• Paramounts Basics (extended) by Richard Venlet

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    This project should not necessarily be considered to be a group exhibition, but rather as a ‘cultural agglomeration’. For the artists were not gathered together for some or other external reason, but on the basis of a natural, historically developed relationship: connections, contacts and networks which already existed between them and their works of art. This will be one of the lines for special attention for the museum’s artistic policy: how the autonomy of art and contextualisation can go together.

    via http://www.muhka.be/en/toont/event/62

    Venlet nodigde tal van bevriende, in Brussel residerende kunstenaars uit waarmee hij een soort parallel mentaal en artistiek parcours aflegde. Wat in de selectie van Venlet opviel was de besliste keuze vooral bestaande werken van de uitgenodigde kunstenaars te tonen. Op die manier wist Venlet de discussie omtrent de problematiek van het in situ te omzeilen. De spiegelende muur met hier en daar deurtjes die toegang verleenden tot de ‘andere kant’ was natuurlijk niet vrij van metaforen. Het door de spiegel lopen naar een andere werkelijkheid (Alice in Wonderland) en de spiegelmuur als letterlijk een muur van reflectie waren de aanzet om te grasduinen achter die muur, waar het wel een opslagruimte leek. Het punt van kritiek op deze knap gemonteerde tentoonstelling is dat Venlet zich omringde met zijn, in zijn eigen woorden, culturele agglomeratie. Daardoor miste de tentoonstelling weerhaakjes en volgde als een kabbelend beekje een meanderende weg langs de ‘muur’ van het weliswaar compleet anders te ervaren museum.

    via Metropolis M » Magazine » 2003-No1 » Richard Venlet.


  • The New Aesthetics

    The origin of the New Aesthetics lies in an art summer school held in Irsee, southern Germany, in 2007 and the joint class held there by the English artist Clive Head and the Anglo-Cypriot writer and art theorist Michael Paraskos. Head and Paraskos had previously taught together at the University of Hull, but had both left academic teaching in 2000, and gone partly their separate ways. The reunion in Irsee resulted in a small pamphlet being published, The Aphorisms of Irsee[1] in which they set out a series of seventy-five aphoristic sayings on the nature of art. Although a number of the sayings are deliberately comic, such as Beware the Swiss bearing sausages, the majority of them assert what the authors believed to be the essential elements of artistic practise. Some of these are also deliberately provocative, such as aphorism 38: Performance is not art: it moves too much and so adds to the flux. Art is always a longed for stasis, which can be set alongside aphorism 37: True art fixes the flux of chaos. That is how we cope with chaos, and that is the purpose of art.[1]

    via The New Aesthetics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


  • image glitch experiment

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    Drag an image into the browser window to modify it. this script corrupts some bytes in a jpg image. because of the way jpg encoding works, the corrupted file still shows something. inspired by soulwires experiment in flash. this experiment was created by georg. you can follow him on twitter or explore the source code on github.if you like this one, you can check out some of his other javascript experiments.

    via image glitch experiment.


  • Ontology

    Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.

    via Ontology – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

     

    Ontology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Parmenides was among the first to propose an ontological characterization of the fundamental nature of reality.


  • Deconstruction

    Deconstruction French: déconstruction is a literary theory and philosophy of language derived principally from Jacques Derrida’s 1967 work “Of Grammatology”.[1] The premise of deconstruction is that all of Western literature and philosophy implicitly relies on a metaphysics of presence.[2][3] Derrida terms the philosophical commitment to pure presence as a source of self-sufficient meaning logocentrism.[4] Due to the impossibility of pure presence and consequently of instrinsic meaning, any given concept is constituted and comprehended linguistically and in terms of its oppositions, e.g. perception/reason, speech/writing, mind/body, interior/exterior, marginal/central, sensible/intelligible, intuition/signification, nature/culture.[5] Further, Derrida contends that of these dichotomies one member is associated with presence and consequently more highly valued than the other which is associated with absence.

    via Deconstruction – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


  • Powerful Homemade Burning Laser Built From Computer Parts – YouTube

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  • … by Hannah Weinberger

    Art Berlin Contemporary - Kunstbeeld

    Hannah Weinberger @ Freedman & Fitzpatrick / Los Angeles

    via Art Berlin Contemporary – Kunstbeeld.


  • ‘The End’ by Thomson & Craighead

    Thomson & Craighead

    Thomson & Craighead.


  • ‘Spannende muziek’ by Wouter Huis

     

    Wouter Huis / Spannende muziek.


  • ▶ ja, ja ja —-ne , ne , ne (für die Jugend ) Kubinski/Kippenberger – YouTube

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