{ brad brace } on Mon, 30 Mar 1998 22:55:57 +0200 (MET DST) |
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<nettime> Re: RHIZOME_RAW: ART SCIENCE CULTURE AND BEYOND Comments |
[Original to "Natasha Vita More (fka Nancie Clark)"; I held this up because x-postings from 7-11 / Amex / Rhizome / etc. were becoming a problem a la the "I AM 3733T!! GIVE ME WAREZ D00DZ!" thread that ranged across usenet like buffalos ranged across the prairies. --T] On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Natasha Vita More (fka Nancie Clark) wrote: > I am forever amazed when I see a posting on the list that promotes an > art event with high-end science and technology but no mention of the > very culture that has worked diligently in spreading memes that have > radically changed our thinking... Artists as Technological Lab Rats: ... run as fast as the most remarkable artists of the twentieth century could, the image was constantly outstripping them. They were hindered in this race by their own gradual withdrawal into specialization on an artistic plane, separate from society. This act of self-categorization also brought them into the range of a new breed of art historians. As the artists ran desperately to catch up with technology, they were being pecked all over by flocks of curators, art critics, dealers and technocratic art historians, all of whom were multiplying with such rapidity that they have now become a prevalent species. > <snip> > I attend many science conferences and I make appearances in televised > documentaries on the future of science, and I have yet to see an artist > spear-heading this list of invited guests! If we do not acknowledge > ourselves, how can anyone else? Art is not just a product or a medium, > it is a way of thinking - a way of being. If we simply produce products > with all sorts of gadgets and little mention of our culture - how can we > be taken seriously. These specialists tend now to be pariahs of art, trained and graded by the specific criteria essential to contemporary education... and frightened by the potential power of the image... their relationship to creativity is rarely one of love or obsession; they are salaried to it. ... with no room left for progress, the image turned and dodged and circled back and buried itself like an animal chained to its own impossible promise, searching for some way to get beyond the mortality of the real... The_12hr-ISBN-JPEG_Project <<< > episodic ftp://ftp.wco.com/users/bbrace < > eccentric ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace < > continuous ftp://ftp.teleport.com/users/bbrace < > hypermodern ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace < > imagery online ftp://ftp.pacifier.com/pub/users/bbrace < Usenet-news: alt.binaries.pictures.12hr/ a.b.p.fine-art.misc Mailing-list: listserv@netcom.com / subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg Reverse Solidus: http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html { brad brace } <<<< bbrace@netcom.com >>>> ~finger for pgp -----End of forwarded message----- --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl