@Isabel >>>>> "Can you think of specific instances (of the impact of art)?²
Oh my, this invites a detailed response and I don¹t want to overstay my welcome here, but case in point: in March of 1960, Jean Tinguely created the Homage to New York, a self-destructing sculpture that below itself up in the Sculpture Garden of the NY Museum of Modern Art. This cataclysmic art event had tremendous impact on the art scene in New York and beyond. It suggested new performative approaches to materials and art making, inspiring the Happenings of the 1960s, which of course grew into a larger radicalization of 1960s counter culture. The work inspired collaboration between artists & engineers through the involvement of Bell Labs engineer Billy Klüver, which by the end of the 1960s, had led to the introduction of technological materials in art making and collaborative approaches in general, another hallmark of 1960s culture and the 1970s software & personal computer culture as well. I could go on and on, but that is just one artwork (among many) as a catalyst for artistic, cultural, and social change. This rather crude historical synopsis leaves out other important developments as well, but it is clear, that the artist is a central figure in the ongoing transformation of society and culture. We have to believe that, otherwise why bother? Jean Tinguely, Homage ot New York http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/homage-to-new-york/ Randall From: isabel brison <ijayes...@gmail.com> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> Date: Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 5:47 PM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Lines of Communication > if you take a broader > perspective on time + history, I think you can see that art + the artist > has in fact changed the course of cultural and political thought, time and > time again, however glacial it may occur. > I'd really like to believe that. Can you think of specific instances? Look back far enough and all you seem to get is rich patrons, conspicuous consumption and, for some reason, a large amount of pictures of naked women. -- http://isabelbrison.com http://tellthemachines.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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