Conceptual Art-and-Technology
Clips
Links
Land Art of the West on Google Maps
What Is Performance Art (Marina Abramović)
David Rokeby: Very Nervous System
Quotes
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.
–Sol Lewitt
As there wasn’t enough money for me to travel to Nova Scotia, I proposed that the students voluntarily write ‘I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art’ on the walls of the gallery, like punishment. To my surprise they covered the walls.
–John Baldessari
I’ve always been attracted to anyone that can blatantly say what art is. I just like that kind of audacity, or ignorance, one or the other.
–John Baldessari
There is nothing there, yet it is still a sculpture.
–Michael Heizer
No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe. No to the glamour and transcendency of the star image. No to the heroic. No to the anti-heroic. No to trash imagery. No to involvement of performer or spectator, No to style. No to camp. No to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer. No to eccentricity. No to moving or being moved.
–Yvonne Rainer
Regardless of points of intersection, and the fact that conceptual art emerged during a moment of intensive artistic experimentation with technology, few scholars have explored the relationship between conceptual art and art-and-technology. Indeed, art-historical literature traditionally has drawn rigid categorical distinctions between conceptual art and art-and-tech.
–Edward Shanken
In terms of the art world, no group of artists involved with computers and electronics is going to win compliments for their humanistic endeavors.
–Jack Burnham
At some point and attempt needs to be made to put the issues of all contemporary communication, not just esthetic communication, into a questioning frame of reference.
–Jack Burnham