15 points
Art Creation Project by Icky Bob
March 28th, 2006 2:40 PM
“Bio-madey"
Bio-made, birth defects, anomalies and “DEFECTIVE PRODUCT ENHANCEMENT"
A preferred medium use is birth defect/enhancement and medical anomalies as readymade expression of a dystopian environment’s myriad of effects on species. With the growing influence of bio-technology into the following decades, “Bio-made� DNA expression is the next step in artistic expression. The laboratory is the new artist studio, the bio engineer a new artist.
Gold, when used in art, as in medieval altar pieces, is present for its own innate quality, and is therefore a found object, as are precious jewels used in artworks. The essential difference is that these materials were already considered precious, whereas modern art's use of found objects has mostly been of mundane items, which are then deemed to be elevated into a special status.
An exception in 2003 was the Chapman Brothers use of a set of Goya prints, The Disasters of War, which they "adapted" by collaging clown and puppy faces onto the figures. The prints were valuable already in their own right, but sold for a considerably higher sum after they had been altered. [3]
Damien Hirst has stated that a painting is an adapted found object (the object being paint),i.e. the whole history of art is based on the found objects.
In the 19th century, the French writer Comte de Lautréamont had drawn attention to the possibilities of transforming the otherwise mundane object the now famous phrase, "Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table."
“Every object implies a certain kind of subject. Psychoanalysis is, of course, dedicated to uncovering this kind of relation. The fetish object, for example, implies a subject that is split along the lines of acknowledgement and denial of castration. The glossy perfection of objects in fashion magazines, for another example, implies a narcissistic subject who fears and defends against the ravages of the body in pieces. Or again, the immaculate new kitchen as object implies a subject trying to keep a lid on a repressed desire for glorious muck; the kitchen is what's called a "reaction formation." You will notice that in each of these cases, the object does not, so to speak, "match" the subject; rather, there is an inverted relationship, since the object is supposed to compensate somehow for a subjective sense of deficiency.�
- Margaret Iversen
Bio-made, birth defects, anomalies and “DEFECTIVE PRODUCT ENHANCEMENT"
A preferred medium use is birth defect/enhancement and medical anomalies as readymade expression of a dystopian environment’s myriad of effects on species. With the growing influence of bio-technology into the following decades, “Bio-made� DNA expression is the next step in artistic expression. The laboratory is the new artist studio, the bio engineer a new artist.
Gold, when used in art, as in medieval altar pieces, is present for its own innate quality, and is therefore a found object, as are precious jewels used in artworks. The essential difference is that these materials were already considered precious, whereas modern art's use of found objects has mostly been of mundane items, which are then deemed to be elevated into a special status.
An exception in 2003 was the Chapman Brothers use of a set of Goya prints, The Disasters of War, which they "adapted" by collaging clown and puppy faces onto the figures. The prints were valuable already in their own right, but sold for a considerably higher sum after they had been altered. [3]
Damien Hirst has stated that a painting is an adapted found object (the object being paint),i.e. the whole history of art is based on the found objects.
In the 19th century, the French writer Comte de Lautréamont had drawn attention to the possibilities of transforming the otherwise mundane object the now famous phrase, "Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table."
“Every object implies a certain kind of subject. Psychoanalysis is, of course, dedicated to uncovering this kind of relation. The fetish object, for example, implies a subject that is split along the lines of acknowledgement and denial of castration. The glossy perfection of objects in fashion magazines, for another example, implies a narcissistic subject who fears and defends against the ravages of the body in pieces. Or again, the immaculate new kitchen as object implies a subject trying to keep a lid on a repressed desire for glorious muck; the kitchen is what's called a "reaction formation." You will notice that in each of these cases, the object does not, so to speak, "match" the subject; rather, there is an inverted relationship, since the object is supposed to compensate somehow for a subjective sense of deficiency.�
- Margaret Iversen
