Hi, Johanna et al!
First off, I must say that I enjoyed David’s re-branding post immensely. In
particular, the trope of re-branding is absolutely loaded—especially within the
context of Business Art and the fraught relationship between art and
advertising. I know that Johanna is quite
Hi, Johanna!
Your remarks about aesthetic practice and it roots in brute sensation take me
to Dewey’s anti-elitist somatism in Art as Experience and Alexander
Baumgarten’s original sense of what aesthetics could mean back in the 18th
century, when this discipline was first systematized in
Hi, Davin! Thanks for the super-fantastic Richard Serra link--you are
consummately the best when it comes to selecting just the right encapsulating
instant. What an amazing controversy! What agitated publics, what disrupted
privates, what interrupted and intercepted and bisected and
gh comments below:
On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Christiane Robbins wrote:
it seems that we always keep landing on this flea ridden canard –
“what is art ?”
What is Art?
Flea ridden indeed! Analyze the question and you get the premise for
an avant-garde. No-one asks that question anymore
the arts of complicity, with regard to predatorial
unicellular beauties benefiting from cooperation and cooptation, albeit
accidentally and contingently, and with no concept of altruism...
harold ford implodes...
it seems there has always been an unnameable economy, Bataille referred to
as the 'general' economy...we, quite powerfully, modulate such an economy;
socially, technically - for better and worse.
An interesting biological aspect of this economy,Tata referenced via Margulis'
work on
The support system for art can operate as either a positive or negative
influence.
In the West today it includes an art market that doesnt care much about art as
anything other than an investment.
best
g
From: empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Gerry, I hate to continue pushing on a point... because I don't want
to be a pest. At the same time, I'd like to get a better
understanding of your comments.
I do believe that art could very well be the product of some
primordial impulse, that it might be useful to assign it something
Re; But once it enters into materiality once it is cast into the realm of
representation... I don't know how it can avoid being entangled and
burdened by the stuff it is made of (its words, its substance, its
space of presentation, its framing discourse, the interpretive
traditions around
Michael,
Wonderful wonderful! I couldn't agree more! I love Brian Green's work,
by the way. I wrote a book called QUantum awhile back (artist's book),
and have invoked quantum theory in the projects around speculative
computing (SpecLab). Absolutely agree that we need to engage with
Johanna
have you got a url or download site for your Quantum ?
I love this idea of your book.
But i need some enightenment (from MichelA. too) - can you shed
lumieres on Luhmann?
I have been riffing for a while on this sense (sixth sense) that
autopoesis a la Maturana etc is a linguistic
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