commit 2d51919df3891a5bf153c294956f86c52f23d56e
parent b762496e1d449f2b51c7859250e2fadf7af6a46e
Author: ugrnm <ultrageranium@bleu255.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 11:17:54 +0100
captions for constraints + oneliners
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1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
@@ -220,32 +220,33 @@ class: inverted, middle, center
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/01-pakkete.png)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[El Paquete (Julia Weist and Nestor Siré)]
???
-- constraints via alternative media distribution , i.e. El Paquete Semanal @ Cuba (1970s onward, http://work.deaccession.org/el-paquete-semanal/
+- constraints via alternative media distribution
+- example here with a project that document ephemeral media circulation in Cuba
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/02-teamspeak-snet.jpg)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[TeamSpeak (Julia Weist and Nestor Siré)]
???
-- https://unthinking.photography/articles/interview-with-nestor-sire-part-ii
+- Still in Cuba, TeamSpeak a chat application for online gaming that is central to SNEST an alternative Internet
- SNET
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/03-Original_Video_Journal_1_still.jpg)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[Originální Videojournal]
???
-- dissident video magazine Original Videojournal @ CS : https://monoskop.org/Original_Videojournal
+- Original Videojournal a late 80s dissident video magazine edited and copied secretly on school equipment in Czechoslovakia
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/04-ubu.jpg)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[UbuWeb film/video archive]
???
- lowres glitchy artist's videos on ubuweb (working under restrictive copyright regimes)
@@ -253,74 +254,74 @@ background-image: url(history/04-ubu.jpg)
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/05-Second_Spring_Exhibition_of_OBMOKhU_Moscow_May-June_1921_b.jpg)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[Second Spring Exhibition of OBMOKhU, Moscow, May-June 1921]
???
- socioeconomic constraints (working in poverty):
-- russian and soviet constructivists using wood and scrap metal because other art supplies were scarce , most famously @ https://monoskop.org/OBMOKhU#Second_Spring_Exhibition
+- russian and soviet constructivists using wood and scrap metal because other art supplies were scarce
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/06-IMG-20220727-WA0004.jpg)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[Mpho Makutu uses scraps from Johannesburg’s dump sites to build electronics/electric devices]
???
-- diy tech creativity in poverty , e.g. https://espact.com/meet-this-24-year-old-south-african-student-who-builds-robots-from-scrap/
+- diy tech creativity in poverty, that shows in mainstream media every now and then as a twisted ode to creativity in the global south
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/07-chicanx.jpg)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[1973 support for the United Farm Workers making use of discarded computer print]
???
-- recycling, e.g. https://americanart.si.edu/blog/recycling-revolution-alternative-media-chicanx-protest-art
+- recycling, Artists in the 1970s used discarded materials to quickly and inexpensively produce their work
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/08-HOLO-Dossiers-Vera-Molnar-Variations-LEAD-D.gif)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[Vera Molnar, 36 Squares, 8928 Quadrilaterals: Pleasure Geometries (1986), excerpt]
???
- formal constraints (self-imposed and/or limited by technology):
-- early computer artists in the late 1960s/early 70s working out algos for plotters without screens (e.g. Vera Molnar: “In the early days, computing was a blind process. Artist gave instructions using punch cards but wouldn’t see the results of their program for hours or even days.” [warning: heavy site: ] https://www.holo.mg/dossiers/vera-molnar-weaving-variations/ )
+- early computer artists working out algos for plotters without screens
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/09-KMM_Merz_01.JPG)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[Igloo di pietra (1982) by Mario Merz]
???
-- arte povera in Italy from late 1960s : "The movement born in open polemic with traditional art, whose techniques and supports it rejects in order to resort, precisely, to "poor" materials such as earth, wood, iron, rags, plastic, and industrial waste, .... Another characteristic of the work of the artists of the movement is the use of the form of the installation, as the site of the relationship between the work and the environment, and that of the performative "action."
-
+- arte povera in Italy from late 1960s : "The movement born in open polemic with traditional art, whose techniques and supports it rejects in order to resort, precisely, to "poor" materials such as earth, wood, iron, rags, plastic, and industrial waste"
---
class: contain, bottom, left
-background-image: url(history/)
-.caption[caption]
+background-image: url(history/09-disparition.jpeg)
+.caption[La Disparition (1969) by Georges Perec]
???
-- Oulipo
+- constraint in literature: for instance with OuLiPo collective, here in the novel "la disparition" from Georges Perec, the letter "e" is not used at all.
---
class: contain, bottom, left
-background-image: url(history/)
-.caption[caption]
+background-image: url(history/09-gramophone_1200.jpg)
+.caption[live typewriting drawing (2011) by Keira Rathbone]
???
-- typewriter art
+- typewriter art, a sort of cousin of ASCII art in some way
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/10-atrium-4k.jpg)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[Atrium (2008) 4k PC demo by TBC & Loonies]
???
- software-based art
-- for instance demoscene : 4kb intros etc..
+- for instance demoscene : 4kb intros
+- oh and by 4k we don't mean 4k resolution we mean that the software to generate this animation is only 4 kilobyte big
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/11-mari-autoprogettazione-1b.jpg)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[Autoprogettazione (1974) by Enzo Mari]
???
- constraints related to materials
@@ -329,18 +330,18 @@ background-image: url(history/11-mari-autoprogettazione-1b.jpg)
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/12-papenak.jpg)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[Nomadic Furniture (1973) by Victor Papanek]
???
-- Papenak et. al. more furniture based on found industrial materials
+- furniture based on found industrial materials
---
class: contain, bottom, left
background-image: url(history/13-rustic.jpg)
-.caption[caption]
+.caption[The Cabinetmakers Chair (1994) by Daniel Mack]
???
-- "rustic" furniture made using saplings, bits of firewood, driftwood, scraps, old tool handles : http://www.danielmack.com/about/Furniture2015.html
+- "rustic" furniture made using saplings, bits of firewood, driftwood, scraps, old tool handles
- you get the point, constraint and "creativity" have a very rich history
- we will get back however to the nature of some of these
