Love it. Was thinking yesterday how art in public places applies to the net. I'm sure its an old theme of yours but it just occurred to me as the web becomes ubiquitous (comparatively).
i'm pretty sure i referred to it in my presentation/slideshare about private in publc.
and i know i put it in my essay about the same thing: "... challenging privacy and public domain through technology and digital realm is worthy of a whole PhD. For the purpose of this small investigation, it is best to simply say that the digital realm is the most significant contemporary public space in which private and public rights, responsibilities, behaviours and mode of operation are being reconfigured."
i recently saw some work that artists are doing using the web/google images to create these amazing spaces of collage. [i'll let you know what they are.] i think intervention in the online public sphere is still taking shape and will look completely differently to IRL intervention - 'cos the net is so over the top, so ON all the time, that public art on the net almost has to be quiet.
creative review (i think) thinks that information aesthetics is the new artform, in this digital age. i disagree, but would be interested to see what you think mr. c.
Good reply. I knew you would have thought about this more/before me (I like that slash rhyming action)
I guess information aesthetics is valid as a new artform (what isn't art?) but I don't think it contains the purity of the word.
I do however know that when I first started using Flickr for power point with less charts and graphs and more poetry/prose to communicate points that I felt liberated and closer to beauty. I was elated and started to see it become a trend (Planning used to be very quantitative and worthy) but is now so much more creative. Although here in China just blinding clients with meaningless and contradictory statistics works. As in fools are easily fooled by the foolish if they insist upon it.
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Love it. Was thinking yesterday how art in public places applies to the net. I'm sure its an old theme of yours but it just occurred to me as the web becomes ubiquitous (comparatively).
i'm pretty sure i referred to it in my presentation/slideshare about private in publc.
and i know i put it in my essay about the same thing: "... challenging privacy and public domain through technology and digital realm is worthy of a whole PhD. For the purpose of this small investigation, it is best to simply say that the digital realm is the most significant contemporary public space in which private and public rights, responsibilities, behaviours and mode of operation are being reconfigured."
i recently saw some work that artists are doing using the web/google images to create these amazing spaces of collage. [i'll let you know what they are.] i think intervention in the online public sphere is still taking shape and will look completely differently to IRL intervention - 'cos the net is so over the top, so ON all the time, that public art on the net almost has to be quiet.
creative review (i think) thinks that information aesthetics is the new artform, in this digital age. i disagree, but would be interested to see what you think mr. c.
Good reply. I knew you would have thought about this more/before me (I like that slash rhyming action)
I guess information aesthetics is valid as a new artform (what isn't art?) but I don't think it contains the purity of the word.
I do however know that when I first started using Flickr for power point with less charts and graphs and more poetry/prose to communicate points that I felt liberated and closer to beauty. I was elated and started to see it become a trend (Planning used to be very quantitative and worthy) but is now so much more creative. Although here in China just blinding clients with meaningless and contradictory statistics works. As in fools are easily fooled by the foolish if they insist upon it.
is that the eassy to go along with the presenatation?? If finished, would love to read (steal from) it..but you already know that
niko, i forgot about you wanting that. i'll email it to you. if you steal from it, you have to get me a project in NL as payment :)
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