Re: [-empyre-] Is it digital art?

[Professor Paul Walton <mediaptyltd@ozemail.com.au>]

on 29/7/02 4:39 PM, ICOLS DIRECTORS at icols@va.com.au wrote:

> this is a boring old argument. It used to be (and still is) applied to
> painting
> in the UK(and probably elsewhere) , ie. a painting has to on one level address
> and acknowledge the language of painting or it is by default not interesting.
> When I began to come across this position in the new media world it made me
> just as annoyed. Look, I can see where this argument has come from (so please
> people out there don't start sending out lectures on Mcluhan, any
> postmodernist
> theorist or anyone else) but as it's taken up by later generations it often
> becomes fascist and fundamentalist and is often perpetuated by people with
> nothing much to say for themselves bar dogma and fear of anything getting
> through the cracks.
> And for the record, when I left the UK in 1992 the whole art world scorned
> digital anything and wrote it off as bollocks, so now they're the authority
> eh?
> 
> Suzy
> 
> geniwate wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> had this conversation in uk recently ... the exchange went something like:
>> 
>> - if the artwork doesn't somehow respond to the medium then it's not truly
>> digital work.
>> - therefore something that is just a narrative, with images, is 'bad'
>> digital art (for example).
>> - what would digital art that is purely responding to the medium look like?
>> - perhaps nothing at all: perhaps no concession to the (human) user would be
>> made; there would be no GUI or sensual ramifications, only some code doing
>> invisible things at the level of cpu cycles....
>> - and so digital art swallows itself ...
>> 
>> cheers, geniwate
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yes, but in the next wave of e-structure, we cant just be saying it didnt
work in London, or at Wharhols factory, we have to edge the practice back
into the realm of the just impossible imaginative , otherwise just get on
with dystopia. 


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