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definition of sacred
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2002.10.01 08:00
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Dark Ages
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Resisting Formalism
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Re: The Lock, Dam, and Falls of Modernism
2002.10.01 10:49
I forgot about the new Walker Art Center, but I have to admit to liking its 'zany-ness', if that's a proper description. Then again I already envisioned a zany architecture almost 20 years ago--"The computer made me do it!"
Here's an excerpt from a 1989 resume of mine I found yesterday while looking for my earliest (1983) artworks:
"The learning of computer drafting (2-dimensional and 3-dimensional) and the subsequent obsolescence of my drafting skills is what led me to start working on art. I was most inspired by the way I saw CAD changing the meaning of manual dexterity, and began to investigate the meaning of modern dexterity in art. Between 1983 and 1986 I produced a vast amount of artwork. Much of this work is now either being incorporated (and reworked) into new work, or it is functioning as an elaborate notebook which inspires the current direction of my artwork."
While I very much appreciate what you say about architecture utilizing existing context, and the current plight of local architects versus brand-name signature architects [remember Libeskind tells us there are no more master architects!], I'm now-a-days dealing with designing buildings within the context of the virtual. The issues of reuse and fitting-in still apply, but the notion of have to destroy to start anew is something completely other in the virtual realm. For example, I just spent the last month completely retro-fitting Quondam with 452 new pages. [That's over 100 pages a week, and at that rate I far surpass the rate I was at in 1999 when I generated 2000 pages in one year. I guess that's how I 'practice' architecture.] Granted, these pages replaced the pages that were there before, but the old pages were not destroyed, rather archived, and I could tomorrow just as easily bring that Quondam back online. This month I'll be concentrating my efforts at Museumpeace, not exactly the new Walker Art Center, more the Lauf (i.e., Run) Collection.
So far I very much enjoy being a local architect of virtual.
[For a preview of what's in store at Museumpeace see No Doubt The Artist Suffered As Well (image transfer via acrylic medium onto VCR (video cassette recorder) base-plate, circa 1990). The transferred image is from a 1972 Life magazine depicting art restorers examining Michelangelo's Vatican Pieta after Laszlo Toth took a hammer to it. Note the transferred image is also a mirror image of the original--in the acrylic transfer process, you coat a surface with clear acrylic medium, then apply the image/printed page face down onto the acrylic coated surface, squeeze out the air bubbles with a damp brush, damp wipe off any excess medium, let dry at least 24 hours, then soak the applied paper, and then start rubbing off the paper. The ink of the image stays affixed to the dried acrylic medium, thus the mirror image. Literally taking the ink off the page, a truly 'deconstructive' process.]
ps Muschamp praises the Ground Zero Chosen in today's NYTIMES. Big surprise.
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