I like how the book talked about experimenting with more than just ideas and media, but also with technologies and systems. Indeed, if many of the artists found Duchamp’s work inspirational, as the book suggests, the new information age would add much to the art scene. Duchamp’s body of work was about the ready-made object, which, to him, connected art and life together. So, the more technologies and systems were available, the more people began to experiment with them in artistic ways. Olia Lialina’s “My Boyfriend Came Back from the War” was very interesting to me. This shows a highly personal and solely decorative website. It is meant to only be viewed aesthetically. It looks like an internet collage. The starkness of it is quite striking. It was also very interesting to me that many of the artists and movements noted in the book were from
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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