A Classified Ad seen in the New York Times:
SEEKING AN NEW ART-I/OFFICIAL LANDSCAPE WITHOUT CULTURAL PRECEDENT

It used to be possible to talk about the New Art, in a similar manner to the discussion of the new math, the new sciences or the new religion, i.e. something proposed, discussed and critiqued for merit and usefulness. I’m talking about the worthiness of artwork in our daily lives, as an instructive tool, a memory concretized, or a warning of what’s to come. The “New” artwork is delivered as a statement, a contribution, with an idea of progress, often logical, but sometimes arriving via the unconscious or even by spiritual means.

“Hey, its new! I think I’ll try it! I want that!” Have you overheard this said recently at a gallery opening? Continue reading...

Lately, there is a subtle literary attack on all things Google: how it possibly “dumbs us down” through information snippets versus long treatises of knowledge, or how Google restructures truth and knowledge with popularity (how Google itself determines its search hierarchy).

I was thinking: what knowledge is “locked up” in places where Google cannot distill it to a searched web page, and I naturally thought about visual art…at least for the time being. A visual work of art—and to that extent a performance or time-based media artwork—is still full of far too much information to be handled by a text-based search engine, for that is what Google still is. There are too many “pixels” within any one image to be parsed…

…but is it only then a matter of Continue reading...