from spudoogle
Day: April 11, 2013
myth
Artists explain and preserve the human experience through myth, translating internal visions into external interpretations, in order to make sense of physical and psychological worlds. Through a collective agency supported by pervasive connectivity, the creation, purpose, and evolution of myth transfers back into the hands of the global village, reclaimed from centuries of appropriation. Eventually, a sentience emerged, and myths took on a new form—-rather than being explicative, they have become alternative. Advances in technology have rendered natural phenomena mere novelty, seemingly explaining all but the existential meaning and complexity of the human mind. Jung suggests that the collective unconscious is a conditioned state, that archetypes are finite and the same mythologies will reiterate ceaselessly. However, storytellers are no longer interested in interpretation, and instead aim to materialize and explore meta-realities. The communal space of the Internet has developed into a proverbial campfire where we sit, glassy-eyed, transfixed by the glow, waiting for revelations.
What's the state of the modern myth? How do myths proliferate, what do we use to represent them, and what's the cultural value of storytelling? #FUTUREMYTH presents digital artists engaged in contemporary myth-making who are using the gallery as a way to navigate, define, and discuss the current landscape of mythology and its relevance in our technologically dependent lives.
text appropriated from 319 Scholes press release.
lame apologetics for criticism
Criticism admittedly belongs to a westernized Enlightenment tradition of ferreting out and valuing truth and for some that has the taint of original sin. In the mindless silicon pleasure dome of "likes" we need this flawed practice as much as ever, though.
This blog sometimes posts criticism. If you value it, great, please keep in mind it's not written from a position of omniscience and it is hard work to apply reason to something as unreasonable as art.
If you don't value it, don't read it, or -- please, please, tell me you think it's motivated by a grudge or beef. That way I know for certain you don't value it!