Interesting questions, especially how can art maintain its authenticity in a Neoliberalist world?
The first step to addressing this might be to establish what you mean by authenticity, one of the most problematic concepts in our postmodern neo-liberalist world. Can anything be authentic? In a culture manifest as simulacra I wonder what answer might be determinable? Best Simon Simon Biggs [email protected] [email protected] Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research in CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts > From: marc garrett <[email protected]> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:49:15 +0100 > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] From today... > > Hi Tom, > > No problem, I have posted a version of my reading list on here anyway. > > Perhaps you missed earlier chats with Alan regarding my course, its > subject and theme etc... > > ..."The programme of study falls under - Film/Television/Media Studies > Research. Although many individuals are studying digital, media art > within this framework of study. > > An edited intro... > > How artists engage in the process of taking control of the medium of > technology, and their own creative voice; is complicated and works at > many different degrees of self-agency and situation-based needs. The > Situationists in their own time had to bring about a completely new way > of being in the world. They changed habits and approaches to their own > art, introducing new territories of art practice, adapting and moving > their attention into the realms of film, book distribution and projects > (happening) in everyday culture. In light of Debord's statement "There > can be no freely spent time until we possess the modern tools for the > construction of everyday life. The use of such tools will mark the leap > from a utopian revolutionary art to an experimental revolutionary art. > > My starting question is - How can art maintain its authenticity in a > Neoliberalist world? > > It's a little bit more complex, but the above give's you some idea :-)" > > wishing you well. > > marc > > >> marc. >> I wasn't clear, when people say "what are you reading at such and > such a place" it means what's the course about, not literally "what ARE > you reading" >> >> :) >> >> >> >> --- On Mon, 11/10/10, marc garrett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> From: marc garrett <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] From today... >> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" > <[email protected]> >> Date: Monday, 11 October, 2010, 22:12 >> >> Hi Tom, >> >> For the sake of the Netbehaviour community I will send you a list >> 'personally', if you are interested. >> >> wishing you well. >> >> marc >>> Good for you! >>> What are you "reading" as posh people would say? >>> >>> tom >>> >>> On 11/10/2010 16:01, marc garrett wrote: >>>> Hi Netbehaviourists, >>>> >>>> From today... >>>> >>>> I am a student at Birkbeck University - a whole new experience > for me. >>>> >>>> It's good to become someone else again ;-) >>>> >>>> marc >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
