below sentences are quoted at random from THE ACCIDENT OF ART of philosopher PAUL VIRILIO (1)
The Visual Arts made a real effort to break away from representation
Minimalist Arts explored the limits of visual arts
Conceptual Art focused on the working of the mind
| TODAY THERE IS AN ENTIRE AREA OF ART IN WHICH ARTISTS WORK ON COMPUTERS A LOT. BUT THEY NEED TO PENETRATE THE SOFTWARE MÖRE OR LESS/ softwares need not be only the fruit of anonymous programmers and furthermore you can (must) always adjust yourself within your own creative skills and odd manipulations... Without destroying the machine you can explode it fairly well from the inside out |
NOW THE MACHINES MIGHT BLIND US -THEY HAVE SO MUCH TO TELL....they create their own kind of presence - digital technology is like the icing of the cake - Today Art is being instrumentalized beyond recognition Maybe the pride of contemporary arts has masked its failure and weakness... you have the inflation of the dealers ... art is becoming incinillary to capitalism and turns into some of a black hole - there is no more an artist life left to him
EVERY SENSATION IS GOING TO BE DIGITIZED AND DIGITALIZED
But you can always be creatively within the technology if you want to be the new media artist or a net artist of the cyberspace