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Quick links: glass microbiology, YouTube videos as art,
Via Anne Galloway ("Visualisation, materialisation and affect"): Artist Luke Jerram's Glass Microbiology -- beautiful and mysterious sculptures of viruses (Avian flu, smallpox, HIV, etc.).
Alex Juhasz: Everything on YouTube is Video Art... Nah, responding to Virginia Heffernan's NYT column Uploading the Avant-Garde ("In serving these niche audiences with their microgenres, YouTube has solidified its slot as a home for the vernacular avant-garde."). Says Juhasz:
In my paper, I decide that while all the people-made stuff (a sub-set distinguished from the corporate made product that dominates the site) COULD be considered art in the sense that it has been carefully crafted and then consciously distributed with the intention of the public communication of self expression, I don’t want to consider the clearly unconsidered work on YouTube to be “Art.” In its self-aware isolation (I made this in my room, or my backyard with my wrestling buddies), it doesn’t consciously connect to other bodies or theories of video, or to other artists; it doesn’t show enough care. I suppose there could be a “scene” of butt-catchers, as Heffernan suggests, but towards what project, with what beliefs? You need a shared vocabulary, agenda, history, and set of goals to make an “art scene.”
I often don't agree with Juhasz on YouTube, but it's always interesting to try to figure out how and why.
Finally, Sady from Tiger Beatdown: Beyond Good and Evil, Straight to Annoying: A Few Thoughts on Michael Moore --
The question of pseudo-colouring in biomedicine and its use for science communicative purposes, is a vast and complex subject. If some images are coloured for scientific purposes, and others altered simply for aesthetic reasons, how can a viewer tell the difference? How many people believe viruses are brightly coloured? Are there any colour conventions and what kind of ‘presence’ do pseudocoloured images have that ‘naturally’ coloured specimens don’t?
Alex Juhasz: Everything on YouTube is Video Art... Nah, responding to Virginia Heffernan's NYT column Uploading the Avant-Garde ("In serving these niche audiences with their microgenres, YouTube has solidified its slot as a home for the vernacular avant-garde."). Says Juhasz:
In my paper, I decide that while all the people-made stuff (a sub-set distinguished from the corporate made product that dominates the site) COULD be considered art in the sense that it has been carefully crafted and then consciously distributed with the intention of the public communication of self expression, I don’t want to consider the clearly unconsidered work on YouTube to be “Art.” In its self-aware isolation (I made this in my room, or my backyard with my wrestling buddies), it doesn’t consciously connect to other bodies or theories of video, or to other artists; it doesn’t show enough care. I suppose there could be a “scene” of butt-catchers, as Heffernan suggests, but towards what project, with what beliefs? You need a shared vocabulary, agenda, history, and set of goals to make an “art scene.”
I often don't agree with Juhasz on YouTube, but it's always interesting to try to figure out how and why.
Finally, Sady from Tiger Beatdown: Beyond Good and Evil, Straight to Annoying: A Few Thoughts on Michael Moore --
...I used to wake up to Air America every morning, thanks to the dude I lived with, and what I heard was a lot of screaming about “sheeple,” a lot of self-righteousness, a lot of talking points. And not a lot of deep thought. And Moore, to me, is like the “sheeple” screaming turned up to eleven. He is so angry! And he is so angry in such a catchy, slogan-y way! He wants you to join him so we can all be angry together! Isn’t that fun? We are such good people. We are people. Not sheeple. God forbid. Hey, let’s throw the word “evil” around! Because we all know that’s not a tactic people commonly use to rile up a base and/or oversimplify issues in a really dangerous way. It’s just fun to say when you don’t like someone and want to scare people away from agreeing with them. Evil evil evil. Woo!