[-empyre-] swarming art

[Cecilia Parsberg <ceciliaparsberg@this.is>]

Hi all
I am invited to join Empyre. To present my photodocumentation and  
essay at www.eurozine.com
(Read the full essay at: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2006-05-30- 
parsberg-en.html)

Here I have recorded the result of the "swarming" (se below) around  
the Israeli wall. The international swarming.
How come people travel to the wall and paint on it? They paint  
windows , holes, texts, modernistic paintings. The imagery on the  
Israeli wall differ from 70:ies barricade-political images or  
traditional street-graffiti. It is an international multitude, a  
writing carpet. (see the full documentation on www.this.is/TheWall  
and click on The international art on the wall)

Do you , in Empyre, think that art today plays a role in the  
politics, or affect politics?
"One hundred policemen cannot attain what beauty is able to bring  
about in a violent person."
said Edi Rama, Minister of Culture, Albania

What is politics? For me politics is what the everyday life looks  
like for a citizen.
Here on the Israeli wall, people come and they make fiction, in the  
gap between the reality of a law (the Israeli wall /constrainment)  
and the reality of the international law: the International court of  
Justice has declared the Israeli wall be in breach of International  
standards. (9th of July 2004)
This gap is an anomie, a non place, This  space  exist because of a  
situation where citizen's human rights does not meet a law that  
reflects or meet these rights. "To show law in its non-relation to  
life and life in its non-relation to law means to open a space  
between them for human action, which once claimed for itself the name  
of 'politics'", Giorgio Agamben writes in his book State of  
Exception. Is it in this sphere that these artists are active?

The art work can not be separated from the action to make the art  
work...



about swarming:
A swarm is not merely the analog of an organism, it is indeed an  
organism, in every important and scientific sense of the word.
								
A swarm is made up of effectively autonomous members.
		
Like a cell or a person, it behaves as a unitary whole, maintaining  
its identity in space, resisting dissolution; neither a thing nor a  
concept, but a continual flux or process.
					
A swarm is an organism whose existence in both time and space  
outreaches the individual member.  The individual has no awareness of  
the swarm as a whole.

As Stephen Johnson writes in Emergence, "Local turns out to be the  
key term in understanding the power of swarm logic.  We see emergent  
behavior in systems like ant colonies when the individual agents in  
the system pay attention to their immediate neighbors rather than  
wait for orders from above.  They think locally and act locally, but  
their collective action produces global behavior."
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Swarm Intelligence-based techniques can be used in a number of  
applications. The U.S. military is investigating swarm techniques for  
controlling unmanned vehicles. NASA is investigating the use of swarm  
technology for planetary mapping.

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cecilia


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