Kevin, These ideas are interesting. I would also look at the chess career of Marcel Duchamp as a possible corollary that predates our technologies. I think it addresses similar ideas:
Bounce these quotes by Duchamp off Debord, Deleuze and Guattari- also don't forget Bourriaud: "I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position." "The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists." Here is Duchamp's competition record: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=36967 good topic- more to discuss... Greg On 4/6/07, Kevin McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I really like that Kevin. Is there any connection between the > > parts of the triptych other than a purely aesthetic one > > (which works very well imho)? > > This is what I am suspecting... I sense that there is some kind of > sensibility about interconnectedness, complexity, and maybe even > adaptability/openness that is somehow symptomatic of our current > predicament. I have been reading Deleuze/Guattari's "A Thousand > Plateaus" recently, and I am sure that many of you are familiar with > the idea of the rhizome, and now with books like Hardt and Negri's > "Multitude" there are further discussions on multiplicity, identity, > and democracy. > > I guess I am one to suspect that even aesthetics are informed by some > kind of concept or at least an "impulse"... I am a fan of Mehretu's > work and the SI, and I just had this sort of connection go off in my > brain last night and now I want to know everyone's thoughts :) Also I > think in the Processing communities there is a strong leaning toward > this "complex" interconnected aesthetic as well. > > What do you guys (and girls?) think it is that makes this a plausible > vision of the forces at work in the world? Do you think it is a > perspective informed by technology, the amount of information flow in > postindustrial societies and its inherent politics? I see this get > even more interesting when we think about the "glitch"... or imagine a > psychogeography of a digital network... I liked that idea of listening > to the linux kernel! > > Thanks, > Kevin > > > -- > > > ++++ > http://pocketkm.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
