Data materialism in art making

tom schofield

EstúdioElásticohttp://dmtr.org/lunarcalendar/

data.gov.uk

data.gov

http://data.gov.uk/dataset/grants-for-the-arts-awards-arts-council-england

30 Hertz Ltd

Jah Wobble -in research of a world music musical 5,000 09-Feb-10 North West Cheadle Stockport Music

Root Music LtdMargins Music Live 37,525 08-Feb-10 North West

Oldham East and Saddleworth Oldham Music

Fuse Third Life 15,389 28-Apr-09 North WestLiverpool, Riverside Liverpool Combined arts

Monkeywood Theatre Company

Maine Road tour 2010 5,000 08-Feb-10 North West

Manchester, Gorton Manchester Theatre

The Reader Organisation

Community Theatre 2010 5,000 05-Feb-10 North West

Liverpool, Riverside Liverpool Theatre

Lena Simic

Artist development & production solo performance 4,999 29-Apr-09 North West

Liverpool, Riverside Liverpool Visual arts

Scraper: a computer program that transforms information from webpagesinto a dataScraperWiki: a website where anyone can write and repair public web scrapers and discover uses for the data

http://scraperwiki.com/

processing.org

openframeworks.cc

HistoricalCulturalCreativeOntological

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//a: historical

“To be sure, sociologists and several conceptual artists such as Victor Burgin and Hans Haacke have shown that pervasive

philanthropy and museum­ controlled ” taste ­making” do exert long term political control over the artistic tastes of the public. But

given the costs and popular failure of technological art, it would appear an enormously inefficient means of swaying the masses, much less a means of promoting Technocracy as a successor to

Capitalism.”

Burnham J, Art and Technology: The Panacea That Failed, from The Myths of Information

(p211), Woodward K (ed), Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, London, 1980

“Cyberspace was supposed to bring us all together in a Global Village; however, what effectively happens is that we are bombarded with the multitude of messages belonging to

inconsistent and incompatible universes — instead of the Global Village, the big Other, we get the multitude of "small others," of

tribal particular identifications at our choice. “

SlavojZizek

http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-matrix-or-two-sides-of-perversion/

“The artist is not responsible to anyone. His social role is asocial; his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does. There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist

can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no information, and his work cannot be used. It is the end product

which counts, in my case, the picture.”

George Baselitz

//a: personal

//(sub)cultural backgrounds to material investigation

chiptunes and demoscene

//Syphus – data airlines – the knife: Heartbeats

// the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their

relations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology

//patterns and pulses

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/kensBinaryCalendar.jpg

*Heidegger, Being and Time

• fostering a deeper understanding of the technological processes involved in data gathering, mining and dissemination

• creating art works which are themselves creators or destroyers of data

http://www.tomschofieldart.com/tomschofieldart/sticking_point.html

http://vimeo.com/user2337645

Roman Gerold after Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely,

Burjbabil, Guy and Tom Schofield 2011