Friday, February 26, 2010
Radicant Questions pgs. 79-140
1.
When artwork enters society is it not rarely changed and in these galleries and museums is it not permanant?
2.
Is there a problem with having a "database" of art?
3.
Who is doing any representation of work outside of the city, for instance farms, oceans, mountains, and desert?
4.
Is not a spray paint graphitti artist an excellent wanderer, looking for unique places to show their tag name?
5.
Does the internet help or hurt the artworld, or is it destroying art's aura?
6.
Is my path as a sculptor already been traveled or because I work hard and create am I bringing new ideas to the world?
7.
Can we bring all our art throughout our journey on our backs? How do we carry the abundance as things accumulate, is this not where the computer and photodocumentation makes things easier to keep our artistic aura?
8.
What about a sculpture floating in space in zero gravity there would be no top or bottom, no base, just a form?
When artwork enters society is it not rarely changed and in these galleries and museums is it not permanant?
2.
Is there a problem with having a "database" of art?
3.
Who is doing any representation of work outside of the city, for instance farms, oceans, mountains, and desert?
4.
Is not a spray paint graphitti artist an excellent wanderer, looking for unique places to show their tag name?
5.
Does the internet help or hurt the artworld, or is it destroying art's aura?
6.
Is my path as a sculptor already been traveled or because I work hard and create am I bringing new ideas to the world?
7.
Can we bring all our art throughout our journey on our backs? How do we carry the abundance as things accumulate, is this not where the computer and photodocumentation makes things easier to keep our artistic aura?
8.
What about a sculpture floating in space in zero gravity there would be no top or bottom, no base, just a form?
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Radicant Questions up to pg. 78
1.
If one sees the art with no background information about the piece can it then be critiqued without background of the artist?
2.
Does not the population that an artist deals with make a difference with local competition and ideals, for instance the flaux of NYC?
3.
Is not all of America from somewhere else in some sort of timeline, how does that differ from old Europe, and is there more concrete historical contexts?
4.
QUESTION QUOTE: "Where should we go?"
5.
Does not graphitti and invention of new materials make for "new" art?
6.
Am I radical or radicant, or both?
If one sees the art with no background information about the piece can it then be critiqued without background of the artist?
2.
Does not the population that an artist deals with make a difference with local competition and ideals, for instance the flaux of NYC?
3.
Is not all of America from somewhere else in some sort of timeline, how does that differ from old Europe, and is there more concrete historical contexts?
4.
QUESTION QUOTE: "Where should we go?"
5.
Does not graphitti and invention of new materials make for "new" art?
6.
Am I radical or radicant, or both?
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Postproduction Questions
1. When artists use others work to create their own would that be considered a readymade similar to those of Modern art?
2. What is the difference between showing someone elses work for your own or seeing the original in a gallery or museum?
3. Do we now show work of other people showing/using these others work and then again showing again and again the ever showing over and over? When does it stop? Maybe until the first work is gone, dubbed over until it is no further recognized?
4. Is the original artwork changed from its reproduction? Is it thought of different after this new twist is spun onto it?
5. If displayed originally could not anything be art? Is it the object or the act of showing in a gallery? Does putting "it" in a gallery make it art?
6. Has the new form been lost? Has it really all been done before?
7. Why did it take the artworld so long to come up with Postproduction? Is there really that much more stuff in the modern world? How come it did not take off with Duchamp's readymades? Or did it?
8. Is reusing other people's work a way of taking the easy way out of the artistic processes? So is new work all the better because so much has been created already? New ideas should outrank old ones or is it new ideas from ideas only? What is left?
9. Does reusing art help to see the old art as art, and make it stronger than it was in the past, but now in the current and contemporary? Does bringing it back give the work a second chance?
10. Does everything have an artistic potential if manipulated creatively?
2. What is the difference between showing someone elses work for your own or seeing the original in a gallery or museum?
3. Do we now show work of other people showing/using these others work and then again showing again and again the ever showing over and over? When does it stop? Maybe until the first work is gone, dubbed over until it is no further recognized?
4. Is the original artwork changed from its reproduction? Is it thought of different after this new twist is spun onto it?
5. If displayed originally could not anything be art? Is it the object or the act of showing in a gallery? Does putting "it" in a gallery make it art?
6. Has the new form been lost? Has it really all been done before?
7. Why did it take the artworld so long to come up with Postproduction? Is there really that much more stuff in the modern world? How come it did not take off with Duchamp's readymades? Or did it?
8. Is reusing other people's work a way of taking the easy way out of the artistic processes? So is new work all the better because so much has been created already? New ideas should outrank old ones or is it new ideas from ideas only? What is left?
9. Does reusing art help to see the old art as art, and make it stronger than it was in the past, but now in the current and contemporary? Does bringing it back give the work a second chance?
10. Does everything have an artistic potential if manipulated creatively?
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Key Elements of Walter Benjamin's Essay
A)
-"withers in the age of mechanical reproduciton is the aura"
-points beyond the realm of art
-"changes in medium of contemporary perception: decay of aura"
-"aura of latter unique phenomenon of a distance however close it maybe"
-brings things closer
-aura is "uniqueness"
-"for the last time the aura emanates from the early photographs in the fleeting expression of a human face"
-"aura is tied to his presence there can be no replica of it"
-"the fim responds to the shriveling of the aura with an artifical build-up of the "personality" outside the studio
B)
-illustrate everyday life
-keep pace with speech
-"photographic reproduction can capture images which escape natural vision"
-beholder/listener's own situation shattering tradition
-contemporary mass movements
C)
-"works of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproductibilty"
-"with the emancipation of the various art practices from ritual go increasing opportuunities for the exhibition of their products
-art is more commonplace and easy to create
-with film and photo art is more accessable
-the "ritual" of art is lost in the mass quantity of creations
-technology is helping the arts
-reproduction is done with easier effort and no detail is lost
D)
-computer programs for sound and video
-internet displaying anything whenever
-3D imaging and laser cutting creating any shape
-Digital devices and external hard-drives that can store a large amount of information
-prints/texts books/magazines/blogs/web-sites
-college
-"withers in the age of mechanical reproduciton is the aura"
-points beyond the realm of art
-"changes in medium of contemporary perception: decay of aura"
-"aura of latter unique phenomenon of a distance however close it maybe"
-brings things closer
-aura is "uniqueness"
-"for the last time the aura emanates from the early photographs in the fleeting expression of a human face"
-"aura is tied to his presence there can be no replica of it"
-"the fim responds to the shriveling of the aura with an artifical build-up of the "personality" outside the studio
B)
-illustrate everyday life
-keep pace with speech
-"photographic reproduction can capture images which escape natural vision"
-beholder/listener's own situation shattering tradition
-contemporary mass movements
C)
-"works of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproductibilty"
-"with the emancipation of the various art practices from ritual go increasing opportuunities for the exhibition of their products
-art is more commonplace and easy to create
-with film and photo art is more accessable
-the "ritual" of art is lost in the mass quantity of creations
-technology is helping the arts
-reproduction is done with easier effort and no detail is lost
D)
-computer programs for sound and video
-internet displaying anything whenever
-3D imaging and laser cutting creating any shape
-Digital devices and external hard-drives that can store a large amount of information
-prints/texts books/magazines/blogs/web-sites
-college
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