Radicant Images

Shirin Nashat


Kutlug Ataman - Kuba


Laszlo Moholy-Nagy


Julie Mehretu


Darren Almond

Mike Kelly

Radicant Notes and Questions

Q: Is the economic globalization really making us into a homogenous culture?

Q: Is globalization a natural evolutionary result that has been happening throughout history but just recently happening at a much greater scale? If it is, should we even be thinking about how we should change or adapt to this new world? or would the answers come naturally like just like the event?

Q: "non-western artists as guests to be treated with politeness, not full fledged actors on the cultural scene in their own right" Is this wrong? when at non-western regions the western artists will be treated with politeness and so on.

Q: Is the cultural origin "root" really nothing more than a phantom limb after amputation in this modern globalized world?

Q: What are some major problems that can occur from the world embracing Tabula Rasa?

Post-Production notes + Questions

Notes

*What is Art in today's terms? Is the term "Art" too far away from the original meaning making the term out-dated and not applicable?

*When the consumer or the viewer makes the art, does the artist even need to know what he/she is creating? Or is just the question enough to make the artist the artist?

*If the "question" is enough to make the artist "the artist", are the viewer's also "the artist" by coming up with "answers"?

*With the artists becoming re-interpretors, appropriators, experimenters, social commentators, philosopher, etc, is there still a place for the artist the creator of "original" things? now? in near future?

*Is it no longer possible to create anything "original"? in the actual meaning of the word?

Post-Production artist images

Daniel Pflumm


Wang Du Strategie en chambre, 1999


Matthieu Laurette


Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster


Haim Steinbach


Jason Rhoades


Liam Gillick Övningskörning (Driving Practice), 2004


Rikrit Tiravanija


Bertrand Lavier

Anton Vidokle Images

Helio Oiticica

Grand Nucleus

Nocagions

Invention of Colour 

Benjamin Walter notes and questions

a) What is the "Aura" of a work of art?

The "uniqueness" or "authenticity" that many people feel is necessary in a artwork. It is the magical or mysterious quality that maintained a distance between the art and it's creator to the viewers. According  to Walter Benjamin, mechanical reproduction made the "aura" wither away.

b)In Benjamin's mind, what effects did mechanical reproduction, such as film and the camera/photography, have on the viewer's perception of art?

With photography and film, art no longer had to look at the world in retrospect. The almost instant and real quality of camera and film made the art move at the speed of speech. It also brought the public closer to art, since it was more easy to understand in process and final product.

c)What is meant by the passage:"for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual."

Due to mechanical reproduction and artwork being created for reproduction like the slide image where the idea of "original" doesn't make sense, the "aura" no longer had to exist on a artwork. You no longer have to be "qualified" to make art, anyone with a camera could easily approach and experiment with any type of art they pleased. 

d)What mechanically or otherwise reproductive processes are changing the face of art today?

rapid prototyping (3D printer)  and 3D softwares, video or image editing softwares (Photoshop, Flash, Final Cut) and the internet. Youtube, blogs and wysiwyg web design softwares like Dreamweaver are making reproduced and original artworks visible to anyone around the world. Also, many hardwares that were previously too expensive for individual owners are quickly becoming more and more affordable.