Re: [-empyre-] Moore N = c

["Christiane Robbins @ Jetztzeit" <cpr@mindspring.com>]

Wow .... the narrative for this algorithm is so ... cute ... its almost endearing.  

However, we are just skimming here and I find when this surface slide remains unexamined, it becomes somewhat problematic.  This penchant for glibness may well be informing the dialectics of this conversation ... and/or it may simply be adding to the paradox.

Further thoughts?

Best,

Chris


-----Original Message-----
>From: "G.H.Hovagimyan" <ghh@thing.net>
>Sent: Mar 12, 2006 11:41 AM
>To: 'soft_skinned_space' <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
>Subject: [-empyre-] Moore N
>
>Here's my algorithm for art.
>
>Let's say that you've graduated from art school. You decide to make 
>something or do something. Let's call this something S. You use all the 
>techniques (T) that you've learned in art school to make/do S. You then 
>show this to a friend. Your friend doesn't recognize [EQUIV] it as art 
>A even though you've used all the techniques (T) and procedures [FUNC] 
>you've learned in art school. You know that S is art. You now have two 
>choices[SELECT]. You can go back and remake or redo S to make it 
>conform to what your friend thinks is art, this is the way traditional 
>art is made. Or you can insist that S really is art and bring your 
>friend around to your point of view. This is the position of anti-art 
>-A. There is a third way that is to not insist that what you do is art 
>and to ignore your friends puzzlement.  You allow what you have made or 
>do to exist outside of the art/ anti-art dialectic. This is the 
>N-state. Here's a crude algorithm;
>[SELECT]
>T[FUNC]S =  A
>T[FUNC]S = -A
>
>A [EQUIV] -A :: (T[FUNC]S)-A = A
>
>if A -([EQUIV] -A) then
>N
>else
>A
>
>Nicolas Bourriaud in his book relational aesthetics proposes something 
>similar. The issue with Relational aesthetics is that the 
>relationiships are still within a sanctioned art space such as a museum 
>or project room. The mark of an official space makes what is presented 
>into art.  The problem is that if you go outside of the art world you 
>will be called a crank.
>
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