June 09, 2005
After Land Art:
Database and the Locative Turn
"Abstract: This essay asks whether we might learn something from the history of land art that might be important for any re-evaluation of the ontology of art after modernism and conceptualism. It examines the tensions between the 20th century notions of modernism and conceptual art, underscoring their constant interoperation as art system. After exploring the history of database in computation and tracing how the concepts and implementations of database in computer science were taken up by artists, the essay proposes that the binding of abstraction to material actuality (also known as database) allows us to move on to 21st century model of art practice that focuses on producing located actions instead of visualization." After Land Art: Database and the Locative Turn by Brett Stalbaum, Intelligent Agent, Vol 4 #4.
Posted by jo at June 9, 2005 10:28 AM
