YOU HAVE TO CHANGE WITH THE TIMES
The problem of the beginning of the year is that it seems to linger on whether you want it or not well into winter. There aren’t many cultural activities and time can only be filled with personal reflection, or, in any case, with wandering thoughts about good and bad intentions to be forgotten by springtime. I’ve been wanting to write for some days and not necessarily about the same old stuff, but I don’t find motivating events, not even to be held in the next days. So I’ll have to keep with my wandering thoughts.
Some days ago I went to the press lunch for ARCO art fair, and I deeply regretted the nonexistent presence of art (more) related to technology all over the festival. The reason might be the change of management and 2007 could be regarded as a transition year, but I’m worried. The good perspectives of 2006’s Black Box section (art projects related to video and new media) are thwarted by the fact that this year will be devoted to videos from art galleries, and the once buzzing Experts section (new media conferences) will be entirely focused on collectionism. So it’s video and transactions, basically.
The ever increasing convergence between art and entertainment. I see games and dolls all around. Even in the gallery circuit most attached to fashion (even if it’s disregarded as fashion there it is, selling drawings and leprechuans with ample success and an artistic touch) ludic aspects rule. In the one hand it’s annullating the dramatization of art. In the other, there’s the willingness to commercialize that encourages to blur frontiers. And technology is the perfect culture medium for such crossings.
Sound art. Has it got back to the circle of music lovers (sound lovers?) and/or has it been laicized through net radios?
Labels: digital art
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