erp. The show was from the 1950s, not 1920s, and it put airplane props on pedestals, not pestles :)
Bz On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:34 PM, BishopZ <[email protected]> wrote: > Today, I went to the first day of South by Southwest Interactive > (SXSW). Today's keynote was by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator at the > MoMA. > > First she equated Design with quality in all things, which is a > perfectly valid definition of Design. Her historical root was a MoMA > show from the 1920s that put ball bearings and airplane props on > pestles as a way to made the ordinary new again, a way to showcase how > well-designed common-place things can be. > > She then showed about twenty artists whose work had been showcased in > the last five years. Nothing was earlier than 2010. Repeatedly she > differentiated herself from Scientists, saying that she did not know > "anything" about quantum mechanics yet took inspiration from it. And > that inspiration lead her to explore "entanglements" and > "super-position" as concepts in art. > > The works she showed started with architecture. She seemed very > impressed (as The Contemporary here in Austin also does) with > "styrofoam" grown from mushrooms - other building materials created by > artists. She did a short bit about art that uses cultural context, > showed some pottery repaired with chewing gum. Talked a bit about the > use and construction of buildings for performance art, and segued into > the second half of her presentation. > > The second-half was all about bio-art. She kept making reference back > to her quantum mechanics inspiration, but everything she showed was > artworks that integrated other organisms - photographs, living food, > terrariums, sustainability projects, semi-life or things not quite > alive. > > She ended by telling a story of having to kill a leather-making, > semi-living machine because it had grown too large. She had talked > about growth a few times. Life could not be made top-down, she said, > it had to be grown. > > Bz > > -- > -˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+-˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+-˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+- > > http://bishopZ.com > > -˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+-˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+-˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+- > > ==\\___//== > ===\\_//=== > ====\_/==== > =====_=====[ > \_____________end.transmission______________ -- -˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+-˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+-˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+- http://bishopZ.com -˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+-˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+-˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+- ==\\___//== ===\\_//=== ====\_/==== =====_=====[ \_____________end.transmission______________ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
