Colour doesn't exist at the scale of quarks. 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: Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:21:39 -0400 (EDT) > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] From today... > > > But what would a non-realistic art or art practice be? Unless the word is > used in the sense of - something that can't be carried out - i.e. it's > unrealistic to create an artwork from a single quark visible from outer > space and colored blue? > > - Alan > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Rob Myers wrote: > >> On 10/13/2010 04:22 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: >>> >>> I think in the usual sense of the word, authenticity is more than >>> problematic - it's suspect. >> >> How about "realistic"? >> >> Realistic artistic practice (process), realistic art (product). >> >> Realism is the absence of sentiment. It's a kind of efficiency (to >> ironise a neoliberal shibboleth ;-) ). >> >> Producing something realistic in the unreality of neoliberalism (it's >> markets all the way down...) can be approached in various ways. >> >> The successful results will be authentic in a non-suspect sense by >> virtue of their realism. Which I would make less tautological if I had >> more time. ;-) >> >> - Rob. >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > > > == > email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > webpage http://www.alansondheim.org > music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > == > _______________________________________________ > 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
