RE: LIFESCIENCE: Re: misdirections

[Ewan Stefani <e.j.stefani@leeds.ac.uk>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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Richard schrieb:
"to create art you have to have some utopian view into the future "
Are you saying that art *cannot* be created without this?
Is art really designed to consciously fulfill a future role all the time?
What if the artist has no knowledge of the wider cultural and historical 
implications of his / her work of art?

"art always refers to something"
Of course, but the something may be indescribable.

"or [to] develop different concepts of world regards"
Do you mean to develop communication between nations or societies?

"so this is the point of view of very conservative art historian telling 
you have to wait 50 years to tell something about an piece of art"
I agree, but perhaps we now create too self-consciously, too much to feed 
future discussion, too much to win the next grant, competition or 
publication!


On Thursday, June 17, 1999 7:37 AM, Prof. Dr. Birgit Richard 
[SMTP:B.Richard@kunst.uni-frankfurt.de] wrote:
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> ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
> LIFESCIENCE
> Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
> http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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> speer schrieb:
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> > all this discussion of what lifescience is or will be seems indulgent..
> >
> >    art ,,like life will only reveal itself for what it is AFTER it has 
been
> > created.
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> so this means no more speculations until everything has happened and it 
is too
> late to discuss the topic, raise questions and develop some consciousness 
for a
> scientific field that is totally shaped by an industry like in the case 
of the
> icelandic gen databank.
> to create art you have to have some utopian view into the future because 
art
> always refers to something or develop different concepts of world
> regards.
> so this is the point of view of very conervative art historian telling 
you have
> to wait 50 years to tell something about an piece of art, only then you 
have
> the necessary reflective attittude.
> b.richard
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