Experiments in art : digital : life

We were babysitting my 12 (soon to be 13) year old niece this weekend, and I couldn’t help but watch and wonder at her communication forms and habits. She was generally texting and on facebook at the same time, but she only used the telephone as a phone (a live voice transmittal device) twice: once to ask her babysitter for the week if there was more baloney, and once to let her friend know that she was leaving the house and would see her in about 5 minutes (said friend lives about 3 blks away).

Anyhow, it’s got me to thinking a lot about the way that we will communicate in the future – will any of our communication be technologically unassisted? Is a voice-conversation turning into a nostalgic event? (This is also something we’re exploring as part of the UPP) Anyway, here’s a quote from an interesting article in the NYT:

“But the children, teenagers and young adults who are passing through this cauldron of technological change will also have a lot in common. They’ll think nothing of sharing the minutiae of their lives online, staying connected to their friends at all times, buying virtual goods, and owning one über-device that does it all…”

Read the full article here.

“…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 nice, simple schematic for students and others confused by all the talk about Web 2.0 and social media. It was created by Dave Briggs. I found it Jeremy Gould’s blog, Whitehall Webby.

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.

So the first piece that we re-performed was Vito Acconci’s Centers.

We then decided to start looking for performance that could utilize our relationship. Performances that incorporated two bodies in their original intention, and ideally works that were concerned with the nature, energy and dynamics of relationship. Read more