Assessment statement – Semester 2

My work is looking at FLOSS (free/libre/open source software) but not just as a tool but also as an ideology. It is becoming commonplace apply the term ‘open source’ to contemporary art practice. It is thought that artists and curators to encourage transparency and reveal creative and cultural processes can use this ideological process. However artists and curators argue that their art practice already subscribes to an open source based ideology. A Non-hierarchical way of working, where they engage in a collaborative process, sharing their ideas in order to move them forward. I want to see if this ideology can be applied to a ‘creating & curating’ practice or even if it does, in its purest form, already exist as a creative methodology.

Inquiry Culture & Curating

Two more interviews asking the questions:

“My job title is Cultural Projects Office what do you think this is?”

“What is a Curator?”

“Day-to-Day?”

Link to youtube (unedited)

CURATORIAL APPRENTICE

Now under the guise of a CURATORIAL APPRENTICE the office is up and running and recruitment can begin. I am looking for highly dedicated art goers, sociable yet discrete.

In my last communication to Olav I explained the plan and he seemed happy with progress. I will attempt to create (or manufacture) the perfect curator  from which Olav will extract the formula of the ‘superstar curator’.

Images of Operations

superstar curator

experimental images playing with text and subverting fashionable gallery adverts. European style. Influenced by Paul Bulter and his use of college and Charles Gute’s HUO Drawings.

Link to images

A Routine Sequence of External Actions

A story about the performance of sculpture at the Scottish exhibition ‘Selective Memory’ at the 51st Venice Biennale 2005. This is a piece of experimental text that plays with literature styles and conventions, uses first hand experience, fact, fiction and appropriated text.

Amanda Ravetz – 30/04/09

Amanda Ravetz trained as a painter at the Central School of Art and Design and later completed a doctorate in Social Anthropology with Visual Media at the University of Manchester. Her work with visual anthropology investigates new collaborative possibilities linked to image-based work.

On Art and Anthropology – Amanda Ravetz

Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/, from the Greek ἄνθρωπος, anthrōpos, “human”, and -λογία, -logia, “discourse”, first use in English: 1593) ^[1] is the study of human beings, everywhere and throughout time

Visual Anthropology – a subfield of cultural anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media. It also encompasses the anthropological study of visual representation, including areas such as performance, museums, art, and the production and reception of mass media.

Ethnography – (Greek ἔθνος ethnos = fplk/people and γράφειν graphein = writing) is a methodological strategy used to provide descriptions of human societies, which as a methodology does not prescribe any particular method (e.g. observation, interview, questionnaire), but instead prescribes the nature of the study (i.e. to describe people through writing).

Review of Interno3’s ‘A Beautiful Day’

Bill Viola, a pioneer in the medium of video art, once said that there would come a day when the electronic eye will record everything. That day is here. We are surrounded by state-of-the-art technologies capable of creating total environments that envelop us in image and sound.

Interno3’s A Beautiful Day plays with this transition in an interaction between high-tech and low-fi, presenting daily life as a series of deconstructed micro-stories. The  narrative is an audiovisual sculpture and immersive soundscape that exposes the parts of electronic devices; it fragments vision, picks apart sensations and undermines the nature of events. Interno3 analyse sounds and images: rifts, glitches and repeated loops are analysed in order to understand the meaning of a beautiful day.

Ann Douglas – 12/02/09

I was unable to attend this seminar so this is an academic response to practice based or practice led research

Practice-Based Research within a creative and cultural context is often defined as an original investigation that aims to gain new knowledge by means of practice and the outcomes of that practice. Investigation, originality and contribution to knowledge may be demonstrated through creative outcomes, which include artefacts such as images, music, designs, models, digital media, performances and exhibitions. The significance and context of the claims are validated by text, but a full understanding can only be obtained with direct reference to the creative outcomes.(1)  Practice-based research is naturally of great interest to practising artists and designers, but it is not confined to these disciplines. One may find examples in music, in software design, in engineering, in law; in fact in any subject where the result might be an artefact generated in the laboratory or workplace. (2)

Filtering of content on the Internet (on your behalf)

Proposals before the EU parliament to limit access to the Internet across Europe are to be voted on the 6th of May.

The new law will permit your broadband provider to impose “conditions limiting access to and/or use of services and applications”. Downloading via P2P will almost certainly be forbidden, and blacklists and whitelists are on the hidden agenda, but the proposals also covers copyright enforcement (3-strikes) and risk permitting sinister forms of filtering the networks. They threaten fundamental freedoms for everyone who uses the Internet and anyone who has a website.

‘The Telecom Package’ would allow Internet providers the legal capacity of limiting the number of Web pages you can see. They will also have the right to decide what services you would be allowed to use (for example P2P networks, VOIP phone services like Skype). Internet providers will be allowed to offer people connection-packages similar to TV packages limiting the number of options available.

Your Internet access will be limited  to the package you sign for, limiting you to the pages only allowed in that package. It is anticipated that under these laws your provider will filter pages, contents and survey your activities as and when they like, without your approval.

more info http://www.blackouteurope.eu/

David Haley – 16/04/09

I had to miss this seminar but was led to the work of Robert Persig and one of his quotes, as quoted by Haley in many of his papers.

The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move onward. –Robert Persig, Lila p. 430

I went on to find an interview with Robert Persig, an American writer and philosopher, and came across this, which i find more interesting ….