THE AESTHETICS
OF FAILURE: "Post-Digital" Tendencies in Contemporary
Computer Music |
by Kim Cascone |
"Over the past decade,
the Internet has helped spawn a new movement in digital
music. It is not academically based, and for the most part
the composers involved are self-taught. Music journalists
occupy themselves inventing names for it, and some have
already taken root: glitch, microwave, DSP, sinecore, and
microscopic music. These names evolved through a collection
of deconstructive audio and visual techniques that allow
artists to work beneath the previously impenetrable veil
of digital media. .....(continued)" |
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VIRTUAL MEMORIAL
: A Memorial As A Process- A Model Of The World |
by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne |
"A Virtual Memorial represents
an Internet based art work created in Flash5, Javascript
and HTML by Agricola de Cologne, media artist form Germany.
The project is based on the artist's physical Memorial project
"A Living Memorial Spaces of Art" which had been
initiated on occasion of the 50th return of World War II
in 1995 and created and realized in 43 installations
at 43 places in Poland, Czech Republic and Germany until
the end of 1998. The ongoing virtual Memorial project has
Internet specific aims and purposes....(continued)" |
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Notes on Critical
Black U.S. Performance Art and Artists |
by Clifford Owens |
"Contemporary black U.S.
artists working in the medium of performance art suffer a
serious crisis of meaning in art world culture because their
work refuses to be relegated under the hermetic rubric of
black artistic expression. In other words, black artists who
don't primarily make pictures and objects that look like art
by black artists often find themselves farther at the bounds
than many black artists.....(continued)" |
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The Edge of Artlessness:
The video reflection, snap-shot, family and self-portraiture;
and almost losing it all. |
by Jim Jeffers |
"I have traveled back to
the town of my birth and the first 15 years of my life: Denver,
Colorado. The edge is somehow still here – life, humans,
Americans are still 'edgy' (in a good way, I think).
The city (but really more the feel of a town, coming from
my Newark, NJ and its electric-soot foyer to NYC)...the town
is perplexed by a series of cat mutilations, numbering over
40 in the various Denver suburbs; we all know Littleton, Colorado
(where I put in most of my formative years) because of the
Columbine High School shootings, and of course the brilliant
Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore's masterpiece of American
Feardom)....(continued)" |
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Industrimusiken
- Från elektronisk pornografi till ockultism |
(Swedish) |
by Guido Zeccola |
"Industribuller är
grundelement till sonora ritualer för en betydelsefull
mängd progressivrockmusiker i Storbritannien, som i mitten
av 1970-talet experimenterade med alltmer sofistikerade och
noisebaserade elektroniska klanger. Dessa grupper heter t.ex.
Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wound, Psychic TV, Cabaret Voltaire,
Current 93, Hafler Trio, 23 Skidoo,Clock Dva, Metabolist,
Test Dept, Sol Invictus, Death In June etc. ....(continued)" |
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