I wanted to start a conversation with both of you guys after reading this:
"Technology is a form of toolmaking, body extension. Technology is not art and not invention. It does not concern itself with the undefined, the inexplicable. It deals with the affirmation of its own making. Techology is what we do to the Black Panthers or the Vietnamese under the guise of advancement in a materialistic theology."
Richard Serra, for Art and Technology (LACMA) catalogue, 1970.
Two things:
In 2005, much digital art still is still dealing exclusively with "the affirmation of its own making," and/or a fetishization of whatever is most new. Like much contemporary art, it is strikingly literal. Literal art has a pointlessness to it that is numbing, and at the risk of being called a Camille, cruel.
I think one of the most interesting things about Joel's work is the way it turns Serra's "technology=tyrrany" pocket inside out. What's Joel's secret?
"Technology is a form of toolmaking, body extension. Technology is not art and not invention. It does not concern itself with the undefined, the inexplicable. It deals with the affirmation of its own making. Techology is what we do to the Black Panthers or the Vietnamese under the guise of advancement in a materialistic theology."
Richard Serra, for Art and Technology (LACMA) catalogue, 1970.
Two things:
In 2005, much digital art still is still dealing exclusively with "the affirmation of its own making," and/or a fetishization of whatever is most new. Like much contemporary art, it is strikingly literal. Literal art has a pointlessness to it that is numbing, and at the risk of being called a Camille, cruel.
I think one of the most interesting things about Joel's work is the way it turns Serra's "technology=tyrrany" pocket inside out. What's Joel's secret?
posted by fisher6000 at 8:02 AM
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