Re: [-empyre-] December 2005 on -empyre- Art and Cognition

[CP <clp404-newsletters@yahoo.com.au>]

> Do you believe that this represent a change in some parameters from the well known
> artistic search the very essence of things and lead us to deal with processes instead?
>

I'm certainly very interested in process - or at least the objectifying of methods of becoming. I guess I'm coming from a desire to develop new forms of resistance to systems and processes that lock in the individual and reduce agency within a certain (often highly complex) civilization. It's probably obvious that the rights of individuals seem to be diminishing due to bureaucratic, diplomatic, and purely invented global threats.

The tension of bureaucratic complexity forms institutions which can be beneficial, but can also constrain - but doesn't seem to any one thing - but rather a tightening degree of malovent processes.

How does this affect art and cognition? I can see many opportunities for representing process as a mean to understanding liberty and constraint - experimental models expressed in aesthetic terms that offer 'readable' conditions for identifying the lesions of a 'civilizing' process. Perhaps we'll discover how little democracy we really have?

Chris



I think so, the need to look at how things form, how situations develop ..

On Thu,  8 Dec 2005 18:04:35 -0200
"Raquel Renno" <raquel@influenza.etc.br> wrote:

> 
> Hello CP and empyre members,
> 
> Sorry to take so long to answer. Just a quick question to continue de discussion:
> 
> <The 'constant tension' of variables is indeed something rich for the creation of art. Self-creating art (i.e. software art) can become the infinite variation of random combinations, or develop patterns, traits, tendencies throughout its lifespan. It is the later that is the most interesting.>
>  

> Regards,
> 
> Raquel Rennó
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