December 2010
twits i forgot i wrote
a computer should be a stumbling block on the way to creativity (unless you built it yourself); people who "love" theirs need help
the art world keeps reconstituting itself with the rise of each new networking software while its reasons to be cohesive keep dropping away
feeling like Bruce Dern in Silent Running explaining why a canteloupe is good
reading about art doctrinal disputes in the 19th century is more fun than participating in them in the 21st
"if you missed the social factors that shaped my work as an artist then you aren't paying attention to an important part of art"
interior colonization - measuring the success of your hatred of art world insiders by whether they pay attention to you
all art made for the internet is doomed - everyone always says this but I'm starting to believe it
re: twitter's simplicity - someone realized the essence of the web isn't "rich media" crapola - and it's working - until someone wrecks it
isolated examples of work cause anxiety and lack the cohesion necessary to make a judgment as to their value
was arguing with a writer tonight who believed all outsiders can ultimately be co-opted; I disagreed, citing people with repugnant views
artist at opening tonight: "I hope you find someone to argue with"
i want to make sculptures but I do not want a house full of sculpture
reading old journals. I'm happier than I used to be but thought I was happy at the time
hat tips to dream_froth2 and dream_froth3
longcat is...
Am counting the days before twitter switches to new twitter. The company has been running a dumb campaign where they make it look like you have a choice of whether to keep the old twitter interface or switch to a new and improved interface. If you say, in effect (by not clicking the upgrade button they dangle in front of you every day), "No, I really don't give a shit about your new look and prefer the old, simple dumb one you've always had, because, I mean, how much design do you need to post 140 character squibs?", it won't matter at all, because at some point they'll just change you over to new twitter.
Just migrate people to your new platform, jeez. Don't pretend like it's a tantalizing lifestyle option.
Dump Year-End Kudos
"Dump.fm - IRL" at 319 Scholes is included in Paddy Johnson's 10 Best Exhibitions of 2010 list for the L Magazine.
The collective picture formed was that of a unique community of makers, each using a lexicon of stock images, internet slang and animated gifs. This is the new art we've been waiting to see for the last 30 years.
Congratulations to curator Lindsay Howard and all the other dumpers. It's important to note that although people were invited by the curator to be in the "IRL" show, anyone can sign up for dump.fm. That great work emerges without a single cult of personality (are Ryder, Scottbot and TimB the new Judy Chicago?) or institutional involvement of any kind is indeed something rather new. That it's an amorphous sort of electronic, sign-manipulating art requiring presence and participation--almost like a game but with a surfeit of hard-to-evaluate creative work product rather than a score* as a result--will make it very hard to co-opt.
*fav hustlers notwithstanding