Saturday Night Fever
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Saturday Night Fever |
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| Toleration
for Loneliness/ Isolation few colleagues, showing venues,
art history not accept art world not interested Personal anecdote MFA show Kent State Interactive
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Exception Journal Leonardo 
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| Resourcefulness
to learn strange things Information obscure Disciplines not artist friendly few schools not many artists interested, networks exceptions: Generative Systtems Sonia Sheridan, other programs  |
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| Challenge
to invent new ways to think about work People want to assimilate to new media or sculpture Discourse not include larger cultural issues |
 Martin Newell - Utah Teapot |
| Innocence
about popular culture, science, research worlds Issolation of art/media world Optimism about cutlure transformation |
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| The
computer revolution. The microcomputer Non professionals could become inventors, innovators, entreprenurs Expectation of technical interest, literacy Artists as researchers, not just users |
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| World
Wide Web Break down barriers between disciplines Can locate information for any project Can find other artists Can be found by others |
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| Tolerance for Isolation Many more people working Web has changed information exchange. Access technical information, colleagues Disseminate work |
 We Make Money Not Art Web Site |
| Resourcefulness
to learn Many educational programs Networks to discuss issues, provide information & support Open source, DIY, make magazine  |
 CIA Program - SFSU |
| New
Ways to Think about Work Theory, books, critique |
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| Loss
of Innocence What is arts avant garde role in culture or technology? Relation of art/media/research/commerce? |
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| Obsolescence
Moving so fast - todays radical innovation is tommorrow's yawn Engines of innovation reved up How should artists respond Personal Anecdote - The 1997 Telepresent Project World's first mobile, gps enabled, automatic web camera |
 wilson - Telepresent 1997 |
| Still
Marginalized Museums and Art World still don't get it Someone working in experimental areas still on the fringe |
 Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand Camera Lucida (sonuluminescent chambers) |
| Theoretical
Confusion Can there any separation of art world from world of commerce/government/media? Is there any possibility of genuine invention and innovation? Are there possibilities of cultural advance from researh Are there possibilities of cultural advance from art? How should we think about the relationship of science to the larger culture? |
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| Interflow of science, invention,
and culture 18th&19th century Science as entertainment Gentlemen inventors Cult of the amateur: "a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons" Will the development of biological research duplicate microcomputers? Popular involvement with development of the microscope |
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