A simple script could do this; is a script enough of an entity to be
qualified as an artist?
I like that it pokes fun at the importance of artists. An importance
sometimes self-granted, other times instituionally granted.
On 01/09/16 18:17, Randall Packer wrote:
Thanks Guido for referencing the curatorial statement. I can see a connection
between what you are doing and the Artist is Present by Marina Abramovic, in
that she takes such a passive though open position in front of the viewer,
revealing essentially nothing about herself, except perhaps what can be
communicated through the expressionless gaze, although sometimes that gaze
turned to tears. In your case, you are situating yourself as well in front of
the viewer, “expressionless” in terms of not revealing anything about what you
are typing except for your presence.
From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Guy McMusker
<[email protected]>
Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
<[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 12:56 PM
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] The artist is typing | online exhibition at Storage
Un.it | September 1 - 30, 2016
Hi Randall,
thanks for all your answers.
I'm quite a lazy and slowly guy and I'm not sure to give you the right answers
but I'll try ;-)
For sure I can say that I wasn't interested in streaming the content of my
keypressing activity.
I know it could seem such an easy content but just want to give an ironical
view of my presence in the act of typing.
You can see it as a sort of performative minimal/intimistic self portrait.
Or you can even see it as an ironical representation of how computer based art
is made today: typing.
Or maybe as I wrote in the email I just want to suggest that art, as life, is
what happens while you are typing.
Anyway I'm not so good with words :-) and I think Filippo Lorenzin - who
curated the project for Arebyte - wrote some good considerations about the work
that you can read here: http://www.arebyte.com/storage-unit/4592523415
Thank you again for your interest!
All the best,
Guido
ᐧ
2016-09-01 17:59 GMT+02:00 Randall Packer <[email protected]>:
John, excellent point. I think this piece brings up very interesting issues of
authenticity, openness, disclosure, etc., in the act of the artist engaging the
online viewer and performing via the network (or anyone for that matter).
Guido, what are your thoughts on this? Or are you busy typing away right now…
Perhaps you could use this listserv as an “open” networked feed for your
project.
On 9/1/16, 11:49 AM, "John Hopkins" <[email protected] on
behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
On 01/Sep/16 08:57, Randall Packer wrote:
> But we can’t read what you are typing… so there is no content… is that the
> point? I don’t mean to criticize the project as I am quite interested in
the
> idea of the open source broadcast of the artist at work, but the key
thing is
> knowing what the artist is saying, thinking, feeling, not just the artist
as
> an on/off switch.
Important points, Randall, my thots as well ... of course, if that's not
what
Guido wanted to do ... the old form/content issue in some way, but it
brings up
Roy Ascott's idea: "networking invites personal disclosure" ...
jh
--
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD
levitating on bentonite
twitter: @neoscenes
http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
_______________________________________________
NetBehaviour mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
_______________________________________________
NetBehaviour mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
_______________________________________________
NetBehaviour mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
_______________________________________________
NetBehaviour mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
