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Drawings
I think these are going to be about everything that’s wrong about “Relational Aesthetics”.
Self-managerial drawings playing with scale and other transformations, self-similar and enabled to expand their extents. Not as a dreary “questioning of originality” (a Romantic notion in itself)), as what is required of drawing, and what drawing requires.
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Cool Processing Work With Source
I love the fact that Processing defaults to giving you the source when you publish work with it. This means that you get to see how work like this is created:
Dataisnature linked there a while back.
Source code is the preparatory sketches of art computing.
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Respect Religion, It Respects You
Salman Rushdie on why secularism is wrong to want love from religion:
Just give me that old-time atheism!
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Portrait Of The Artist…
You can get some of the texts this article mentions online, but others will require a trip to Amazon:
Portrait Of the Artist As A Young Mess
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PIC, STAMP, MacOS X
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Mixes (1993)
These are mash-ups of pictures by well-known British artists, made in 1993. As with any mash-up they set up a tension between their sources, in this case different subjects of regard. Or desire.
I can’t find the original files for these so I had to scan them from the video prints. And I can’t remember whether these were done on an Amiga or a 286 PC, I think probably a 286 with a slide scanner, but they were mashed together using morphing software available at the time. The above image was also painted, oil on canvas.
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Tamagotchi Hacking
Make really are the mothership. Their barcode reader wasn’t as hacky as the tape-head one I saw elsewhere, but the hardware hacking ethos they advance is spot on.
And today they’ve a post on their blog about hacking Tamagotchis:
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Art And Mental Health
The ever excellent Mindhacks on a site covering art and mental illness:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2005/06/art_and_the_altered_.html
This isn’t just a cliché, art requires nonstandard visions and nonstandard minds are one way of getting them.
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