Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 02:25:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: olga nikolova <olganik-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: art/capital




you seem to be dragging in a lot of other questions

why should art be simulation in the first place? 
take a typical computer graphics demo, it's usually pure geometrical
forms, constant transformation etc... nothing to do with simulating
whatsoever, it's the ever newly presentable before it could even have
been conceived
why should it be necessarily related to things like spontaneity
(!??!?), creativity and novelty? art can be repetitive, meaningless,
mechanical, empty, simply remixing 

then what do you mean by revolutionary? 
for "revolution" can also be "continual circular movement" which is
just what art might as well be, only now we don't have a single fixed
point around which it spins but many constantly shifting central
points...
consider "rave culture" which john appleby mentioned, it's everywhere
(unlike rock'n'roll say which was strictly western phenomenon), it's
mostly anonymous and it loops all that's gone before, no
personality/iconicity, no single centre, no spontaneity, not even
novelty yet it's fascinating because it's unhuman or transhuman, not
human plus, but un-human(istic)
when we talk about "institutionalizing art" we are talking something
different: we are talking second-rate restoration comedy, think about
the internet,(the best part of the matrix is its web site) electronic
projects whether it's animation, computer graphics, music, architecture
or literature, what's institutionalised about them? this is where the
new comes up today and whether it brings about changes in sensibility
or just appropriates them is somewhat unimportant, it's merely a
question of emphasis, arts among many neither cause nor effect of
social change, it has much to do with change in the ways of perceiving
which is that bit different...





> >"...musicians must substitute for the limited
> variety 
> >of tones posessed by orchestral instruments today 
> >the infinite variety of tones of noises, reproduced
> 
> >with appropriate mechanisms..." 
> >
> >	Luigi Russolo, 'The Art of Noises' (1913)
> >
> 

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