http://varnelis.networkedbook.org Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:24:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Jessica Hart Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:24:18 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-115 Scott Hug's use of color from forecasting is interesting; however the word "pallet" means a wooden skid used with a fork lift. The word you need is "palette" which is a collection of colors. Scott Hug’s use of color from forecasting is interesting; however the word “pallet” means a wooden skid used with a fork lift. The word you need is “palette” which is a collection of colors.

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Where infoviz aestheticizes quantified d… « Status_Quote Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:42:31 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-113 [...] http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/   LikeBe the first to like this post. [...] [...] http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/   LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-112 dj_enkidu Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:29:43 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-112 I don't think making the statement "Postmodernism called high and low into question" followed by the examples of Warhol, Kruger, Sherman, Koons, etc. is a fair one. Just because what these artists did looked like "low" does not necessarily mean that they merged or blurred the distinctions between high and low. That could have been the aim of the postmodernist theorists, but not these artists. What they did was appropriation. They appropriated what people thought would belong to high culture, hijacked them to the realm of the "high". Warhol had a different identity as a commercial artist earlier in his career and quit to become a fine artist later, in other words he chose the "high culture" over the "low". Likewise, Jeff Koons did not praise the kitsch as it is widely misunderstood, he simply appropriates. I think the key here is talking about these artists without considering appropriation. Neither of these are craftsman, they are not image-makers as opposed to the anonymous designers/artisans they appropriate from. In these examples, low culture creates the images for commercial purposes and high culture merely decontextualizes them. Calling this practice "questioning the high vs. low" is as ridiculous as describing Duchamp's urinate as "blurring the boundary between plumbing and sculpture". I don’t think making the statement “Postmodernism called high and low into question” followed by the examples of Warhol, Kruger, Sherman, Koons, etc. is a fair one. Just because what these artists did looked like “low” does not necessarily mean that they merged or blurred the distinctions between high and low. That could have been the aim of the postmodernist theorists, but not these artists. What they did was appropriation. They appropriated what people thought would belong to high culture, hijacked them to the realm of the “high”. Warhol had a different identity as a commercial artist earlier in his career and quit to become a fine artist later, in other words he chose the “high culture” over the “low”. Likewise, Jeff Koons did not praise the kitsch as it is widely misunderstood, he simply appropriates. I think the key here is talking about these artists without considering appropriation. Neither of these are craftsman, they are not image-makers as opposed to the anonymous designers/artisans they appropriate from. In these examples, low culture creates the images for commercial purposes and high culture merely decontextualizes them. Calling this practice “questioning the high vs. low” is as ridiculous as describing Duchamp’s urinate as “blurring the boundary between plumbing and sculpture”.

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-111 What is network and/or networked art? « Dialogical Balance Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:19:38 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-111 [...] culture, in terms of it being a sociocultural shift that is not limited to digital technology (Varnelis, 2008)…By employing a broader understanding of the notion of network within analysis of networked [...] [...] culture, in terms of it being a sociocultural shift that is not limited to digital technology (Varnelis, 2008)…By employing a broader understanding of the notion of network within analysis of networked [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Etivity 10 V&A « ThInking Practices Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:44:58 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-104 [...] The technology can be replaced but the memory can’t. In his essay The Immediated Now: Networked Culture and the Poetics of Reality, Kazys Varnelis questions high and low art coming from networked [...] [...] The technology can be replaced but the memory can’t. In his essay The Immediated Now: Networked Culture and the Poetics of Reality, Kazys Varnelis questions high and low art coming from networked [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-103 On Adam Curtis’s Century of the Self. This is the first... | varnelis.net Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:28:44 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-103 [...] has become a major cultural form in network culture, something I cover in my article on the immediated now. Feed: tumblr [...] [...] has become a major cultural form in network culture, something I cover in my article on the immediated now. Feed: tumblr [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-102 The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality – Networked – Excerpts « Recombinant-TMA : Tactical Media Activism Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:49:36 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-102 [...] The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality – Networked – Excerpts [Excerpts related to Tactical Media Activism, Appropriation Art and Remix - LINK] [...] [...] The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality – Networked – Excerpts [Excerpts related to Tactical Media Activism, Appropriation Art and Remix - LINK] [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-101 This is the first episode of Alan Curtis’s the Century of... | varnelis.net Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:04:54 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-101 [...] has become a major cultural form in network culture, something I cover in my article on the immediated now. Printer-friendly [...] [...] has become a major cultural form in network culture, something I cover in my article on the immediated now. Printer-friendly [...]

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-87 inaornament Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:32:30 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-87 Is very true that ‘’digital technology is an unmistakable presence’’ in our life, but my concern is still traditions. Do you really forgot “traditional art “or maybe you never know about it. What about art before 1900? Is only in the gallery? Who still experiment and research this old technique? Art it been connected with technology because is “networked art”. I feel lost in this “networked art” and I still believe in “Books on Technique” and “The language of Art History”. Is very true that ‘’digital technology is an unmistakable presence’’ in our life, but my concern is still traditions.
Do you really forgot “traditional art “or maybe you never know about it. What about art before 1900? Is only in the gallery? Who still experiment and research this old technique?
Art it been connected with technology because is “networked art”. I feel lost in this “networked art” and I still believe in “Books on Technique” and “The language of Art History”.

]]> http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Weird Fiction » Blog Archive » Nourishing the Non-Normative Neuroaesthete Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:46:10 +0000 http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/?p=19#comment-69 [...] entrance to this and other realms—including prominently the panopticonscious lifeworld of the immediated real. Alternate universes open up in the inframince, like an obliterati’s escape mechanisms made [...] [...] entrance to this and other realms—including prominently the panopticonscious lifeworld of the immediated real. Alternate universes open up in the inframince, like an obliterati’s escape mechanisms made [...]

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