contemporary painting

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“We now call it the community industry. The history of the web went as follows: at first it was military, then education and now commerce oriented. What are the possibilities of artists in the confrontation with these three systems? All of the time you can notice the anti-authoritarian spirit that changes flavour. At one stage it is simply pacifist. At another time, when it comes to education, it deals with intellectual independence. As Twain once said: “I’ve never let my school interfere with my education”.

Right now, we live in a corporate atmosphere. The dominant frame in the artistic field is decorative art, but I cannot waste my time discussing it. In new media art, the radical and experimental artists always confront the dominant frame. And right now, it is the community industry that provides the most useful grip that the corporate world can possibly have on the online population. You have all these various dimensions of self-‐disclosure, and when you disclose things about yourself you share parts of your privacy that feed the system. And I think this is a good topic for artists. I am currently working on a project with Heath Bunting. I think this is a good topic because people are blind, they behave as sheep.” — Vuk Ćosić

Vuk Ćosić
Deep ASCII​
2021
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From the 1998 full length video Deep ASCII, running time 59 minutes
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£40,000 – 50,000

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“Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It’s really not about other people’s needs and assumptions. I’m not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.”

— Richard Serra

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People may copy others for a variety of reasons, including:

  1. Lack of identity: They may copy others to be recognized.
  2. Jealousy: They may copy others because they want what you have.
  3. Insecurity: They may copy others to elevate themselves.
  4. Threatened: They may copy others because they feel threatened by your success.
  5. Obsession: They may copy others.
  6. Laziness: They may copy others.
  7. Mental health issues: They may copy others.

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“The work always starts with a digital core, which relates to a communist ideology of starting with an abstract vision.” — Miao Ying

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Andy Warhol: An American Prophet (Art History Documentary) | Perspective

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Ian Burn began investigating the act of looking in the mid 1960s. In this work, text across a standard framed mirror quotes from the 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume. The original quote continues, ‘if we consider these objects in themselves, and never look beyond the ideas which we form of them’.

The viewer is asked to consider this specific work of art without considering his or her accumulated knowledge and assumptions about either ‘mirrors’ or ‘works of art’ (or the person ‘in’ the mirror). The impossibility of isolating any one thing from all others is emphasised in this conceptual artwork by our reflection in the mirror and that of the space in which it hangs and other art nearby.

Ian Burn
Two glass/Mirror piece
1968
mirror, glass, wood
93.7 × 63.2 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne