cultural meaning in society, whether through language or images. Mediology is characterized by its multi-disciplinary approach. It is expounded best in the English-language book Transmitting Culture (Columbia University Press, 2004). In Vie et mort de l'image (Life and Death of Image, 1995), an attempted history of gaze, where he distinguished three regimes of the images (icon, idol and vision), he explicitly prevented misunderstandings by differentiating mediology from a simple sociology of mass media. He also criticized the basic assumptions of history of art which present art as an atemporal and universal phenomenon. According to Debray, art is a product of the Renaissance with the invention of the artist as productor of images, in contrast with previous acheiropoieta icons or other types of so- called "art," where these "works of art" did not fulfill an artistic function but rather a religious one." I'd be interested in creating the "Artverts" it coincides with an ongoing project of media critique and "rant performances" 2001 - Palm Rants-- http://nujus.net/~nujus/gh_04/gallery14.html -- Rantapod -- http://nujus.net/~nujus/gh_04/gallery15.html -- and HD rants -- http://nujus.net/~nujus/gh_04/hd_rants/index.html The notion is how to Re-Claim public space that is now taken over by corporate interests. Walking through Times Square, NYC one of the most interesting visuals is the news crawl on 1 Times Square. It still claims a neutral discourse that engages public space. Jenny Holzer of course makes brilliant use of that specific emotion of pausing and receiving neutral information. > G.H. Hovagimyan http://nujus.net/~gh/ http://artistsmeeting.org http://turbulence.org/Works/plazaville _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
