Then all we have to do is get rid of the concept of the avant-garde from the 
political arena, too, and we might really begin to get somewhere!:)

Peter 'Paleoanarchist' Snowdon

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Le 8 nov. 2013 à 16:02, "Gene Youngblood" <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Given the state of the world today, there are many compelling reasons for 
> removing the idea of an avant-garde from art history and returning it to the 
> political arena where it began. That’s been one of my goals as a theorist for 
> a long time. Here’s a conversation about it 23 years ago. 
> http://www.neme.org/1627/metadesigning-for-the-future  Remember this is 1990, 
> five years before the World Wide Web. One implication of this view, not 
> stated here, is that any kind of art, no matter how retrograde, can 
> participate in an avant-garde project because the site of avant-gardness is 
> no longer art, it’s the “new alliance” as such. That doesn’t negate any of 
> the reasons given in this thread for accepting or rejecting the notion of 
> avant-garde art, it just frames them in a larger context, more appropriate to 
> the paleocybernetic era in which we live.
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> agreed the threshold is ever forward 
> 
> thinking somehow that the time u exist in has a holding on anything like 
> expansion is just what in the psyche ? 
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> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:43 PM, [email protected] 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> interesting. avant garde,experimental,personal. I think ag filmmaking is 
>> personal filmmaking. films made for viewing by art, poetry and film lovers 
>> and/or people who are inquisitive and open to non traditional forms and/or 
>> subjects. films made by artists for the many reasons anyone makes art.
>> that will endure.
>> Owen
>> 
>> 
>> > On Nov 7, 2013, at 7:31 PM, Fred Camper <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Quoting Stashu Kybartas <[email protected]>:
>> >
>> >> There is no avant-garde now.  The internet insures that NOTHING will stay 
>> >> avant - EVER.
>> >
>> > I tried to make this point pre-Internet, in my 1986 article "The End of 
>> > Avant-Garde Film" in the 20th anniversary issue of "Millennium Film 
>> > Journal."
>> > By 1986, in my opinion, common usage was that an "experimental" or 
>> > "avant-garde" film was a film with certain features, such as scratching or 
>> > painting on film, a limited or abstracted narrative, non-linear editing, 
>> > very small cast and crew, and others -- some of these if not all of them. 
>> > Scratching on film was by then no longer "avant-garde," in the sense of 
>> > new or advanced, and the terms "experimental" and "avant-garde" has come 
>> > to denote a style of filmmaking. This is neither good nor bad, but one 
>> > important reason to understand it is that artists must realize that 
>> > techniques already used don't justify themselves; everything depends on 
>> > the total work.
>> >
>> > Fred Camper
>> > Chicago
>> >
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