This is a great discussion! CAE just wrote this:
One of the reasons we stopped doing these projects was due to the fact
that our experience of the ArtSci world was that it was not progressive.
In fact, our experience was that most were unknowing agents for the
neoliberals. Aestheticizing the d
Just a few random comments related to the discussion Eric has initiated.
Between 1997 and 2007, Critical Art Ensemble did quite a few
art/science/politics projects. When speaking about those projects we would say,
“it looks like science, but its not.” If someone wanted to engage us as
scientist
Thanks so much Brian,
Very relevant critique. Without wanting to get stuck on a term, I was using the
word ‘field’ partly because there is a field of practice that refers to itself
as ArtScience (with a growing number of initiatives, organisations, museums
even), towards which I wanted to take
Dear Johnathan,
Thank you. I tend to agree that it may well be a lost cause but, one still
worth commenting on and rejecting until its lost, no? I’d rather go down
fighting. Maybe some can claim a completely autonomous net.space already
and, therefore, this seems as much a part of hype as “multime
Eric, I totally appreciate and admire your interest in all this, but
with due respect I think making ArtScience into a "field" is an archaic
twentieth-century delaying tactic, from the days when liberal society
could believe itself eternal. Reading this morning about California's
winter fires,
Dear nettimers,
For a few years I’ve been teaching and coaching at the ArtScience Interfaculty
in The Hague, a very nice small scale experimental program located between the
academy of visual arts and the school of music, with some modest links to local
universities, and since one and half year
Dear nettime,
Please post good sources of thought about the curtailing of “net
neutrality” here in US and what effects that could or will have elsewhere?
Feeling myopic in my understanding
Much obliged for any, all comments
Also - an easy action to take is this one...open to international
commu
