The Next Layer - art

Fields - an Index of Possibilities

Armin Medosch — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:54:12 +0000

This text outlines a research strategy and context for the Fields exhibition to take place in Riga in 2014. While not directly about the exhibition, this text explores the notion of Fields as a broadening and deepening of an inquiry began with the exhibition Waves. The notion of the field and its various links into scientific disciplines purports a long term epistemic shift from fixed identities and dualisms to vectors and forces/lines of attraction and repulsion; from a world of fixed entities to one of energies and the exertion of force from a distance.

Beyond Information

Armin Medosch — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:42:40 +0000

Information in the terms of information theory is the likelihood of the selection of messages in relation to all possible messages. Thus, if a selection is made from a number of possibilities which are all equally likely or unlikely, the information is high. The mathematical theory of information is linked to the concept of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics. This says that the available degree of ordering of matter - and thereby the energy contained in it - is decreasing.

Some remarks on digital art, autonomy, and the labour of others (Eleonore, part III)

Armin Medosch — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:16:47 +0000

This final piece in the Eleonore series sums up some more theoretic and political thoughts about the relationships between digital art, autonomy and the division of labour. It comes to the conclusion that the least digital artists can do is to use free software, strive for egalitarian types of working relationships and to name all their collaborators as co-creators of work, regardless of the usual social valuations of types of work and the institutional pressure they come under if their work joins the art circuit.

Notes on Bourdieu filtered by Robbins

Armin Medosch — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:09:01 +0000

Knowing well about the problematic of publishing notes, unfinished forms of writing, in a very early stage, I am publishing here an excerpt of thoughts that I had when reading up on Pierre Bourdieu's theories on art, filtered by a quite concise presentation by Derek Robbins.

The Gap Between Now and Then - on the conservation of memory

Josephine — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:29:14 +0000

Let’s play hide-and-seek with future generations. We hide. The seeker is not among us yet. He or she lives in another era, a time yet to come. We don’t know if he or she will be a finder. We are not even sure we want or need to be found. We might simply just jump from our lair one day, reveal ourselves, unexpectedly, to win the game.

Vision in Networks (1)

Brian Holmes — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:33:37 +0000

Whether it originates from statistical tabulation or remote sensors, whether it flows in real time or out of recombinant databases, whether it serves the needs of private individuals, globe-spanning corporations or government agencies, information visualization is the operative technology of the networked age, a language of vision for the control society. Infoviz proliferates on the screens of factory workstations, financial trading floors, military commands and surveillance watchspots, everywhere that decisive movements are subject to managerial scrutiny.

Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society

Brian Holmes — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:17:15 +0000

Holmes B. 2009. Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society.

Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century

doll_yoko — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:12:18 +0000

Raunig G. 2007. Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century.

A Gathering of Artistic Research: From New Science to Nameless Science

Lindsay — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:57:12 +0000

Art and Research
Volume 2. No. 2. Spring 2009

Editorial:

This issue of Art & Research represents a ‘gathering’ of issues and experiences in artistic research as manifest in papers and artworks presented on the ‘occasion’ of significant international conferences and symposia dedicated to artistic research held between May and December 2008:

Art and Research

Lindsay — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:48:12 +0000

Front cover of the new issue of Art and Research, published yesterday.