Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 10:24 a.m.
Art Forum Subjects
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( I won't be going to this one )
* Beyond the obsolete models of artist or author as genius and their
fetish objects, what collective and collaborative practices are inventing
new terrains and flows?
* As information and communication technologies saturate our world, how is
art giving way to new forms of cultural symbolic manipulation?
* Can we identify new models to replace the auteur and the artwork? If so,
where do they come from and what might that say about the future of
critical practices?
* What new kinds of �virtual� spaces are opening up for cultural practice
in electronic media? As �old media� begin to collapse under the pressures
of the virtual, what new media can we find?
* How are didactic illustration and channelled dissidence giving way to
new forms of surprise and intensity?
* What strategies elude the creative industries� seemingly infinite
appetite for things radical? Are there any strategies that can elude being
reduced to styles in the service of sales, or are critical practices
doomed to play cat and mouse with the forces of consumerism?
