{"id":32910,"date":"2014-03-22T20:45:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T20:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/artforums-new-media-uproar-art-fag-city-at-the\/"},"modified":"2014-03-22T20:45:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T20:45:47","slug":"artforums-new-media-uproar-art-fag-city-at-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/artforums-new-media-uproar-art-fag-city-at-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Artforum’s New-Media Uproar | Art Fag City at the L Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artforum’s New-Media Uproar | Art Fag City at the L Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

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Artforum<\/em>\u2019s actual readership\u2014mainstream gallerists, parents of art students who never changed their mailing address, and coffee table owners\u2014has pretty much been silent. They\u2019re not a crowd, by nature, that sets itself to long internet arguments about the state of art today. But we shouldn\u2019t forget that they are<\/em> for whom Bishop was writing: a great analog horde who can hear the digital apocalypse coming but don\u2019t know which way to run. Rather than reading Bishop\u2019s article as ignorant navel-gazing from art\u2019s ruling class, we should read it for what it is: a proposal for change, the beginnings of a pivot, and a way for mainstream art to claim it\u2019s moving forward without either making everything free (because of digital reproducibility) or lolcats (because lol).<\/p>\n

Take the growing ubiquity of selection as a creative act. We know it\u2019s valuable, because we like Tumblrs. We know it\u2019s creative, because some Tumblrs are better than others. But if you want to make the case that it\u2019s contemporary art, you\u2019re better off making Bishop\u2019s roundabout half-argument about Rashid Johnson\u2019s shelf art\u2014in short, that it\u2019s new because the connections matter more than the objects\u2014rather than pointing to one of net art\u2019s many surf clubs, where the difference between creation and curation has been eroding for years. Our new value system must be emerging<\/em> and exciting<\/em> and occasionally unprecedented<\/em>, but we should be able to see it in the art we already own, and we\u2019d prefer that it didn\u2019t drive anyone out of business. After the requisite decades of outright exclusion, the assimilation of new-media art will be slow and spotty, like the rehabilitation of a rebel militia. The establishment will pick out a few grassroots stars who aren\u2019t too dangerous, artists like Arcangel or Ryan Trecartin who work in bankable media, while pushing out a few trusted souls like Bishop\u2019s artists to scout the new frontier. As with video art, we will endure decades of necromancy, as gradually more confident gallerists unearth one more<\/em> very influential new media artist every six months. There will be no parade, but a few people will eventually be able to pay their bills.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artforum’s New-Media Uproar | Art Fag City at the L Magazine Artforum\u2019s actual readership\u2014mainstream gallerists, parents of art students who never changed their mailing address, and coffee table owners\u2014has pretty much been silent. They\u2019re not a crowd, by nature, that sets itself to long internet arguments about the state of art today. But we shouldn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8yO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}