Re: [-empyre-] questions

["Robert Labossiere" <rlabossiere@cdnfilmcentre.com>]

Screenfull isn't a blog is it? Were it, it might be "good" blogart. Actually
it's pretty good anyway, in that bad/messy/angry art sort of way...which is
perhaps why critics and curators generally don't use words like "good," they
are not very helpful, except perhaps generally to convey the nature of the
experience of appreciation, as in:

"Evaluation of quality is the core of the pleasure of the experience of art;
the simultaneous pleasure of enjoying something intensely and of recognising
that it is a good work. I always judge my pictures - daily, hourly, all the
time. Even though it's disappointing to have to say "that one is not good",
or "not as good as that one", it is still a pleasure to go through that
process and experience a work afresh. Nothing has been as destructive to the
condition of art as the idea that qualitative judgment is unimportant, and
that art is important for cultural reasons. Art can only be important if it
is good, because if it is good, it pleases us in ways we don't anticipate
and don't understand, and that pleasure means something to us even if we
can't specify what, exactly." Sheena Wagstaff interview with Jeff Wall

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Rob Labossiere


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From: "//jonCates" <joncates@criticalartware.net>
To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] questions


> perhaps of {note|interst} in rltn to this conversation, blog as art +
> duchamp is the following work by abe linkoln + jimpunk on SCREENFULL:
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> http://www.screenfull.net/stadium/2004_12_05_screenfull_archive.html
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> that was hyperthreaded to a conversation occurring on Rhizome.org @
> that time, i.e.:
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> http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=15479&text=29663
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