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

[Alan Sondheim]

Not necessarily better - the porousness of media work ensures its 
dissemination and occlusion of traditional notions of authorship -

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Pall Thayer wrote:

> Oops... I just noticed that I suggested but didn't make my point. The point
> is.... release your code. Tag a GPL license on to it and let it go. Don't
> worry about someone "stealing" your ideas... if they do, you're documented
> as being there first (the inspiration). If someone uses your code and
> produces amazing work that elevates them to a superstardom that you never
> had... be proud... not jealous. The fact is that they did it better. C'est
> la vie.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Pall Thayer <pallthay at gmail.com> wrote:
>       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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