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" Op do 1 sep. 2016 om 19:19 schreef Randall Packer <[email protected]> > Thanks Guido for referencing the curatorial statement. I can see a > connection between what you are doing and the Artist is Present by Marina > Abramovic, in that she takes such a passive though open position in front > of the viewer, revealing essentially nothing about herself, except perhaps > what can be communicated through the expressionless gaze, although > sometimes that gaze turned to tears. In your case, you are situating > yourself as well in front of the viewer, “expressionless” in terms of not > revealing anything about what you are typing except for your presence. > > > > *From: *<[email protected]> on behalf of Guy McMusker > <[email protected]> > > > *Reply-To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity < > [email protected]> > > *Date: *Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 12:56 PM > *To: *NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity < > [email protected]> > > > *Subject: *Re: [NetBehaviour] The artist is typing | online exhibition at > Storage Un.it | September 1 - 30, 2016 > > > > Hi Randall, > > > > thanks for all your answers. > I'm quite a lazy and slowly guy and I'm not sure to give you the right > answers but I'll try ;-) > > > For sure I can say that I wasn't interested in streaming the content of my > keypressing activity. > I know it could seem such an easy content but just want to give an > ironical view of my presence in the act of typing. > > You can see it as a sort of performative minimal/intimistic self portrait. > > Or you can even see it as an ironical representation of how computer based > art is made today: typing. > Or maybe as I wrote in the email I just want to suggest that art, as life, > is what happens while you are typing. > > > > Anyway I'm not so good with words :-) and I think Filippo Lorenzin - who > curated the project for Arebyte - wrote some good considerations about the > work that you can read here: > http://www.arebyte.com/storage-unit/4592523415 > > > Thank you again for your interest! > All the best, > > Guido > > > > > > ᐧ > > > > 2016-09-01 17:59 GMT+02:00 Randall Packer <[email protected]>: > > John, excellent point. I think this piece brings up very interesting > issues of authenticity, openness, disclosure, etc., in the act of the > artist engaging the online viewer and performing via the network (or anyone > for that matter). Guido, what are your thoughts on this? Or are you busy > typing away right now… Perhaps you could use this listserv as an “open” > networked feed for your project. > > > > On 9/1/16, 11:49 AM, "John Hopkins" <[email protected] > on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: > > On 01/Sep/16 08:57, Randall Packer wrote: > > But we can’t read what you are typing… so there is no content… is > that the > > point? I don’t mean to criticize the project as I am quite > interested in the > > idea of the open source broadcast of the artist at work, but the key > thing is > > knowing what the artist is saying, thinking, feeling, not just the > artist as > > an on/off switch. > > Important points, Randall, my thots as well ... of course, if that's > not what > Guido wanted to do ... the old form/content issue in some way, but it > brings up > Roy Ascott's idea: "networking invites personal disclosure" ... > > jh > -- > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD > levitating on bentonite > twitter: @neoscenes > http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > > -- > > Guy McMusker > Les Liens Invisibles > www.lesliensinvisibles.org > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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