The Moment between Site and Non-site Is What Remains Text or Context? [1] By [2] After the industrial revolution, the concept of ‘speed’ becomes one of the most important points for understanding the world we live in (as per Paul Virilio); ‘to stop’ is to ‘die’ – things must keep moving in order to exist. [...]
Category Archives: SKC text+writing
The Tribal Network: Networks, Society, and New Media in an Interdisciplinary World
June 21, 2009 – 9:00 am
The interactivity of New Media art is inherently tied up with the technology that is used in its mediation. The New Media art that crosses the boundary between art and technology is interactive art not only in its content and ideas but also its form; media used as medium. In New Media Art, the concepts [...]
Duality 2: Mouth – Candle vs. Incense (2006)
June 2, 2008 – 5:13 am
December, 2006 Cross projected video loops with the image of a mouth blowing opposite a candle and incense on two vellum screens hung from ceiling to floor. +++ a mouth blowing flickering candle vs glowing incense a mouth inhaling flaming candle vs dimming incense a mouth to candle to incense to a mouth infinity winds [...]
Artist Manifesto II
April 9, 2008 – 2:35 am
When human kind started developing play by beating and scratching, this started as a physical game, then this visceral spontaneous play resulted in intellectual response, it became a philosophical game. Art is a social system, an institution which embraces these ‘abnormal’ people who enjoy an intellectual or weird/strange play, or who enjoy nonsensical dreams. People [...]
curating immateriality (and materiality)
March 5, 2008 – 8:11 am
It seems more and more things are becoming virtualized and immaterialized (for instance, see the demonetarization and immateriality of our economic world: the ‘cyber economy’), and the issue of curating immateriality in the art world is just yet another one of these streams. Joasia Krysa points out this phenomenon of transformation to immateriality in chapter [...]
Where I want to be / what I look at
February 27, 2008 – 2:45 am
As a member of this society, as an artist, I think the balance between reality and the ideal is significantly important. I have a concept (idea) about my ideal world; the balance of dualities in this world. My view of ‘real and the ideal’ can be explained through the concept of duality; because there cannot [...]
Manifesto on Art and Commerce
February 7, 2008 – 8:05 pm
According to Andy Warhol, “the reason I’m painting this way is because I want to be a machine” (Norbert Lynton, p.294). In the culture industry, in the assembly line of the art world, an artist is a complicit in that process as a worker, but also functions as a director in that system. Artists making [...]
