Thanks, Michael, and I certainly will...several people on this list have
been knowingly and unknowingly helpful as I developed some of the ideas in
the paper and I am thankful for it.
And thanks for that link!
Best,
Dennis
~~
If your first move is brilliant, you’re in trouble. You don’t really know
how to follow it; you’re frightened of ruining it. So, to make a mess is a
good beginning. — Brian Eno
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Michael Connor <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> Dennis, I hope you'll give us a heads up when the article comes out..
>
> We've posted a bit more background on the conservation process and issues
> that arose on the Davis project over at Rhizome:
>
> http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/jun/12/restoring-douglas-davis-collaborative-sentence/
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Dennis Moser <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
>
> > It is with a certain sense of irony that I read these recent postings on
> > these works and the challenges of their preservation and conservation.
> >
> > Why? I'm wrapping up an article for a certain US journal for art
> libraries,
> > trying to draw attention to these very kinds of works and their
> associated
> > problems. It's gone out for review twice now, because two of the three
> > reviewers in the first round couldn't wrap their heads around the fact
> that
> > such works were being created and collected.
> >
> > I'm grateful for the journal editor's support and determination to get my
> > article in print. But the experience has left me wondering just who is
> > paying attention to these things (New Aesthetic? What's that? and why
> > should we care?) ...
> >
> > Best to all,
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> > ~~
> > If your first move is brilliant, you’re in trouble. You don’t really know
> > how to follow it; you’re frightened of ruining it. So, to make a mess is
> a
> > good beginning. — Brian Eno
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Brian Degger <[log in to unmask]
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Sarah and CRUMB,
> > > Hope you are enjoying ISEA13.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the article.
> > >
> > > The type of conservation problem are already here with bio-art and art
> > > based upon unstable/ food based media. And GMOarts are even more
> > > problematical.
> > > The artist neither want to use 'fake' food or to constantly renew the
> > work.
> > >
> > > For a abstract in 2011
> > > http://die-neue-sammlung.de/event/?p=953&lang=en "Developing
> > > durable Foodstuffs for Contemporary Art
> > > Anna Comiotto | Marc Egger | Caroline Forster | Agathe Jarczyk |
> > Isabelle
> > > Krieg | George Steinmann | Markus Vaihinger | Karin Wyss"
> > > *Abstract |* This paper provides an insight into a one-year research
> > > project for the development of treatments to stabilise foodstuff
> against
> > > chemical and biological decay. The research was carried out with a
> strong
> > > focus on interdisciplinary collaborations bringing together
> conservators,
> > > chemists, food-technologists and artists.
> > > Foodstuffs are widely used in contemporary art and have found their way
> > > into product and fashion design applications as well. Many food
> products
> > > are well known as a very ephemeral matter, attacked e.g. by enzymes,
> > moulds
> > > and bugs and prone to shape and colour changes. The limited ageing
> > > stability can be welcomed by artists to demonstrate decay, as
> experienced
> > > e.g. by looking at rotting food, mould and beetles in artworks of
> Dieter
> > > Roth or Michael Blazy. Nobody regrets the foodstuff’s ephemerality as
> > well,
> > > if nourishment is cooked and served by Rirkrit Tiravanija (“Untitled”,
> > > 1992) or consumed by Marina Abramović (“The Onion”, 1996). In contrast
> to
> > > this, the research project sets focus on artists, who aim to outsmart
> > > transience. They are looking for long-term stable food materials.
> > Creating
> > > “fake food” or the need to continuously renew the work after spoilage,
> > are
> > > not in accordance with their artistic statements.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:00 AM, NEW-MEDIA-CURATING automatic digest
> > > system <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > There is 1 message totaling 17 lines in this issue.
> > > >
> > > > Topics of the day:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Future of digital art...
> > > >
> > > >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:15:33 +0000
> > > > From: Sarah Cook <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > Subject: Future of digital art...
> > > >
> > > > Dear Crumb
> > > >
> > > > This article was brought to my attention during a q&a here at ISEA in
> > > > Sydney .... Check the 63 comments too on this article about
> > > sustainability
> > > > of digital work ... Very telling.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/arts/design/whitney-saves-douglas-daviss-first-collaborative-sentence.html?from=homepage
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my pocket.
> > > >
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> > > >
> > > > End of NEW-MEDIA-CURATING Digest - 10 Jun 2013 to 11 Jun 2013
> > (#2013-85)
> > > >
> > ************************************************************************
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > > Brian Degger
> > > twitter: @drbrian
> > >
> > > http://makerspace.org.uk
> > > http://transitlab.org
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> > >
> >
>
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