"Infinite" is a loaded word. If I was a computer, creating a endlessly repeating pattern would be A: easy, and B: uninteresting. As a human, the attempt is A: challenging, and B: requires motivation. My take, based solely on the documentation on this blog, is this: The curation of this show is a head-to-head competition between the Arcangels and the non-coporeal robot called MacPaint. The room equates to a bounded shape. The art works equate to elements (bricks, say) of a repeated pattern. The repeated elements of the artists' own works could equate to pixels. The software fills the shape and fills any other at any time on someone else's desktop, and also fills any size of shape with infinite ease. The curators fill just one shape (the room), in one instance of time and place, but fill it with infinite depth of content. Each "pixel" in the computer is a finite dot, either on or off. Each "pixel" in the artworks is a referent, a node that serves as a conduit to infinite potential content. Without seeing the show, I cannot declare a winner in the infinity face-off (but my guess is that it's a tie).
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- sally mckay 8-07-2004 9:48 pm