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Rethinking Curating

July 7th, 2011 · · books No comments - Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media (Leonardo Book Series)

Title: Rethinking curating: art after new media

  • Publisher: The MIT Press; First Edition edition (February 5, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780262013888
  • US$ 25.99

As curator Steve Dietz has observed, new media art is like contemporary art—but different. New media art involves interactivity, networks, and computation and is often about process rather than objects. New media artworks, difficult to classify according to the traditional art museum categories determined by medium, geography, and chronology, present the curator with novel challenges involving interpretation, exhibition, and dissemination. This book views these challenges as opportunities to rethink curatorial practice. It helps curators of new media art develop a set of flexible tools for working in this fast-moving field, and it offers useful lessons from curators and artists for those working in such other areas of art as distributive and participatory systems.

Rethinking Curating explores the characteristics distinctive to new media art, including its immateriality and its questioning of time and space, and relates them to such contemporary art forms as video art, conceptual art, socially engaged art, and performance art. The authors, both of whom have extensive experience as curators, offer numerous examples of artworks and exhibitions to illustrate how the roles of curators and audiences can be redefined in light of new media art’s characteristics. They discuss modes of curating, from the familiar default mode of the museum, through parallels with publishing, broadcasting, festivals, and labs, to more recent hybrid ways of working online and off, including collaboration and social networking. Rethinking Curating offers curators a route through the hype around platforms and autonomous zones by following the lead of current artists’ practice.

 

 

 

 

 

Substance ‘TALK’ At Guilford Lane Thursday 15th from 6pm

July 14th, 2010 · · Shameless self promotion, Shows that are on!, Writing about Art/ Artists No comments - Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Talk on thursday evening , 6pm, in the gallery space.


Substance is a group that explores materiality in 21st century art. Material works produced since the 1970s carry deeper intentions that are inevitably read into the time it was produced, or

the context in which it the object is placed. One can no longer view a minimalist sculpture, and consider it purely for its formal qualities. The postmodern agenda almost demands that substantial meaning be applied to material objects. It is difficult to consider a formal artwork in post-modern art, and not engender conceptual or narrative concerns. The exhibiting artists are concerned with materiality and abstraction and apply a deeper substance to their work, either through their process or by implying a reading onto the work.

Each artwork carries within it its own formal aesthetic. In modernist thought it could be viewed as a purely formal work. However on further consideration, one could argue that the materiality of these works in Substance is linked through context. By placing them together we question the nature of their formality, and the bearing that each work has on the others in the space. Substance proposes that when we observe these substances together, the postmodern condition, born of an age of digital and artificial ambiguity, is programmed to read these artworks as more than merely formal. Substance is beyond mere materiality, it is an exploration of today’s insistence for concept and narrative. This show aims to provoke questions in the viewer – are these works purely material, or is there substance to them?

collage

June 3rd, 2010 · · Art Work No comments - Tags: , , , , ,

FORMULAS FOR NOW

May 28th, 2010 · · Find an Artist, Writing about Art/ Artists No comments - Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Formulated by Hans Ulrich Obrist , FORMULAS FOR NOW is a fantastic book, he has asked Artists, Writers, Mathematicians, Architects  and Scientists to create an equation for the twenty first century. The diagram to the left is his contents page (Which reminded me of the Simon Patterson artwork The Great Bear below) In the introduction where he outlines where he got the idea for the book, he writes ‘ I began accompanying eminent scientists to exhibitions. I was fascinated by their insight into the work on show’. I am more interested in the idea of having a formula for something creative, isn’t that analogous?  How is there a process for being ‘original’  or creative? Can the creation of a process be a form of creativity?  The remarkable aspect of the book is the simplicity of some of the formulae. for example Tacita Dean wrote:

chaos / chance = process

others like Brad Story (a professor of speech and hearing) created a double page spread with text, diagramata, bar charts and formulae . What struck me most was the use of language in this book seemed different, abbreviations were used to illustrate the brevity of thought. Image and text become one element that sat on the page without jostling for priority. Prehaps because there was no explanation for each page, or maybe because the pages were self sufficient. there was no need for drawn out explanations or conclusions. So I shall stop.

Simon Patterson, The Great Bear

May 27th, 2010 · · Find an Artist, Writing about Art/ Artists No comments - Tags: , , , , , , , ,

This is Simon Patterson‘s The Great Bear. I was an image that struck me and was indexical of my thinking about this website. I wish to create documentation of a system of understanding and thinking for myself.  Art seemed the most logical acorn, from which the oak tree will grow. I presume that The Great Bear title is a reference to to the star Ursa Major.  The ‘tube’ system is a fascinating thing… your understanding of time and space is holted as you sit in a tin can, propelled underground, through stations that all look pretty similar. Your aid in this voyage? A map that is not actually physically representative, but a beautiful arrangement of lines of colour. The arrangement is akin to the wiring of bomb, that needs to be disarmed. Which line will be the quickest to get?

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