Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

[John Hopkins]

On 09/Oct/17 02:22, helen varley jamieson wrote:

agree. thank goodness my art is mostly ephemeral & can't be stuck with a
financial pin like a dead butterfly ...


Hah, thanks for that little reminder! Let's hear it for ephemeral networked art 
("you had to be there" was the best reply I ever came up with when folks used to 
ask "what was that work about?"). OTOH, as a confirmed archivist, I try to 
capture some of those butterflies and stick pins through them -- but that effort 
is absolutely an impossible fight against entropy these days. The archive is too 
large, and formats for presentation are changing so fast. I am teetering on the 
edge of giving up -- right now I'd have to re-code all video works, and 
completely reformat a 7500-entry blog to 'work' properly with the newest 
iteration of WordPress. I refuse to go to corporate social media formats of 
distribution. And the 'punishment' of maintaining "a self-maintained island of 
personal research and expression in a sea of corporately hosted and filtered 
content" is getting to be too much. The full-time job has wrung all the 
resistent mojo outta this former-networker.




Hard to remember that it is *all* ephemeral. Even the highest wall, the biggest 
museum, and grandest civilization...


so it goes.

jh

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Re: [NetBehaviour] An Abstraction?

[Anthony Stephenson]

To answer your question: No, that would be non-figurative work. (Although I 
suppose colloquial usage is acceptable.) 
You'll have to pardon me I was just re-reading a couple chapters on abstraction 
in a book called Speculative Aesthetics and felt compelled to say at least 
something. Perhaps I'm not seeing it, but abstraction is typically 
model-dependent.

- Anthony Stephenson
  

> On Oct 9, 2017, at 7:00 AM, netbehaviour-requ...@netbehaviour.org wrote:
> 
> An Abstraction?
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[NetBehaviour] somatic-haptic mirror

[Alan Sondheim]

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

[helen varley jamieson]

agree. thank goodness my art is mostly ephemeral & can't be stuck with a
financial pin like a dead butterfly ...


On 07.10.2017 02:29, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
> I noticed this -
>
> "Maecenas touts itself as a blockchain platform that, according to its
> creators, will democratise access to fine art. For the first time, the
> Maecenas website enthuses, technology will allow investors, collectors
> and owners to exchange shares in paintings and sculptures instantly,
> akin to the way stocks of a company are traded today."
>
> This does NOT democratise access to art; it's nothing more than a
> secure way to protect and exchange's one investment - which plays into
> the notion of enclaving described in Mike Davis' City of Quartz (think
> it was written in the 80s). Art has to RESIST enclaving, unless one
> accepts useless decoration and connoisseurship as the only form of art
> worth considering.
>
> One of the amazing things about Furtherfield is, at least as far as I
> can tell, it itself is a form of resistance! I'd thank God for this,
> but given the state of things on the planet, I wouldn't want to burden
> Her with more communication.
>
> - Alan
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