[-empyre-] the self and the (machinic) other / a post-systemic condition or a post-art condition?

[Gabriel Menotti]

> and so i tried to follow there and went to the (dark) corners to watch
> the "chatroulette" video or “performance” No Fun, which Menotti references,
> and admit of not having the vocabulary to quite frame this piece for myself
> (or others i might talk to), it's neither a performance nor a game,

Just for clarification:

I classified the piece as a "performance" because that how it is
classified by the artist's themselves. Personally, I wouldn't call No
Fun so, since the work seems to be activated more through its video
recording than in the actual ephemeral and serendipitous interaction
within chatroulette. In a way, it's a kind of self-made fake found
footage. It depends on the recording, else it is lost in the chaotic
flow of chatroulette (which is worse than being "banned from youtube"
right? at least if you need to produce evidence of something).

One way of thinking through frameworks would be to compare how a piece
such as No Fun fares differently on chatroulette, on youtube, on vimeo
and on a proper art exhibition (instead of comparing it to Velázquez,
as do the review also linked on the video's comments [1]).

Going back to topic, I believe that videogames are the easiest object
to adapt to this sort of critical perspective.

Best!
Menotti

[1] http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/06/artseen/eva-and-franco-mattes-aka-0100101110101101org-reality-is-overrated