Hi Marco,
On 12/23/10 10:26 AM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
Maybe the artist does not always need to perfectly know how to code something, but the conceptual relevance of a work can be unveiled and successfully diffused even if somehow a work lacks of technical consistence, or does not fulfil requirements of a scientific paper.
here I would agree 100%, as it follows directly from what I wrote already. Ii think, rather than dealing with the fallout of the Romantic era as Mathieu suggested, we are dealing with the fallout of the 1980's--and its intesification of spectacle and commodity.
Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and etc taught us that art must be BIG and to go beyond the scale of what artists can make by themselves in the studio by hiring craftspeople and technicians to realize massive, expensive works as the desirable aim of this art market economy. Although driven by a different kind of economics--mainly grants and subsidies with academic, social and political concerns involved--art/sci work still strives for the spectacle in a similar way.
I am personally not interested in what kind of work someone fund-raise and be a middle-manager to create. I want to see what someone is capable of doing with their own two hands, as flawed as that may be. For any art to be experimental, the possibility of failure must be present at all times.
At the other extreme of the spectrum, and closer to my own heart, are artists like David Tudor. After becoming the premier avant-garde concert pianists, he locked himself in the studio for two years and taught himself analog electronics. His electronic creations represented his own personal musical vision--with all the idiosyncrasies included--and have always been a huge inspiration. And I would happily categorize your work more along these lines as well.
In case this sounds like part of a paper--it is. I will be curating an edition of the Canadian online journal Vague Terrain in March 2011 under the theme "Schematic as Score" and I intend to address a lot of this material there.
Happily veering OT, Derek