“Who needs Aliens when we have Curators?”
menubar title —[Unsuccessful] b-side Festival 2015 COMMISSION Application 2
menu title —Contact Name : GREAT WORKS IN STONE
window 1 ‘summary of proposal’
A digital text-work displayed on a single monitor in as anonymous or unobtrusive
a manner as possible: as though part of [the] site's day-to-day infrastructure.
2 options:
Option A: an AppleJavaScript work in which the parts load
at 30 sec., 1 hour, and once daily, to display new material, some taken at random from js. lists, other parts prescribed to load
at specific intervals
Option B: an Xcode work in which descending (‘attached’) windows replace existing textfields with new text,
or superimpose upon existing ones to build up
a ‘palimpsestic earth of citation and inscription’
or superimpose upon existing ones to build up
a ‘palimpsestic earth of citation and inscription’
attached panel 1 ‘proposal background’
The content of either of these works to be statistical minutiae; perhaps to include: data from a selected nature reserve, an account of hedgehogs and other road-kill, reports of tortoises absconding from suburban Dunroamins over a specific period; political, petty, and other criminal activities…
What I have in mind is a blank, because, if I am an artist at all, I am one of procedure and process; an admirer of minimalism and also of [apparently] random content, for example the works of Agnes Martin or Robert Ryman on the one hand…
and the ‘surreal’ box-works of Joseph Cornell on the other —not forgetting the ‘Off-World Zero-Gravity’ Joe Cornell box-making robot constructor of a well known science fiction author.
menubar title —[Unsuccessful] b-side Festival 2015 COMMISSION application 2
menu title —Part Two
window 2 ‘A Symposium’
b-side calls for ‘a second discussion event provoking debate on current issues’; presumably one on the part it is playing embedded within the twin horror that is regional or contextual entertainment, and the tourist industry.
b-side calls for ‘a second discussion event provoking debate on current issues’; presumably one on the part it is playing embedded within the twin horror that is regional or contextual entertainment, and the tourist industry.
attached panel 2 ‘untitled’
b-side’s localized versions of media art may not be so much ‘ars longa’ as ‘arse lite’; while the individual offerings may not be as monumentally asinine as the works of Viscount Gormless, or The Nabob of Kapore, or of pHirst Past The Post, they too epitomize the leaden suburban ‘boorjoy’ vision that pollutes an ever more conservative society.
b-side’s localized versions of media art may not be so much ‘ars longa’ as ‘arse lite’; while the individual offerings may not be as monumentally asinine as the works of Viscount Gormless, or The Nabob of Kapore, or of pHirst Past The Post, they too epitomize the leaden suburban ‘boorjoy’ vision that pollutes an ever more conservative society.
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