hello!
One of my passions is avant-garde fine art. I like art that challenges, that tells a story even if it is not an easy one to tell. This is not Thomas Kinkade. Art has long been how humans interact with the world, I think that humans are lacking art with one of the most powerful ways to interact with media - the computer. I think that's pathetic.
My problem is how to make art and the process of making art more accessible. This does not mean dumbing down the art. I'm not interesting in explaining in some sort of pedantic way. I would like to envision new ways of displaying and viewing art combined with new media practices. This would help artists as well as viewers.
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The painting is tragic in that it emphasizes the total degradation of aesthetic principles so common in the American urban landscape, an environment built for the exploitation of oil, automobiles and rampant consumption, where Media (the satellite antenna) dominates everything and creates the ultimate chaos.
One of the most beautiful experiences of my life was when I visited Venice for the first time. One thing is to walk across a painted world in your mind by following compositional structures that guide you and drive you, another is to physically, mentally and emotionally be immersed in it. Venice, Florence and other Renaissance cities are works of art themselves, a conscious collaborative design where every corner, door, stair, entrance, wall plaza or window is there as a compositional element of a larger living sculptural environment.
Something that only the Renaissance and the patronage that enabled it could have created.
I think the difference and difficulty in interacting with the computer in a more humanistic and aesthetic way lies in the origin, or the seed if you will. Just something to think about...