So, does any one want to
So, does any one want to talk about relationality and/or autonomy? It seems pertinent to some of the conversations I’ve been having with fellow grads recently. I saw a presentation last year at CAA called “From database and place to bio-tech and bots: relationality vs autonomy in media art.” It got me looking at Bourriaud and Bey. Jeremy, you’ve read Bourriaud, non?
Most of us are functioning as image makers, in the sense that the work will be viewed after the fact via video or photo documentation. As artists, are you complicit in that relationship or do you take it on?
How do some of you use the spectacle in your work? How does your work negotiate a pull towards academicism? Do you employ traditional forms, or go with the aura of the new(er) medias?
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mine eyes dont like fer reedin, take me back more picture stuffis
Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leaves the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which becomes an impenetrable enigma .... Jean Baudrillard (2000)
(link)http://www.artspace.org.au/2001/baudrillard.html
I don't agree with "impenetrable enigma" but certainly the image becomes something different than the object itself. no better or worse. in this digital age, the photographic image is more accessible/prevalent. Anything and everything can be photographed. But should it? I wonder how people reacted at the outset of the written word. As far as both being records of otherwise more temporally restricted events. You know, object decays, words get misspoken- look at the evolution of language. I don't believe I had a point, really...
oops, wrong frenchman...
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