Month: July 2004

Satire

Ursine Sylvian Defecation Study – Shock Result

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-07-01

From Vision Research vol 44 p1493 via NewScientist 26.6.04.

Adding visual noise to a picture of the Mona Lisa affected how people saw it. No, really. The scientists responsible for this study believe that the visual system’s own noise causes this effect. But anyone looking at the picture can see that if visual noise affects the picture, it -er- affects the picture. If the researchers don’t believe this, I have a project that involves adding random noise to their research grant budget figure…

Free Culture

MozCC

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-07-01

An easy way to view Creative Commons metadata embedded in web pages for Mozilla/Netscape-based browsers.

MozCC

Aesthetics

The Case For Complexity

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-07-01

Article at Guardian Online.

Complexity or difficulty are both effects of art with internal or contextual complexity. This is art that does something, or requires that you do something. Art that has to work for its living. The mute, evacuated objects so beloved of curators and essayists of the last forty years cannot engage aesthetically or critically with anything much, and are no better than the conservative Good Old-Fashioned Art that is their Other.

Art open to complexity and open to making demands on viewer and artist other than “questioning” sanctioned “problematics”. Art giving rewards other than the warm fuzzy glow of throwback Beaux Arts or Institutional Burlesque. Bring it on… 😉