| Murphy on Sun, 22 May 2005 04:15:45 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> Landscape Painting of the Information Age |
>> The only artist, as far as I know, who >> literally creates landscape painting of the >> information age is Wolfgang Staehle. Herr Ding grumbled something in German when he read this then went out to stand on a rocky shore contemplating the sublime. Or maybe he just went to get coffee. He creates, to use Flusser's term, "technical images" -- surfaces that are dependent on linear text. While they are technically sophisticated that isn't the first thing you notice about them and I'm sure many people think the real-time projections are videos. In this sense he is very much in the tradition of Church and other Hudson River landscape painters and like Church he controls where, when and how his work is seen. Because of this the work doesn't have the overbearing aura of "digital art" that other similar work does. Then again, he's just as much in the tradition of the text and language arm of Conceptual art as, say ,Lawrence Weiner. That's a sweet spot to be in. Oh, BTW: Free Asher B. Durand's "Kindred Spirits" from Wal-Mart's evil clutches! Robbin Murphy The Thing, Inc. 459 West 19th Street New York, NY 10011 [email protected] http://post.thing.net/blog/murphy # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]