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Algorithms for the end of art

Kate — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:19:41 +0000

It all started with trying to identify a painting with nested green squares.

We had a strong feeling that the painter’s name started with an A.

A few Google searches later, we found it. But the image led us to this great website out of Amsterdam.

“The Institute of Artificial Art.”

Enjoy.

More about money

Kate — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:18:15 +0000

A great site I learned about through Facebook. This post in particular caught our eye – especially now that we’ve officially launched the UPP. Always a fan of Chris Burden.

More sage wisdom

Kate — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:53:42 +0000

“I try hard never to forget that art is essentially a game of signification, and that in our capacity as artists, we always endeavor to ask questions, to search, and to play.”

- Joseph Kosuth

net.art

Kate — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:57:18 +0000

If you are looking for some interesting reading/history of net.art, this is a good article in the Wall Street Journal from July 2009.

Ruby & Cash re-perform Robert Longo’s “Dancing Couple”

Kate — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:15:50 +0000

“31. If an artist uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one would assume the artist’s concept involved the material.”

What does it mean to re-perform a drawing? Even if the original drawing was life-sized? How does involving the body – as a viewer, as opposed to a producer – change the experience with the artwork as object?

There is a sort of object-producer dichotomy in the drawing that is absent when we perform the action. Our bodies are object. Object twice-removed…When we do reperformances, we don’t claim authorship at all. We break free from the notion of authorship, so in a very real sense, Longo is still the author; we’re just allowing him to use our material, to use us as material.

Why Longo?

We were looking for: A portrait. A couple. An object that captured the idea of identity wrapped up in the exterior. Something to model Cash & Ruby on. Something that was already present in – already visually present in the art world – while at the same time, related to our cultural consciousness. Our awareness of ourselves during the 1980s in America. A man and a woman wearing business suits. Money. The notion of surface. Radical surface. A young Caucasian man and woman, well-dressed, attractive.

Transporting ourselves from the analog to the digital. Flattening everything. Giving it all the same value. That’s what happens with the composite. We don’t put ourselves into any sort of scene: it’s a completely clean, neutral space, a non-space, digital space. The original piece of work has all sorts of potential. Our reperformance is just one type of actualization that is available for Robert Longo’s original drawing.

This video by Circlesquare takes it to the next level.