[NetBehaviour] Failure and Error and Chance (in Art). Joseph Nechvatal

[marc garrett]

Written for: The New School for Social Research 2013 Graduate 
Anthropology Conference: “Failures”.

by Joseph Nechvatal.

In current art, chance of failure is assimilated into the very 
definition of what art does best. What is valuable in art is its 
indeterminate identity and function - its realm of freedom and 
non-systematic messiness.1 Failure in one moment (as defined by that 
moment) can shift quickly to the position of utmost value in the next. 
Often, failure is re-evaluated in art - and this re- evaluation helps 
art to expand.

http://www.academia.edu/3060414/Failure_and_Error_and_Chance_in_Art_