[-empyre-] seeing yourself a prototype - the limits of open source
Lynn Hershman
lynn2 at well.com
Fri Mar 19 15:18:59 EST 2010
Actually the Art Colider is a joint project with the San Francisco
Art Institute begun nearly 2 years ago.
http://theartcollider.org/
l
On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:12 PM, Renate Ferro wrote:
>
> Thanks Cynthia for sharing. I've been lurking this month, enjoying
> Adrienne's posts and others. I just wanted to add that the new
> media
> artist and designer Maurice Benayoun visited our Cornell Art
> Department
> this week where he shared with our students his open source website of
> ideas and projects that for him were either unusable, not possible,
> or too
> expensive on <the-dump.net> (google will translate the page from
> French
> to English). He explains that the-dump is his open source sharing
> space
> where anyone can pick up one of his ideas freely and indeed many have
> done. The work was part of his PHD dissertation in Paris. Right
> now he
> is spear heading the design of an open source website for artist's to
> share their images both still and moving at <theartcollider.org>
>
> Renate
>
>> Wow - I love the concept that we are all changing and that each of us
>> an ongoing prototype for the next generation of ourselves
>>
>> At the CAA session on Open Source (chaired by Patrick Lichty),
>> Michael Mandiberg gave a presentation arguing for giving away Design
>> ideas, for making practical design concepts "Open Source," patent
>> free ideas to be shared among the industrious. In his talk he
>> presented some Open Source Design ideas developed at Eyebeam.
>>
>> A member of the audience who identified herself as a graduate student
>> in Fine Arts at the Chicago Art Institute asked the question about
>> what it the equilivant of "Open Source Design" in the Fine Arts, and
>> how could Fine Arts students establish a Fine Arts Open Source
>> practice. She left before I could respond with the thought that as
>> Fine Arts faculty members in art schools and art departments we are
>> always giving away our ideas, our sense of how art works, what it can
>> do, or what it might be in a certain situation. The very act of
>> engaging in a critique session is an "Open Source" exchange of ideas.
>> When students leave the room after a crit, they have no obligation to
>> cite their professors as the source of their ideas, they simply take
>> them and go.
>>
>> Of course in an academic setting Ideas are not completely free,
>> because students are paying tuition, and faculty members are being
>> paid. We have a contractual agreement to share ideas, to be (nearly)
>> Open Source Fine Artists.
>>
>> If we are all prototypes, then as individuals outside of the academic
>> world, we can share our Ideas as artists, as thinkers, as critics
>> without a contractual agreement. But isn't that what we are doing
>> already in spaces such as this one - in discussion lists, in artist
>> meetings, even when we show work in progress to friends and
>> colleagues?
>>
>> Now the question of second order prototyping as turning to others --
>> not sure that I am ready for that! It sort of reminds me of my
>> teenage years going shopping for clothes with my mother, who somehow
>> poured me into dresses and pulled on one corner or another to make
>> them look like they fit, even when they remained uncomfortable.
>>
>>
>> Cynthia
>>
>> Cynthia Beth Rubin
>> http://CBRubin.net
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Julian Oliver wrote:
>>
>>> ..on Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:10:01PM -0000, Johannes Birringer
>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Davin wrote:>> At one point in time, discrete objects were
>>>>>> things that were considered prototypes that could be thrown into
>>>>>> an existing system and tested. Increasingly, it seems like the
>>>>>> prototypes are geared to test individual and collective
>>>>>> consciousness. In other words, maybe we are the prototypes?
>>>>>> Being tested so that we can be effectively processed, shrink-
>>>>>> wrapped, labeled, bought and sold>>
>>>
>>> Hmm, This statement from Davin confused me also. I thought it was
>>> fairly clear
>>> that any act of learning - or any 'attempt', which all action is at
>>> it's root -
>>> simultaneously produces the self as a prototype, even if only for
>>> the duration
>>> of that act. The very notion of a prototype assumes a platonic and
>>> eventuating
>>> objecthood, a finished thing. When are people ever so singularly
>>> resolved?
>>>
>>> Second order prototyping is the work of other people, especially
>>> aquaintances,
>>> marketeers and those that resource people.
>>>
>>> Beast,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Julian Oliver
>>> home: New Zealand
>>> based: Berlin, Germany
>>> currently: Berlin, Germany
>>> about: http://julianoliver.com
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>
> Renate Ferro
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> Department of Art
> Cornell University, Tjaden Hall
> Ithaca, NY 14853
>
> Email: <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
> Website: http://www.renateferro.net
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