[NetBehaviour] a graduate art history class examines city college's art collection

[michael szpakowski]

Ah - I don't really know the Arcades Project ( I mean - I know something *of* it but I haven't read the published assembly).I don't know. Really. I think that these things are better spoken of by others than oneself. If I have any credo it is *not* to have any sort of plan, except to make stuff - and I come back to that pious but in my view necessary word - which is honest ...warmest wishesmichael

      From: Joel Weishaus <joelweishaus at gmail.com>
 To: michael szpakowski <michael at dvblog.org>; Netbehaviour <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org> 
 Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 11:56 PM
 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] a graduate art history class examines city college's art collection
   
 I meant in particular the Arcades Project.
 
 -Joel
 
 
 On 11/15/2014 3:10 PM, michael szpakowski wrote:
  


  I don't know. I love (critically) Benjamin's writings ( and perhaps even more *how* he writes -it's very much the way he tells them) but whether any of them apply to me I don't know - except it occurs to me that quotation and reference are really important to me & I've always been fascinated by his notion of "jigsawed" writing, composed entirely of quotes, which seems a lot more relevant idea today  than the too often trotted out 'art in the era of mechanical reproduction' ... cheers michael
   
      From: Joel Weishaus <joelweishaus at gmail.com>
 To: michael szpakowski <michael at dvblog.org>; Netbehaviour <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org> 
 Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 8:47 PM
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   Hi Michael;
 
 Your vision, it seems to me, is amazingly encompassing, and your technical abilities are also outstanding.
 In any case, perhaps Walter Benjamin's work can supply some understanding here?
 
 -Joel
 
 On 11/15/2014 12:16 PM, michael szpakowski wrote:
  
 
   
  Hi Joel it's difficult to reply without sounding pretentious. I *think* what I do is to look at things which interest me ( and some of these things are themselves cultural in nature, but not all) and to make things which feel,  somehow, *true*. From another direction it has occured to me recently that everything I've made over the last 14/15 years resembles by analogy  zuihitsu - an anthology of (extremely loosely) connected pieces united perhaps only by the personality and interests of their maker. Any more than that I think it's for someone else to say, but thanks for asking. I really appreciate your interest! warmest wishes michael
   
      From: Joel Weishaus <joelweishaus at gmail.com>
 To: michael szpakowski <michael at dvblog.org>; NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org> 
 Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 7:19 PM
 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] a graduate art history class examines city college's art collection
   
   Hi Michael;
 
 All this work, which I've been looking through, is very engaging.
 I'm wondering if there's a philosophical core that holds it together.
 
 -Joel
 
 
 On 11/15/2014 10:26 AM, michael szpakowski wrote:
  
 
 
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/15610046710/
  
  cheers 
  michael
    
  
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