As we say here in the States, "Lighten up, dude!" The above-linked page says you began working with the incomplete open cube in '73, the same year LeWitt did. So you did it earlier--maybe you should be correcting the university web page documenting your work instead of haranguing bloggers with your stern admonitions.
Besides, no once cares who first started using this particular formal/mathematical idea. Saying that you had the good sense to do with a machine what LeWitt did redundantly and laboriously by hand was meant as a compliment. I also hinted at existential-style content the work probably lacks, especially given your huffing and puffing about who had the idea "first." The Krauss essay discusses LeWitt's work in relation to Beckett's Molloy, who endlessly redistributes stones in his pockets according to logical but still insane mathematical models.
I like the work at bitforms, but probably for reasons you'd find annoying. History may be distorted by "incomplete open" knowledge, but artwork can also be improved by incomplete open interpretation.
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Besides, no once cares who first started using this particular formal/mathematical idea. Saying that you had the good sense to do with a machine what LeWitt did redundantly and laboriously by hand was meant as a compliment. I also hinted at existential-style content the work probably lacks, especially given your huffing and puffing about who had the idea "first." The Krauss essay discusses LeWitt's work in relation to Beckett's Molloy, who endlessly redistributes stones in his pockets according to logical but still insane mathematical models.
I like the work at bitforms, but probably for reasons you'd find annoying. History may be distorted by "incomplete open" knowledge, but artwork can also be improved by incomplete open interpretation.
- tom moody 12-26-2004 1:47 am