[NetBehaviour] New Article/Review - Data-Driven Artists And Their Critics

[Pall Thayer]

I agree that the physicality of art is necessary. Not necessarily for its
physical properties (depends on the media) but rather for its conservation,
its continued affect on future generations of art. Art that has no physical
property, be it through the work itself or documentation, will most likely
be forgotten. No matter how important it was in its time. The physicality
of code based art lies in the code. It is the only embodiment of such
pieces that can potentially live beyond the technology they were created
for.

Pall


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:

>
> For me the physicality of much of the artworld is good and necessary; it
> reminds us we're flesh and blood, however prosthetic, that the world is
> physical and fragile and so much is close to extinction. It creates
> situations of face to face sociality which otherwise might not exist. When
> I've taught at art-schools I always looked towards the painters and
> ceramicists - not for the 'art' necessarily, but for their immersion in
> the substance of the planet, which seemed at times eerily more real than
> the hyperbolism of the media players, including myself. I'm tired of this
> ignoring of flesh and blood, the rare earths in our goodies that are
> killing people on other continents, the violent and virtual umbrella of
> structures like Google, Apple, Facebook, etc., as if our world was
> constituted by benign ghosts whose greatest sin might be spying on us for
> commercial gain.
>
> End of rant -
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