Thanks for covering this--it's true that in addition to the elegant sculptural installations crafted well etc VVork's specialty is the type of digital one-liner you're describing. (Choir singing the NASDAQ)
To quote myself about the Whitney's BitStreams show from a few years back:
"Too many projects seemed incomplete, as if the artists had followed the letter but not the spirit of Jasper Johns's advice to "take something, do something to it, and do something else to it." (Subtract information from photo in Photoshop. Print photo. Frame.)"
That sounds like "defaults" in retrospect--but that wasn't what I meant at the time. I was talking more about the XYZ imperative. Just enough extra steps to be obnoxious, not enough to be transformative.
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To quote myself about the Whitney's BitStreams show from a few years back:
"Too many projects seemed incomplete, as if the artists had followed the letter but not the spirit of Jasper Johns's advice to "take something, do something to it, and do something else to it." (Subtract information from photo in Photoshop. Print photo. Frame.)"
That sounds like "defaults" in retrospect--but that wasn't what I meant at the time. I was talking more about the XYZ imperative. Just enough extra steps to be obnoxious, not enough to be transformative.
- tom moody 4-13-2007 10:06 pm