Notes
Anti-art as art (silence, chance, e.g., Cage) (or ready-mades, e.g., Duchamp)
What is value of first-ness? (Vostell “versus” Paik)?
Importance (or not) of “seeding” and determism (cave paintings lead to more cave paintings)
Importance of artists “jumping into the fire” (entering the arena where new things happen, e.g., transgenic research)
Art as aesthetic versus art as mirror of society (expression versus impact)
Leads
--- Laterna Magika – live perfrmer synced in front of projected movie
--- Fredereick Church paintings – using viewing tubes
--- Robert Axtell - artificial society work (sugar and spice studies)
--- Roy Ascott – “vegetal reality” (god and spiritualism links to new media)
--- Edwardo Kac (“transgenic” art)
--- Stelarc (cyber-body art)