February 28, 2010

N. Bourriaud - The Radicant Pt. 2 - Radicant Aesthetics


Mobilis in mobili.

- Captain Nemo, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea


Bourriaud's discussion of topology and journey-forms part 2 of The Radicant resonated with me and my current work with algorithmic narratives in video and music.

As Bourriaud describes it, static works of art fail to encompass the modern experience of taking in information, which, rather occurring in a straight line (in which the accumulation of information is an additive process), occurs as one traverses a vast web of interconnected concepts (a process of multiplication). This process is especially noticeable with the hyperlink, which allows a viewer to instantly move from one text to another.

This is part of what I've been trying to capture with my current video project, where a computer program is presented with a finite set of video clips and strings them together in time through their spatial orientation on a conceptual matrix. The musical performers and the audience must then be mobile enough to react to the way in which these images and concepts are presented. Just as in Charlemagne Palestine's Island Song [above], the form of the work is the experiential journey.

For the remainder of this entry, I will only post things pertaining to Man or Astro-Man?



1 comment:

  1. Brilliant hyperlink "poem". It's an A.D.D. deconstruction of perception. Are Man or Astro-Man still around? We saw them in Green Bay, Wisconsin in the 1990s. They made a crazy stage show out of crap and duct tape and energy. Amazing.

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