More blog art from Manik, taking a different meaning of the word “graphic” from the typography of “For Beginners”:

Practical Handbook

(Not worksafe.)

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MANIK have a blog.

It’s very good, take a look:

TIIJA

This is definitely an Art Blog (rather than just a blog about art), that is it’s blogging as an artistic medium, or at least a medium for presenting art. I’m looking forward to seeing more of their work like this.

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Via Boing Boing:

Casino Carpets Gallery

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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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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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The review of Ranciére’s and Badiou’s respective aesthetics in Radical Philosophy 131 complains that neither tackle capitalism head-on.

This is both vital (ignoring capitalism renders aesthetics irrelevant or distractive) and pointless (capitalism is atmospheric, and already distorts and redirects everything else).

Possibly this should be double-whammied; render capitalism aesthetic, and aesthetics capitalistic. This would be neither Naomi Klein nor Walter Benjamin, rather an analysis of the projective geometry of exchange value.

“Handbook Of Inaesthetic (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.).)” (Alain Badiou, Alberto Toscano)

“The Politics Of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible” (Jacques Ranciere, Slavoj Zizek)

Links to Amazon Ironic. 😉

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Art was traditionally made for the ruling classes. Actually, that’s not true, but high art was by definition made for the ruling classes. Access to high art technology was limited to high art, so rich colours, perspectival mathematics, or computing machinery were off-limits for the plebs.

There’s the possibility of breaking or reaffirming this divide now.

A hacker/maker/participatory culture could render high art genuinely obsolete by distributing the knowledge to produce the tools and ideology to make high art in any home. This could be empowering, but it could also destroy the critical potential of art.

Or alternatively, getting access to high-end technology, paintboxes or clusters, could reaffirm or produce a new high aesthetic. This could be used to critical ends, or could end up as simply demo art, sales apologia for widgets.

Which path, and which risks, one takes depends on ones ideology. But sitting on commodity computer technology fiddling with the same software as everyone else doesn’t cut it either way.

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Via Web Zen and Boing Boing:

http://www.roving-artist.com/classic/index.html

images are representation (Wark) is query (Google) is search (AI) is culling (shape grammars)

an image is not a degenerate text, such claims are ideology

a bicycle is multi-dimensional (flatterland). projection (rendering) is reduction of dimensions through transformations. an image is a projection. a picture or a painting is not necessarily an image.

is a unicycle a reduced-dimension projection of a bicycle, an image of a bicycle? 🙂

images, projections are indexical, if lossy. transformation, if lossy.

performance, installation, social action may be images.

images are aesthetic (indexical ideological choices).

Adornian aesthetic isomorphism. indices, indexing

quantization, search, query, state-space, dimensions, discrete/continuous, syntactic field.