My definition of art contains three elements:
Art is made by a human being.
Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
Art is a gift. You can sell the souvenir, the canvas, the recording… but the idea itself is free, and the generosity is a critical part of making art.By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we’re doing when we do our best work.
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“Nothing is original.” – Jim Jarmusch
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.””
– Jim Jarmusch (via fakenicebitch) (via afterimg) (via goo22) (via electronicalrattlebag)
SENE 2010 Submissions
Submissions for SENE Art Festival 2010, Providence, RI.
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This is Not Happening, By Jay Gidwitz, 2009, 20” x 30”
Blandot, the Landlord, By Jay Gidwitz, 2008, 30″ x 20″
Erich Zann Portrait, By Jay Gidwitz, 2008, 30” x 20”
Erich Zann, By Jay Gidwitz, 2008, 30” x 20”
Erich Zann and the Narrator, By Jay Gidwitz, 2008, 30” x 20”
River of Darkness, By Jay Gidwitz, 2007, 20” x 30”
Machine Art Curatorial Project
Introduction
These Machine Art pieces show a range of art works using digital technologies, analogue and electromechanical machines or some combination of each. I’ve chosen several exemplars of this type of work that is both art (an aesthetic object with no utilitarian function save the viewers pleasure-of-looking) and a machine (a device which performs a series of functions and transformations in the real world that would seem to imply a use-value).
None of these exist only digitally or virtually: they are all real world objects which may have a digital component. For instance Jansen’s Strandbeest is an analogue machine which “remembers” where it is on the beach with a rudimentary digital computer made out of plastic water bottles that function using a binary calculation system.
The “Robotic Chair” created by Dean et al. is a mechanical chair installation that has a computer component that sends information to the “brain” within the chair so that it can put itself back together after falling apart.
I chose the work based on an arbitrary set of criteria:
Based on this set of criteria the artist would either have to have been and engineer or programmer or would have had to collaborate with one (as was the case with Max Dean). Jansen’s work is perhaps an exception to the first criteria since it uses only plastic bottles and tubing (plastic was invented in 1855), but the “brain” of the creature could not have been invented until Alan Turing’s 1937 paper describing the “Universal Machine”.
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Self-Portrait 9/10/09
