nettime The Death of the Avant-garde in the Attention Economy

2012-01-10 Thread Prem Chandavarkar
These are some speculations that have been bouncing around in my head for some time, particularly with reference to architecture - the discipline I practice - but perhaps having wider implications: Ever since the early stages of the modernist movement (since the second half of the 19th century)

Re: nettime The Death of the Avant-garde in the Attention Economy

2012-01-10 Thread Brian Holmes
On 01/10/2012 02:39 AM, Prem Chandavarkar wrote: Modernist art has centralized the notions of creativity and innovation because it seeks to align with history. Without seeking to either diminish or sideline creativity and innovation, we now must simultaneously seek to align art with

Re: nettime The Death of the Avant-garde in the Attention Economy

2012-01-10 Thread Keith Hart
Very interesting, Prem, thanks. I think of time as both linear and timeless. I have an icon of this idea which I call the T-bar. The crossbar constructs tense as a line from past through present to future. The upright is timeless, the present conceived of as rooted in a continuous past. The two