tom moody

proposal to jeff sisson re: "cognitive surplus credits" (tried this link on twitter but tinyurl made my url too tiny and then I wanted to 'url)

Jeff,
I propose we have cognitive surplus credits.
You can trade comments you have posted elsewhere in English for three of these YouTubes.
High-fiving Tracky results in a loss of one YouTube credit.

Not really, but Clay Shirky has convinced me we need to start taking our surplus more seriously

Update: More on cognitive surplus credits.

Joel Holmberg's Rhizome Commission proposal: Live Streaming Video of Some Dude's Mac Screensaver (thx, cosmic)

This is funny, underdetermined, and an example of XYZ art where X becomes X using no fancy algorithm whatsoever and does not purport to save the world through art. Holmberg says of the nascent work: "Like many of my previous works LSVoSDMS uses the computer environment as a generative system while conflating parody and sincere appreciation."

That is, 4chan, 7chan, etc.--collective sites of posts by mostly anonymous users that serve as breeding grounds for animated GIFs and other "meme" art. Vijay Pattisapu has an informative rundown on them in the Rhizome.org discussion forum. Some have furrowed their brows wondering how that kind of anarchic creative energy, native to the world wide web, can be translated into capital A art. But they have not furrowed their brows enough for some other people, as can be seen on the same Rhizome thread.

Two reviews of Ross Knight's recent Team Gallery show noted the connection of his work to the ephemeral sculptures in the New Museum's "Unmonumental" survey. He certainly deserved to be in the exhibit but perhaps wouldn't have benefited being crammed into a room with other appropriators.

8 years ago yrs truly wrote an article for Sculpture that compared Knight, Rachel Harrison, and the recently Vvorked Michael Phelan and related their work to Minimalist art since the '60s. Just noticed that Team has a decent pdf of the essay online. [pdf] Of the three only Harrison had any juice with the NewMu curators, but compared to those administrators' sprawling kitchen sink show of kitchen sink artists the Sculpture article "Secondary Structures" is hellishly focused and argued with the passion of a religious recruiter, if I do say so.

One afterthought about the article. I described "institutional critique" as a period style ranging from the '80s to the mid '90s and in my lead said that that generation of artists "revealed" the white cube environment to be "riddled with patriarchal assumptions." The rest of the article lays out more clearly what was meant with that academyspeak, but the lead seems un-nuanced and perhaps should have read "proposed" or "posited" rather than "revealed."