How to make research-driven art
Art is not an object, but a special kind of communication between an artist and an audience. It’s a communication for when words won’t do. For when you want to communicate something more interesting, nutritious, complex, or strange. But since high bandwidth telepathy doesn’t exist yet, a mediating object needs to be crafted to articulate this commu
... See moreIan Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
In creating art, the sum total of the parts often defies expectation. Theory and practice don’t always line up. The formula that worked yesterday might not work tomorrow. The proven solutions are sometimes the least helpful.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Who is doing this kind of research as leisure activity? Artists, often. To return to the site that originally inspired this post—I’d say that the artist/designer/educator Laurel Schwulst uses Are.na to develop and refine particular themes, directions, topics of inquiry...some of which become artworks or essays or classes that she teaches.
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Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Charles Broskoski: Where does your impulse to organize come from?
Damon Zucconi: It’s less an impulse to organize and more an impulse to locate productive structures that I could work within. I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out different co... See more
Damon Zucconi: It’s less an impulse to organize and more an impulse to locate productive structures that I could work within. I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out different co... See more