If I'm going to encourage people to post videos to MemeStreams I might as well just cut to the chase. You ever seen these guys on MTV?! I know I could have made a better video for this song, but I couldn't have made a better song.
It seems clear to a lot of us that there is a problem ...
What kind of art does the future deserve? How should we advance?
Much of the [current] work is repetitive and derivative in a way that starts to resemble planned cultural obsolescence.
A strange cycle has set in, whereby the most valuable attribute an artist can have is "promise." With a lot of big bets being placed, the artist has to be both young and verifiable. In other words, marketable. But almost none of our superstar artists have delivered on their promise.
A practical avant-garde is post-careerist. It seeks out low rent and private time, and it concentrates on powerful objects.
It takes real bravery and commitment to one's project to, essentially, take it underground, and eskew the financial resources of the system and their associated strings. Perhaps the art we're looking for is out there, but its looking for a way to find us that doesn't cost money.
I'd been avoided looking at this because electronic writing on buildings has been done before, but their setup is actually fairly cool. The folks at Graffiti Research Labs created a rig that facilitates painting with light on the side of a building. It uses a high lumens projector to project the light, a green laser pointer to do the writing, and a security/astrononmy camera to detect where the green laser was pointed. They have made all the code available under the GPL.
A set of long exposures that were taken while playing video war games of the 80's, created by Atari, Centuri & Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while playing the games. By recording each second of an entire game on 1 frame of film, captured complex patterns were captured not normally seen by the naked eye. Fantastic! Where can I get prints?
possibly noteworthy wrote: Read books. I doubt you'll ever find yourself associating a YouTube video with a place and time in your life.
Well, if for no other reason than a book requires such a large investment of time while also failing to fully consume the senses that it becomes associated with the time and place in which it was read, regardless of how good it was. The most important events of this century are those for which everyone recalls exactly where they were when the news reached them because the emotional impact of the event was so extreme that the memories are burned brightly into everyone's cortext... some mechansim in the mind designed to learn how to avoid bad experiences is triggered by the worst national tragedies... The Kennedy Assasination, the Challenger Explosion, September 11th... It is inevitable with the poliferation of citizen journalism that some future historical event will reach you first as a short video on the Internet. You'll have just a few minutes to view it before the servers become overloaded. You'll tell your grandchildren where you were when you got the link.
For some reason this has never been posted to MemeStreams. I you haven't seen it before its worth a look.
A series of drawings from an isometric perspective, in the style of a computer game. The subject of each drawing is the image, or images, that created a popular cultural event. Historical events (like the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel) are used interchangeably with fictionalized events (like the picnic scene from The Sound of Music).
The artist was included in a recent book about the influence of video games on art.
