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Some Ideas for Telematic Art Work.
A database driven website that mixes image word and sound to create versions of the shortest novel ever written. In a form similar to haiku, an image appears, a word or short phrase, a sound. The story is made by the association of the three for the viewer/listener. Based around Hemingway's short novel idea
'For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn'.
How sculpture looks at the world. The idea is to somehow record the 'sensation' of being inanimate.
Ozymandias.
Shelley
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
I envisage cameras set up in sculpture, touch sensors, audio recorders and a wireless connection to a computer projection that would relay the images and sounds. Possibly a virtual version of the sculpture that would be manipulated by the touch.
a rose by any other name...
A continuing discussion of a recent argument about post structuralism
Post Structuralism
By the mid 20th century there were a number of structural theories of human existence. In the study of language, the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) suggested that meaning was to be found within the structure of a whole language rather than in the analysis of individual words. For Marxists, the truth of human existence could be understood by an analysis of economic structures. Psychoanalysts attempted to describe the structure of the psyche in terms of an unconscious.
In the 1960's, the structuralist movement, based in France, attempted to synthesise the ideas of Marx, Freud and Saussure. They disagreed with the existentialists' claim that each man is what he makes himself. For the structuralist the individual is shaped by sociological, psychological and linguistic structures over which he/she has no control, but which could be uncovered by using their methods of investigation.
Originally labelled a structuralist, the French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault came to be seen as the most important representative of the post-structuralist movement. He agreed that language and society were shaped by rule governed systems, but he disagreed with the structuralists on two counts. Firstly, he did not think that there were definite underlying structures that could explain the human condition and secondly he thought that it was impossible to step outside of discourse and survey the situation objectively.
Jacques Derrida (1930- ) developed deconstruction as a technique for uncovering the multiple interpretation of texts. Influenced by Heidegger and Nietzsche, Derrida suggests that all text has ambiguity and because of this the possibility of a final and complete interpretation is impossible.
Initially a VRML website in which objects are placed that can have no names. Things that cannot have been encountered before or things whose identity has passed out of meaning - fabulous creatures?
But! Much as this would answer the particular argument it has nothing to do with structuralism or post structuralism.
Thinking about this has suggested another idea to me. The other idea is outlined on this page…
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