-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Patrick Lichty: > > And I wonder deeply whether the shifts from Poststructuralism to > Non-Human Ontologies, or from epistemology to ontology for that > matter, is a reflection of culture,
Or it could just be really, really bad epistemology. http://i.imgur.com/um7e1xd.jpg > Yes, things do evolve; I can admit an accept that. However, I > argue that what is lacking is an ideology and a rigor for sake of > position, as Ian Bogost said about the New Aesthetic so well, which > he argued was not new, and then later James Bridle, in a Rhizome > interview, said had nothing to do with aesthetics in the first > place. Also, take for example, the Rhizome panel in which a > participant incorrectly stated that there wasn't much net art > before 2000, anyway, There's a year zero flavour to the more career-oriented criticism and activism at the moment. Because there was no net art before tumblr (or politics before Occupy), anyone claiming there was is "creepy". Digital art (or whatever) does have the memory of a goldfish with head trauma, so it doesn't reeeeeally get to complain that much. But there are enough histories of computer, net, new media etc. art in dead tree format now that it's starting to take a fairly impressive act of refusal to fail to have read every single one. > In addition GIFs constitute performativity and not performance, as > they possessno live interaction/1st order cybernetic loop, but no > one wants to beas uncool as to call this out. If I had an EMP cannon and the time, I would visit everyone's laptops and wipe the digital woodcuts from them. Or possibly a virus... Kraussian obsolete media doesn't work in Internet time. Everything is already obsolete before it hits the street. > Most of these critiques, or critiques of the contemporary is often > placed off into what has been called "The Generational > Conversation", between the 'contemporizes' and the 'olds' (who are, > what, 90's net artists?) The irony of all this is that in 2013 > Marisa Olson was asked about her age by a curator, and Olia Lialina > tells her timeline in a May 2014 Rhizome entry. I don't think it > has to do with generationalism at all. The ignorance and positioning does. > Before the New Media, Visual Studies, and Social Practice MFAs > emerged after 2000, I'd finished learning and teaching on a dedicated digital art MA (on which I was taught by former students) by then.... > In many ways, it seems that theory is represented by what the > market will bear. I have an essay upcoming about that. :-D > There is a time where you have to get off the treadmill and do the > work you feel is important to humanity, and more important, > important to you. It's isn't about being hip or cool. It's about > doing what matters, whatever that is today. Amen. - - Rob. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTm06CAAoJECciMUAZd2dZCDMH/RBxs1DMhyZZpXsMXtbjsnI3 ZtYyl/c3PK3MgV/suYjjONUtiiVf//GCRXw7O+erMYT6RL+MEIiseLo1u0Z6Hjcp 3dMcfgxP2e3jDOK/ciH+FKr/P665XyvpLfx5epJjjugEhB7tzSuUdflAkbzkENF/ A5pfUZR5wH55MtvZ1tDVeabKKRSWE+yOcifTMK1W9Bg6eFWtcHNmpcyP+qNzo+2C ZkEINEKMWGy74K21hFhjhc1JSYJTZcVRPvXKN6mzVcGbwb3OIuzaJ5vVPIIQ470D MSi1tElV/ikCnzVHWKPkPcFLH1LoZKrQtEWbtjlDLD7GfzcCYiPq7nc03kvKfHk= =oEog -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
