Monthly Archives: June 2006

MOCOLOCO : Fab Contemporary Modern Design

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MOCOLOCO Contemporary Modern DesignA big thank you to Pierre over at Ph.Design (hmm, now there’s an site interface I enjoyed building way back when – can’t wait to do an upgrade of it… P, just say when!) for pointing me at mocoloco – a rather fabulous design hyperlog (decided I don’t like the term ‘blog’after-all :).

I think it says some accurate and interesting things that its self-description tagline confidently uses both the terms, in blatant succession, ‘modern’ ‘contemporary’ design news, and manages to sustain it as a convincing visual aesthetic. For stimulating proof of this, have a sqwiz through the many wonderful doodads and designer designs in the ‘Misc’ category (like these not so dumb dumbellscontemporary modern dumbells design (which I am sure Continue reading →

Media Design Technologist : Identity Assignment

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Consider ‘Media Design and Technologies’, in relation to contemporary art.
Question: What are the most pertinent new ideas in contemporary art?
(This is not a rhetorical question) Consider the keywords locus, network, software, generative, agency and avant-garde.
How should we know? Research!

How, if at all, does the ideas that emerge from the above impact on your Identity as a designer?
Discuss with reference to your online identity.
Assessment:
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Assorted cerebral skims

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Enola Gaia, Dr Randall Whitiker, Autopoiesis & Enaction + Information Warfare

What is art? (in What is Philosophy?)

Reading group on What is Philosophy?

re nonlinearity: “…Pierre Huyghe strikes a universal chord when he explains that he carves up the narratives in his video installations to escape overly efficient, and therefore limiting, storytelling. Fragmentation enables him to access what he calls the “exponential present,”… as an object to think with, “Broken Screen” is a stirring example of what I call visual intellectuality. The book ends with…”

It’s Art Magazine ‘Interview’

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The latest issue of IT’s Art Magazine, #0004 is available online free for view-only pdf and and $3.50 for the printable version. It includes interviews with and work by Eric Scala, Fred Bastide, Marc Simonneti, Ziv Qual, Isabelle Hubert Olivier, Philippe Batini and yours truly, André SC.
Availble in French and reasonable English.

So, in view of shameless self promotion herewith an excerpt from the editorial column as well as from the text of my interview. For all the fabulous images in it is more than worth the download.

…artists with different inspiration and various working methods, but these two concepts merge: a vision and an inventive mind continuously in search of new horizons. This research can give birth to more than new artwork but can also suggest a new way to describe the world and introduce us to it.

The most blatant example in this issue is certainly André SC’s proposition. This South African artist whom in one way follows the tracks drawn by Nathaniel Stern and in another, gives us his own vision of “Compressionism”. This art is in equilibrium somewhere between the real world and the virtual one using technology to simultaneously promote questions and offer answers to the audience…

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