0. a multidisciplinary, transvergent scientific research
incorporating art
in its programmability. Here i need to refrain myself further
because my
knowledge on this terrain is more zilch than the next-to-nada in
way#1, but
i 'd like to point my little trembling finger to how generative art is
quickly establishing itself as a discipline that is related to art
by the
fact that we can only perceive it as art, but that from a point of
view
that, again, i can only identify as philosophical, might be better
of with a
more 'telling' name. Now i do not see it this way, but the zero
here could
be interpreted as a reduction of art, but only in the sense that
art is
approached as a process that involves algorhytmically definable
steps that
can be taken to generative systems (hence the programmability).
Now, coming back to the question that initiated this discussion and
its
flight into the technological, i would like to add two more points,
of which
the second i think is extremely important:
1. our 20th century experience with the Modern may turn out to be an
exceptionally rich resource for finding algorhytms that contribute
in way
#0, because of course the artists involved witnessed, co-engineered
and
commented its possibility
2. the same experience might stand out as a warning not to attempt to
humanise the machine because that only leads to further mechanise
it and
alienate us from it, but instead to continually try to further
machinise the
machine, allowing it its own plane of consistency that is co-
incidental with
our own. Here i think is where i find the reason for my rather
intuitive
avoidance of thinking in levels, because thinking in levels here
instead of
acknowledging that the human plane and the machine plane are one
and the
same, would make the seeming paradox (i have that straight from
Deleuze's
Fold along with the mechanical-machinical distinction) into a real
contradiction and lead us nowhere but to further episodes of beau-
drilled
Matrices with its doomishly attractive futuristic human-machine wars
comfortly averting our eyes from the real and present war
victimising real
people every day.
[drone,drone]
dv
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