{"id":37242,"date":"2012-04-07T14:15:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T14:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-creators-project-and-the-new-aesthetic\/"},"modified":"2012-04-07T14:15:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T14:15:38","slug":"the-creators-project-and-the-new-aesthetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-creators-project-and-the-new-aesthetic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creators Project and the New Aesthetic"},"content":{"rendered":"

blech<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This week has seen an explosion of writing about James Bridle\u2019s new-aesthetic project<\/a> (if one may call it that), from Bruce Sterling\u2019s essay<\/a>, through\u00a0calls to politics<\/a>,\u00a0references to art history<\/a>, and riffs on music<\/a>. Finally, today, there was a collection of responses<\/a> from several artists on the Creators Project blog<\/a> (as referenced here earlier<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I found that interesting, because when I visited<\/a> the Creators Project show in San Francisco<\/a> in the middle of March, I found it one of the biggest outbreaks of new-aesthetic I\u2019ve seen in a while; probably since decode at the V&A<\/a> in late 2009 (although Talk To Me<\/a> definitely had its moments too). In particular, there were a number of works – Strata #4<\/em> by Quayola<\/a>\u00a0and Overscan<\/em> by Sosolimited<\/a> spring to mind\u00a0– that seem to me to really sum to embody parts of the NA \u201cthing\u201d, whatever it is.<\/p>\n

Strata #4<\/em> is a work that uses scans of Flemish classics in the collection of the Palais de Beaux Arts in France as a starting point for an animation based on polygonal deformations. It\u2019s probably easier to watch the video, but it certainly ties in to the sort of low-res rendering<\/a> some have connected with NA. Meanwhile, Overscan<\/em>\u00a0was easy to overlook, as it\u2019s designed for a bar, not an exhibition space. It consists of five screens, one showing live TV, with the other four processing that data in different ways: showing visualisations based on word usage (from the closed captioning \/ subtitles), face detection, image manipulation, and so on. It\u2019s a lovely piece that, like Strata #4<\/em>, is easier to watch than describe.<\/p>\n

\"Words\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s just two of the dozen or so projects that were on display, which (naturally) varied in quality, longevity, and impact, but which generally felt like some sort of now<\/strong>, if not some kind of future. Some of the friends I went with were annoyed that the event had been bundled with talks and music, but I think my regret was that this wasn\u2019t an exhibition that ran for a couple of months in a museum (SFMOMA, or perhaps San Jose\u2019s Museum of Art) so that there would be time for word of mouth to get people interested.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the point of this is that the collection of new-aesthetic works and influences on Tumblr is a recognition that this stuff is already out there, and that if a curator (as in, someone actually employed by a museum, as opposed to the looser internet definition) decided to organise an exhibition at an established venue, the work needed would be out there. There\u2019s already a movement- it just didn\u2019t have a name.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

blech: This week has seen an explosion of writing about James Bridle\u2019s new-aesthetic project (if one may call it that), from Bruce Sterling\u2019s essay, through\u00a0calls to politics,\u00a0references to art history, and riffs on music. Finally, today, there was a collection of responses from several artists on the Creators Project blog (as referenced here earlier). I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[1539,1825],"class_list":["post-37242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","tag-notational"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9GG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37242","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=37242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}