“make it better”
The Internet Studio projects are live on the web here: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~jlrobiso/
I am so pleased with the terrific work done by Spring 2012 group. Check it out!
The New Aesthetic? Is that what we will call it? Holograms: normal.
Listen to this Studio 360 interview with Michael Rips and Penelope Umbrico about the Cariou vs. Prince case we discussed in class last week. Studio360.org.
As part of Visions & Voices, there is a special opportunity to host artist Cai Guo-Qiang at USC on Tuesday, April 3 at 7pm. He is in town for his exhibition opening at MoCA in early April. Cai Guo-Qiang will present his work, and then Dean Ma & Dean Steiner will moderate a discussion with the artist. A reception follows. The talk is open to students and faculty, and is free. Please see the attached postcard for further information.
Here’s a link to the Wired article I mentioned in class today apropos of our reading, Keeping It Online by Ben Fino-Radin, on preserving net art. The 2002 Wired article concludes with a quote from Richard Rinehart, director of digital media for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive,
“It took centuries to evolve a system of notation for musical scores,” Rinehart said. “We need to create that same kind of consistency and invent a form of standardization that is to digital art what notation is to music.”
This last line brought my mind full circle to one of our first readings this semester, Untitled Guidelines for Happenings (c. 1965) by Allan Kaprow.
The common function of these alternatives is to release an artist from conventional notations of a detached, closed arrangement of time-space. A picture, a piece of music, a poem, a drama, each confined within its respective frame, fixed number of measures, stanzas, and stages, however great they may be in their own right, simply will not allow for breaking the barrier between art and life. And this is what the objective is.
I am still torn between thinking of net art as a Happening and looking at it like public sculpture.
The website, http://www.usc.edu/, after being shredded by SHREDDER 1.0 an artwork that is dependent on data mining.
