 An excerpt from the interview Cory Arcangel did with me at Rhizome.org [dead link - see below]:
"The computer still has the shock
of the new, or the shock of the bad in some cases. Art world folks know
painting, photo, and printmaking lore, but are less secure--myself
included--knowing what constitutes talent on the computer as opposed to some
easy-to-do technical trick. I thought because everyone had Paint or the
equivalent on their computer and had at least made a mark or spritzed the
spraycan, they could see that I was doing something more ambitious with it.
I was thinking of this guy in New Mexico who made perfect perspective
drawings using an Etch a Sketch. If I could draw La Femme Nikita from
scratch on this toy program and actually have people (well, guys) say she's
hot, then a landmark would be achieved for both Paintbrush and the computer.
The problem is I drew her so realistically people assumed I was running a
photo though a pixelating filter.
"When I talk about craft on the blog, just to make it clear, I'm not talking
about drawing ability but things like mosaics and needlepoints that relate
to the computer on a much more fundamental image-making level, the grid
level. I love the cross-stitch patterns and beadwork you can find online
based on MSPaint drawings. In the late '90s I was impressed by the writing
of cyberfeminist Sadie Plant, who opened up for me a whole organic,
non-analytical way of looking at computation. She traces digital equipment
back to one of its earliest uses, as punchcards for looms, and talks of the
internet as a distributed collaborative artwork akin to traditionally
feminine craft projects At the time I was drawing and printing hundreds of
spheres at work and bringing them home, cutting polygons around them, and
then taping the polygons back together in enormous paper quilts. In my press
release for the Derek Eller show we called it 'corporate tramp art.'"
Update: New Link to Cory's interview with me.
Happy Birthday!
In case you didn't see it, your interview got posted again. cool.
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"The computer still has the shock of the new, or the shock of the bad in some cases. Art world folks know painting, photo, and printmaking lore, but are less secure--myself included--knowing what constitutes talent on the computer as opposed to some easy-to-do technical trick. I thought because everyone had Paint or the equivalent on their computer and had at least made a mark or spritzed the spraycan, they could see that I was doing something more ambitious with it. I was thinking of this guy in New Mexico who made perfect perspective drawings using an Etch a Sketch. If I could draw La Femme Nikita from scratch on this toy program and actually have people (well, guys) say she's hot, then a landmark would be achieved for both Paintbrush and the computer. The problem is I drew her so realistically people assumed I was running a photo though a pixelating filter.
"When I talk about craft on the blog, just to make it clear, I'm not talking about drawing ability but things like mosaics and needlepoints that relate to the computer on a much more fundamental image-making level, the grid level. I love the cross-stitch patterns and beadwork you can find online based on MSPaint drawings. In the late '90s I was impressed by the writing of cyberfeminist Sadie Plant, who opened up for me a whole organic, non-analytical way of looking at computation. She traces digital equipment back to one of its earliest uses, as punchcards for looms, and talks of the internet as a distributed collaborative artwork akin to traditionally feminine craft projects At the time I was drawing and printing hundreds of spheres at work and bringing them home, cutting polygons around them, and then taping the polygons back together in enormous paper quilts. In my press release for the Derek Eller show we called it 'corporate tramp art.'"
Update: New Link to Cory's interview with me.
- tom moody 10-31-2005 6:45 pm
Happy Birthday!
- PM Summer (guest) 10-31-2005 11:05 pm
In case you didn't see it, your interview got posted again. cool.
- paul (guest) 11-04-2005 1:48 am