Art and the Techno-business
A couple of recent posts have talked about digital technology. I think this does have something to do with art, and not just because the tech hype writers have tried to draw from art for marketing...
View ArticleHysterical Rhetoric of Innovation
In art novelty, originality, the new, are all important markers of difference. Their importance lies in their objectivity—the degree of newness can be measured. The same applies to business, although...
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Ink-jet Paintings
In the September Artforum Wolfgang Tillmans waxes rhapsodical about ink-jet technology. He observes that many works shown as paintings today are ink-jets. There is no problem with this that I can see,...
View ArticlePolitics of Blogging
John Kelsey’s article in last September’s Artforum, with its criticisms of digital networking, combined with some comments from my friend Scott Lyall, provoked me to take a step back and ask what it is...
View ArticleEconomics of Blogging
Jaron Lanier’s new book makes a strong case that the digital economy is a rip-off, particularly of creators. This is something I’ve long thought, though my experience of it has been limited—until now....
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No Creativity
Just been reading an interesting article in The Slate. It just says in very plain language what I’ve felt for a long time, namely that the rhetoric of creativity in business is merely rhetoric. Here’s...
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The Artwork in Our Time
Miklos Legrady, an artist in Toronto who has a penchant for polemic, has just published on e-flux conversations what he thinks of as a rebuttal to Benjamin’s famous artwork essay. It takes the form of...
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