Experiments in art : digital : life

Images of the most recent performance by the Cover Artists.

Photos courtesy of Candida Alvarez, curator for Sub-City Projects in Chicago.

“…Never has the American art world functioned so efficiently as a full-service marketing industry on the corporate model…” [full text here]

From February of 2009, but still relevant none the less. Worth a read.

The last paragraph in particular might even give one hope.

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.

“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

A lot of our work lately has been involved with looking at the human:digital interface. Is that the same as the human:machine interface? What are the differences that I am interested in exploring? How does our work in Performing the Self (the avatar as the real), as well as our work with the digital (trying to perfect our way of speaking to a camera by interviewing ourselves, editing, memorizing and repeating), etc. open up these ideas – but on the other side of the machine equation?